Isolation of cancer-specific chimeric transcripts induced by hypomethylation of the LINE-1 antisense promoter

Genomics

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 397-406

  Cruickshanks, Hazel A ^a,b   Tufarelli, Cristina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chimeric transcripts; Colon cancer; Hypomethylation; LINE 1; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN LCT1; PROTEIN LCT10; PROTEIN LCT11; PROTEIN LCT12; PROTEIN LCT13; PROTEIN LCT14; PROTEIN LCT15; PROTEIN LCT16; PROTEIN LCT17; PROTEIN LCT18; PROTEIN LCT2; PROTEIN LCT3; PROTEIN LCT4; PROTEIN LCT5; PROTEIN LCT6; PROTEIN LCT7; PROTEIN LCT8; PROTEIN LCT9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

AZACITIDINE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70449107061     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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