• Title of article

    Role of site-specific promoter hypomethylation in aberrant MUC2 mucin expression in mucinous gastric carcinomas

  • Author/Authors

    Mesquita، نويسنده , , Patr?́cia and Peixoto، نويسنده , , Ant?nio J. and Seruca، نويسنده , , Raquel and Hanski، نويسنده , , Christoph and Almeida، نويسنده , , Raquel Greice Silva and Corrêa، نويسنده , , Filipe and Reis، نويسنده , , Celso and David، نويسنده , , Leonor، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    129
  • To page
    136
  • Abstract
    In the present work we investigated the methylation levels of mucin gene (MUC)2 promoter region in normal gastric mucosa and mucinous gastric carcinoma in order to access if the observed de novo expression of the intestinal mucin MUC2 in mucinous gastric carcinoma is associated with changes in MUC2 promoter methylation status. The results obtained by methylation-sensitive single nucleotide primer extension suggest that MUC2 expression in gastric cells is regulated by promoter methylation and further indicate that two specific cytosine guaine dinucleotide (CpG) sites may play a particularly important regulatory role.
  • Keywords
    Mucins , Muc2 , Gastric Carcinoma , Methylation-sensitive single nucleotide primer extension , Methylation
  • Journal title
    Cancer Letters
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Cancer Letters
  • Record number

    1804564