An oncogenic role of Agrin in regulating focal adhesion integrity in hepatocellular carcinoma

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chakraborty, Sayan ^a   Lakshmanan, Manikandan ^a   Swa, Hannah L F ^a   Chen, Jianxiang ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaoqian ^a   Ong, Yan Shan ^a   Loo, Li Shen ^a   Aklncllar, Semih Can ^a   Gunaratne, Jayantha ^a   Tergaonkar, Vinay ^a   Hui, Kam M ^a,b   Hong, Wanjin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; AGRIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MUSCLE SPECIFIC TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; INTEGRIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; LRP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUSK PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADHESION; AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; SECRETION; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESION; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID RAFT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; ENDOCYTOSIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOPODIUM; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

AGRIN; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; FOCAL ADHESIONS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INTEGRINS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEINS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENES; PSEUDOPODIA; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84938669826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7184     Document Type: Article

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