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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-11-10
pubmed:abstractText
Mutational inactivation and allelic loss of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene appear to be causal events for the majority of spontaneous clear-cell renal carcinomas. We now show that hypermethylation of a normally unmethylated CpG island in the 5' region provides another potentially important mechanism for inactivation of the VHL gene in a significant portion of these cancers. This hypermethylation was found in 5 of 26 (19%) tumors examined. Four of these had lost one copy of VHL while one retained two heavily methylated alleles. Four of the tumors with VHL hypermethylation had no detectable mutations, whereas one had a missense mutation in addition to hypermethylation of the single retained allele. As would be predicted for the consequence of methylation in this 5' CpG island, none of the 5 tumors expressed the VHL gene. In contrast, normal kidney and all tumors examined with inactivating VHL gene mutations but no CpG island methylation had expression. In a renal cell culture line, treatment with 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine resulted in reexpression of the VHL gene. These findings suggest that aberrant methylation of CpG islands may participate in the tumor-suppressor gene inactivations which initiate or cause progression of common human cancers.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:geneSymbol
VHL
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
9700-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Silencing of the VHL tumor-suppressor gene by DNA methylation in renal carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21231.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't