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Apoptosis triggered by Myc-induced suppression of Bcl-X(L) or Bcl-2 is bypassed during lymphomagenesis.


ABSTRACT: Enforced Bcl-2 expression inhibits Myc-induced apoptosis and cooperates with Myc in transformation. Here we report that the synergy between Bcl-2 and Myc in transforming hematopoietic cells in fact reflects a Myc-induced pathway that selectively suppresses the expression of the Bcl-X(L) or Bcl-2 antiapoptotic protein. Myc activation suppresses Bcl-X(L) RNA and protein levels in cultures of primary myeloid and lymphoid progenitors, and Bcl-X(L) and Bcl-2 expression is inhibited by Myc in precancerous B cells from Emu-myc transgenic mice. The suppression of bcl-X RNA levels by Myc requires de novo protein synthesis, indicating that repression is indirect. Importantly, the suppression of Bcl-2 or Bcl-X(L) by Myc is corrupted during Myc-induced tumorigenesis, as Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-X(L) levels are markedly elevated in over one-half of all lymphomas arising in Emicro-myc transgenic mice. Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-X(L) overexpression did not correlate with loss of ARF or p53 function in tumor cells, indicating that these two apoptotic pathways are inactivated independently. Therefore, the suppression of Bcl-X(L) or Bcl-2 expression represents a physiological Myc-induced apoptotic pathway that is frequently bypassed during lymphomagenesis.

SUBMITTER: Eischen CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC87232 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Apoptosis triggered by Myc-induced suppression of Bcl-X(L) or Bcl-2 is bypassed during lymphomagenesis.

Eischen C M CM   Woo D D   Roussel M F MF   Cleveland J L JL  

Molecular and cellular biology 20010801 15


Enforced Bcl-2 expression inhibits Myc-induced apoptosis and cooperates with Myc in transformation. Here we report that the synergy between Bcl-2 and Myc in transforming hematopoietic cells in fact reflects a Myc-induced pathway that selectively suppresses the expression of the Bcl-X(L) or Bcl-2 antiapoptotic protein. Myc activation suppresses Bcl-X(L) RNA and protein levels in cultures of primary myeloid and lymphoid progenitors, and Bcl-X(L) and Bcl-2 expression is inhibited by Myc in precance  ...[more]

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