Oncogenic potential of the DNA replication licensing protein CDT1
- 14 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oncogene
- Vol. 21 (8) , 1150-1158
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1205175
Abstract
The expression of a gene, designated as Retroviral insertion site (Ris)2, was activated by retroviral DNA integration in an immortalized primitive erythroid cell line, EB-PE. Ris2 was also expressed at high levels in all human tumor cell lines analysed. Consistently, NIH3T3 fibroblasts overexpressing Ris2 formed tumors in Rag2−/− mice when injected subcutaneously. The putative RIS2 protein shows a high sequence similarity to Xenopus CDT1, Drosophila DUP, and human CDT1, a newly identified DNA replication licensing protein, suggesting that Ris2 is a mouse homologue of CDT1. Cells overexpressing Ris2/Cdt1 exhibited a quicker entry into S phase when released from serum starvation compared to controls. Our results suggest that CDT1, an essential licensing protein for DNA replication, can function as an oncogene in mammals.Keywords
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