Two active copies of the X-linked gene spermidine/spermine N1- acetyltransferase (SSAT) in a female lung cancer cell line are associated with an increase in sensitivity to an antitumor polyamine analogue

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2003-2008

  Mank Seymour, Amy R ^a   Murray, Tracy R ^a   Berkey, Kimberly A ^a   Xiao, Lei ^a   Kern, Scott ^a   Casero Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ALLELES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOGENIC POLYAMINES; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX FACTORS; SPERMINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031875664     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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