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Anwar SL, Wulaningsih W, Lehmann U. Transposable Elements in Human Cancer: Causes and Consequences of Deregulation. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:E974. [PMID: 28471386 PMCID: PMC5454887 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18050974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Revised: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) comprise nearly half of the human genome and play an essential role in the maintenance of genomic stability, chromosomal architecture, and transcriptional regulation. TEs are repetitive sequences consisting of RNA transposons, DNA transposons, and endogenous retroviruses that can invade the human genome with a substantial contribution in human evolution and genomic diversity. TEs are therefore firmly regulated from early embryonic development and during the entire course of human life by epigenetic mechanisms, in particular DNA methylation and histone modifications. The deregulation of TEs has been reported in some developmental diseases, as well as for different types of human cancers. To date, the role of TEs, the mechanisms underlying TE reactivation, and the interplay with DNA methylation in human cancers remain largely unexplained. We reviewed the loss of epigenetic regulation and subsequent genomic instability, chromosomal aberrations, transcriptional deregulation, oncogenic activation, and aberrations of non-coding RNAs as the potential mechanisms underlying TE deregulation in human cancers.
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- Sumadi Lukman Anwar
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia.
- Institute of Pathology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover 30625, Germany.
- PILAR (Philippine and Indonesian Scholar) Research and Education, 20 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2JD, UK.
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- PILAR (Philippine and Indonesian Scholar) Research and Education, 20 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2JD, UK.
- MRC (Medical Research Council) Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London WC1B 5JU, UK.
- Division of Haematology/Oncology, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia.
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- Institute of Pathology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover 30625, Germany.
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Shaver TM, Lehmann BD, Beeler JS, Li CI, Li Z, Jin H, Stricker TP, Shyr Y, Pietenpol JA. Diverse, Biologically Relevant, and Targetable Gene Rearrangements in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Other Malignancies. Cancer Res 2016; 76:4850-60. [PMID: 27231203 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-16-0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and other molecularly heterogeneous malignancies present a significant clinical challenge due to a lack of high-frequency "driver" alterations amenable to therapeutic intervention. These cancers often exhibit genomic instability, resulting in chromosomal rearrangements that affect the structure and expression of protein-coding genes. However, identification of these rearrangements remains technically challenging. Using a newly developed approach that quantitatively predicts gene rearrangements in tumor-derived genetic material, we identified and characterized a novel oncogenic fusion involving the MER proto-oncogene tyrosine kinase (MERTK) and discovered a clinical occurrence and cell line model of the targetable FGFR3-TACC3 fusion in TNBC. Expanding our analysis to other malignancies, we identified a diverse array of novel and known hybrid transcripts, including rearrangements between noncoding regions and clinically relevant genes such as ALK, CSF1R, and CD274/PD-L1 The over 1,000 genetic alterations we identified highlight the importance of considering noncoding gene rearrangement partners, and the targetable gene fusions identified in TNBC demonstrate the need to advance gene fusion detection for molecularly heterogeneous cancers. Cancer Res; 76(16); 4850-60. ©2016 AACR.
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- Timothy M Shaver
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
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A 205-nucleotide deletion in the 3' untranslated region of avian leukosis virus subgroup J, currently emergent in China, contributes to its pathogenicity. J Virol 2012; 86:12849-60. [PMID: 22993155 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01113-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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In the past 5 years, an atypical clinical outbreak of avian leukosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J), which contains a unique 205-nucleotide deletion in its 3' untranslated region (3'UTR), has become epidemic in chickens in China. To determine the role of the 205-nucleotide deletion in the pathogenicity of ALV-J, a pair of viruses were constructed and rescued. The first virus was an ALV-J Chinese isolate (designated HLJ09SH01) containing the 205-nucleotide deletion in its 3'UTR. The second virus was a chimeric clone in which the 3'UTR contains a 205-nucleotide sequence corresponding to a region of the ALV-J prototype virus. The replication and pathogenicity of the rescued viruses (rHLJ09SH01 and rHLJ09SH01A205) were investigated. Compared to rHLJ09SH01A205, rHLJ09SH01 showed a moderate growth advantage in vitro and in vivo, in addition to exhibiting a higher oncogenicity rate and lethality rate in layers and broilers. Increased vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) and vascular endothelial growth receptor subtype 2 (VEGFR-2) expression was induced by rHLJ09SH01 more so than by rHLJ09SH01A205 during early embryonic vascular development, but this increased expression disappeared when the expression levels were normalized to the viral levels. This finding suggests that the expression of VEGF-A and VEGFR-2 is associated with viral replication and may also represent a novel molecular mechanism underlying the oncogenic potential of ALV-J. Overall, our findings not only indicate that the unique 205-nucleotide deletion in the ALV-J genome occurred naturally in China and contributes to increased pathogenicity but also point to the possible mechanism of ALV-J-induced oncogenicity.
