Hypoxia-Induced Epigenetic Regulation and Silencing of the BRCA1 Promoter
Lu Y, Chu A, Turker MS, Glazer PM. Hypoxia-Induced Epigenetic Regulation and Silencing of the BRCA1 Promoter. Molecular And Cellular Biology 2011, 31: 3339-3350. PMID: 21670155, PMCID: PMC3147797, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01121-10.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBRCA1 promoterH3K9 acetylationLysine-specific histone demethylase LSD1BRCA1 tumor suppressorShort-term repressionDNA methylation inhibitorHistone demethylase LSD1Hypoxic stressTreatment of cellsH3K9 methylationRepressive modificationsGenome instabilityHistone modificationsEpigenetic regulationEpigenetic modificationsDemethylase LSD1Methylation inhibitorTranscriptional levelHistone deacetylase inhibitorsTumor suppressorPromoterHPRT geneMethylationSporadic cancersBRCA1 expression