Single-site methylation within the p53 promoter region reduces gene expression in a reporter gene construct: Possible in vivo relevance during tumorigenesis

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 588-594

  Pogribny, Igor P ^b   Pogribna, Marta ^a   Christman, Judith K ^c   James, S Jill ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, P53; GENES, REPORTER; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0033960560     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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