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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 412, Issue 3, Pages 479-482Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.07.124
Keywords
Lycopene; Lycopene metabolites; Prostate cancer; Carotenoids; Epigenetics
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA125384, R01 CA125384-04] Funding Source: Medline
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DNA hypermethylation and silencing of tumor-suppressor genes are commonly seen in human cancers, and likely contribute to the process of carcinogenesis. A growing body of evidence suggests that dietary compounds may alter cancer risk through epigenetic modifications. Glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1) is hypermethylated in > 90% of prostate cancer cases making it one of the most common genome alterations in prostate cancer. LNCaP cells were treated either with lycopene or apo-10'-lycopenal for 7 days, and mRNA expression and DNA methylation of GSTP1 were evaluated. Neither compound significantly altered expression nor methylation of GSTP1 while treatment with 5-azacytidine decreased methylation by 78%. These findings demonstrate that lycopene and apo-10'-lycopenal are not effective demethylating agents of GSTP1 in the human LNCaP cell line. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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