A natural antisense transcript regulates Zeb2/Sip1 gene expression during Snail1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 756-769

  Beltran, Manuel ^a   Puig, Isabel ^a,d   Peña, Cristina ^b   García, José Miguel ^b   Álvarez, Ana Belén ^a   Peña, Raúl ^a   Bonilla, Félix ^b   De Herreros, Antonio García ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

EMT; IRES; NAT; Snail1; Zeb2 Sip1

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SNAIL1; PROTEIN ZEB2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENOCARCINOMA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESODERM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 41149112564     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.455708     Document Type: Article

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