title: Analysis of p18INK4C in adult T-cell leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: p18INK4C, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, is a homologue of p15INK4B and p16INK4A which are frequently altered in a variety of malignancies. We searched for structural alterations of the p18INK4C gene in 44 adult T-cell leukaemias (ATLs), 101 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs), two polyclonal B-cell proliferations, seven ATL cell lines and seven leukaemia/lymphoma cell lines, by Southern blot and polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) analyses. No genomic alterations of the p18INK4C gene were found in any of the samples. By RT-PCR, p18INK4C was not expressed in three of five ATL cell lines, whereas it was expressed in all the non-ATL leukaemia/lymphoma cell lines. Tax did not inhibit the expression of p18INK4C in tax-expressing Jurkat cells.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hematology/Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatta
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Spirin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tasaka
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morosetti
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Said
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomonaga
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Koeffler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D050763:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p18; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D005091:Exons; D017353:Gene Deletion; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D006801:Humans; D015458:Leukemia, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: C493971:CDKN2C protein, human; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D050763:Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p18; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins