title: Vasopressin-SV40 T antigen expression in transgenic mice induces brain tumor and lymphoma.
abstract: In order to understand the importance of various cis-acting elements in regulating VP gene expression, transgenic mice regulated by VP constructs were produced containing 3.8 kb of the 5' flanking region and all the exons and introns in the mouse VP gene, which was fused at the end of exon 3 to an SV40 T antigen (Tag). In the transgenic mice by the pVPSV.IGR3.6 construct, all the six transgenic mice died at the age of 2-6 weeks. In the transgenic mice by pVPSV.IGR2.1, 21% of them had brain tumors at 5 weeks and 100% of the mice had brain tumors after 24 weeks. Histological analysis of the transgenic mice revealed primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) in the brain and lymphoma in the spleen and lymph nodes. The phenotype differences between the two transgenic mice suggest that tissue-specific expression might be regulated by cis-acting elements in the 1.5-kb of the 3(') flanking region, which are not contained in pVPSV.IGR2.1. In conclusion, pVPSV.IGR2.1 mice will be a valuable mouse model system for investigating PNET tumorigenesis in the brain and lymphoma in the lymph nodes and spleen.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory Animal Center, Catholic Research Institutes of Medical Science, Catholic Medical College, 505 Banpo-Dong, Seocho-Ku, Seoul 137-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong Woong
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jun Hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Kil Soo
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Eun Ju
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Myoung Ok
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seong Whan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Chul Woo
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ho Joon
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kyung Sun
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Kyu Tae
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Byung Hwa
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Hyun
authors.forename: Zae Young
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Ryoo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D019076:Transgenes; D014667:Vasopressins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000952:Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014667:Vasopressins