Beyond β-catenin: Prospects for a larger catenin network in the nucleus

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-64

  McCrea, Pierre D ^a   Gottardi, Cara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; COFILIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; G ACTIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; P120 CATENIN; PLAKOGLOBIN; PLAKOPHILIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KAISO; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VINCULIN; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARMADILLO; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DESMOSOME; DNA BINDING; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; BETA CATENIN; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 84952637383     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.3     Document Type: Review

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