Microsatellite instability is co-selectable with gene amplification in a mammalian mutator phenotype

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2 A, 1999, Pages 1271-1275

  Caligo, Maria Adelaide ^a   Ghimenti, Chiara ^a   Sensi, Elisa ^a,b   Piras, Antonio ^b   Rainaldi, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a Laboratorio di Genetica Molecolare   (Italy)

^b Ist di Mutagenesi e D   (Italy)

^c Genetica e Biochimica Tossicologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

dCTP imbalance; Microsatellite; Mutator phenotype

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; METHYLNITROSOUREA; NUCLEOTIDE; SPARFOSIC ACID; TIOGUANINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DAMAGE; CHINESE HAMSTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; MAMMAL; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; DEOXYCYTOSINE NUCLEOTIDES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; METHYLNITROSOUREA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHONOACETIC ACID; THIOGUANINE;

EID: 0032994030     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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