Block of T cell development in P53-deficient mice accelerates development of lymphomas with characteristic RAG-dependent cytogenetic alterations
2006
Ryu, C. J. | Chang, S. | Protopopov, A. | Luch, A. | Kang, Y. H. | Draganov, D. D. | Fragoso, M. F. | Pai, S. G. | Hong, H. J. | DePinho, R. A. | Chen, J. Z.
German. 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 beta gene enhancer (E beta) results in a block of T cell development at stages where recombination-activating genes (RAG) are expressed. Introduction of the E beta 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
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