PMID: 11927276Apr 3, 2002Paper

Caretaker tumour suppressor genes that defend genome integrity

Trends in Molecular Medicine
Nicola C Levitt, Ian D Hickson

Abstract

Cancers arise as a result of genetic changes that impact upon cell proliferation through promoting cell division and/or inhibiting cell death. Tumour suppressor (TS) genes are the targets for many of these genetic changes. In general, both alleles of TS genes must be disrupted to observe a phenotypic effect. Broadly speaking, there are two types of TS gene: 'gatekeepers' and 'caretakers'. In contrast to gatekeepers, caretaker genes do not directly regulate proliferation, but act to prevent genomic instability. Thus, mutation of caretaker genes leads to accelerated conversion of a normal cell to a neoplastic cell. Many caretaker genes are required for the maintenance of genome integrity. This review focuses on those caretaker genes that play a role, directly or indirectly, in the repair of DNA strand breaks by the homologous recombination pathway, and that are associated with cancer-prone clinical syndromes, in particular ataxia telangiectasia, hereditary breast cancer, Bloom's syndrome and Werner's syndrome.

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