Article
p53 gene mutation spectrum in human unknown primary tumors.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Bar-Eli M, Abbruzzese J L, Lee-Jackson D, Frost P
Abstract excerpt
Mutations affecting the p53 gene are associated with many human malignancies, but little is known about changes in p53 in unknown primary tumors (UPTs), which are characterized as tumors with advanced stages of malignancy. We therefore investigated the frequency of p53 mutations in a series of 15 unknown primary tumor biopsies and eight cell lines established from UPTs. Mutations in the conserved regions of the...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Codon
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Metastasis
- Neoplasms, Unknown Primary
- Prognosis
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
