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Collagen alpha1(I) gene (COL1A1) is repressed by RFX family.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 Jun 2005
Sengupta Pritam, Xu Yong, Wang Lin, Widom Russell, Smith Barbara D
Abstract excerpt
Collagen type I is composed of three polypeptide chains transcribed from two separate genes (COL1A1 and COL1A2) with different promoters requiring coordinate regulation. Our recent publications, centering on COL1A2 regulation, demonstrate that methylation in the first exon of COL1A2 at a regulatory factor for X box (RFX) site (at -1 to +20) occurs in human cancer cells and correlates with increased RFX1 binding...
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