Uncoordinated 51-like kinase 2 signaling pathway regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition in A549 lung cancer cells

FEBS Letters

Volumn 590, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1365-1374

  Kim, Young Hwan ^a   Baek, Seung Hoon ^b   Kim, Eun Kyoung ^a   Ha, Jung Min ^a   Jin, Seo Yeon ^a   Lee, Hye Sun ^a   Ha, Hong Koo ^b   Song, Sang Heon ^b   Kim, Sun Ja ^c   Shin, Hwa Kyoung ^d   Yong, Jeongsik ^e   Kim, Do Hyung ^e   Kim, Chi Dae ^a   Bae, Sun Sik ^a  

^a Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Dong A University   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

autophagy; EMT; mTORC1

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN ULK1; PROTEIN ULK2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; MECHANISTIC TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SERINE THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE ULK1; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TOR COMPLEX 2; ULK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ULK2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

A549 CELL LINE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; AUTOPHAGY-RELATED PROTEIN-1 HOMOLOG; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84966359420     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12172     Document Type: Article

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