title: cDNA cloning and mapping of mouse pleckstrin (Plek), a gene upregulated in transformation-resistant cells.
abstract: Changes that occur during tumor promotion, the rate-limiting phase of multistep carcinogenesis, may offer the best targets for prevention of cancer or reversal of early disease. The murine epidermal JB6 promotion-sensitive (P+) and -resistant (P-) cell lines provide a cell culture model for tumor promoter-induced neoplastic transformation ideally suited to the identification of molecular events that mediate or inhibit transformation. A differential display comparison of P+ and P- cell mRNAs yielded seven differentially expressed sequences. One of the sequences preferentially expressed in P- cells identified an approximately 3. 6-kb message that was induced to higher levels in P- cells following exposure to the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol acetate than in P+ cells. The message was detected in mRNA from heart, lung, and spleen. cDNA cloning of the P- preferential sequence revealed a high degree of identity to human pleckstrin (PLEK), the major PKC substrate in platelets (Tyers et al., 1988, Nature 333: 470). We report the complete mouse cDNA sequence of pleckstrin and the localization of the gene to chromosome 11, its expression in a nonhematopoetic cell line, and its potential role in blocking neoplastic transformation.
authors.affiliation: Basic Research Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, 21702, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cmarik
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hegamyer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gerrard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dean
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Colburn
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C039077:platelet protein P47; D004247:DNA