The androgen receptor controls expression of the cancerassociated sTn antigen and cell adhesion through induction of ST6GalNAc1 in prostate cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 34358-34374

  Munkley, Jennifer ^a   Oltean, Sebastian ^b   Vodák, Daniel ^c   Wilson, Brian T ^a   Livermore, Karen E ^a   Zhou, Yan ^d   Star, Eleanor ^b   Floros, Vasileios I ^a   Johannessen, Bjarne ^f   Knight, Bridget ^g   McCullagh, Paul ^g   McGrath, John ^g   Crundwell, Malcolm ^g   Skotheim, Rolf I ^f   Robson, Craig N ^a   Leung, Hing Y ^e,h   Harries, Lorna W ⁱ   Rajan, Prabhakar ^e,h   Mills, Ian G ^f,j,k   Elliott, David J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^g ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^j Cancer Registry of Norway   (Norway)

^k QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Androgens; Glycosylation; Prostate cancer; Sialyl Tn (sTn); ST6GalNAc1

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ST6GALNAC1; SIALYL TN ANTIGEN; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; SIALOSYL-TN ANTIGEN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ST6GAL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SPLICING DEFECT; STABLE EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; CELL ADHESION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84946600803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6024     Document Type: Article

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