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Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53
Published on: August 4, 2019
Alteration of the p53 gene during tree shrews' hepatocarcinogenesis
Jian-Jia Su1, Yuan Li, Ke-Chen Ban
1Department of Experimental Pathology, Guangxi Cancer Institute, Nanning 530021, China. jianjiasu2002@yahoo.com
Objective:
To detect the expression and variation of the p53 gene in hepatocarcinogenesis of tree shrews induced by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1).
Methods:
Tree shrews were divided into four groups: group A, infected with HBV and fed with AFB1; group B, only infected with HBV; group C, fed with AFB1 alone; and group D normal control. The tree shrews underwent liver biopsy every 15 weeks. Liver and tumor tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry and molecular biotechnologies.
Results:
The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was higher in group A (66.7%) than in groups B (0) and C (30%). HCC occurrence was earlier in group A than in group C (120.0+/-16.6 wk vs 153.3+/-5.8 wk, t=3.336, P<0.01). Mutated p53 protein was not found in all groups before 75 weeks of experiment. At the 105th week, the expression rates of mutated p53 protein were 78.6%, 60.0% and 71.4% in groups A, B and C respectively, which were significantly higher than that in group D (10%) (chi2> or =5.03, P<0.05). An abnormal band of the p53 gene was detected in groups A and C. The mutational points of the p53 gene in liver cancer of tree shrews were at codon 275, 78 and 13. Nucleotide sequence and amino acids sequence of tree shrew's wild-type p53 were 91.7% and 93.4% in homology compared with those of human p53, respectively.
Conclusions:
Remarkable synergistic effect on HCC exists between HBV and AFB1. Mutated p53 protein expressed before occurrence of HCC promotes the development of HCC. HBV and AFB1 may synergistically induce p53 gene mutation.
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