Evidence of genome-wide G4 DNA-mediated gene expression in human cancer cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4194-4204

  Verma, Anjali ^a   Yadav, Vinod Kumar ^a   Basundra, Richa ^a   Kumar, Akinchan ^a   Chowdhury, Shantanu ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, NEOPLASM; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; PORPHYRINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EUKARYOTA; RATTUS;

EID: 67249138595     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1076     Document Type: Article

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