The BCL9-2 proto-oncogene governs estrogen receptor alpha expression in breast tumorigenesis

Oncotarget

Volumn 5, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 6770-6787

  Zatula, Nathalie ^a   Wiese, Maria ^a   Bunzendahl, Jens ^a   Birchmeier, Walter ^b   Perske, Christina ^a   Bleckmann, Annalen ^a   Brembeck, Felix H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canonical Wnt signaling; Estrogen receptor pathway; Human breast cancer; Mouse model; Primary cell culture; Pygo2; Sp1

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; BCL9L PROTEIN, HUMAN; BCL9L PROTEIN, MOUSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BCL9 2 GENE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESR1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; PUBERTY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR GENE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENESIS; GENETICS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84907086034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.2252     Document Type: Article

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