Is glioblastoma an epigenetic malignancy?

Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1120-1139

  Maleszewska, Marta ^a   Kaminska, Bozena ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Histone modifying enzymes; Inhibitors and glioblastoma; Methylator phenotype

Indexed keywords

3 DEAZANEPLANOCIN; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; 6 (1,3 DIOXO 1H,3H BENZO[DE]ISOQUINOLIN 2 YL) N HYDROXYHEXANAMIDE; ABEXINOSTAT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AR 42; AZACITIDINE; CURCUMIN; DAXX PROTEIN; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; ENTINOSTAT; ENZYME; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 2; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN MLL2; PROTEIN RRP22; PSAMMAPLIN A; TEN ELEVEN TRANSLOCATION 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANYLCYPROMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORINOSTAT; ZEBULARINE;

ATRX GENE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN; DAXX GENE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EPIGENETICS; FUBP1 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IDH1 GENE; IDH2 GENE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MGMT GENE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MUTATION RATE; NDS1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NSD1 GENE; REVIEW;

EID: 84884230431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers5031120     Document Type: Review

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