5-hydroxymethylcytosine marks promoters in colon that resist DNA hypermethylation in cancer

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Uribe Lewis, Santiago ^a   Stark, Rory ^a   Carroll, Thomas ^a   Dunning, Mark J ^a   Bachman, Martin ^a   Ito, Yoko ^a   Stojic, Lovorka ^a   Halim, Silvia ^a   Vowler, Sarah L ^a   Lynch, Andy G ^a   Delatte, Benjamin ^b   de Bony, Eric J ^b   Colin, Laurence ^b   Defrance, Matthieu ^b   Krueger, Felix ^c   Silva, Ana Luisa ^d   ten Hoopen, Rogier ^d   Ibrahim, Ashraf E K ^d   Fuks, François ^b   Murrell, Adele ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CELL PROTEIN; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 2 PROTEIN; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5-HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; CYTOSINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TET2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TET1 GENE; TET2 GENE; TET3 GENE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLON TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HCT116 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HCT116 CELLS; HUMANS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 84939211505     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0605-5     Document Type: Article

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