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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Using a fragment of the estrogen receptor (ER) cDNA as a probe, Southern blots of HindIII-digested genomic DNA, from breast tumours and non-cancerous tissue, revealed a 1.6 kb hybridizing fragment (1.6KbHF) in 3 out of 30 tumours, and in 31 out of 80 mastectomy samples (16 sectors from each of 5 patients), which was significantly correlated with the absence of progesterone receptor. In 4 of the patients, sectors which showed the 1.6KbHF co-existed in the same breast with sectors which did not. Neither the use of higher concentrations of the restriction enzyme, not high salt extraction of DNA changed the abundance of the 1.6KbHF relative to other bands. Similar studies on EcoRI digests of the same DNA samples failed to show any variants. As a further control, hybridization of the same Southern blots of HindIII-digested DNA, with a cytochrome P450IIA3 cDNA, also failed to show variants in these samples. It is concluded that the presence of the 1.6KbHF represents a somatic change in the nucleus of these samples which may have functional importance.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0250-7005
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
139-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Somatic change in the estrogen receptor gene associated with altered expression of the progesterone receptor.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't