View details for PubMedCentralID PMC3816928. View details for Web of Science ID 000169201800006. X-ray irradiated cells expressing wtp53 displayed microscopic and biochemical characteristics consistent with cell death due to apoptosis. Studies of normal and cancer stem cells from the same tissue have shed light on the ontogeny of tumors. Kohrt, H. E., Houot, R., Weiskopf, K., Goldstein, M., Lund, P., Scheeren, F., Czerwinski, D., Colevas, A. D., Weng, W., Clarke, M. F., Carlson, R. W., Sunwoo, J., Tedder, T., Chen, L., Levy, R. The CD47-signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPa) interaction is a therapeutic target for human solid tumors. We then determined the effects of intratumoral injection of bcl-xs adenovirus on solid MCF-7 tumors in nude mice. Ukraine War: Prof Michael Clarke answers your questions Sky News 6.14M subscribers 1.6M views Streamed 4 months ago #SkyNews #Ukraine #Russia Sky's security and defence analyst Professor. Sufficient new cells have to be produced to maintain the integrity of a tissue, but excessive proliferation resulting in tumorigenesis needs to be prevented. This new paradigm of oncogenesis has been validated in a growing list of tumors. Ageing is characterized by a progressive loss of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to death1. NB cells showed loss of viability with both viruses, although the bcl-xS virus was most toxic. Hernandez-Alcoceba, R., Pihalja, M., Wicha, M. S., Clarke, M. F. A bipartite nuclear localization signal is required for p53 nuclear import regulated by a carboxyl-terminal domain, Germ cell tumor: Differentiation of viable tumor, mature teratoma, and necrotic tissue with FDG PET and kinetic modeling. Hoey, T., Yen, W., Axelrod, F., Basi, J., Donigian, L., Dylla, S., Fitch-Bruhns, M., Lazetic, S., Park, I., Sato, A., Satyal, S., Wang, X., Clarke, M. F., Lewicki, J., Gurney, A. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is a powerful assay used to probe DNA-protein interactions. Access is controlled by the 1936 Montreux Convention that gives Turkey the right to close the straits in times of war. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0703478104, View details for Web of Science ID 000247363000044, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC1891215. Additionally, it facilitated the identification of quiescent stem cells and revealed genes that contribute to breast tumorigenesis. Interestingly, phytohemagglutin-stimulated leukocyte-conditioned medium stimulated LTHMBCs in a similar fashion, as did conditioned medium from early LTHBMCs. Therefore, to better treat cancer it may be necessary to develop novel methods to overcome the effects of the Bcl-2 family. BMI1 has been demonstrated to play a role in self-renewal in other stem cell types and to be involved in tumorigenesis. Eight (28%) patients are continuously progression-free a median 60 months (range, 31-93) from first ABMT. Herein, we present a discussion around the issues facing treatment of patients with CRCliver metastases, including the relationship of discretegene signatures with prognosis. This suggested that endogenous Bcl-XL could protect cancer cells from p53-mediated apoptosis. Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, may play an important role in the regulation of hematopoiesis. Professor Michael Clarke 16 August 2021 9 Minute Read Share The tragedy in Afghanistan offers a sobering story for the UK, as it embarks on its 'Global Britain' future in the 2020s. Program Affiliations. Metastasis is the main cause of death in breast cancer patients. Analysis of patient tumor and matched adjacent normal (nontumor) tissue revealed that CD47 is overexpressed on cancer cells. These results suggest that inhibitors of the TLR2 pathway merit investigation as possible therapeutic and chemoprevention agents. View details for Web of Science ID 000178077600006. Here we implement single-cell PCR gene-expression analysis to dissect the cellular composition of primary human normal colon and colon cancer epithelia. Biography. Rothenberg, M. E., Nusse, Y., Kalisky, T., Lee, J. J., Dalerba, P., Scheeren, F., Lobo, N., Kulkarni, S., Sim, S., Qian, D., Beachy, P. A., Pasricha, P. J., Quake, S. R., Clarke, M. F. Single-cell dissection of transcriptional heterogeneity in human colon tumors. The CD44(+)CD24(+)ESA(+) pancreatic cancer cells showed the stem cell properties of self-renewal, the ability to produce differentiated progeny, and increased expression of the developmental signaling molecule sonic hedgehog. Furthermore, we found that specifically inhibiting human DLL4 in the tumor, either alone or in combination with the chemotherapeutic agent irinotecan, reduced cancer stem cell frequency, as shown by flow cytometric and in vivo tumorigenicity studies. View details for DOI 10.1126/science.aax0249. James Mallet (* 1955), Evolutionsbiologe und Entomologe. We used Bcl-XS, a dominant negative inhibitor of Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL, to demonstrate the role of these genes in modulating chemotherapy-induced apoptosis. In six of seven tumors examined, Thy1+CD24+ cancer cells, which constituted approximately 1%-4% of tumor cells, were highly enriched for cells capable of regenerating new tumors compared with cells of the tumor that did not fit this profile ("not-Thy1+CD24+"). patients) at transplant: primary refractory disease (six), first relapse (10), second relapse (eight), third relapse (five). The main objectives of his laboratory are to pursue how perturbations in the self-renewal machinery contribute to human diseases and to use the findings to aid the development of more effective treatment therapies.His laboratory has a long history of innovative findings which include: the first to demonstrate that inappropriate expression of a normal gene could cause a tumor; the first to identify a dominant-negative splice variant of an oncogene; the first to identify a molecular regulator of stem cell self-renewal; the first to identify a solid tumor stem cell (in breast cancer) and the first to demonstrate a molecular linkage of a self-renewal program used by normal mammary stem cells and breast cancer cells. It has been proposed, therefore, that failure to effectively treat cancer may in part be due to preferential resistance of these CSC to chemotherapeutic agents. While the transfected cells grew normally in the presence of mutant p53 (37.5 degrees C), wild-type p53 (32.5 degrees C) was associated with a rapid loss of cell viability. The prognostic role of a gene signature from tumorigenic breast-cancer cells. We used xenograft tumors of MDA-MB-231 cells as well as a low passage xenograft tumor from orthotopically injected patient-derived breast tumor cells. In the colon, cKit(+) goblet cells were interdigitated with Lgr5(+) stem cells. KrasG12D -independent tumor cells show a strong mesenchymal profile with active RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK (MAPK/ERK) signaling. Analysis of the surface molecule repertoire of EpCAM(high)/CD44+ cells led to the identification of CD166 as an additional differentially expressed marker, useful for CSC isolation in three of three CRC tested. Trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; also known as HER-2/neu), is indicated for the treatment of women with either early stage or metastatic HER2(+) breast cancer. The combination of tissue-specific and tumor-specific elements offers the possibility to artificially develop such promoters. View details for Web of Science ID A1984TY56600006. At a meeting of the Translation Research Program of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group held in early 2008, attendees focused on updating the current state of knowledge in cancer stem cell research and discussing ways in which this knowledge can be translated into clinical use across all disease sites. To do so, we used breast tumors of the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-Wnt-1 mice. To test this hypothesis, murine erythroleukemia cells were transfected with bcl-XL and p53ts. Testicular cancer patients refractory or in relapse after primary chemotherapy have < or =25% 5-year progression-free survival with salvage. Recently, various new players that regulate HSC maintenance (e.g. Expression of BMI1, a known regulator of stem cell self-renewal, was modulated by miR-200c. Cancers originally develop from normal cells that gain the ability to proliferate aberrantly and eventually turn malignant. It is likely that targeting cancer cell self-renewal pathways will result in more effective cancer therapies. Many of these mutations affect cell proliferation and survival. Facebook gives people the power. View details for Web of Science ID A1991GV58400008. This is an overview of the elements and molecules involved in p53 nucleocytoplasmic transportation. Hernandez-Alcoceba, R., Pihalja, M., Qian, D. L., Clarke, M. F. Differential gene expression profiling of adult murine hematopoietic stem cells. Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4327. View details for Web of Science ID 000168968300004. To gain a better insight into these processes, here we generate a single-cell transcriptomic atlas across the lifespan of Mus musculus that includes data from 23 tissues and organs. The human RGS18 ortholog has a tissue-specific expression pattern similar to that of mouse RGS18. These results indicate that, similar to normal tissue stem cells, subsets of CSCs in some tumours contain lower ROS levels and enhanced ROS defences compared to their non-tumorigenic progeny, which may contribute to tumour radioresistance. Here, we identify a quiescent mammary epithelial cell population expressing high levels of Bcl11b and located at the interface between luminal and basal cells. Taken together, these results suggest that USP16 has an important role in antagonizing the self-renewal and/or senescence pathways in Down's syndrome and could serve as an attractive target to ameliorate some of the associated pathologies. Dalerba, P., Sahoo, D., Paik, S., Guo, X., Yothers, G., Song, N., Wilcox-Fogel, N., Forg, E., Rajendran, P. S., Miranda, S. P., Hisamori, S., Hutchison, J., Kalisky, T., Qian, D., Wolmark, N., Fisher, G. A., van de Rijn, M., Clarke, M. F. A cell-intrinsic role for TLR2-MYD88 in intestinal and breast epithelia and oncogenesis. The tumor suppressor protein p53 has been identified as a key regulator of apoptosis in both normal and malignant hematopoietic cells. We demonstrate that reversing impaired NPC self-renewal via genetic reduction of USP16, a histone modifier and critical physiological antagonist of the Polycomb Repressor Complex 