Abstract
The v-Myb oncogene causes late onset T cell lymphomas when expressed in the T cell lineage of transgenic mice. In order to define the cellular mutations cooperating with v-Myb to cause lymphomas, we have infected v-Myb transgenic mice with Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV). Tumor formation is significantly accelerated from a mean age of onset of 60 weeks in uninfected vMyb transgenics to 13 weeks in infected vMyb transgenics. We studied the loci into which the M-MuLV had inserted, and found that in 73% of animals, either the c-myc or the N-myc genes had been disrupted and deregulated. Therefore, v-myb and c-myb can cooperate to induce T cell lymphomas.
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We thank Fred Alt (pN1.1; N-myc cDNA), Gerard Evan (pSV2mycS; c-myc cDNA) and Blanca Scheijen (pim-1 and gfi-1 genomic probes) for gifts of plasmids, and Jos Jonkers and Anton Berns for M-MuLV clone 1A cells and Eμpim-1 mice. This work was funded by the Cancer Research Campaign.
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Davies, J., Badiani, P. & Weston, K. Cooperation of Myb and Myc proteins in T cell lymphomagenesis. Oncogene 18, 3643–3647 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1202956
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