The tumor suppressor microRNA let-7 represses the HMGA2 oncogene

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1025-1030

  Yong, Sun Lee ^a   Dutta, Anindya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HMGA2; Let 7; Lung cancer; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LET 7 GENE; LUNG CANCER; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HELA CELLS; HMGA2 PROTEIN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICRORNAS; ONCOGENES; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM;

EID: 34247565615     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1540407     Document Type: Article

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