Detection of recombinations between c-myc and immunoglobulin switch alpha in murine plasma cell tumors and preneoplastic lesions by polymerase chain reaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993 Aug 01;90(15):7361-5
Date
08/01/1993Pubmed ID
8346257Pubmed Central ID
PMC47137DOI
10.1073/pnas.90.15.7361Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0027179562 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 60 CitationsAbstract
Virtually all murine plasmacytomas carry chromosomal translocations that activate c-myc. The predominant (approximately 90%) c-myc-activating chromosomal translocation in pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane)-induced plasmacytomas in BALB/c mice is a reciprocal translocation t(12;15) in which an immunoglobulin heavy-chain switch sequence is joined to the 5' region of c-myc. The most common switch region involved is S alpha. We developed a direct PCR method to screen for recombinations between c-myc and S alpha. The critical step in establishing the method was the cloning and sequencing of the 5' flank of C alpha, a region with a reduced number of switch repeats that is much more favorable for designing specific PCR primers than the highly repetitive S alpha region. In applying this PCR method, we detected translocation-specific junction fragments in transplanted (10/16, 63%) and primary (5/15, 33%) plasmacytomas. Moreover, the sensitivity of a nested version of that technique allowed us to discern rare t(12;15)s in BALB/c mice in the preneoplastic stage of plasmacytoma-genesis (8/20 mice, 40%) as early as 30 days after administration of pristane. We conclude that t(12;15) is the probable primary, if not initiating, oncogenic step in plasmacytomagenesis.
Author List
Janz S, Müller J, Shaughnessy J, Potter MAuthor
Siegfried Janz MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AnimalsBase Sequence
Genes, Immunoglobulin
Genes, Switch
Genes, myc
Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains
Immunoglobulin Isotypes
Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains
Mice
Molecular Sequence Data
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
Plasmacytoma
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Precancerous Conditions
Recombination, Genetic
Translocation, Genetic
