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Tumor suppressor function of laminin-binding alpha-dystroglycan requires a distinct beta3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Jul 2009
Bao Xingfeng, Kobayashi Motohiro, Hatakeyama Shingo, Angata Kiyohiko, Gullberg Donald, Nakayama Jun, Fukuda Michiko N, Fukuda Minoru
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Alpha-dystroglycan (alpha-DG) represents a highly glycosylated cell surface molecule that is expressed in the epithelial cell-basement membrane (BM) interface and plays an essential role in epithelium development and tissue organization. The alpha-DG-mediated epithelial cell-BM interaction is oft...
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