A LINE-1-encoded reverse transcriptase-dependent regulatory mechanism is active in embryogenesis and tumorigenesis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1341, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 164-171

  Spadafora, Corrado ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer therapy; Embryogenesis; LINE 1 retrotransposon; Reverse transcriptase; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTOCYST; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

EID: 84926197939     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12637     Document Type: Article

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