title: Transcription effect of nm23-M2/NDP kinase on c-myc oncogene.
abstract: Transactivating factor PuF which interacts with a nuclease hypersensitive element locates upstream from the c-myc gene. PuF was recently identified as being encoded by nm23-H2/ NDP kinase gene [Postel, E. H., Berberich, S. J., Flint, S. J., and Ferrone, C. A. (1993) Science 261, 428-429]. Here we have studied the correlation of expression between c-myc and nm23 genes in vitro. By a comparative study of the expression of 2 genes in cell lines, no direct correlation of kinetics was found. A plasmid containing the human c-myc fragment (c-myc CAT) was cloned upstream from the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene. When the murine melanoma cell line was cotransfected with a nm23-M2/ NDP kinase expression vector and c-myc CAT, CAT activity was elevated. In addition, cell cycle phases in the murine cell lines transfected with nm23/NDP kinase were estimated; an alteration of the cell cycle, prolonged S-phase was found in the cell lines transfected with nm23-M2/NDP kinase, whereas human nm23-H2/NDP kinase did not play a role in transactivating the c-myc gene or in S-phase prolongation in murine cell lines. From these results we conclude that the murine nm23-M2 gene transactivates the c-myc gene and controls the cell cycle, S-phase, indirectly via a cellular cofactor in the murine cell line, which does not work with the human nm23-H2 gene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Taegu, Korea.
authors.forename: I H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baba
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shiku
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects; D016259:Genes, myc / Q000187:drug effects; D008545:Melanoma; D051379:Mice; D020559:Monomeric GTP-Binding Proteins; D054778:NM23 Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D009701:Nucleoside-Diphosphate Kinase / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D054778:NM23 Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinases; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C517938:NME1 protein, human; C517939:Nme1 protein, mouse; D009701:Nucleoside-Diphosphate Kinase; D020559:Monomeric GTP-Binding Proteins