NIH R01 · 2024
Mdm2 Alternative Splicing in DNA Damage and Cancer
ABSTRACT Tumor suppressor p53 is the quintessential guardian of the genome whose function is inhibited in greater than 50% of all human cancers. Though mutation and deletion of p53 are major contributors to p53 inactivation, overexpression of the negative regulators MDM2 and MDM4 (MDMX) are also known to inactivate p53, thus leading to the cancer phenotype. Our lab has shown that specific types of cell stress initiate the generation of an alternatively spliced isoform of MDM2. The predominant MDM2 alternative isoform, MDM2-ALT1 also known as MDM2-B, functions to primarily activate the p53 pathway by inhibiting MDM2 and MDM4 in a dominant negative fashion. Paradoxically, this isoform is…
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