Inhibitors of DNA methylation and histone deacetylation independently relieve AML1/ETO-mediated lysozyme repression

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1462-1472

  Claus, Rainer ^a   Fliegauf, Manfred ^a   Stock, Michael ^a,b   Duque, Jesús A ^a   Kolanczyk, Mateusz ^a,c   Lübbert, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 aza 2 deoxycytidine; Acute myeloid leukemia; Alu; Chromatin modification; Chromosomal translocation (8; 21); DNA methylation; Epigenetic silencing

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; LYSOZYME; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ETO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; EXON; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACETYLATION; AZACITIDINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 2 SUBUNIT; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; MURAMIDASE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; U937 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33845195718     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0106005     Document Type: Article

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