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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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Ubiquitous and tenacious methylation of the CpG site in codon 248 of the p53 gene may explain its frequent appearance as a mutational hot spot in human cancer.

TL;DR: The frequent methylation of codon 248 and adjacent Alu sequence may explain the enhanced mutability of this site as a result of the deamination of the 5-methylcytosine.
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Studies of X chromosome DNA methylation in normal human cells

TL;DR: No derepression of the inactive X is observed in clonal populations of normal human fibroblasts treated with 5-azacytidine, which preclude ubiquitous methylation differences as the molecular basis for X-chromosome inactivation.
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Unusual methylation pattern of the α2(I) collagen gene

TL;DR: The data indicate that a gene that is methylated can be actively transcribed and that the level of expression of the α2 (type I) collagen gene seems to be independent of methylation.
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Dual targeting of epigenetic therapy in cancer

TL;DR: The therapeutic potential of DNMT and HDAC inhibitors as anti-cancer drugs, as evaluated in clinical trials, and their angiostatic activities, apart from their inhibitory effects on tumor cells are reviewed.
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Growth and differentiation of rat bone marrow stromal cells: does 5-azacytidine trigger their cardiomyogenic differentiation?

TL;DR: Rat MSCs cannot be extensively expanded in vitro or be induced to differentiate in an expected cardiomyogenic way by 5-azacytidine-treatment, if the cells are not immortalized.
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