Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 23, Issue 41, Pages 6872-6880Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207809
Keywords
common fragile site; hepatic carcinogenesis; inherited disease, chromosome rearrangement; grid2; aphidicolin
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Fragile sites are classified as common or rare depending on their occurrence in the populations. While rare sites are mainly associated with inherited diseases, common sites have been involved in somatic rearrangements found in the chromosomes of cancer cells. Here we study a mouse locus containing the ionotropic glutamate receptor delta 2 (grid2) gene in which spontaneous chromosome rearrangements occur frequently, giving rise to mutant animals in inbred populations. We identify and clone common fragile sites overlapping the mouse grid2 gene and its human ortholog GRID2, lying respectively at bands 6C1 and 4q22 in a 7-Mb-long region of synteny. These results show a third example of orthologous common sites conserved at the molecular level, and reveal an unexpected link between an inherited disease and an aphidicolin-sensitive region. Recurrent deletions of subregions of band 4q22 have been previously described in human hepatocellular carcinomas. This 15-Mb-long region appears precisely centered on the site described here, which strongly suggests that it also plays a specific role in hepatic carcinogenesis.
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