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CANCER LETTERS
Volume 188, Issue 1-2, Pages 121-126Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(02)00055-1
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Apoptosis; BLK; DNA amplified in mammary carcinoma 1; yeast two-hybrid
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Mouse mammary gland cDNA library was screened to search for BLK-interacting protein using yeast two-hybrid system, and a mouse DNA amplified in mammary carcinoma 1 (mDAM 1) was obtained. mDAM I cDNA contained a full coding region of 678 bp encoding 225 amino acids with the predicted molecular mass of 26 kDa. Comparison of the mouse to human DAM I revealed 90 and 100% identities at the nucleotide and protein levels, respectively. A single 1.5 kb transcript for mDAM1 was expressed in NMuMG mouse mammary epithelial cells. Through in vitro protein binding assay, interaction between mDAM1 and BLK was also confirmed. NMuMG cells, stably transfected and expressing mDAM1, promoted cell death under serum starvation condition. Transient coexpression of mDAM1 and BLK showed increased cell death compared to BLK expression alone in NMuMG cells. These results indicate that mDAM I promotes mammary epithelial cell death and pro-apoptotic function of BLK. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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