Synergy of demethylation and histone deacetylase inhibition in the re- expression of genes silenced in cancer

Nature Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-107

  Cameron, Elizabeth E ^a   Bachman, Kurtis E ^a   Myöhänen, Sanna ^a   Herman, James G ^a   Baylin, Stephen B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AZACITIDINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P15; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-3; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032948005     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5047     Document Type: Article

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