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Slow transforming retroviruses, such as the Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV), induce tumors upon infection of a host after a relatively long latency period. The underlying mechanism leading to cell transformation is the activation of proto-oncogenes or inactivation of tumor suppressor genes as a consequence of proviral insertions into the host genome. Cells carrying proviral insertions that confer a selective advantage will preferentially grow out. This means that proviral insertions mark genes contributing to tumorigenesis, as was demonstrated by the identification of numerous proto-oncogenes in retrovirally induced tumors in the past. Since cancer is a complex multistep process, the proviral insertions in one clone of tumor cells also represent oncogenic events that cooperate in tumorigenesis. Novel advances, such as the launch of the complete mouse genome, high-throughput isolation of proviral flanking sequences, and genetically modified animals have revolutionized proviral tagging into an elegant and efficient approach to identify signaling pathways that collaborate in cancer.
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- Harald Mikkers
- Division of Molecular Genetics and Centre of Biomedical Genetics, Netherlands Cancer Institute 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Martín-Hernández J, Sørensen AB, Pedersen FS. Murine leukemia virus proviral insertions between the N-ras and unr genes in B-cell lymphoma DNA affect the expression of N-ras only. J Virol 2001; 75:11907-12. [PMID: 11689675 PMCID: PMC114780 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.23.11907-11912.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Akv1-99, a variant of Akv murine leukemia virus, induces B-cell lymphomas with nearly 100% incidence and a mean latency period of 12 months after injection into newborn NMRI mice. PCR amplification and sequence analyses of DNA flanking integrated proviruses revealed proviral insertion into the N-ras/unr (upstream of N-ras) locus in 2 out of 13 B-cell lymphomas, both of which appeared clonal by Southern blotting analysis. These two tumors showed increased expression levels of N-ras by Northern blotting, as did a third tumor shown by reverse transcriptase PCR to have a nonclonal provirus integration located in the same area. However, no significant changes in expression were observed when using a specific probe for the unr gene. All proviruses were integrated in the same transcriptional orientation as unr and N-ras genes. By promoter insertion, the two Akv1-99 proviruses integrated between exon -1 and exon 1 of N-ras gave rise to two different spliced products, whereas the provirus integrated into unr used only an exon skipping pattern. The absence of mutations of the N-ras codons 12, 13, 18, and 61 suggests that activation of the proto-oncogene is exclusively due to overexpression by retroviral promoter insertion, and furthermore, Northern blot analyses indicate that the expression of unr is unaffected by N-ras overexpression even in the case where the unr gene itself is the target of proviral insertion. Thus, altogether our findings indicate that overexpression of N-ras plays a role in development of murine leukemia virus-induced B-cell lymphomas, leaving the expression of the tightly linked unr gene unaltered.
