Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 23, Issue 27, Pages 4655-4661Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207604
Keywords
Rad52; Ataxia Telangiectasia; Atm-/-mice; DNA repair; tumorigenesis
Funding
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS39601] Funding Source: Medline
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Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by loss of function of the protein kinase ATM. Atm-deficient mice display several phenotypes consistent with the human disease, including predisposition to cancer, growth retardation, cell-proliferation defects and infertility. A-T patients have a several hundred fold increased risk of developing lymphomas and leukemias, which are typically highly invasive. By reducing homologous recombination through genetic deletion of the Rad52 protein, we were able to decrease substantially the development of T-cell lymphomas in Atm-/- mice, resulting in an increased life span of the double mutant mice. Additionally, we were able to partially rescue the T-cell development of Atm-/- mice. Other phenotypes, including growth defects, genomic instability, infertility and radiosensitivity, were not rescued. Our results suggest that excessive recombination is an important contributor to tumorigenesis in A-T.
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