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P16INK4a mediated supperssion of telomerase in normal and malignant human breast cells


ABSTRACT: The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4a (CDKN2A) is an important tumor-suppressor gene frequently inactivated in human tumors. p16 suppresses the development of cancer by triggering an irreversible arrest of cell proliferation termed cellular senescence. Here, we describe another anti-oncogenic function of p16 in addition to its ability to halt cell cycle progression. We show that transient expression of p16 stably represses the hTERT gene, encoding the catalytic subunit of telomerase, in both normal and malignant breast epithelial cells. Short-term p16 expression increases the amount of histone H3 trimethylated on lysine 27 (H3K27) bound to the hTERT promoter, resulting in transcriptional silencing, likely mediated by polycomb complexes. Our results indicate that transient p16 exposure may prevent malignant progression in dividing cells by irreversible repression of genes, such as hTERT, whose activity is necessary for extensive self-renewal. 27 samples were analyzed to study three histone modifications (H3K4me3, H3K9me3, H3K27me3) in three different cell lines. Each combination of histone modification and cell line had three biological replicates (A,B,C).

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Curtis Hines 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-14436 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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