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Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2000, p. 4462-4473, Vol. 20, No. 12
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The Oncoprotein Kinase Chaperone CDC37 Functions
as an Oncogene in Mice and Collaborates with Both c-myc
and Cyclin D1 in Transformation of Multiple Tissues
Lilia
Stepanova,1,
Milton
Finegold,2
Franco
DeMayo,3
Emmett V.
Schmidt,4 and
J. Wade
Harper1,*
Verna and Marrs McLean Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,1
Department of Pathology,2 and
Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biology,3 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
Texas 77030, and The MGH Cancer Center, Department of Tumor
Biology, Charlestown, Massachusetts 021294
Received 5 November 1999/Returned for modification 28 December
1999/Accepted 15 March 2000
CDC37 encodes a 50-kDa protein that targets
intrinsically unstable oncoprotein kinases including Cdk4, Raf-1, and
v-src to the molecular chaperone Hsp90, an interaction that
is thought to be important for the establishment of signaling pathways.
CDC37 is required for proliferation in budding yeast and is
coexpressed with cyclin D1 in proliferative zones during mouse
development, a finding consistent with a positive role in cell
proliferation. CDC37 expression may not only be required to
support proliferation in cells that are developmentally programmed to
proliferate but may also be required in cells that are inappropriately
induced to initiate proliferation by oncogenes. Here we report that
mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-CDC37 transgenic mice
develop mammary gland tumors at a rate comparable to that observed
previously in MMTV-cyclin D1 mice. Moreover, CDC37 was
found to collaborate with MMTV-c-myc in the transformation
of multiple tissues, including mammary and salivary glands in females
and testis in males, and also collaborates with cyclin D1 to transform
the female mammary gland. These data indicate that CDC37
can function as an oncogene in mice and suggests that the establishment
of protein kinase pathways mediated by Cdc37-Hsp90 can be a
rate-limiting event in epithelial cell transformation.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX
77030. Phone: (713) 798-6993. Fax: (713) 796-9438. E-mail: jharper{at}bcm.tmc.edu.

Present address: Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
38105.
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