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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blume, Scott W
• Miller, Donald M
• Guarcello, Vincenzo
• Shrestha, Kedar
• Meng, Zheng
• Snyder, Richard C
• Grizzle, William E
• Ruppert, J.Michael
• Gartland, G.Larry
• Stockard, Cecil R
• Jones, David E
• Emanuel, Peter D

Titel

Inhibition of tumorigenicity by the 5′-untranslated RNA of the human c- myc P0 transcript

Ist Teil von

• Experimental cell research, 2003-08, Vol.288 (1), p.131-142

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Activity of the independently regulated human c- myc P0 promoter has been associated with the undifferentiated status of leukemia cells as well as the hormone-independent proliferation of breast cancer cells. The P0 transcript is distinguished from the predominant P1 and P2 c- myc mRNAs by an ∼639-nucleotide extension of the 5′-untranslated region. We hypothesized that this complex 5′-untranslated RNA sequence unique to the P0 transcript may contribute significantly to the composite regulation of the c- myc locus and that enforced intracellular synthesis of the isolated P0 5′-UTR, out of its native sequence context, might amplify or dominantly interfere with its normal regulatory function. Human tumor (HeLa) cells in which the isolated P0 5′-UTR was ectopically expressed displayed a dramatic decrease in anchorage-independent proliferation. Furthermore, P0 5′-UTR-expressing HeLa cells failed to form tumors when inoculated into SCID mice. This loss of tumorigenicity was associated with increases in levels of the c-Myc1 (p67) and c-Myc2 (p64) proteins and a 3- to 5-fold elevation of spontaneous apoptotic index. These results demonstrate that an isolated 5′-untranslated RNA sequence can be attributed potent in trans gene-regulatory and phenotype-altering capabilities and that extrinsic alterations in c- myc regulation can be utilized to reestablish the natural proapoptotic (tumor suppressor) activities associated with this protooncogene.