β-Catenin signaling increases during melanoma progression and promotes tumor cell survival and chemoresistance.

Beta-catenin plays an important role in embryogenesis and carcinogenesis by controlling either cadherin-mediated cell adhesion or transcriptional activation of target gene expression. In many types of cancers nuclear translocation of beta-catenin has been observed. Our data indicate that during mela...

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Main Authors: Tobias Sinnberg, Moritz Menzel, Daniel Ewerth, Birgit Sauer, Michael Schwarz, Martin Schaller, Claus Garbe, Birgit Schittek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3157382?pdf=render