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SUBMITTER: Bardelli A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC33288 | biostudies-literature | 2001 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bardelli A A Cahill D P DP Lederer G G Speicher M R MR Kinzler K W KW Vogelstein B B Lengauer C C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20010410 10
It has been proposed recently that the type of genetic instability in cancer cells reflects the selection pressures exerted by specific carcinogens. We have tested this hypothesis by treating immortal, genetically stable human cells with representative carcinogens. We found that cells resistant to the bulky-adduct-forming agent 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) exhibited a chromosomal instability (CIN), whereas cells resistant to the methylating agent N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nit ...[more]