• Title of article

    Decreased expression and rare somatic mutation of the CIP1/WAF1 gene in human hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Author/Authors

    Furutani، نويسنده , , Masaharu and Arii، نويسنده , , Shigeki and Tanaka، نويسنده , , Hisashi and Mise، نويسنده , , Masahiro and Niwano، نويسنده , , Mototaka and Harada، نويسنده , , Tomika and Higashitsuji، نويسنده , , Hiroaki and Imamura، نويسنده , , Masayuki and Fujita، نويسنده , , Jun، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    191
  • To page
    197
  • Abstract
    CIP1/WAF1, a critical downstream effector of tumor suppressor p53, encodes a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. By Northern blot analysis, the CIP1/WAF1 mRNA level in the tumor was significantly lower than that in the corresponding normal liver from 19 Japanese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (P < 0.05). In the tumor from only one out of 19 patients (5%), somatic mutations of the CIP1/WAF1 as well as that of p53 gene were identified by RT-PCR/SSCP analysis. These results suggest that the decreased CIP1/WAF1 expression is involved in the carcinogenesis or the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • Keywords
    p53 , Cyclin-dependent kinase , CIP1 , WAF1 , p21 , hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Journal title
    Cancer Letters
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Cancer Letters
  • Record number

    1815309