AGO2 and SETDB1 cooperate in promoter-targeted transcriptional silencing of the androgen receptor gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13545-13556

  Cho, Sunwha ^a,b   Park, Jung Sun ^a   Kang, Yong Kook ^a,b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DNA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SETDB1 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIN3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EZH2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HISTONE; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE; SETDB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84927628063     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku788     Document Type: Article

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