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Abstract
DNA demethylating agents are approved for some blood malignancies and are under active investigation in solid tumors, but how these drugs work has remained unclear. In this issue of Cell, two groups show that these agents activate a toxic cellular antiviral program through transcriptional activation of endogenous retroviral sequences.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26317460 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582