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A marker for neoplastic progression of human melanocytes is a cell surface ectopeptidase.
1 Apr 1993
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Adenosine deaminase binding protein (ADAbp) is a cell surface glycoprotein that is expressed by normal melanocytes but not by melanoma, the malignant counterpart. ADAbp is specifically downregulated during malignant transformation of melanocytes. Recently, we have developed a system that progressively transforms melanocytes in vitro in defined steps. Transduction with v-Ha-ras oncogene followed by long-term...
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