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SUBMITTER: Foca A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4613256 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Focà Annalia A Sanguigno Luca L Focà Giuseppina G Strizzi Luigi L Iannitti Roberta R Palumbo Rosanna R Hendrix Mary J C MJ Leonardi Antonio A Ruvo Menotti M Sandomenico Annamaria A
International journal of molecular sciences 20150907 9
Nodal is a potent embryonic morphogen belonging to the TGF-β superfamily. Typically, it also binds to the ALK4/ActRIIB receptor complex in the presence of the co-receptor Cripto-1. Nodal expression is physiologically restricted to embryonic tissues and human embryonic stem cells, is absent in normal cells but re-emerges in several human cancers, including melanoma, breast, and colon cancer. Our aim was to obtain mAbs able to recognize Nodal on a major CBR (Cripto-Binding-Region) site and to bloc ...[more]