E-cadherin is transcriptionally activated via suppression of ZEB1 transcriptional repressor by small RNA-mediated gene silencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Mazda, Minami ^a   Nishi, Kenji ^a   Naito, Yuki ^a   Ui Tei, Kumiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; ZEB1 PROTEIN; CADHERIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E BOX ELEMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 83755220911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028688     Document Type: Article

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