NAPRT and cancer: In addition, it has been shown that NAPRT gene promoter can be hypermethylated resulting in the inhibition of NAPRT epigenetic expression in some types of tumors.221 This is the case of MKN28 cancer cell line, where no mRNA nor protein expression was found due to high methylation of NAPRT promoter region.222 Higher NAPRT promoter methylation has been significantly correlated with higher grade of tumor malignancy in chondrosarcoma.219