Hypomethylation of a LINE-1 promoter activates an alternate transcript of the MET oncogene in bladders with cancer

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wolff, Erika M ^a   Byun, Hyang Min ^a   Han, Han F ^a   Sharma, Shikhar ^a   Nichols, Peter W ^a   Siegmund, Kimberly D ^a   Yang, Allen S ^a   Jones, Peter A ^a   Liang, Gangning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2AZ; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MET PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BLADDER TUMOR; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MIDDLE AGED; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADULT; AGED; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOGENES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77952414230     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000917     Document Type: Article

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