DNA methyltransferase levels and altered CpG methylation in the total genome and in the GSTP1 gene in human glioma cells transfected with sense and antisense DNA methyltransferase cDNA

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 372-381

  Antoun, Gamil ^a   Baylin, Stephen B ^b   Ali Osman, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

CpG; DNA; Glioma cells; Methylation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GSTP 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; DNA PROBES; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GLIOMA; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE PI; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0034056934     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(20000601)77:3<372::AID-JCB3>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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