N-myc transactivates RCC1 gene expression in rat fibroblast cells transformed by N-myc and v-ras.
Oncogenic cooperation was found between the N-myc and v-ras oncogenes in a rat fibroblast cell line, 3Y1. To investigate the specific role of N-myc in the transformation, we established transformed cell lines that expressed N-myc under a controllable promoter. Using these cells, we found that constitutive expression of N-myc is necessary to maintain the transformation, and that the expression level of N-myc is closely correlated with the transformation. Since another myc family gene, c-myc, directly activates expression of RCC1, which has important functions for eukaryotic cell proliferation, we focused on the relationship between N-myc and RCC1. Cells transformed by N-myc and v-ras expressed several times more RCC1 mRNA than the parent 3Y1 cells, and the expression of RCC1 changed in a parallel with the expression of N-myc. Gel retardation analysis and experiments with reporter plasmids constructed from a DNA fragment of the RCC1 gene indicated that the N-Myc protein controls expression of RCC1 by binding directly to CACGTG elements in the RCC1 gene. These results suggest that N-myc can directly transactivate expression of RCC1, a c-myc target gene.[1]References
- N-myc transactivates RCC1 gene expression in rat fibroblast cells transformed by N-myc and v-ras. Tsuneoka, M., Mekada, E. J. Biochem. (1998) [Pubmed]
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