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SUBMITTER: Lee MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4319372 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Ming-Tsung MT Ouyang Bin B Ho Shuk-Mei SM Leung Yuet-Kin YK
Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20130624 1-2
Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) and its isoforms have different putative functions and expression patterns in prostate cancer. Current studies on 5'-most exons, 0K and 0N, show that their respective promoters are actively involved in transcription. These data, however, do not explain why ERβ isoforms are differentially expressed in normal and cancerous tissues, since 0K and 0N transcripts are detectable in clinical specimens. Various combinations of 5' untranslated exons, termed exon 0Xs, associate wi ...[more]