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http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-1436
Autor(en): | Nunna, Suneetha Reinhardt, Richard Ragozin, Sergey Jeltsch, Albert |
Titel: | Targeted methylation of the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) promoter to silence its expression in ovarian cancer cells |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
Dokumentart: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Erschienen in: | PLoS one 9 (2014), issue 1, e87703. URL http://dx.doi.org./10.1371/journal.pone.0087703 |
URI: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-96692 http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/1453 http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-1436 |
Zusammenfassung: | The Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule (EpCAM) is overexpressed in many cancers including ovarian cancer and EpCAM overexpression correlates with decreased survival of patients. It was the aim of this study to achieve a targeted methylation of the EpCAM promoter and silence EpCAM gene expression using an engineered zinc finger protein that specifically binds the EpCAM promoter fused to the catalytic domain of the Dnmt3a DNA methyltransferase. We show that transient transfection of this construct increased the methylation of the EpCAM promoter in SKOV3 cells from 4–8% in untreated cells to 30%. Up to 48% methylation was observed in stable cell lines which express the chimeric methyltransferase. Control experiments confirmed that the methylation was dependent on the fusion of the Zinc finger and the methyltransferase domains and specific for the target region. The stable cell lines with methylated EpCAM promoter showed a 60–80% reduction of EpCAM expression as determined at mRNA and protein level and exhibited a significantly reduced cell proliferation. Our data indicate that targeted methylation of the EpCAM promoter could be an approach in the therapy of EpCAM overexpressing cancers. |
Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | 03 Fakultät Chemie |
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journal.pone.0087703.s001.pdf | Supplementary information | 106,06 kB | Adobe PDF | Öffnen/Anzeigen |
Nunna_PLOSONE_2014.pdf | Article | 1,56 MB | Adobe PDF | Öffnen/Anzeigen |
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