TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 23, Issue 2 (15 January 2004)
Review
Transmembrane proteases in cell growth and invasion: new contributors to angiogenesis? FREE
Brigitte Bauvois
Oncogene 23: 317-329; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207124
Original Papers
Characterization of functional elements in the neurofibromatosis (NF1) proximal promoter region FREE
Min-Xu Zou, Darci T Butcher, Bekim Sadikovic, Timothy C Groves, Siu-Pok Yee and David I Rodenhiser
Oncogene 23: 330-339; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207053
Estrogen-independent activation of erbBs signaling and estrogen receptor 
in the mouse vagina exposed neonatally to diethylstilbestrol FREE
Shinichi Miyagawa, Yoshinao Katsu, Hajime Watanabe and Taisen Iguchi
Oncogene 23: 340-349; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207207
E6/E7 proteins of HPV type 16 and ErbB-2 cooperate to induce neoplastic transformation of primary normal oral epithelial cells FREE
Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa, William D Foulkes, Naciba Benlimame, Annick Wong, Lily Yen, Josée Bergeron, Gerald Batist, Lesley Alpert and Moulay A Alaoui-Jamali
Oncogene 23: 350-358; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207148
Apoptosis triggered by DNA damage O 6-methylguanine in human lymphocytes requires DNA replication and is mediated by p53 and Fas/CD95/Apo-1 FREE
Wynand Roos, Manuela Baumgartner and Bernd Kaina
Oncogene 23: 359-367; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207080
Role of TC21/R-Ras2 in enhanced migration of neurofibromin-deficient Schwann cells FREE
Yuan Huang, Fatima Rangwala, Patricia C Fulkerson, Bo Ling, Erin Reed, Adrienne D Cox, John Kamholz and Nancy Ratner
Oncogene 23: 368-378; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207075
The differential impact of p16INK4a or p19ARF deficiency on cell growth and tumorigenesis FREE
Norman E Sharpless, Matthew R Ramsey, Periasamy Balasubramanian, Diego H Castrillon and Ronald A DePinho
Oncogene 23: 379-385; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207074
Ribozyme-mediated inhibition of survivin expression increases spontaneous and drug-induced apoptosis and decreases the tumorigenic potential of human prostate cancer cells FREE
Marzia Pennati, Mara Binda, Gennaro Colella, Monica Zoppe', Marco Folini, Sara Vignati, Alessandra Valentini, Lorenzo Citti, Michelandrea De Cesare, Graziella Pratesi, Mauro Giacca, Maria Grazia Daidone and Nadia Zaffaroni
Oncogene 23: 386-394; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207071
Identification of Krüppel-like factor 4 as a potential tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer FREE
Weidong Zhao, Irfan M Hisamuddin, Mandayam O Nandan, Brian A Babbin, Neil E Lamb and Vincent W Yang
Oncogene 23: 395-402; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207067
Impact of the nuclear receptor coactivator AIB1 isoform AIB1-
3 on estrogenic ligands with different intrinsic activity FREE
Ronald Reiter, Annabell S Oh, Anton Wellstein and Anna Tate Riegel
Oncogene 23: 403-409; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207202
Coagulation factors VIIa and Xa inhibit apoptosis and anoikis FREE
Henri H Versteeg, C Arnold Spek, Dick J Richel and Maikel P Peppelenbosch
Oncogene 23: 410-417; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207066
Wild-type p53 gene transfer is not detrimental to normal cells in vivo: implications for tumor gene therapy FREE
Gianluca Bossi, Giuseppina Mazzaro, Alessandro Porrello, Marco Crescenzi, Silvia Soddu and Ada Sacchi
Oncogene 23: 418-425; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207042
All-trans retinoic acid potentiates Taxotere-induced cell death mediated by Jun N-terminal kinase in breast cancer cells FREE
Qin Wang and Robert Wieder
Oncogene 23: 426-433; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207040
Phosphorylation of tyrosine 1214 on VEGFR2 is required for VEGF-induced activation of Cdc42 upstream of SAPK2/p38 FREE
Laurent Lamalice, François Houle, Guillaume Jourdan and Jacques Huot
Oncogene 23: 434-445; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207034
Roscovitine sensitizes glioma cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis by downregulation of survivin and XIAP FREE
Eun Hee Kim, Seung U Kim, Deug Y Shin and Kyeong Sook Choi
Oncogene 23: 446-456; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207025
A novel oncolytic adenovirus targeting to telomerase activity in tumor cells with potent FREE
Weiguo Zou, Chunxia Luo, Zilai Zhang, Jing Liu, Jingfa Gu, Zifei Pei, Cheng Qian and Xinyuan Liu
Oncogene 23: 457-464; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207033
CEACAM6 gene silencing impairs anoikis resistance and in vivo metastatic ability of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells FREE
Mark S Duxbury, Hiromichi Ito, Michael J Zinner, Stanley W Ashley and Edward E Whang
Oncogene 23: 465-473; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207036
Identification of a novel function of TWIST, a bHLH protein, in the development of acquired taxol resistance in human cancer cells FREE
Xianghong Wang, Ming Tat Ling, Xin-Yuan Guan, Sai Wah Tsao, Hiu Wing Cheung, Davy Tak Lee and Yong Chuan Wong
Oncogene 23: 474-482; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207128
Interaction between JCV large T-antigen and 
-catenin FREE
Dai-Di Gan and Kamel Khalili
Oncogene 23: 483-490; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207018
Cdk6–cyclin D3 activity in murine ES cells is resistant to inhibition by p16INK4a FREE
Renate Faast, Josephine White, Peter Cartwright, Lesley Crocker, Boris Sarcevic and Stephen Dalton
Oncogene 23: 491-502; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207133
Upregulation of heme oxygenase-1 and p21 confers resistance to apoptosis in human gastric cancer cells FREE
Zhi-Min Liu, George G Chen, Enders KW Ng, Wai-Keung Leung, Joseph JY Sung and SC Sydney Chung
Oncogene 23: 503-513; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207173
The KSHV G protein-coupled receptor signals via multiple pathways to induce transcription factor activation in primary effusion lymphoma cells FREE
Mark L Cannon and Ethels Cesarman
Oncogene 23: 514-523; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207021
Myostatin inhibits rhabdomyosarcoma cell proliferation through an Rb-independent pathway FREE
Brett Langley, Mark Thomas, Craig McFarlane, Stewart Gilmour, Mridula Sharma and Ravi Kambadur
Oncogene 23: 524-534; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207144
Expression of ErbB2 enhances radiation-induced NF-
B activation FREE
Guozheng Guo, Tieli Wang, Qian Gao, Daniel Tamae, Patty Wong, Tammy Chen, Wei-Chung Chen, John E Shively, Jeffery YC Wong and Jian Jian Li
Oncogene 23: 535-545; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207149
Rad51 overexpression promotes alternative double-strand break repair pathways and genome instability FREE
Christine Richardson, Jeremy M Stark, Melissa Ommundsen and Maria Jasin
Oncogene 23: 546-553; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207098
Mutations of BRAF and KRAS2 in the development of Barrett's adenocarcinoma FREE
Florian Sommerer, Michael Vieth, Annett Markwarth, Knut Röhrich, Susanne Vomschlo
, Andrea May, Christian Ell, Manfred Stolte, Ulrich R Hengge, Christian Wittekind and Andrea Tannapfel
Oncogene 23: 554-558; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207189
The small GTP-binding protein, Rhes, regulates signal transduction from G protein-coupled receptors FREE
Pierfrancesco Vargiu, Ricardo De Abajo, Juan Antonio Garcia-Ranea, Alfonso Valencia, Pilar Santisteban, Piero Crespo and Juan Bernal
Oncogene 23: 559-568; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207161
Both AML1 and EVI1 oncogenic components are required for the cooperation of AML1/MDS1/EVI1 with BCR/ABL in the induction of acute myelogenous leukemia in mice FREE
Grace M Cuenco and Ruibao Ren
Oncogene 23: 569-579; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207143
Effect of merlin phosphorylation on neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene function FREE
Ezequiel I Surace, Carrie A Haipek and David H Gutmann
Oncogene 23: 580-587; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207142
Expression of the c-kit receptor characterizes a subset of neuroblastomas with favorable prognosis FREE
Matthias Krams, Reza Parwaresch, Bence Sipos, Klaus Heidorn, Dieter Harms and Pierre Rudolph
Oncogene 23: 588-595; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207145
Inhibition of JNK reduces G2/M transit independent of p53, leading to endoreduplication, decreased proliferation, and apoptosis in breast cancer cells FREE
Amy M Mingo-Sion, Peter M Marietta, Erich Koller, Douglas M Wolf and Carla L Van Den Berg
Oncogene 23: 596-604; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207147
Short Reports
Elevated expression of PCGEM1, a prostate-specific gene with cell growth-promoting function, is associated with high-risk prostate cancer patients FREE
Gyorgy Petrovics, Wei Zhang, Mazen Makarem, Jesse P Street, Roger Connelly, Leon Sun, Isabell A Sesterhenn, Vasantha Srikantan, Judd W Moul and Shiv Srivastava
Oncogene 23: 605-611; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207069
Expression of SCC-S2, an antiapoptotic molecule, correlates with enhanced proliferation and tumorigenicity of MDA-MB 435 cells FREE
Deepak Kumar, Prafulla Gokhale, Constantinos Broustas, Debyani Chakravarty, Imran Ahmad and Usha Kasid
Oncogene 23: 612-616; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207123
Oncogenomics
PTEN mutations are common in sporadic microsatellite stable colorectal cancer FREE
Najah T Nassif, Glenn P Lobo, Xiaojuan Wu, Christopher JA Henderson, Carl D Morrison, Charis Eng, Bin Jalaludin and Eva Segelov
Oncogene 23: 617-628; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207059
Corregendum
LUCA-15 suppresses CD95-mediated apoptosis in Jurkat T cells FREE
Leslie C Sutherland, Michael Lerman, Gwyn T Williams and Barbara A Miller
Oncogene 23: 629; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207349
Erratum
Association of a lung tumor suppressor TSLC1 with MPP3, a human homologue of Drosophila tumor suppressor Dlg FREE
Hiroshi Fukuhara, Mari Masvuda, Mika Yageta, Takeshi Fukami, Masami Kuramochi, Tomoko Maruyama, Tadaichi Kitamura and Yoshinori Murakami
Oncogene 23: 629; doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207365