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- J Martín-Hernández
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Young WB, Lindberg GL, Link CJ. DNA methylation of helper virus increases genetic instability of retroviral vector producer cells. J Virol 2000; 74:3177-87. [PMID: 10708434 PMCID: PMC111818 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.7.3177-3187.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Retroviral vector producer cells (VPC) have been considered genetically stable. A clonal cell population exhibiting a uniform vector integration pattern is used for sustained vector production. Here, we observed that the vector copy number is increased and varied in a population of established LTKOSN.2 VPC. Among five subclones of LTKOSN.2 VPC, the vector copy number ranged from 1 to approximately 29 copies per cell. A vector superinfection experiment and Northern blot analysis demonstrated that suppression of helper virus gene expression decreased Env-receptor interference and allowed increased superinfection. The titer production was tightly associated with helper virus gene expression and varied between 0 and 2.2 x 10(5) CFU/ml in these subclones. In one analyzed subclone, the number of integrated vectors increased from one copy per cell to nine copies per cell during a 31-day period. Vector titer was reduced from 1.5 x 10(5) CFU to an undetectable level. To understand the mechanism involved, helper virus and vectors were examined for DNA methylation status by methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion. We demonstrated that DNA methylation of helper virus 5' long terminal repeat occurred in approximately 2% of the VPC population per day and correlated closely with inactivation of helper virus gene expression. In contrast, retroviral vectors did not exhibit significant methylation and maintained consistent transcription activity. Treatment with 5-azacytidine, a methylation inhibitor, partially reversed the helper virus DNA methylation and restored a portion of vector production. The preference for methylation of helper virus sequences over vector sequences may have important implications for host-virus interaction. Designing a helper virus to overcome cellular DNA methylation may therefore improve vector production. The maintenance of increased viral envelope-receptor interference might also prevent replication-competent retrovirus formation.
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- W B Young
- Human Gene Therapy Research Institute, John Stoddard Cancer Center, Des Moines, Iowa 50309, USA
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Rynditch AV, Zoubak S, Tsyba L, Tryapitsina-Guley N, Bernardi G. The regional integration of retroviral sequences into the mosaic genomes of mammals. Gene 1998; 222:1-16. [PMID: 9813219 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00451-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We have reviewed here three sets of data concerning the integration of retroviral sequences in the mammalian genome: (i) our experimental localization of a number of proviruses integrated in isochores characterized by different GC levels; (ii) results from other laboratories on the localization of retroviral sequences in open chromatin regions and/or next to CpG islands; and (iii) our compositional analysis of genes located in the neighborhood of integrated retroviral sequences. The three sets of data have provided a very consistent picture in that a compartmentalized, isopycnic integration of expressed proviruses appears to be the rule ('isopycnic' refers to the compositional match between viral and host sequences around the integration site). The results reviewed here suggest that: (i) integration of proviral sequences is targeted initially towards 'open chromatin regions'; while these exist in both GC-rich and GC-poor isochores, the 'open chromatin regions' of GC-rich isochores are the main targets for integration of retroviral sequences because of their much greater abundance; (ii) isopycnicity is associated with stability of integration; indeed, even non-expressed integrated retroviral sequences tend to show an isopycnic localization in the genome; (iii) transcription of integrated viral sequences (like transcription of host genes) appears to be associated, as a rule, with an isopycnic localization, as indicated by transcribed sequences that show an isopycnic integration and act in trans; (iv) selection plays a role in the choice of specific sites within an isopycnic region; in exceptional cases [such as mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) activating GC-rich oncogenes], selection may override isopycnicity.
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- A V Rynditch
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Institut Jacques Monod, 2 Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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Bera TK, Tsukamoto T, Panda DK, Huang T, Guzman RC, Hwang SI, Nandi S. Defective retrovirus insertion activates c-Ha-ras protooncogene in an MNU-induced rat mammary carcinoma. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 248:835-40. [PMID: 9704014 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Endogenous retrovirus sequences are present in the genome of a wide variety of animal species. The activation of the proto-oncogenes of the ras family, particularly c-Ha-ras, by either point mutation or overexpression, has been shown to be associated with a vast number, of different cancers. here we report that the insertion of a defective retrovirus in the -1 intron of rat c-Ha-ras is responsible for the activation of the gene by over 10-fold overexpression in an MNU-induced rat mammary cancer. A portion of the 3' end of the retroviral sequence is expressed as a part of the c-Ha-ras transcript in the carcinoma tissue, indicating the direct involvement of this element in the transcription of the c-Ha-ras gene. The c-Ha-ras structural gene transcribed by the promoter of the defective retroviral element can neoplastically transform the NIH 3T3 cell line upon transfection.
