Journal
PIGMENT CELL & MELANOMA RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 67-77Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12029
Keywords
T-box 2; paired box homeotic gene 3; melanocyte
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- NICHD
- National Institutes of Health [7RO1CA137098]
- American Cancer Society [RSG-09-022-01-CNE]
- Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust
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The paired box homeotic gene 3 (PAX3) is a crucial regulator for the maintenance of melanocytic progenitor cells and has a poorly defined role in melanoma. To understand how PAX3 affects melanocyte and melanoma proliferation, we identified potential PAX3 downstream targets through gene expression profiling. Here, we identify T-box 2 (TBX2), a key developmental regulator of cell identity and an antisenescence factor in melanoma, as a directly regulated PAX3 target. We also found that TBX2 is involved in the survival of melanoma cells and is overexpressed in some melanoma specimens. The identification of TBX2 as a target for PAX3 provides a key insight into how PAX3 may contribute to melanoma evolution and may provide opportunities for prosenescence therapeutic intervention aimed at disrupting the ability of PAX3 to regulate TBX2.
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