Telomerase activation by c-Myc in human mammary epithelial cells requires additional genomic changes

Cell Cycle

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3373-3378

  Bazarov, Alexey V ^a   Hines, William C ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Rituparna ^b   Beliveau, Alain ^b   Melodyev, Sonya ^b   Zaslavsky, Yuri ^a   Yaswen, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Comparative genomic hybridization; hTERT; Immortalization; Senescence

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL CULTURE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 5; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYC; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RETROVIRUS; SENESCENCE; TELOMERE;

EID: 70350217758     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.8.20.9856     Document Type: Article

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