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Cell, Tumor, and Stem Cell Biology |
1 Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and 2 Infectious Disease Pathogenesis Section, Comparative Medicine Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland; and 3 Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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Mitotic arrestdeficient protein 1 (MAD1) is a component of the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint. We have created a knockout mouse model to examine the physiologic consequence of reduced MAD1 function. Mad1+/ mice were successfully generated, but repeated paired mating of Mad1+/ with Mad1+/ mice failed to produce a single Mad1/ animal, suggesting that the latter genotype is embryonic lethal. In aging studies conducted for >18 months, Mad1+/ mice compared with control wild-type (wt) littermates showed a 2-fold higher incidence of constitutive tumors. Moreover, 42% of Mad1+/ (P < 0.03), but 0% of wt, mice developed neoplasia after treatment with vincristine, a microtubule depolymerization agent. Mad1+/ mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) were found to be more prone than wt cells to become aneuploid; Mad1+/, but not wt, MEFs produced fibrosarcomas when explanted into nude mice. Our results indicate an essential MAD1 function in mouse development and correlate Mad1 haploinsufficiency with increased constitutive tumors. [Cancer Res 2007;67(1):1606]
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