Differential requirement for DNA methyltransferase 1 in maintaining human cancer cell gene promoter hypermethylation

Cancer Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 729-735

  Ting, Angela H ^a,b   Jair, Kam Wing ^b   Schuebel, Kornel E ^b   Baylin, Stephen B ^a,b  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; GENOMIC DNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; COLONY FORMATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ASSAY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 31544457309     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-1537     Document Type: Article

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