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We used MethyLight assays to analyze DNA methylation status of 27 genes on 49 paired cancerous and noncancerous tissue samples from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients who underwent surgical resection. Seven genes (RARB, BVES, CDKN2A, KCNH5, RASSF1, CDH13, and RUNX) were found to be methylated significantly more frequently in tumor tissues than in noncancerous tissues. Only methylation of CCND2 and APC was frequently detected in both cancerous and noncancerous tissues, supporting the hypothesis that the methylation of these two genes is a preneoplastic change and may be associated with tobacco smoking exposure. Methylation of any one of eight genes (RASSF1, DAPK1, BVES, CDH13, MGMT, KCNH5, RARB, or CDH1) was present in 80% of NSCLC tissues but only in 14% of noncancerous tissues. Detection of methylation of these genes in blood might have utility in monitoring and detecting tumor recurrence in early-stage NSCLC after curative surgical resection.
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PMID:DNA methylation in tumor and matched normal tissues from non-small cell lung cancer patients. 1834 82

It remains unknown whether tobacco smoke induces DNA hypermethylation as an early event in carcinogenesis or as a late event, specific to overt cancer tissue. Using MethyLight assays, we analyzed 316 lung tissue samples from 151 cancer-free subjects (121 ever-smokers and 30 never-smokers) for hypermethylation of 19 genes previously observed to be hypermethylated in nonsmall cell lung cancers. Only APC (39%), CCND2 (21%), CDH1 (7%), and RARB (4%) were hypermethylated in >2% of these cancer-free subjects. CCND2 was hypermethylated more frequently in ever-smokers (26%) than in never-smokers (3%). CCND2 hypermethylation was also associated with increased age and upper lobe sample location. APC was frequently hypermethylated in both ever-smokers (41%) and never-smokers (30%). BVES, CDH13, CDKN2A (p16), CDKN2B, DAPK1, IGFBP3, IGSF4, KCNH5, KCNH8, MGMT, OPCML, PCSK6, RASSF1, RUNX, and TMS1 were rarely hypermethylated (<2%) in all subjects. Hypermethylation of CCND2 may reflect a smoking-induced precancerous change in the lung.
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PMID:Hypermethylation of CCND2 May Reflect a Smoking-Induced Precancerous Change in the Lung. 2157 62

Here we present a three-dimensional structure of human voltage gated Kv10.2 ion channel solved at 2.5 nm resolution. We demonstrated that Kv10.2 channel structure is subdivided into two layers. For interpretation of the structure we used the homology modeling, using the transmembrane regions of MlotiK1 channel (C subunit), and cytoplasmic PAS-PAC and cNBD domains of the N-terminal tail of hERG (A subunit) and the bacterial cyclic nucleotide-activated K+ channel binding domain as the templates. The homologous transmembrane part can be fitted into the upper part of the reconstruction. The cytoplasmic domains form the structure, similar to a "hanging gondola", which is connected to the membrane-embedded domain with linkers. The length of linkers allow contacts between C-terminal cNBD domains and N-terminal PAS domains.
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PMID:[Three-dimensional structure of human Kv10.2 ion channel studied by single particle electron microscopy and molecular modeling]. 2279 21