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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2000, p. 9236-9246, Vol. 20, No. 24
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e
Clinica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia di Catanzaro,
Università degli Studi di Catanzaro "Magna Graecia," 88100 Catanzaro,1 and Istituto dei Tumori di
Napoli2 and Centro di Endocrinologia ed
Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR, Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia
Cellulare e Molecolare, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia,
Università di Napoli "Federico II,"3
80131 Naples, Italy
Received 15 March 2000/Returned for modification 13 June
2000/Accepted 27 September 2000
The r-PTP
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Rat Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase
Suppresses the
Neoplastic Phenotype of Retrovirally Transformed Thyroid Cells through
the Stabilization of p27Kip1
gene encodes a rat receptor-type protein tyrosine
phosphatase whose expression is negatively regulated by neoplastic cell
transformation. Here we first demonstrate a dramatic reduction in
DEP-1/HPTP
(the human homolog of r-PTP
) expression in a panel of
human thyroid carcinomas. Subsequently, we show that the reexpression of the r-PTP
gene in highly malignant rat thyroid cells transformed by retroviruses carrying the v-mos and v-ras-Ki
oncogenes suppresses their malignant phenotype. Cell cycle analysis
demonstrated that r-PTP
caused G1 growth arrest and
increased the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1
protein level by reducing the proteasome-dependent degradation rate. We
propose that the r-PTP
tumor suppressor activity is mediated by
p27Kip1 protein stabilization, because suppression of
p27Kip1 protein synthesis using p27-specific antisense
oligonucleotides blocked the growth-inhibitory effect induced by
r-PTP
. Furthermore, we provide evidence that in v-mos-
or v-ras-Ki-transformed thyroid cells, the
p27Kip1 protein level was regulated by the
mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway and that r-PTP
regulated p27Kip1 stability by preventing
v-mos- or v-ras-Ki-induced MAP kinase activation.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di
Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Facoltà di Medicina
e Chirurgia, Università di Napoli "Federico II," via Pansini
5, 80131 Naples, Italy. Phone: 39 081 7463056. Fax: 39 081 7463037. E-mail: afusco{at}napoli.com.
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