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Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53
Published on: August 4, 2019
WAF1は,p53腫瘍抑制の潜在的なメディエーターである
W S el-Deiry1, T Tokino, V E Velculescu
1Oncology Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231.
Cell
|November 19, 1993
まとめ
研究者は,腫瘍抑制タンパク質p53.3によって直接誘発されるWAF1遺伝子を特定しました. このWAF1という遺伝子はp53を媒介する.
科学分野:
- 分子生物学は分子生物学である.
- がん研究 がん研究
- 遺伝学 遺伝学とは
背景:
- 腫瘍抑制タンパク質p53 (TP53とも呼ばれる) は,細胞の成長とアポトーシスを調節することによって,癌を予防する上で重要な役割を果たします.
- p53によって直接調節される遺伝子の理解は,その腫瘍抑制機構の解明に不可欠です.
- 新規のp53標的遺伝子を特定することで,がん治療の新たな治療戦略を明らかにすることができます.
研究 の 目的:
- 野生型のp53.3によって直接誘発された遺伝子を特定し,特徴づけること.
- 腫瘍抑制における新しいp53誘発遺伝子WAF1の役割を調査する.
- p53とWAF1遺伝子の間の規制関係を定義する.
主な方法:
- サブトラクティブハイブリダイゼーションは,野生型と変異型p53の細胞間で異なった発現の遺伝子を特定するために使用されました.
- 遺伝子の局所化は,染色体マッピングを使用して決定されました.
- 機能的測定は,細胞成長への影響を評価するために,腫瘍細胞にWAF1cDNAを導入することを含む.
- WAF1遺伝子プロモーター内のp53結合部位を特定するために,酵母増強剤トラップシステムを使用しました.
主要な成果:
- 新しい遺伝子WAF1が特定され,人間の脳腫瘍細胞における野生型のp53によって誘発されるが,変異したp53ではないことが判明した.
- WAF1遺伝子は染色体6p21.2に位置し,p53によるその調節は種を超えて保存されています.
- WAF1の導入は,様々なヒト腫瘍細胞系 (脳,肺,大腸) の成長を抑制しました.
- 機能的なp53結合部位はWAF1コード配列の2.4kb上流で特定され,p53依存遺伝子の活性化を媒介する.
結論:
- WAF1はp53.3の直接的な転写標的である.
- WAF1は,がん細胞の増殖を抑制することによって,p53の腫瘍抑制機能の媒介者として作用します.
- これらの発見は,腫瘍成長抑制におけるp53の重要な下流エフェクターとしてWAF1を確立しています.
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