Title : Effects of the environmental mammary carcinogen 6-nitrochrysene on p53 and p21(Cip1) protein expression and cell cycle regulation in MCF-7 and MCF-10A cells.

Pub. Date : 2007 Oct 20

PMID : 17678638






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1 By contrast to numerous DNA damaging agents such as BaP which is known to stimulate p53 expression, the lack of p53 response by 6-NC imply the lack of protective functions mediated by p53 (e.g. DNA repair machinery) after exposure to 6-NC and this may, in part, account for its remarkable carcinogenicity in the mammary tissue. Benzo(a)pyrene tumor protein p53 Homo sapiens