Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 24, Issue 55, Pages 8176-8186Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1208881
Keywords
Cdt1; genomic instability; p53; cancer
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA10445] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS34746] Funding Source: Medline
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The exact duplication of chromosomal DNA during each cell cycle ensures the correct inheritance of genetic material from mother to daughter cells. In eukaryotic cells, DNA replication can occur only when the origin of DNA replication is accurately marked by a group of proteins termed licensing proteins. One such protein is Cdt1, which is recruited first to the origin of DNA replication followed by cell division cycle 6 (Cdc6) and mini-chromosome maintenance proteins (Mcms). We previously reported that NIH3T3 cells overexpressing Cdt1 readily formed tumors in mice. To further investigate its oncogenic mechanism, we generated transgenic mice expressing Cdt1 in thymocytes. Our studies demonstrated that T-cell-directed Cdt1 transgenic mice showed normal T-cell development. However, such transgenic mice developed thymic lymphoblastic lymphoma when crossed with p53 null mice. Furthermore, tumor cells derived from NIH3T3 cells overexpressing Cdt1 displayed numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations in the form of ploidy, double minutes, translocation, inversion, chromosome end-to-end fusion and robertsonian mutation. Collectively, our studies suggest that Cdt1 overexpression most likely contributes to tumorigenecity by causing genomic instability.
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