Current concepts in neuro-oncology: The cell cycle - A review

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作者
Dirks, PB
Rutka, JR
机构
[1] Brain Tumor Research Laboratory, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
[2] Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8
关键词
astrocytomas; cell cycle; cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors; cyclin-dependent kinases; cyclins; retinoblastoma protein;
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10.1097/00006123-199705000-00025
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
UNCONTROLLED CELLULAR PROLIFERATION is the hallmark of human malignant brain tumors. Their growth proceeds inexorably, in part because their cellular constituents have an altered genetic code that enables them to evade the checks and balances of the normal cell cycle. Recently, a number of major advances in molecular biology have led to the identification of several critical genetic and enzymatic pathways that are disturbed in cancer cells resulting in uncontrolled cell cycling. We now know that the progression of a cell through the cell cycle is controlled in part by a series of protein kinases, the activity of which is regulated by a group of proteins called cyclins. Cyclins act in concert with the cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) to phosphorylate key substrates that facilitate the passage of the cell through each phase of the cell cycle. A critical target of cyclin-CDK enzymes is the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein, and phosphorylation of this protein inhibits its ability to restrain activity of a family of transcription factors (E2F family), which induce expression of genes important for cell proliferation, In addition to the cyclins and CDKs, there is an emerging family of CDK inhibitors, which modulate the activity of cyclins and CDKs. CDK inhibitors inhibit cyclin CDK complexes and transduce internal or external growth-suppressive signals, which act on the cell cycle machinery. Accordingly, all CDK inhibitors are candidate tumor suppressor genes. It is becoming clear that a common feature of cancer cells is the abrogation of cell cycle checkpoints, either by aberrant expression of positive regulators (for example, cyclins and CDKs) or the loss of negative regulators, including p21(Cip 1) through loss of function of its transcriptional activator p53, or deletion or mutation of p16(INK4A) (multiple tumor suppressor 1/CDKN2) and the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein. in this review, we describe in detail our current knowledge of the normal cell cycle and how it is disturbed in cancer cells. Because there have now been a number of recent studies showing alterations in cell cycle gene expression in human brain tumors, we wilt review the derangements in both the positive and negative cell cycle regulators that have been reported for these neoplasms. A thorough understanding of the molecular events of the cell cycle may lead to new opportunities by which astrocytoma cell proliferation can be controlled either pharmacologically or by gene transfer techniques.
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页码:1000 / 1013
页数:14
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