A genome-wide miRNA screen revealed miR-603 as a MGMT-regulating miRNA in glioblastomas

Oncotarget

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4026-4039

  Kushwaha, Deepa ^a   Ramakrishnan, Valya ^b   Ng, Kimberly ^a   Steed, Tyler ^b   Nguyen, Thien ^b   Futalan, Diahnn ^b   Akers, Johnny C ^b   Sarkaria, Jann ^c   Jiang, Tao ^d   Chowdhury, Dipanjan ^a   Carter, Bob S ^b   Chen, Clark C ^b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Department of Neurosurgery Tiantan Medical Center   (China)

Author keywords

Glioblastoma; MGMT; MicroRNA; MiRNA cooperativity; Temozolomide

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LET7A2 3P; LET7F2 3P; LET7I 3P; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 155 5P; MICRORNA 181B; MICRORNA 181D; MICRORNA 20A 3P; MICRORNA 30D; MICRORNA 429; MICRORNA 497 3P; MICRORNA 589 3P; MICRORNA 603; MICRORNA 612; MICRORNA 616 3P; MICRORNA 767 3P; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA LIGASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MGMT PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA REPAIR ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROGNOSIS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84905117335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.1974     Document Type: Article

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