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Cellular differentiation, cytidine analogs and DNA methylation

Peter A. Jones, +1 more
- 01 May 1980 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 1, pp 85-93
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Results provide experimental evidence for a role for DNA modification in differentiation, and suggest that cytidine analogs containing an altered 5 position perturb previously established methylation patterns to yield new cellular phenotypes.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1980-05-01. It has received 1722 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: DNA methylation & Zebularine.

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Increased sensitivity of nontumorigenic fibroblasts expressing ras or myc oncogenes to malignant transformation induced by 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine.

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Increased metallothionein gene expression in 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine-induced resistance to cadmium cytotoxicity

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Reduced cadmium-induced cytotoxicity in cultured liver cells following 5-azacytidine pretreatment.

TL;DR: It is suggested that AZA pretreatment induces tolerance to cadmium cytotoxicity which appears to be due to an increased capacity to synthesize MT rather than high quantities of preexisting MT at the time of Cadmium exposure.
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