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ArticlePloS one2012

Humanized c-Myc mouse.

Frank M Lehmann, Samantha Feicht, Florian Helm, Anna Maurberger, Camilla Ladinig, Ursula Zimber-Strobl, Ralf Kühn, Josef Mautner, Armin Gerbitz, Georg W Bornkamm

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Frank M LehmannInstitute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany.
Samantha Feicht
Florian Helm
Anna Maurberger
Camilla Ladinig
Ursula Zimber-Strobl
Ralf Kühn
Josef Mautner
Armin Gerbitz
Georg W Bornkamm
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA given tumor is usually dependent on the oncogene that is activated in the respective tumor entity. This phenomenon called oncogene addiction provides the rationale for attempts to target oncogene products in a therapeutic manner, be it by small molecules, by small interfering RNAs (siRNA) or by antigen-specific T cells. As the proto-oncogene product is required also for the function of normal cells, this raises the question whether there is a therapeutic window between the adverse effects of specific inhibitors or T cells to normal tissue that may limit their application, and their beneficial tumor-specific therapeutic action. To address this crucial question, suitable mouse strains need to be developed, that enable expression of the human proto-oncogene not only in tumor but also in normal cells. The aim of this work is to provide such a mouse strain for the human proto-oncogene product c-MYC. PRINCIPAL

findingsWe generated C57BL/6-derived embryonic stem cells that are transgenic for a humanized c-Myc gene and established a mouse strain (hc-Myc) that expresses human c-MYC instead of the murine ortholog. These transgenic animals harbor the humanized c-Myc gene integrated into the endogenous murine c-Myc locus. Despite the lack of the endogenous murine c-Myc gene, homozygous mice show a normal phenotype indicating that human c-MYC can replace its murine ortholog.

conclusionsThe newly established hc-Myc mouse strain provides a model system to study in detail the adverse effects of therapies that target the human c-MYC protein. To mimic the clinical situation, hc-Myc mice may be cross-bred to mice that develop tumors due to overexpression of human c-MYC. With these double transgenic mice it will be possible to study simultaneously the therapeutic efficiency and adverse side effects of MYC-specific therapies in the same mouse.

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Genes, mycAnimalsBlotting, SouthernEmbryonic Stem CellsFlow CytometryHumansMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicPhenotypePolymerase Chain ReactionProto-Oncogene MasProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycMAS1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene MasProto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc

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PMID22860051
PMCPMC3409231
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