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Correspondence to: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Department of Human Genetics, Box 110 Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10021. Tel:212-639-6168 Fax:212-717-3102 E-mail:p-pandolfi{at}ski.mskcc.org.
p62dok has been identified as a substrate of many oncogenic tyrosine kinases such as the chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) chimeric p210bcr-abl oncoprotein. It is also phosphorylated upon activation of many receptors and cytoplamic tyrosine kinases. However, the biological functions of p62dok in normal cell signaling as well as in p210bcr-abl leukemogenesis are as yet not fully understood. Here we show, in hemopoietic and nonhemopoietic cells derived from p62dok-/- mice, that the loss of p62dok results in increased cell proliferation upon growth factor treatment. Moreover, Ras and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation is markedly sustained in p62dok-/- cells after the removal of growth factor. However, p62dok inactivation does not affect DNA damage and growth factor deprivationinduced apoptosis. Furthermore, p62dok inactivation causes a significant shortening in the latency of the fatal myeloproliferative disease induced by retroviral-mediated transduction of p210bcr-abl in bone marrow cells. These data indicate that p62dok acts as a negative regulator of growth factorinduced cell proliferation, at least in part through downregulating Ras/MAPK signaling pathway, and that p62dok can oppose leukemogenesis by p210bcr-abl.
Key Words: cell proliferation, signal transduction, knockout, mast cells, thymocytes
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