The INK4A/ARF locus: role in cell cycle control and apoptosis and implications for glioma growth

SM Ivanchuk, S Mondal, PB Dirks, JT Rutka - Journal of neuro-oncology, 2001 - Springer
Abstract The unique INK4A/ARF locus at chromosome 9p21 encodes two distinct proteins
that intimately link the pRB and p53 tumour suppressor pathways. p16 INK4A has been …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor suppression at the mouse INK4a locus mediated by the alternative reading frame product p19 ARF

T Kamijo, F Zindy, MF Roussel, DE Quelle, JR Downing… - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
The INK4a tumor suppressor locus encodes p16 INK4a, an inhibitor of cyclin D-dependent
kinases, and p19 ARF, an alternative reading frame protein that also blocks cell proliferation …

Loss of p21 disrupts p14ARF-induced G1 cell cycle arrest but augments p14ARF-induced apoptosis in human carcinoma cells

PG Hemmati, G Normand, B Verdoodt, C von Haefen… - Oncogene, 2005 - nature.com
The human INK4a locus encodes two structurally unrelated tumor suppressor proteins, p16
INK4a and p14 ARF (p19 ARF in the mouse), which are frequently inactivated in human …

Tumor suppression by Ink4a–Arf: progress and puzzles

SW Lowe, CJ Sherr - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2003 - Elsevier
The two products of the Ink4a–Arf locus, p16Ink4a and p19Arf (p14ARF in humans), are
potent tumor suppressors that regulate the activities of the retinoblastoma protein and the …

The INK4a/ARF locus in murine tumorigenesis

M Serrano - Carcinogenesis, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The INK4a/ARF locus is regarded as one of the most important anti-tumoral defenses that
mammalian organisms possess. The characterization of its two gene products, p16INK4a …

[PDF][PDF] The tumor-suppressive functions of the human INK4A locus

PM Voorhoeve, R Agami - Cancer cell, 2003 - cell.com
The INK4A locus is often inactivated in human cancer. INK4A encodes for p14 ARF and p16
INK4A that inhibit growth through p53 and pRb, respectively. We used RNA interference …

INK4a/ARF: a multifunctional tumor suppressor locus

NE Sharpless - … Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of …, 2005 - Elsevier
The INK4a/ARF locus encodes two physically linked tumor suppressor proteins, p16INK4a
and ARF, which regulate the RB and p53 pathways, respectively. The unusual genomic …

Regulation of the INK4b–ARF–INK4a tumour suppressor locus: all for one or one for all

J Gil, G Peters - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The INK4b–ARF–INK4a locus encodes two members of the INK4 family of cyclin-
dependent kinase inhibitors, p15 INK4b and p16 INK4a, and a completely unrelated protein …

[HTML][HTML] Role of the INK4a locus in tumor suppression and cell mortality

M Serrano, HW Lee, L Chin, C Cordon-Cardo, D Beach… - Cell, 1996 - cell.com
The cell cycle inhibitor p16 INK4a is inactivated in many human tumors and in families with
hereditary melanoma and pancreatic cancer. Tumor-associated alterations in the INK4a …

Quantitative real-time PCR does not show selective targeting of p14ARF but concomitant inactivation of both p16INK4A and p14ARF in 105 human primary gliomas

M Labuhn, G Jones, EJM Speel, D Maier, C Zweifel… - Oncogene, 2001 - nature.com
In many human cancers, the INK4A locus is frequently mutated by homozygous deletions.
By alternative splicing this locus encodes two non-related tumor suppressor genes, p16 …