Changes in Ο6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase expression during immortalization of cloned human fibroblasts

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-224

  Harris, Linda C ^a   Von Wronski, Mathew A ^a,b   Venable, Carol C ^a   Remack, Joanna S ^a   Howell, Sherie R ^a   Brent, Thomas P ^a,b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ENZYME; CYTOSINE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CELL GROWTH; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TELOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PATHOLOGY; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0029664677     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/17.2.219     Document Type: Article

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