Article
Comparison of effects of p53 null and gain-of-function mutations on salivary tumors in MMTV-Hras transgenic mice.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Jiang Dadi, Dumur Catherine I, Massey H Davis, Ramakrishnan Viswanathan, Subler Mark A, Windle Jolene J
Abstract excerpt
p53 is an important tumor suppressor gene which is mutated in ~50% of all human cancers. Some of these mutants appear to have acquired novel functions beyond merely losing wild-type functions. To investigate these gain-of-function effects in vivo, we generated mice of three different genotypes: MMTV-Hras/p53(+/+), MMTV-Hras/p53(-/-), and MMTV-Hras/p53R172H/R172H. Salivary tumors from these mice were characterized...
Topics
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Doxorubicin
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
- Salivary Gland Neoplasms
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
