A novel isoform of IL-33 revealed by screening for transposable element promoted genes in human colorectal cancer.

Remnants of ancient transposable elements (TEs) are abundant in mammalian genomes. These sequences contain multiple regulatory motifs and hence are capable of influencing expression of host genes. TEs are known to be released from epigenetic repression and can become transcriptionally active in canc...

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Main Authors: Frances E Lock, Artem Babaian, Ying Zhang, Liane Gagnier, Sabrina Kuah, Antonia Weberling, Mohammad M Karimi, Dixie L Mager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5513427?pdf=render