Methylation of the cyclin A1 promoter correlates with gene silencing in somatic cell lines, while tissue-specific expression of cyclin A1 is methylation independent

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3316-3329

  Müller, Carsten ^a,b   Readhead, Carol ^c   Diederichs, Sven ^b   Idos, Gregory ^a   Yang, Rong ^a   Tidow, Nicola ^a   Serve, Hubert ^b   Berdel, Wolfgang E ^b   Koeffler, H Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; CYCLIN A; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEACETYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIN A; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTES; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; METHYLATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0038543444     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.9.3316-3329.2000     Document Type: Article

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