1, can prevent downstream cognitive defects and decrease astrogliosis in vivo. Temporary expression of wild-type p53 activity in the absence of drug treatment caused some loss of clonogenicity, although the magnitude of this cytotoxic effect was small compared with the level of cell kill obtained by treatment with cytotoxic drugs for similar periods of time, indicating that HT29 cells are not highly sensitive to induction of programmed cell death by wild-type p53. However, deletions of more than two amino acids between this region abolished the transport of p53 into the nucleus. Cell surface GM-CSF receptor binding was characterized by the binding of the analogues to human neutrophils, with detection by fluorescein-conjugated avidin and fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Dr Michael Clarke is an internationally recognised expert on the history and politics of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China (PRC), Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia, Central Asian geopolitics, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation and American grand strategy and foreign policy. Michael Clarke (academic) is a British academic who specialises in defence studies. Morrison, S. J., Qian, D., Jerabek, L., Thiel, B. Furthermore, because these cells drive tumor development, strategies designed to target this population may lead to more effective therapies. Epigenetic regulation of normal and cancer stem cells, Neurobiology: At the root of brain cancer, Chronic myelogenous leukemia - Identifying the hydra's heads, Therapeutic implications of cancer stem cells. Il neo-ateismo ritiene che la superstizione, la religione e l'irrazionalismo non dovrebbero essere tollerati, e si propone di contrastarli . Deficiency in the polycomb family transcriptional repressor Bmi-1 leads to progressive postnatal growth retardation and neurological defects. Park, I. K., Qian, D. L., Kiel, M., Becker, M. W., Pihalja, M., Weissman, I. L., Morrison, S. J., Clarke, M. F. Prospective identification of tumorigenic breast cancer cells. Deletion of MYD88 or TLR2 in the intestinal epithelium markedly reduces DSS-induced colitis regeneration and spontaneous tumour development in mice. Cancer stem cells are a minor population of tumor cells that possess the stem cell property of self-renewal. Hosen, N., Clarke, M. F., Weissman, I. L. Cancer stem cells--perspectives on current status and future directions: AACR Workshop on cancer stem cells. We confirm that CSC drive tumorigenesis, suggesting a link between CSC and remodeling. An additional explanation, however, envisages human tumors not as mere monoclonal expansions of transformed cells, but rather as complex tridimensional tissues where cancer cells become functionally heterogeneous as a result of differentiation. Our study identifies both epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and active MAPK/ERK signaling in tumors that adapt to oncogenic KrasG12D withdrawal in a novel Trp53-/- breast cancer mouse model. BACKGROUND: Recent studies in murine mammary tissue have identified functionally distinct cell populations that may be isolated by surface phenotype or lineage tracing. This genetic signature of tumorigenic breast-cancer cells was even more strongly associated with clinical outcomes when combined with the WR signature in breast cancer. One such cDNA clone, KT1, was isolated and its nucleotide sequence was determined. Several pathways, including Wnt signaling, MAP Kinase signaling, and Adherens Junction, are well known for their role in cancer development and stem cell biology. Oncolytic adenoviruses with restricted replication can be produced if the expression of crucial transcription units of the virus is controlled by tissue- or tumor-specific promoters. In this study, we report that miR-142 efficiently recruits the APC mRNA to an RNA-induced silencing complex, activates the canonical WNT signaling pathway in an APC-suppression dependent manner, and activates the expression of miR-150. Self-renewal requires the integration of survival signals and proliferation controls with the maintenance of an undifferentiated state. These results suggest that cancers can evolve SE to drive CD47 overexpression to escape immune surveillance. These results suggest that in some tumors, miR-142 regulates the properties of BCSCs at least in part by activating the WNT signaling pathway and miR-150 expression. Recently, there have been exciting developments in identifying high-risk patient cohorts, refinements in the understanding of systemic vs localized drug delivery to metastatic niches, liquid biomarker development, and dramatic advances in tumor immune therapy, all of which promise new and innovative approaches to tackling the problem ofdetecting and treating the metastatic spread of CRC to the liver. No activating mutations in KIT were detected in DLD1, POP77, or UM-COLON#8 cells. