Role of promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein in tumor suppression Journal Article
| Authors: | Rego, E. M.; Wang, Z. G.; Peruzzi, D.; He, L. Z.; Cordon-Cardo, C.; Pandolfi, P. P. |
| Article Title: | Role of promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein in tumor suppression |
| Abstract: | The promyelocytic leukemia (PML) gene encodes a putative tumor suppressor gene involved in the control of apoptosis, which is fused to the retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) gene in the vast majority of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients as a consequence of chromosomal translocations. The PMLRARα oncoprotein is thought to antagonize the function of PML through its ability to heterodimerize with and delocalize PML from the nuclear body. In APL, this may be facilitated by the reduction to heterozygosity of the normal PML allele. To determine whether PML acts as a tumor suppressor in vivo and what the consequences of deregulated programmed cell death in leukemia and epithelial cancer pathogenesis are, we crossed PML-/- mice with human cathepsin G (hCG)-PMLRARα or mammary tumor virus (MMTV)/neu transgenic mice (TM), models of leukemia and breast cancer, respectively. The progressive reduction of the dose of PML resulted in a dramatic increase in the incidence of leukemia, and in an acceleration of leukemia onset in PMLRARα TM. By contrast, PML inactivation did not affect neu-induced tumorigenesis. In hemopoietic cells from PMLRARα TM, PML inactivation resulted in impaired response to differentiating agents such as RA and vitamin D3 as well as in a marked survival advantage upon proapoptotic stimuli. These results demonstrate that: (a) PML acts in vivo as a tumor suppressor by rendering the cells resistant to proapoptotic and differentiating stimuli; (b) PML haploinsufficiency and the functional impairment of PML by PMLRARα are critical events in APL pathogenesis; and (c) aberrant control of programmed cell death plays a differential role in solid tumor and leukemia pathogenesis. |
| Keywords: | disease-free survival; unclassified drug; nonhuman; protein analysis; mouse; animals; mice; apoptosis; neoplasm proteins; animal experiment; animal model; mice, mutant strains; protein; carcinogenesis; transgenic mouse; mice, transgenic; transcription factors; nuclear proteins; cancer inhibition; leukemia, promyelocytic, acute; gene activation; leukemogenesis; tumor suppressor proteins; acute myeloblastic leukemia; oncogene proteins, fusion; retinoic acid; genes, tumor suppressor; transgenic mice; mammary neoplasms, experimental; acute promyelocytic leukemia; promyelocytic leukemia protein; cholecalciferol; retinoic acid receptor; colecalciferol; antigens, cd95; cathepsin g; human; female; priority journal; article |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Experimental Medicine |
| Volume: | 193 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1007 |
| Publisher: | Rockefeller University Press |
| Date Published: | 2001-02-19 |
| Start Page: | 521 |
| End Page: | 529 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1084/jem.193.4.521 |
| PUBMED: | 11181703 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC2195907 |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 21 May 2015 -- Source: Scopus |
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