CpG dinucleotide methylation of the CYP19 I.3/II promoter modulates cAMP-stimulated aromatase activity

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 127-132

  Demura, Masashi ^a   Bulun, Serdar E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; cAMP response element; CYP19; DNA Methylation; Epigenesis; Promoter I.3 II

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYCLIC AMP;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 39149112226     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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