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C L Chen1, S S Liu, S M Ip, L C Wong, T Y Ng, H Y S Ngan.
Abstract
A previous study showed E-cadherin expression was lost in some cervical cancer cell lines and tumours. This study was designed to clarify the significance of DNA methylation in silencing E-cadherin expression. We examined promoter methylation of E-cadherin in five cervical cancer cell lines and 20 cervical cancer tissues using methylation-specific PCR (MSP) and bisulphite DNA sequencing. The correlation of E-cadherin methylation and expression together with methyltransferase (DNMT1) were further studied. We found that hypermethylation of E-cadherin was involved in five cervical cancer cell lines and 40% (8/20) of cervical cancer tissues. E-cadherin protein was lost in 6/8 (75%) samples and 3/5 (60%) cell lines with promoter methylation. E-cadherin methylation was significantly correlated with increased DNMT1. Using an antisense DNMT1 oligo to transfect into SiHa HeLa C33A cell line, E-cadherin protein was re-expressed. We concluded that loss of E-cadherin expression was in part correlated with DNA methylation and DNMT1 expression in cervical cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12751384 DOI： 10.1016/s0959-8049(02)00175-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Cancer ISSN： 0959-8049 Impact factor: 9.162