Deregulation of the c-myc oncogene in virus-induced thymic lymphomas of AKR/J mice.

AUTOR(ES)

Reicin, A

RESUMO

A high frequency (greater than or equal to 65%) of thymomas induced by mink cell focus-forming virus 69L1 in AKR/J mice contain proviral integrations which are clustered 0.7-kilobase upstream of the c-myc oncogene predominantly in the opposite transcriptional orientation. Blot hybridization experiments showed that on the average there was only a twofold elevation of steady-state c-myc RNA in the thymomas as compared with levels in normal AKR/J thymocytes. Such an increase would not appear to be sufficient as a mechanism of oncogene activation in this system. In contrast, S1 nuclease analysis of transcripts initiated from the two known c-myc promoters indicated a strong shift in promoter usage in virtually all thymomas tested. In normal thymus the ratio of transcripts initiated from the proximal promoter P1 to the distal promoter P2 was 0.2 to 0.3. In contrast, most of the thymomas tested (18 of 23) showed an average P1/P2 ratio of 1.2 regardless of whether or not proviral integrations could be detected within a 21-kilobase EcoRI fragment containing the three c-myc exons. We conclude that alterations in P1/P2 ratios are good indicators of c-myc deregulation in thymic lymphomas.

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