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- T K Bera
- Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley 94720, USA.
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Hwang DY, Cohen JB. A splicing enhancer in the 3'-terminal c-H-ras exon influences mRNA abundance and transforming activity. J Virol 1997; 71:6416-26. [PMID: 9261359 PMCID: PMC191915 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6416-6426.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Analysis of cDNA clones previously identified an optional intron in the 3'-untranslated region of the human H-ras gene. A possible correlation was observed between failure to remove this intron and overexpression of the gene, suggesting that splicing of the intron may require a specific titrable factor. The splicing signals at the end of the intron deviate from the consensus and may be inefficient, but we noticed that the adjacent exon downstream has a purine-rich region reminiscent of purine-rich splicing enhancers in other genes that stimulate the removal of weak, flanking introns. We show here that the purine-rich region of H-ras has splicing-enhancer activity in the homologous as well as a heterologous context. Interestingly, although the affected intron is outside the coding region, inversion or deletion of the enhancer reduced the transforming activity of oncogenic H-ras alleles severalfold. Experiments with corresponding cDNA constructs suggested that this is not a consequence of the altered structures of the mRNAs produced when the enhancer is inverted or deleted. Instead, we propose that the region controls an additional pre-mRNA processing event besides splicing of the terminal intron. Our work indicates that the purine-rich region may play an important role in the control of H-ras activity.
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- D Y Hwang
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Sørensen AB, Duch M, Amtoft HW, Jørgensen P, Pedersen FS. Sequence tags of provirus integration sites in DNAs of tumors induced by the murine retrovirus SL3-3. J Virol 1996; 70:4063-70. [PMID: 8648744 PMCID: PMC190287 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.6.4063-4070.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The murine retrovirus SL3-3 is a potent inducer of T-cell lymphomas when inoculated into susceptible newborn mice. The proviral integration site sequences were surveyed in tumor DNAs by a simple two-step PCR method. From 20 SL3-3-induced tumors a total of 39 provirus-host junctions were amplified and sequenced. Seven showed homology to known sequences. These included the known common integration site c-myc as well as genes not previously identified as targets of provirus integration, namely N-ras and the genes coding for major histocompatibility complex class 11 E-beta, protein kinase C-eta, and T-cell receptor beta-chain. Among these genes, the integrations in c-myc as well as the one in N-ras were found to be clonal. One of the remaining 32 proviral integration site sequences that show no similarities to known sequences may represent a common integration site, as 2 of the 20 tumors demonstrated clonal provirus insertion into this region.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- Genes, MHC Class II
- Genes, myc
- Genes, ras
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/virology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Kinase C/genetics
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-pim-1
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Virus Integration
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- A B Sørensen
- Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Jonkers J, Berns A. Retroviral insertional mutagenesis as a strategy to identify cancer genes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1287:29-57. [PMID: 8639705 DOI: 10.1016/0304-419x(95)00020-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- J Jonkers
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Molecular Genetics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Bellefroid EJ, Marine JC, Matera AG, Bourguignon C, Desai T, Healy KC, Bray-Ward P, Martial JA, Ihle JN, Ward DC. Emergence of the ZNF91 Krüppel-associated box-containing zinc finger gene family in the last common ancestor of anthropoidea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:10757-61. [PMID: 7479878 PMCID: PMC40691 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.23.10757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The ZNF91 gene family, a subset of the Krüppel-associated box (KRAB)-containing group of zinc finger genes, comprises more than 40 loci; most reside on human chromosome 19p12-p13.1. We have examined the emergence and evolutionary conservation of the ZNF91 family. ZNF91 family members were detected in all species of great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys examined but were not found in prosimians or rodents. In each species containing the ZNF91 family, the genes were clustered at one major site, on the chromosome(s) syntenic to human chromosome 19. To identify a putative "founder" gene, > 20 murine KRAB-containing zinc finger protein (ZFP) cDNAs were randomly cloned, but none showed sequence similarity to the ZNF91 genes. These observations suggest that the ZNF91 gene cluster is a derived character specific to Anthropoidea, resulting from a duplication and amplification event some 55 million years ago in the common ancestor of simians. Although the ZNF91 gene cluster is present in all simian species, the sequences of the human ZNF91 gene that confer DNA-binding specificity were conserved only in great apes, suggesting that there is not a high selective pressure to maintain the DNA targets of these proteins during evolution.
