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- Title
Conditional deletion of nonmuscle myosin II-A in mouse tongue epithelium results in squamous cell carcinoma.
- Authors
Anne Conti, Mary; Saleh, Anthony D.; Brinster, Lauren R.; Cheng, Hui; Chen, Zhong; Cornelius, Shaleeka; Liu, Chengyu; Ma, Xuefei; Van Waes, Carter; Adelstein, Robert S.
- Abstract
To investigate the contribution of nonmuscle myosin II-A (NM II-A) to early cardiac development we crossed Myh9 floxed mice and Nkx2.5 cre-recombinase mice. Nkx2.5 is expressed in the early heart (E7.5) and later in the tongue epithelium. Mice homozygous for deletion of NM II-A (ANkx/ANkx) are born at the expected ratio with normal hearts, but consistently develop an invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the tongue (32/32 ANkx/ANkx) as early as E17.5. To assess reproducibility a second, independent line of Myh9 floxed mice derived from a different embryonic stem cell clone was tested. This second line also develops SCC indistinguishable from the first (15/15). In ANkx/ANkx mouse tongue epithelium, genetic deletion of NM II-A does not affect stabilization of TP53, unlike a previous report for SCC. We attribute the consistent, early formation of SCC with high penetrance to the role of NM II in maintaining mitotic stability during karyokinesis.
- Subjects
NONMUSCLE myosin; EPITHELIUM; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; LABORATORY mice; EMBRYONIC stem cell research; KARYOKINESIS
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2015, p14068
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep14068