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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
Recent advances in cancer therapeutics stress the need for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving tumor formation. This can be accomplished by obtaining a more complete description of the genes that contribute to cancer. We previously described an approach using the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system to model hematopoietic malignancies in mice. Here, we describe modifications of the SB system that provide additional flexibility in generating mouse models of cancer. First, we describe a Cre-inducible SBase allele, RosaSBase(LsL), that allows the restriction of transposon mutagenesis to a specific tissue of interest. This allele was used to generate a model of germinal center B-cell lymphoma by activating SBase expression with an Aid-Cre allele. In a second approach, a novel transposon was generated, T2/Onc3, in which the CMV enhancer/chicken beta-actin promoter drives oncogene expression. When combined with ubiquitous SBase expression, the T2/Onc3 transposon produced nearly 200 independent tumors of more than 20 different types in a cohort of 62 mice. Analysis of transposon insertion sites identified novel candidate genes, including Zmiz1 and Rian, involved in squamous cell carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, respectively. These novel alleles provide additional tools for the SB system and provide some insight into how this mutagenesis system can be manipulated to model cancer in mice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8150-6
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-DNA Transposable Elements, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Green Fluorescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Immunoenzyme Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Integrases, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Liver Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Lymphoma, B-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mice, Inbred C3H, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Monte Carlo Method, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19808965-Skin Neoplasms
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
A modified sleeping beauty transposon system that can be used to model a wide variety of human cancers in mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Center for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. adam-dupuy@uiowa.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural