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Evolutionarily conserved role of nucleostemin: Controlling proliferation of stem/progenitor cells during early vertebrate development
- Source :
- Mol. Cell. Biol. 26, 9291-9301 (2006)
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Nucleostemin (NS) is a putative GTPase expressed preferentially in the nucleoli of neuronal and embryonic stem cells and several cancer cell lines. Transfection and knockdown studies indicated that NS controls the proliferation of these cells by interacting with the p53 tumor suppressor protein and regulating its activity. To assess the physiological role of NS in vivo, we generated a mutant mouse line with a specific gene trap event that inactivates the NS allele. The corresponding NS(-/-) embryos died around embryonic day 4. Analyses of NS mutant blastocysts indicated that NS is not required to maintain pluripotency, nucleolar integrity, or survival of the embryonic stem cells. However, the homozygous mutant blastocysts failed to enter S phase even in the absence of functional p53. Haploid insufficiency of NS in mouse embryonic fibroblasts leads to decreased cell proliferation. NS also functions in early amphibian development to control cell proliferation of neural progenitor cells. Our results show that NS has a unique ability, derived from an ancestral function, to control the proliferation rate of stem/progenitor cells in vivo independently of p53.
- Subjects :
- Mutant
Xenopus Proteins
Biology
Evolution, Molecular
Mice
Xenopus laevis
GTP-Binding Proteins
Animals
Embryo Implantation
Nuclear protein
Progenitor cell
Molecular Biology
Cells, Cultured
Conserved Sequence
Embryonic Stem Cells
Cell Proliferation
Neurons
Gene knockdown
Cell growth
Nuclear Proteins
RNA-Binding Proteins
Articles
Cell Biology
Transfection
Molecular biology
Embryonic stem cell
Neural stem cell
Cell biology
Female
Genes, Lethal
Carrier Proteins
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mol. Cell. Biol. 26, 9291-9301 (2006)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d295244e7254dacf287e58f6f276b48