کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1933297 1050609 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Positive auto-regulation of MYCN in human neuroblastoma
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
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Positive auto-regulation of MYCN in human neuroblastoma
چکیده انگلیسی

MYCN oncogene is one of the most important regulators affecting the prognosis of neuroblastoma and is frequently amplified in the high-risk subsets. Despite its clinical significance, it remains unclear how the MYCN expression is regulated in human neuroblastomas. Here, we found the presence of a positive auto-regulatory mechanism of MYCN. Enforced expression of MYCN induced endogenous MYCN mRNA expression in SK-N-AS neuroblastoma cells with a single copy of MYCN gene. Luciferase reporter assay revealed that MYCN protein activates its own promoter activity in a dose-dependent manner and the downstream region relative to the transcription start sites is responsible for the activation. Furthermore, ChIP analysis showed that MYCN is directly recruited onto the intron 1 region of MYCN gene which contains two putative E-box sites. Intriguingly, in response to all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), MYCN was down-regulated in MYCN-amplified SK-N-BE neuroblastoma cells, and the recruitment of MYCN protein onto its own intron 1 region was reduced in association with an induction of neuronal differentiation. Collectively, our present results suggest that MYCN contributes to its own expression by forming a positive auto-regulatory loop in neuroblastoma cells.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 390, Issue 1, 4 December 2009, Pages 21–26
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