RUNX2 and TAZ-dependent signaling pathways regulate soluble E-Cadherin levels and tumorsphere formation in breast cancer cells

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 28132-28150

  Brusgard, Jessica L ^a   Choe, Moran ^a,f   Chumsri, Saranya ^a,e   Renoud, Keli ^a   MacKerell, Alexander D ^b   Sudol, Marius ^c   Passaniti, Antonino ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Therapeutics; Transcription factors; Tumorspheres

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; LAPATINIB; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAZ; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; CADHERIN; DOXYCYCLINE; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WWTR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOLUBILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CADHERINS; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; DOXYCYCLINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MCF-7 CELLS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84944456100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4654     Document Type: Article

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