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2011

Cancer

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Identification Of Novel Stat3 Target Genes Associated With Oncogenesis, Rachel Haviland Nov 2011

Identification Of Novel Stat3 Target Genes Associated With Oncogenesis, Rachel Haviland

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Cytokine and growth factor signaling pathways involving STAT3 are frequently constitutively activated in many human primary tumors, and are known for the transcriptional role they play in controlling cell growth and cell cycle progression. However, the extent of STAT3's reach on transcriptional control of the genome as a whole remains an important question. We predicted that this persistent STAT3 signaling affects a wide variety of cellular functions, many of which still remain to be characterized.

We took a broad approach to identify novel STAT3 regulated genes by examining changes in the genome-wide gene expression profile by microarray, using cells expressing …