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Heterozygosity for p53 promotes microsatellite instability and tumorigenesis on a Msh2 deficient background

Toft, Neil J., Curtis, Lucy J., Sansom, Owen J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9540-3010, Leitch, Andrea L., Wyllie, Andrew H., te Riele, Hein, Arends, Mark J. and Clarke, Alan Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4281-426X 2002. Heterozygosity for p53 promotes microsatellite instability and tumorigenesis on a Msh2 deficient background. Oncogene 21 (41) , pp. 6299-6306. 10.1038/sj.onc.1205727

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Abstract

In colorectal tumorigenesis, loss of function of the mismatch repair genes is closely associated with genomic instability at the nucleotide level whereas p53 deficiency has been linked with gross chromosomal instability. We have addressed the contribution of these two forms of genetic instability to tumorigenesis using mice mutant for Msh2 and p53. As previously reported, deficiency of both genes leads to rapid lymphomagenesis Here we show that heterozygosity for p53 also markedly reduces survival on an Msh2 null background. We characterized the patterns of genomic instability in a small set of tumours and showed that, as predicted p53 deficiency predisposes to aneuploidy and Msh2 deficiency leads to microsatellite instability (MSI). However, heterozygosity for p53 in the absence of Msh2 resulted in increased MSI and not aneuploidy. This implied role for p53 in modulating MSI was confirmed using a large cohort of primary fibroblast clones. The differences observed were highly significant (P<0.01) in both the fibroblast clones (which all retained p53 functionality) and the tumours, a proportion of which retained p53 functionality. Our results therefore demonstrate a dose sensitive role for p53 in the maintenance of genomic integrity at the nucleotide level.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Mismatch repair; p53; tumorigenesis; microsatellite instability; apoptosis.
Publisher: Nature Publishing
ISSN: 0950-9232
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 10:11
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61373

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