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Pten Enters The Nucleus By Diffusion, Fenghua Liu, Stefan Wagner, Robert Campbell, Jeffrey Nickerson, Celia Schiffer, Alonzo Ross
Pten Enters The Nucleus By Diffusion, Fenghua Liu, Stefan Wagner, Robert Campbell, Jeffrey Nickerson, Celia Schiffer, Alonzo Ross
Celia A. Schiffer
Despite much evidence for phosphatidylinositol phosphate (PIP)-triggered signaling pathways in the nucleus, there is little understanding of how the levels and activities of these proteins are regulated. As a first step to elucidating this problem, we determined whether phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) enters the nucleus by passive diffusion or active transport. We expressed various PTEN fusion proteins in tsBN2, HeLa, LNCaP, and U87MG cells and determined that the largest PTEN fusion proteins showed little or no nuclear localization. Because diffusion through nuclear pores is limited to proteins of 60,000 Da or less, this suggests that …
Muc4 Modulation Of Ligand-Independent Erbb2 Signaling, Goldi Attias Kozloski
Muc4 Modulation Of Ligand-Independent Erbb2 Signaling, Goldi Attias Kozloski
Goldi A Kozloski
The membrane mucin Muc4 is a heterodimer, bi-functional glycoprotein complex that is normally expressed in epithelial tissue. Functional studies on the extracellular mucin subunit of Muc4 have shown that it acts to promote anti-adhesion properties by sterically interfering with cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and that the extent of this effect is directly associated with the number of tandem repeats on this subunit. Functional studies on the transmembrane subunit of Muc4 have shown that this subunit participates in intracellular signaling through interaction with the receptor tyrosine kinase ErbB2. This role of Muc4 was shown to be mediated by stabilizing the heregulin …
Micrornas Are Independent Predictors Of Outcome In Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Patients Treated With R-Chop, Goldi Kozloski
Micrornas Are Independent Predictors Of Outcome In Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Patients Treated With R-Chop, Goldi Kozloski
Goldi A Kozloski