DDX3, a potential target for cancer treatment

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bol, Guus Martinus ^a,b   Xie, Min ^b   Raman, Venu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; DDX3; Radiation sensitizing agents; RNA helicase; Small molecule inhibitor

Indexed keywords

DDX3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; DDX3X PROTEIN, HUMAN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL STRESS; DDX3 GENE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM;

DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84946408665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12943-015-0461-7     Document Type: Review

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