Mechanisms for the involvement of DNA methylation in colon carcinogenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2375-2381

  Schmutte, Christoph ^a   Yang, Allen S ^a   Nguyen, TuDung T ^a   Beart, Robert W ^a   Jones, Peter A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, NEOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; THYMIDINE; URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE;

EID: 0030009868     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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