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Mutant p53 and aberrant cytosine methylation cooperate to silence gene expression.
Oncogene - 5 Jun 2003
Oshiro Marc M, Watts George S, Wozniak Ryan J, Junk Damian J, Munoz-Rodriguez Jose L, Domann Frederick E, Futscher Bernard W
Abstract excerpt
p53 is an important transcriptional regulator that is frequently mutated in cancer. Gene-profiling experiments of breast cancer cells infected with wt p53 revealed both MASPIN and desmocollin 3 (DSC3) to be p53-target genes, even though both genes are silenced in association with aberrant cytosine methylation of their promoters. Despite the transcriptional repression of these genes by aberrant DNA methylation,...
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