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RuvBl2 cooperates with Ets2 to transcriptionally regulate hTERT in colon cancer

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Achim Treumann

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Abstract

Human cancers utilise telomerase to maintain telomeres and prohibit cell senescence. Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), an essential component of this complex, is regulated at the level of gene transcription. Using SILAC-proteomic analysis and molecular studies, we identified the AAA+ ATPase, RuvBl2 as a transcriptional regulator of hTERT and established that this regulation is through cooperation with Ets-2. In colon cancer patients, nuclear expression of RuvBl2 associated with nuclear expression of hTERT, pEts2 and advanced nodal disease (P<0.01, P=0.05 and P=0.03 respectively, n=170). These data firmly implicate RuvBl2 in Ets2 mediated regulation of hTERT in colon cancer which has functional and clinical consequences.

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Author(s): Flavin P, Redmond A, McBryan J, Cocchiglia S, Tibbitts P, Fahy-Browne P, Kay E, Treumann A, Perrem K, McIlroy M, Hill AD, Young LS

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: FEBS Letters

Year: 2011

Volume: 585

Issue: 15

Pages: 2537-2544

Print publication date: 04/08/2011

ISSN (print): 0014-5793

ISSN (electronic): 1873-3468

Publisher: Elsevier BV

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.005

DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.07.005

PubMed id: 21763315

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