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SUBMITTER: Dimri M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317019 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dimri Manjari M Cho Joon-Ho JH Kang Mingu M Dimri Goberdhan P GP
The Journal of biological chemistry 20141212 5
The polycomb group protein BMI1 is an important regulator of cancer stem cell (CSC) phenotype and is often overexpressed in cancer cells. Its overexpression leads to increase in CSC fraction and therapy resistance in tumors. BMI1 functions via polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1)-mediated gene silencing and also via PRC1-independent transcriptional activities. At present, very little is known about the therapy reagents that can efficiently inhibit BMI1 expression, and the CSC phenotype. Here, we ...[more]