Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UNIPROT:P04637 (p53)
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A novel target of NESH-SH3 (TARSH) was identified as a cellular senescence related gene in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) replicative senescence, the expression of which has been suppressed in primary clinical lung cancer specimens. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the regulation of TARSH involved in pulmonary tumorigenesis remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that the reduction of TARSH gene expression by short hairpin RNA (shRNA) system robustly inhibited the MEFs proliferation with increase in senescence-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-beta-gal) activity. Using p53-/- MEFs, we further suggest that this growth arrest by loss of TARSH is evoked by p53-dependent p21(Cip1) accumulation. Moreover, we also reveal that TARSH reduction induces multicentrosome in MEFs, which is linked in chromosome instability and tumor development. These results suggest that TARSH plays an important role in proliferation of replicative senescence and may serve as a trigger of tumor development.
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PMID:Implication of p53-dependent cellular senescence related gene, TARSH in tumor suppression. 1933 57

A target of NESH-SH3/Abi3bp (TARSH) was originally identified as an SH3 domain-binding molecule of the NESH-SH3/Abi3 protein that is involved in Rac-dependent actin polymerization. In recent studies, TARSH gene expression was dramatically induced in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) replicative senescence and suppressed in human lung carcinoma specimens and thyroid carcinomas. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the regulation of TARSH in tumorigenesis remains unclear. Here, we address a p53-dependent apoptosis function of the mouse TARSH gene using RNAi-mediated suppression of endogenous TARSH expression. Our results will be useful in the discovery of a novel therapeutic target in lung carcinoma.
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PMID:A novel p53-dependent apoptosis function of TARSH in tumor development. 1999 23