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Dual regulation of Snail by GSK-3beta-mediated phosphorylation in control of epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
Nature cell biology - 1 Oct 2004
Zhou Binhua P, Deng Jiong, Xia Weiya, Xu Jihong, Li Yan M, Gunduz Mehmet, Hung Mien-Chie
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic changes of increased motility and invasiveness of cancer cells are reminiscent of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) that occurs during embryonic development. Snail, a zinc-finger transcription factor, triggers this process by repressing E-cadherin expression; however, the mechanisms that regulate Snail remain elusive. Here we find that Snail is highly unstable, with a short half-life...
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