Article
Reappraisal of p53 mutations in human malignant astrocytic neoplasms by p53 functional assay: comparison with conventional structural analyses.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Mar 1997
Tada M, Iggo R D, Waridel F, Nozaki M, Matsumoto R, Sawamura Y, Shinohe Y, Ikeda J, Abe H
Abstract excerpt
We previously reported clonal expansion of p53 mutations in malignant astrocytic tumors detected with a yeast p53 functional assay that measures mutant p53 alleles quantitatively and loss of p53 transcriptional competence qualitatively (Tada et al., Int J Cancer 67:447-450, 1996). This method sel...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Artifacts
- Astrocytoma
- Base Composition
- Brain Neoplasms
- Child
- Codon
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Female
- Genes, p53
- Glioblastoma
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Point Mutation
