Cloning and Characterization of a Senescence Inducing and Class II Tumor Suppressor Gene in Ovarian Carcinoma at Chromosome Region 6Q27
Oncogene (2001) 20, 980 ± 988 ã 2001 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0950 ± 9232/01 $15.00 www.nature.com/onc Cloning and characterization of a senescence inducing and class II tumor suppressor gene in ovarian carcinoma at chromosome region 6q27 Francesco Acquati1,8, Cristina Morelli2,8, Raaella Cinquetti1, Marco Giorgio Bianchi1, Davide Porrini1, Liliana Varesco3, Viviana Gismondi3, Romina Rocchetti4, Simona Talevi4, Laura Possati4, Chiara Magnanini2, Maria G Tibiletti5, Barbara Bernasconi5, Maria G Daidone6, Viji Shridhar7, David I Smith7, Massimo Negrini2, Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano2 and Roberto Taramelli*,1 1Dipartimento di Biologia Strutturale e Funzionale, Universita' dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy; 2Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Diagnostica, Sezione di Microbiologia, UniversitaÁ di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy; 3Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro Genova, Italy; 4Istituto di Scienze Biomediche, UniversitaÁ di Ancona, I-60131 Ancona, Italy; 5Laboratorio di Anatomia Patologica, Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy; 6Dipartimento Oncologia Sperimentale, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy; 7Division of Experimental Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA Cytogenetic, molecular and functional analysis has Introduction shown that chromosome region 6q27 harbors a senes- cence inducing gene and a tumor suppressor gene Abnormalities of the long arm of chromosome 6 are involved in several solid and hematologic malignancies. associated with several solid neoplasms including We have cloned at 6q27 and characterized the carcinomas of the ovary (Saito et al., 1992; Foulkes RNASE6PL gene which belongs to a family of et al., 1993; Cooke et al., 1996; Orphanos et al., 1995; cytoplasmic RNases highly conserved from plants, to Tibiletti et al., 1996), breast (Develee et al., 1991; man.
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