title: Infrequent somatic mutation of the MTS1 gene in primary bladder carcinomas.
abstract: We examined a candidate tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 9p21, MTS1/CDK4I (multiple tumor suppressor 1/cyclin-dependent kinase 4 inhibitor), which has been found to be mutated frequently in cell lines derived from bladder carcinomas, for somatic mutations in 39 primary bladder cancers by means of SSCP (single-stranded conformational polymorphism) and DNA sequencing. Mutations were detected in two of these carcinomas; one was a 61-base deletion and the other a 1-base deletion. In both cases the homologous allele was missing, indicating that "two-hit" mutation of the MTS1 gene had taken place in these tumors. The results indicated that inactivation of the MTS1 gene is likely to be a contributing factor in some, but not the majority of, bladder cancers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Institute, Tokyo.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002899:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9; D019941:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D019941:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16