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Micronuclei bearing acentric extrachromosomal chromatin are transcriptionally competent and may perturb the cancer cell phenotype.
Molecular cancer research : MCR - 1 Jul 2007
Utani Koh-ichi, Kawamoto June-ko, Shimizu Noriaki
Abstract excerpt
Extrachromosomal double minutes (DM) bear amplified genes that contribute to the malignancy of human cancer cells. A novel intracellular behavior of DMs resulted in their selective entrapment within micronuclei; opening the vista, this could perturb the cancer cell phenotype if genes located on DMs were expressed in micronuclei. Here, using fluorescence in situ hybridization, we detected transcripts in...
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