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CANCER CELL
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 501-514Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.010
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA10013] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [AG025413] Funding Source: Medline
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There is currently much interest in the idea of restoring p53 activity in tumor cells by inhibiting Hdm2/Mdm2. However, it has remained unclear whether this would also activate p53 in normal cells. Using a switchable enclogenous p53 mouse model, which allows rapid and reversible toggling of p53 status between wild-type and null states, we show that p53 is spontaneously active in all tested tissues of mdm2-deficient mice, triggering fatal pathologies that include ablation of classically radiosensitive tissues. In apoptosis-resistant tissues, spontaneous unbuffered p53 activity triggers profound inhibition of cell proliferation. Such acute spontaneous p53 activity occurs in the absence of any detectable p53 posttranslational modification, DNA damage, or p19(ARF) signaling and triggers rapid p53 degradation.
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