Apoptosis and DNA methylation

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1798-1820

  Meng, Huan X ^a   Hackett, James A ^a   Nestor, Colm ^a,b   Dunican, Donncha S ^a   Madej, Monika ^a   Reddington, James P ^a   Pennings, Sari ^c   Harrison, David J ^b   Meehan, Richard R ^a,b  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylation; Apoptosis; Demethylation; DNA repair; Dnmt1; Epigenetics; Mbd4; TDG

Indexed keywords

DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; GUANINE; HISTONE H3; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 4; THYMINE; THYMINE DNA GLYCOSYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BASE MISPAIRING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VIABILITY; DEMETHYLATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 79959734685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3021798     Document Type: Review

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