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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 275, 期 9, 页码 6353-6359出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.9.6353
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Previous lines of evidence have shown that inhibition of DNA methyltransferase (MeTase) can arrest tumor cell growth; however, the mechanisms involved were not clear, In this manuscript we show that out of 16 known tumor suppressors and cell cycle regulators, the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 is the only tumor suppressor induced in the human lung cancer cell line, A549, following inhibition of DNA MeTase by a novel DNA MeTase antagonist or antisense oligonucleotides. The rapid induction of p21 expression points to a mechanism that does not involve demethylation of p21 promoter. Consistent with this hypothesis, we show that part of the CpG island upstream of the endogenous p21 gene is unmethylated and that the expression of unmethylated p21 promoter luciferase reporter constructs is induced following inhibition of DNA MeTase. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the level of DNA MeTase in a cell can control the expression of a nodal tumor suppressor by a mechanism that does not involve DNA methylation.
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