Genetic and epigenetic regulation of AHR gene expression in MCF-7 breast cancer cells: Role of the proximal promoter GC-rich region

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 722-735

  Englert, Neal A ^a,b   Turesky, Robert J ^a,b   Han, Weiguo ^c   Bessette, Erin E ^a   Spivack, Simon D ^c   Caggana, Michele ^a   Spink, David C ^a,b   Spink, Barbara C ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

(GGGGC) n repeat polymorphism; 2 Amino 1 methyl 6 phenylimidazo 4,5 b pyridine; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Epigenetic; Guanine quadruplex; Long term estrogen exposure

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 1 METHYL 6 PHENYLIMIDAZO[4,5 B]PYRIDINE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 1; ESTROGEN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; HISTONE H3; LUCIFERASE; LYSINE; LYSINE 27; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC REGULATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA PROCESSING;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP1A1; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; SP TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84864402033     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: 18732968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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