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PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049453
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA116481] Funding Source: Medline
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FBXW7 acts as a tumor suppressor through ubiquitination and degradation of multiple oncoproteins. Loss of FBXW7 expression, which could be partially attributed by the genomic deletion or mutation of FBXW7 locus, is frequently observed in various human cancers. However, the mechanisms regulating FBXW7 expression still remain poorly understood. Here we examined the 59 region of FBXW7 gene to investigate the regulation of FBXW7 expression. We identified seven alternative splicing (AS) 5'-UTR forms of FBXW7 alpha that are composed of multiple novel non-coding exons. A significant difference in translational efficiency among these 5'-UTRs variants was observed by in vivo Luciferase reporter assay and Western blot. Furthermore, we found that the mRNA level of the AS form with high translational efficiency was specifically reduced in more than 80% of breast cancer cell lines and in more than 50% of human primary cancers from various tissues. In addition, we also identified mutations of FBXW7 in prostate cancers (5.6%), kidney cancers (16.7%), and bladder cancers (18.8%). Our results suggest that in addition to mutation, differential expression of FBXW7 alpha AS forms with different translational properties may serve as a novel mechanism for inactivation of FBXW7 in human cancer.
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