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SUBMITTER: Insinga A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC380970 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Insinga Alessandra A Monestiroli Silvia S Ronzoni Simona S Carbone Roberta R Pearson Mark M Pruneri Giancarlo G Viale Giuseppe G Appella Ettore E Pelicci PierGiuseppe P Minucci Saverio S
The EMBO journal 20040219 5
Mutations of p53 are remarkably rare in acute promyelocytic leukemias (APLs). Here, we demonstrate that the APL-associated fusion proteins PML-RAR and PLZF-RAR directly inhibit p53, allowing leukemic blasts to evade p53-dependent cancer surveillance pathways. PML-RAR causes deacetylation and degradation of p53, resulting in repression of p53 transcriptional activity, and protection from p53-dependent responses to genotoxic stress. These phenomena are dependent on the expression of wild-type PML, ...[more]