DNA methylation at the C-5 position of cytosine by methyl radicals: A possible role for epigenetic change during carcinogenesis by environmental agents

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 984-989

  Kasai, Hiroshi ^a   Kawai, Kazuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLDEOXYCYTIDINE; CUMENE HYDROPEROXIDE; CYTOSINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FERROUS ION; FREE RADICAL; POLYMER; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE SILENCING; INFLAMMATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSITION EFFECT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; CARCINOGENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANE; TERT-BUTYLHYDROPEROXIDE;

EID: 67449105689     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx900099s     Document Type: Article

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