Senescent Cells Harbour Features of the Cancer Epigenome

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1495-1506

  Cruickshanks, Hazel A ^a,d   McBryan, Tony ^a   Nelson, David M ^a   Vanderkraats, Nathan D ^b   Shah, Parisha P ^c   Van Tuyn, John ^a   Singh Rai, Taranjit ^a,e   Brock, Claire ^a   Donahue, Greg ^c   Dunican, Donncha S ^d   Drotar, Mark E ^a   Meehan, Richard R ^d   Edwards, John R ^b   Berger, Shelley L ^c   Adams, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5 ) METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL LINE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84893397675     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2879     Document Type: Article

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