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Table 2 Types of curated arsenic-gene interactions

From: The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database facilitates identification and understanding of chemical-gene-disease associations: arsenic as a case study

Arsenic-to-Gene Molecular Interactions

Genes1

mRNA up-regulated

810

mRNA down-regulated

652

Protein up-regulated

97

mRNA/protein altered2

82

Protein activity

78

Protein down-regulated

49

Protein phosphorylation

39

Protein cleavage/degradation

14

Protein localization

14

Protein secretion

8

Promoter methylation

7

Protein metabolism

6

mRNA/protein stabilization

4

Gene mutagenesis

4

Gene-to-Arsenic Molecular Interactions

Genes 1

Arsenic resistance/susceptibility

43

Arsenic transport

5

Arsenic metabolism

5

Protein binds arsenic

5

  1. 1 Some genes are counted in more than one interaction category
  2. 2 Molecule (mRNA or protein) and/or direction (up or down-regulation) were not specified