The role of STAT3 in autophagy

Autophagy

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 729-739

  You, Liangkun ^a,b,c   Wang, Zhanggui ^a,c   Li, Hongsen ^a,b,c   Shou, Jiawei ^a,b,c   Jing, Zhao ^a,b,c   Xie, Jiansheng ^b,c   Sui, Xinbing ^a,c   Pan, Hongming ^a,b,c   Han, Weidong ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Institute of Environmental Science   (China)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Cancer; Mitophagy; Receptor tyrosine kinases; STAT3; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA CELL; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVER CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 84943795592     PISSN: 15548627     EISSN: 15548635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1017192     Document Type: Article

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