Dna methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene activity in human lymphomas correlates with aberrant p53 gene expression (original) (raw)
2006, Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC
BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene has been implicated as a mutagen for tumor suppressor genes by causing hypermethylation and subsequent TA mutations of CpG islands located in the promoter regions of these genes. The present study was undertaken to determine if increased DNMT1 gene activity correlated with increased aberrant p53 gene expression in human lymphomas. METHODS The study was undertaken on randomly selected archival human lymph nodes comprising 50 normal or reactive lymph nodes and 50 lymphoma lymph nodes. These were subjected to Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) using oligonucleotide Antisense probes for the DNMT1 and the p53 mRNA according to standard FISH protocols. Percent cells stained, mean 'dots' stained per cell and staining signal intensity were taken as the criteria for comparing control and lymphoma lymph nodes. Quantitation of probe signals was done both by manual visualization of fluorescent signals and computer based image ana...
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