| RRC ID |
47254
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| 著者 |
Maeda T, O-Wang J, Matsubara H, Asano T, Ochiai T, Sakiyama S, Tagawa M.
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| タイトル |
A minimum c-erbB-2 promoter-mediated expression of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene confers selective cytotoxicity of human breast cancer cells to ganciclovir.
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| ジャーナル |
Cancer Gene Ther
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| Abstract |
The c-erbB-2 gene is frequently overexpressed in human breast cancers as a result of gene amplification and/or elevated transcription. We therefore examined a possible usage of promoter regions of the c-erbB-2 gene to express a suicide gene preferentially in breast cancer cells. Previous studies did not reveal the minimal promoter region that enabled transcriptional activation specific to breast cancer cells. The present reporter gene assays using deletion mutants of the c-erbB-2 promoter region demonstrated that the 251-bp (-213/+38 from the transcriptional start site), but not the 125-bp, fragment (-87/+38) could direct transcription of the linked luciferase gene better than the SV40 immediate early promoter in breast cancer cells. In contrast, the 251-bp fragment-mediated promoter activity in nonbreast cancer cells and in normal fibroblasts was lower than the activity by the SV40 promoter. The 126-bp fragment (-213/-87) thereby contains a cis-acting element(s), which is responsible for the preferential transcriptional activity in breast cancer cells. An electrophoretic mobility shift assay suggested that a possible modification of a transcriptional factor was involved in the tumor specificity. Transfection with the plasmid DNA containing the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene linked with the 251-bp promoter (p256-TK) resulted in increased sensitivity to ganciclovir in breast cancer, but not in nonbreast cancer cells. Administration of ganciclovir into nude mice bearing human breast tumors that were transfected with the p256-TK DNA suppressed subsequent growth of the transplanted tumors. These results suggest that delivery of a suicide gene linked with the 251-bp c-erbB-2 promoter can be a feasible therapeutic strategy specific to breast cancer.
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| 巻・号 |
8(11)
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| ページ |
890-6
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| 公開日 |
2001-11-1
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| DOI |
10.1038/sj.cgt.7700389
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| PMID |
11773979
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| MeSH |
Animals
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Breast Neoplasms / virology
Cell Survival / drug effects
Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
Female
Ganciclovir / therapeutic use*
Gene Deletion
Genes, erbB-2 / genetics*
Genetic Vectors
Humans
In Vitro Techniques
Mice
Mice, Nude
Promoter Regions, Genetic
RNA, Messenger / genetics
Simplexvirus / enzymology*
Thymidine Kinase / genetics*
Transfection
Tumor Cells, Cultured
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| IF |
4.534
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| 引用数 |
13
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WOS 分野
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MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL
BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
ONCOLOGY
GENETICS & HEREDITY
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| リソース情報 |
| 遺伝子材料 |
c-erbB2 promoter(533)-pGL2-basic (RDB02839)
c-erbB2 promoter(344)-pGL2-basic (RDB02840)
c-erbB2 promoter(251)-pGL2-basic (RDB02841)
c-erbB2 promoter(124)-pGL2-basic (RDB02842)
c-erbB2 promoter(251)-TK (RDB02843). |
