Radioprotective Properties of DNA Methylation-disrupting Agents

References

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Task Group 21, Radiation Therapy Committee. A protocol for the determination of absorbed dose from high-energy photon and electron beams. Medical Physics 1983; 10: 741–771
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Ball D.J., Gross D.S., Garrard W.T. 5-Methylcytosine is localized in nucleosomes that contain histone H1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 1983; 80: 5490–5494
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Birren B.W., Herschman H.R. Regulation of the rat metallothionein-I gene by sodium butyrate. Nucleic Acids Research 1986; 14: 853–867
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Blin N., Stafford D.W. A general method for isolation of high molecular weight DNA from eukaryotes. Nucleic Acids Research 1976; 3: 2303–2308
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Christman J.K. Separation of major and minor deoxyribonucleoside monophosphates by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography: a simple method applicable to quantitation of methylated nucleotides in DNA. Analytical Biochemistry 1982; 119: 38–48
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Compere S.J., Palmiter R.D. DNA methylation controls the inducibility of the mouse metallothionein-I gene in lymphoid cells. Cell 1981; 25: 233–240
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Debieu D., Deschavanne P.J., Midander J., Larrson A., Malaise E.P. Survival curves of glutathionine synthetase deficient human fibroblasts: correlation between radiosensitivity of hypoxia and glutathionine synthetase activity. International Journal of Radiation Biology 1985; 48: 525–543
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fertil B., Dertinger H., Courdi A., Malaise E.P. Mean inactivation dose: a useful concept for intercomparison of human cell survival curves. Radiation Research 1984; 99: 73–84
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gama-Sosa M.A., Slagel V.A., Trewyn R.W., Oxenhandler R., Kuo K., Gehrke W., Ehrlich M. The 5-methylcytosine content of DNA from human tumors. Nucleic Acids Research 1983; 11: 6883–6894
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de Haan J.B., Gevers W., Parker M.I. Effects of sodium butyrate on the synthesis and methylation of DNA in normal cells and their transformed counterparts. Cancer Research 1986; 46: 713–716
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hare J.T., Taylor J.H. One role for DNA methylation in vertebrate cells is strand discrimination in mismatch repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 1985; 82: 7350–7354
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jeggo P.A., Holliday R. Azacytidine-induced reactivation of a DNA repair gene in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology 1986; 6: 2944–2949
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones P.A., Taylor S.M. Cellular Differentiation, cytidine analogs and DNA methylation. Cell 1980; 20: 85–93
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones M., Wagner R., Rodman M. Mismatch repair of deaminated 5-methylcytosine. Journal of Molecular Biology 1987; 194: 155–159
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Kalinich J.F., Catravas G.N., Snyder S.L. The effect of gamma radiation on DNA methylation. Radiation Research 1989; 117: 185–197
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kellerer A.M., Hall E.J., Rossi H.H., Tecdla P. RBE as a function of neutron energy. II. Statistical analysis. Radiation Research 1976; 65: 172–186
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leder A., Orkin S., Leder P. Butyric acid, a potent inducer of erythroid differentiation in cultured erythroleukemic cells. Cell 1975; 5: 319–322
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lee T., Karon M., Momparler R.L. Kinetic studies on phosphorylation of 5-azacytidine with purified uridine-cytidine kinase from calf thymus. Cancer Research 1974; 34: 2482–2488
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li L.H., Olin E.J., Buskirk H.H., Rineke L.M. Cytotoxicity and mode of action of 5-azacytidine on L1210 leukemia. Cancer Research 1970; 30: 2760–2769
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liacouras A.S., Anderson E.P. Uridine-cytidine kinase. IV. Kinetics of the competition between 5-azacytidine and the two natural substrates. Molecular Pharmacology 1979; 15: 331–340
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mitani H., Yagi T., Leiler C.Y.M., Takebe H. 5-Azacytidine-induced recovery of 06-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase activity in mouse Ha821 cells. Carcinogenesis 1989; 10: 1879–1882
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Piskala A., Sorm F. Nucleic acids components and their analogues. Synthesis of 1-glycosyl derivatives of 5-azauracil and 5-azacytosine. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications 1964; 29: 2060–2067
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Plesko M.M., Hargrove J.L., Granner K., Chalkley R. Inhibition by sodium butyrate of enzyme induction by glucocorticoids and dibutyryl cyclic AMP. Journal of Biological Chemistry 1983; 258: 13738–13744
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Rubinstein P., Sealy L., Marshall S., Chalkley R. Cellular protein synthesis and inhibition of cell division are independent of butyrate-induced histone hyperacetylation. Nature 1979; 280: 692–693
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Santi D.V., Garret C.E., Barr P.J. On the mechanism of inhibition of DNA-cytosine methyltransferases by cytosine analogs. Cell 1983; 33: 9–10
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sutter D., Doerfler W. Methylation of integrated adenovirus type-12 DNA sequences in transformed cells in inversely correlated with viral gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 1980; 77: 253–256
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tanaka M., Hibasami H., Nagai J., Ikeda T. Effects of 5-azacytidine on DNA methylation in Ehrlichs' ascites tumor cells. Austrian Journal of Experimental Biology, Medicine, and Science 1980; 58: 391–396
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Taylor J. Calculating the mean inactivation dose. Radiation Research 1986; 108: 112–112
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Wiebauer K., Jiricny J. In vitro correction of G-T mispairs to G-C pairs in nuclear extracts from human cells. Nature 1989; 339: 234–236
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson V.L., Momparler R.L., Jones P.A. Inhibition of DNA methylation of L1210 leukemic cells by 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine. A possible mechanism of chemotherapeutic action. Cancer Research 1983; 43: 3493–3496
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar