[In view of the emerging significance of cell surface glycans as biochemical signals for presentation/activity of various receptors/integrins and for susceptibility to adhesion/growth-regulatory tissue lectins, we examined the glycophenotype in the MSI-H colon cancer cell line HCT116 for activin type 2 receptor (ACVR2), absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2), and transforming growth factor beta-type 2 receptor (TGFBR2) known to be associated with MSI colorectal carcinogenesis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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