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- E J Bellefroid
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Lan R, Greenoak GE, Moran C. Pyrimidine dimer induction and removal in the epidermis of hairless mice: inefficient repair in the genome overall and rapid repair in the H-ras sequence. Photochem Photobiol 1994; 59:356-61. [PMID: 8016216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1994.tb05047.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Excision repair of pyrimidine dimers was examined at the genome overall in three strains of hairless (hr/hr) and congenic wild-type mice, as well as in the expressed H-ras gene in hairless mice. The assay used a pyrimidine dimer-specific endonuclease from Micrococcus luteus and alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis. From 0 to 25% of endonuclease-sensitive sites were removed at the genome level in either hairy or hairless mice but about 50% were removed in the H-ras gene in hairless mice by 24 h after exposure to 5.4 J/cm2 UV (290-400 nm) irradiation. No differences were observed in the repair capacity between hairy and hairless mice, thus eliminating defective DNA repair as the explanation for the greater susceptibility to UV carcinogenesis in hairless mice.
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- R Lan
- Department of Animal Science, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Flyer DC, Sucheski B. Expression of the MuLV-tumor-associated antigen is restricted to MuLV-transformed cells. Int J Cancer 1993; 54:328-32. [PMID: 8387466 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910540227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Immunization of mice with Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) induces the generation of a population of CTL which recognizes a non-viral, tumor-associated antigen (TAA) expressed on MuLV-induced tumors. To determine whether this TAA could be used as a pre-leukemic or leukemic cell marker, CTL clones directed against Moloney viral and TAA antigen were used to analyze viral and TAA antigen expression on chronically infected and leukemic lymphoid cells obtained from mice inoculated neonatally with MoMuLV. Although both sets of cells could be recognized and lysed by viral antigen specific CTL, they are not recognized by TAA-specific CTL. Only after transformed cell lines were established from leukemic spleen cells could susceptibility to TAA-specific CTL be observed. Thus, the appearance of the MoMuLV-TAA was restricted to MoMuLV-transformed cells.
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- D C Flyer
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033
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Lazo PA. Leukaemogenesis and Lymphomagenesis by Nontransforming Murine Retroviruses. Rev Med Virol 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1980030105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Anson DS, Clarkin K, Hyman R. Activation of Lyt-2 associated with distant upstream insertion of an SL3-3 provirus. Immunogenetics 1992; 36:3-14. [PMID: 1587551 DOI: 10.1007/bf00209286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Two Lyt-2+ mutants of the T-cell lymphoma SL12.4.10 were selected by fluorescence activated cell sorting. Both mutants expressed Lyt-2 (CD8 alpha-chain) but not Lyt-3 (CD8 beta-chain). Derivatives of one Lyt-2+ mutant that expressed Lyt-3 could be isolated by sorting for Lyt-3+ cells. Southern blotting analysis indicated that both mutants had structural rearrangements within or immediately 3' of the Lyt-3 gene, accompanied by demethylation of at least one Hpa II site within the Lyt-2 gene. Gene cloning analysis of one mutant demonstrated that the structural rearrangement was due to insertion of an SL3-3 provirus 35 kb 5' to the Lyt-2 gene. It is likely that Lyt-2 gene activation is a direct or indirect consequence of proviral insertion at this site.
