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Cloning of Breakpoints in and Downstream the Igf2 Gene That Are Associated with Overexpression of Igf2 Transcripts in Colorectal Tumours
Hodzic, D.; Frey, B.; Delneuville, Delphine et al.
1999In Oncogene, 18 (33), p. 4710-7
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Keywords :
Colon cancer; Gene rearrangement; IGF2
Abstract :
[en] The human IGF2 gene belongs to a group of imprinted genes clustered on the short arm of chromosome 11, band p15.5. It contains 9 exons and spans over 30 kb. IGF2 mRNA overexpression has been reported in human tumours and in some inherited growth disorders. It was recently demonstrated that IGF2 mRNA overexpression contributes to tumour progression and that loss of parental imprinting as well as altered transcription factors are contributing to this overexpression. We have reported structural alterations in the 3' region of the IGF2 gene in two colorectal tumours that overexpressed the IGF2 transcript by 200- and 800-fold. We cloned by the vectorette-PCR strategy, genomic DNA fragments containing the breakpoints from these tumours. The sequencing of these fragments positioned the breakpoint 2 kb downstream the IGF2 gene in one tumour, and in exon 9 in the second. Both breakpoints occurred in regions containing repetitive elements: a TGGA repeat we have identified downstream the gene, and the (CA)n repetition in exon 9. We hypothesize that a negative regulatory element, located downstream the IGF2 gene, has been deleted following these structural alterations and leads to IGF2 gene overexpression.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Hodzic, D.
Frey, B.
Delneuville, Delphine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques
Scarcez, T.
Grooteclaes, M.
Winkler, Rose ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Anatomie et cytologie pathologiques
Language :
English
Title :
Cloning of Breakpoints in and Downstream the Igf2 Gene That Are Associated with Overexpression of Igf2 Transcripts in Colorectal Tumours
Publication date :
19 August 1999
Journal title :
Oncogene
ISSN :
0950-9232
eISSN :
1476-5594
Publisher :
Nature Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Volume :
18
Issue :
33
Pages :
4710-7
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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