Alu retrotransposons promote differentiation of human carcinoma cells through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 4665-4683

  Morales Hernández, Antonio ^a   González Rico, Francisco J ^a   Román, Angel C ^b   Rico Leo, Eva ^a   Alvarez Barrientos, Alberto ^a   Sánchez, Laura ^c   Macia, Angela ^c   Heras, Sara R ^c   Garcyá Perez, Jose L ^c   Merino, Jaime M ^a   Fernandez Salguero, Pedro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; AHR PROTEIN, HUMAN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RETINOIC ACID;

ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NANOG GENE; NONHUMAN; OCT4 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RETROPOSON; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TERATOCARCINOMA; TERATOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; NANOG HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RNA POLYMERASE III; TERATOCARCINOMA; TERATOMA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84973444052     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw095     Document Type: Article

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