Promoter hypermethylation of MGMT is associated with protein loss in gastric carcinoma

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 805-809

  Oue, Naohide ^a   Shigeishi, Hideo ^a   Kuniyasu, Hiroki ^a   Yokozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kuraoka, Kazuya ^a   Ito, Reiko ^a   Yasui, Wataru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Gastric carcinoma; MGMT

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; PROTEIN P53;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALLELES; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZACITIDINE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENES, P53; HUMANS; MUTATION; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035885227     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.1403     Document Type: Article

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