Article
In vitro recapitulating of TP53 mutagenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma associated with dietary aflatoxin B1 exposure.
Gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2009
Besaratinia Ahmad, Kim Sang-In, Hainaut Pierre, Pfeifer Gerd P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Dietary exposure to aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)), in addition to other known factors, increases risk for human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCCs from AFB(1)-exposed individuals frequently have distinct TP53 mutations, such as G to T transversions in the second guanine of codon 249 (AGG to AGT), and a characteristic mutational spectrum predominated by G:C to T:A mutations. METHODS: To recapitulate...
Topics
- Aflatoxin B1
- Animals
- Carcinogens
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA Adducts
- DNA Damage
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Fibroblasts
- Genes, p53
- Liver Neoplasms
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutation
