Sunlight induces pyrimidine dimers preferentially at 5-methylcytosine bases

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4727-4730

  Tommasi, Stella ^a   Denissenko, Mikhail F ^a   Pfeifer, Gerd P ^a  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CYCLOBUTANE; DIMER; PROTEIN P53; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; CODON; CYTOSINE; GENES, P53; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; METHYLATION; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PYRIMIDINE DIMERS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0030859713     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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