@article{10ad3465a3274decb5bdf482b7a71709,
title = "Block of T cell development in P53-deficient mice accelerates development of lymphomas with characteristic RAG-dependent cytogenetic alterations",
abstract = "Mice deficient in the DNA damage sensor P53 display normal T cell development but eventually succumb to thymic lymphomas. Here, we show that inactivation of the TCR β gene enhancer (Eβ) results in a block of T cell development at stages where recombination-activating genes (RAG) are expressed. Introduction of the Eβ mutation into p53-/- mice dramatically accelerates the onset of lethal thymic lymphomas that harbor RAG-dependent aberrant rearrangements, chromosome 14 and 12 translocations, and amplification of the chromosomal region 9A1-A5.3. Phenotypic and genetic analyses suggest that lymphomas emerge through a normal thymocyte development pathway. These findings provide genetic evidence that block of lymphocyte development at stages with RAG endonuclease activity can provoke lymphomagenesis on a background with deficient DNA damage responses.",
author = "Haines, {Brian B.} and Ryu, {Chun Jeih} and Sandy Chang and Alexei Protopopov and Andreas Luch and Kang, {Yun Hee} and Draganov, {Dobrin D.} and Fragoso, {Maria F.} and Paik, {Sang Gi} and Hong, {Hyo Jeong} and DePinho, {Ronald A.} and Jianzhu Chen",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Dr. Tyler Jacks for p53 −/− mice, Drs. Herman N. Eisen and Tania Baker for manuscript review, and members of the Chen laboratory for helpful discussions. This work was supported in part by grants AI40416 and CA100875 from the National Institutes of Health and David Koch Research Fund (to J.C.), a Cancer Center Core Grant (to Tyler Jacks), a grant from Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (R01-2004-000-10047-0 to C.J.R.), and a grant from the Nano-Bio Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea (TNM0200512 to H.J.H.). S.C. is supported by the Ellison Medical Foundation, NIH grant AG01019, and a Belfer Cancer Core grant to the DFCI. R.A.D. is an American Cancer Society Research Professor and an Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar and is supported by grants from the NIH and ACS. B.B.H. was partly supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Cancer Society (PF0122801), and A.L. was partly supported by a Research Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (LU 841/2-1). Array CGH profiles were performed at the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Cancer Genomic Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. ",
year = "2006",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/j.ccr.2006.01.004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "9",
pages = "109--120",
journal = "Cancer cell",
issn = "1535-6108",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "2",
}