PMID:10096563

Citation	Edelmann, W, Yang, K, Kuraguchi, M, Heyer, J, Lia, M, Kneitz, B, Fan, K, Brown, AM, Lipkin, M and Kucherlapati, R (1999) Tumorigenesis in Mlh1 and Mlh1/Apc1638N mutant mice. Cancer Res. 59:1301-7
Abstract	An3 1 KAL I MutL homologue 1 (MLH1) is a member of the family of proteins required for DNA mismatch repair. Germ-line mutations in MLH1 lead to the cancer susceptibility syndrome hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). We generated mice carrying a null mutation in the Mlh1 gene. We showed that mice heterozygous and homozygous for the Mlh1 gene are predisposed to developing tumors of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, lymphomas, and a number of other tumor types. We also examined the role of adenomatous polyposis coli gene (Apc) gene mutations in the GI tumors of Mlh1 mutant mice by different methods and showed that the GI tumors in Mlh1 mice express little or no adenomatous polyposis coli protein. When an Apc gene mutation was bred into the Mlh1 mutant mice, the GI tumor incidence increased 40-100-fold. The wild-type Apc allele in these tumors was found to contain mutations. Together, these results show that we have developed two mouse models for human HNPCC and that the mechanisms of tumor development in the GI tract of these mice involve loss of Apc gene function in a manner very similar to that seen in the GI tumors of HNPCC.
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Keywords	Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein; Animals; Carrier Proteins; Cytoskeletal Proteins/genetics; Female; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/genetics; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/mortality; Genes, APC; Longevity/genetics; Lymphoma/genetics; Lymphoma/mortality; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Neoplasm Proteins/genetics; Nuclear Proteins
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