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Aberrant epigenetics in the molecular pathogenesis of human acute myeloid leukemia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Aberrant epigenetics in the molecular pathogenesis of human acute myeloid leukemia./
Author:	Scott, Stuart Alexander.
Description:	219 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-09, Section: B, page: 4738.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-09B.
Subject:	Health Sciences, Pathology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR06247
ISBN:	0494062479

Aberrant epigenetics in the molecular pathogenesis of human acute myeloid leukemia.
Scott, Stuart Alexander.

Aberrant epigenetics in the molecular pathogenesis of human acute myeloid leukemia. - 219 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-09, Section: B, page: 4738.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Saskatchewan (Canada), 2005.

Promoter hypermethylation mediated gene silencing is a frequent epigenetic finding in many cancers that affects genes known to have important roles in several aspects of cell biology. Hematological malignancies have been reported to harbor multiple genes aberrantly silenced by promoter hypermethylation and as a result, cytosine analogs known to inhibit the DNA methylation machinery are currently being evaluated in clinical trials. As such, the general goal of this thesis was to identify genes silenced by promoter hypermethylation in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and to study the mechanism of promoter hypermethylation mediated gene silencing. Interestingly, the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p15 was found to be methylated at a high frequency in AML patients and cell lines in association with a lack of detectable p15 mRNA. Treatment with the cytosine analog 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-dC) in vitro resulted in promoter demethylation and p15 mRNA re-expression, which was associated with a release of a transcriptionally repressive complex at the p15 promoter. Importantly, 5-Aza-dC treatment also reversed specific histone amino-terminal modifications at the p15 promoter which are normally associated with transcriptionally inactive chromatin regions, implicating chromatin remodeling in promoter hypermethylation mediated gene silencing. The recently discovered DNA methylation inhibitor, zebularine---considered more stable than 5-Aza-dC---was also able to reconstitute p15 mRNA in vitro in association with promoter demethylation, regional enrichment of histone acetylation, and growth inhibition.

ISBN: 0494062479Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017854
Health Sciences, Pathology.

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