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- D S Anson
- Department of Cancer Biology, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA 92186-5800
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Taketo M, Howard TA, Seldin MF. Mapping of recombinant retrovirus integration sites that cause expression of the viral genome in murine embryonal carcinoma cells. Mamm Genome 1992; 2:240-5. [PMID: 1543915 DOI: 10.1007/bf00355433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Murine embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells do not normally express Moloney murine leukemia virus genes. Earlier, rare EC cell lines were isolated that expressed proviral neomycin resistance (neo) gene. This expression was dependent on cellular enhancer or promoter sequences that flank the proviral integration site. Four such integration sites, designated as Mint (for Moloney murine leukemia virus integration and expression sites in EC cells), have been mapped on mouse chromosomes. Minta, Mintb, Mintc and Mintd are unlinked and mapped on different chromosomes (Chr), Chr 10, Chr 1, Chr 5 and the X Chr, respectively. None of these loci appear to be linked to any known Mo-MuLV proviral integration sites previously mapped. These enhancer and promoter loci may represent a new set of genes active in undifferentiated embryonic cells.
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- M Taketo
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Bergeron D, Poliquin L, Kozak CA, Rassart E. Identification of a common viral integration region in Cas-Br-E murine leukemia virus-induced non-T-, non-B-cell lymphomas. J Virol 1991; 65:7-15. [PMID: 1845910 PMCID: PMC240483 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.1.7-15.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The Cas-Br-E murine leukemia virus is a nondefective retrovirus that induces non-T-, non-B-cell lymphomas in susceptible NIH/Swiss mice. By using a DNA probe derived from Cas-Br-E provirus-flanking sequences, we identified a DNA region, originally called Sic-1, rearranged in 16 of 24 tumors analyzed (67%). All proviruses were integrated in a DNA segment smaller than 100 bp and were in the same 5'-to-3' orientation. Ecotropic as well as mink cell focus-forming virus types were found integrated in that specific DNA region. On the basis of Southern blot analysis of somatic cell hybrids and progeny of an interspecies backcross, the Sic-1 region was localized on mouse chromosome 9 near the previously described proto-oncogenes or common viral integration sites: Ets-1, Cbl-2, Tpl-1, and Fli-1. Restriction map analysis shows that this region is identical to the Fli-1 locus identified in Friend murine leukemia virus-induced erythroleukemia cell lines and thus may contain sequences also responsible for the development of mouse non-T-, non-B-cell lymphomas.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
- Gene Rearrangement
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Lymphoma/genetics
- Lymphoma/microbiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Restriction Mapping
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Affiliation(s)
- D Bergeron
- Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
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Tsichlis PN, Lazo PA. Virus-host interactions and the pathogenesis of murine and human oncogenic retroviruses. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1991; 171:95-171. [PMID: 1667631 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-76524-7_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Growth Substances/genetics
- Growth Substances/physiology
- Humans
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/genetics
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/pathogenicity
- Leukemia Virus, Murine/physiology
- Mice/genetics
- Mice/microbiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Neoplasms/genetics
- Neoplasms/microbiology
- Neoplasms/veterinary
- Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Neoplasms, Experimental/microbiology
- Oncogenes
- Proto-Oncogenes
- Proviruses/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Retroviridae/genetics
- Retroviridae/pathogenicity
- Retroviridae/physiology
- Rodent Diseases/genetics
- Rodent Diseases/microbiology
- Signal Transduction
- Virus Integration
- Virus Replication
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Affiliation(s)
- P N Tsichlis
- Department of Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111
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Kung HJ, Boerkoel C, Carter TH. Retroviral mutagenesis of cellular oncogenes: a review with insights into the mechanisms of insertional activation. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1991; 171:1-25. [PMID: 1814689 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-76524-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- H J Kung
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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van Lohuizen M, Berns A. Tumorigenesis by slow-transforming retroviruses--an update. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1032:213-35. [PMID: 2261495 DOI: 10.1016/0304-419x(90)90005-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- M van Lohuizen
- Division of Molecular Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
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New nucleotide sequence data on the EMBL File Server. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:8023-30. [PMID: 2798149 PMCID: PMC334940 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.19.8023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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