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Table 1 Changes in S100 gene methylation and expression in cancer

From: Epigenetic regulation of S100 protein expression

S100 protein

Cell/tissue

S100 protein expression

Gene region examined

Methylation (cancer vs. control)

Reference

S100A2

Breast cancer cell lines and biopsies

Proximal promoter Upstream promoter 1st intron

Wicki et al. 1997;

No change

No change

Prostate cancer cell lines and tissues

Proximal promoter

No change

Rehman et al. 2005;

Non-small lung cancer cell lines

1st intron

Feng et al. 2001;

Head and neck cancer lymph metastases

1st intron

Zhang et al. 2007;

S100A4

Rat mammary cancer cell lines

1st intron, TATA box region

Chen et al. 1999;

Upstream promoter

No change

Colon adenocarcinoma cell lines

1st intron

Nakamura et al. 1998;

Upstream promoter

No change

Downstream region

No change

Pancreatic cancer cell lines

1st intron

Rosty et al. 2002;

Endometrium grade III tumors and cell lines

1st intron

Xie et al. 2007;

Medulloblastoma tissue and cell lines

1st intron

Lindsey et al. 2007;

Epidermal cancer cell lines and squamous cell carcinoma

1st intron

Li et al. 2009

S100A6

Prostate cancer tissue and cell lines

Promoter/1st exon

Rehman et al. 2005;

Medulloblastoma cell lines

Promoter/1st exon

Lindsey et al. 2007;

Medulloblastomas

Promoter/1st exon

No change

Anderton et al. 2008

Gastric cancer tissue

1st intron/2nd exon

Wang et al. 2010;

S100A10

Primary human pituitary tumors

Proximal promoter

Dudley et al. 2008;

Medulloblastoma tissue and cell lines

Proximal promoter

Lindsey et al. 2007; Anderton et al. 2008

S100P

Primary pancreatic adenocarcinomas

Promoter/1st exon

Sato et al. 2004;

Prostate cancer cell lines

Promoter/1st exon

Wang et al. 2007

  1. increase, decrease