Altered sirtuin expression is associated with node-positive breast cancer

Autor: Alan MacIntyre, S. Zino, David B. Kingsmore, W.D. George, N. Ashraf, Anthony P. Payne, Paul G. Shiels
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: British Journal of Cancer
ISSN: 1532-1827
0007-0920
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603384
Popis: Sirtuins are genes implicated in cellular and organismal ageing. Consequently, they are speculated to be involved in diseases of ageing including cancer. Various cancers with widely differing prognosis have been shown to have differing and characteristic expression of these genes; however, the relationship between sirtuin expression and cancer progression is unclear. In order to correlate cancer progression and sirtuin expression, we have assessed sirtuin expression as a function of primary cell ageing and compared sirtuin expression in normal, ‘nonmalignant' breast biopsies to breast cancer biopsies using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Levels of SIRT7 expression were significantly increased in breast cancer (P
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