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease observed with aging that represents the most common form of dementia. Usp16 can remove ubiquitin from histone H2A on lysine 119, a critical mark for the maintenance of multiple somatic tissues. He has a long-standing interest in the impact of fire upon fauna. He was the Director General of the Royal United Services Institute from 2007 to 2015, having previously been Professor of Defence Studies at King's College London since 1995. A group of 87 of 2115 tumor samples (4.1%) lacked CDX2 expression. The traditional approaches to remove LDV from tumor cells, by transplanting tumors into rats or culturing tumor cells in vitro, are inefficient, labor-intensive and time-consuming. He has also acted as a reviewer for the EPSRC and for funding councils in Austria, Finland, France and Germany. In 2007, he became the Director of the Royal United Services Institute. Natl. View details for DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-71805-1. In the validation data set, which included 314 patients, the rate of 5-year disease-free survival was lower among the 38 patients (12.1%) with CDX2 protein-negative colon cancers than among the 276 (87.9%) with CDX2 protein-positive colon cancers (hazard ratio, 2.42; 95% CI, 1.36 to 4.29; P=0.003). The lactate/glucose and ammonia/glutamine yield coefficients, however, remained invariant at about 1.9 and 1.0 mol/mol, respectively, under all medium perfusion conditions. Mcl1, Tel/Etv6, Gfi1, Pten and Stat5) have been identified. In order to better understand HSC self-renewal, we need to understand how these pathways are coordinated. The effect of these changes on protein function is currently unknown. View details for Web of Science ID A1991GR93700016. We observed an almost universal loss of gene expression with age that is largely mimicked by parabiosis: aged blood reduces global gene expression, and young blood restores it in select cell types. p16Ink4a deficiency partially reverses the self-renewal defect in Bmi-1-/- neural stem cells. These studies suggest that there is a cancer stem cell compartment in the MMTV-Wnt-1 murine breast tumor and that there is a clinical utility of this model for the study of cancer stem cells. Abnormal p53 cellular localization has been considered to be one of the mechanisms that could inactivate p53 function. c-sis gene expression has been demonstrated in a variety of human tumors, although generally at levels much lower than those shown to transform cells in vitro. The successful ex vivo reconstruction of human bone marrow is an extraordinarily important basic scientific and clinical goal. This article discusses the role of the Bcl-2 family of proteins in the light of these findings. Betancur, P. A., Abraham, B. J., Yiu, Y. Y., Willingham, S. B., Khameneh, F., Zarnegar, M., Kuo, A. H., McKenna, K., Kojima, Y., Leeper, N. J., Ho, P., Gip, P., Swigut, T., Sherwood, R. I., Clarke, M. F., Somlo, G., Young, R. A., Weissman, I. L. Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis: Evolving Paradigms and Future Directions. These data are consistent with the idea that the human T-lymphotropic virus type I LTR contains an enhancer which can activate upstream sequences in cis. He was the founding Director of the International Policy Institute at King's College London from 2001-2005 and Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at KCL in 2004-05. Resistance to apoptosis plays an important role in tumors that are refractory to chemotherapy. Ealovega, M. W., McGinnis, P. K., Sumantran, V. N., Clarke, M. F., Wicha, M. S. A RECOMBINANT BCL-X(S) ADENOVIRUS SELECTIVELY INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN CANCER-CELLS BUT NOT IN NORMAL BONE-MARROW CELLS. Sequences within this region were identical to those previously determined for the exons of the normal human c-sis gene. T47D cells were then transfected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the tumor suppressor p53 (p53ts). School of Civil Engineering +61 7 336 56464. william.clarke@uq.edu.au. Han, J. S., Nunez, G., Wicha, M. S., Clarke, M. F. Prevention of fluorodeoxyuridine-induced cytotoxicity and DNA damage in HT29 colon carcinoma cells by conditional expression of wild-type p53 phenotype. [2] Knockdown of KIT decreased proliferation of colon cancer cell lines and growth of xenograft tumors in mice compared with control cells. He served as the Head of the School of Life Sciences from 2011-2019. A., Ozawa, M. G., Silva, O., Toland, A., Vemuri, V. N., Afik, S., Awayan, K., Bierman, R., Botvinnik, O. SMAD pathways govern epithelial proliferation, and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta and BMP signaling through SMAD members has distinct effects on mammary development and homeostasis. Professor William Clarke. Cancers of epithelial origin are responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths in the USA. View details for DOI 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0440, View details for Web of Science ID 000253372600008. We used a replication-deficient adenoviral vector to transiently overexpress Bcl-xs in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells, which overexpress Bcl-xL. Clinically, successful reconstruction of human bone marrow would permit the controlled production of mature blood cells for transfusion therapy, and immature bone marrow stem cells for bone marrow transplantation. Bmi-1-green fluorescent protein (GFP)-knock-in mice reveal the dynamic regulation of Bmi-1 expression in normal and leukemic hematopoietic cells. Solid tumors arise in organs that contain stem cell populations. Emerging evidence has suggested that the capability of a tumor to grow and propagate is dependent on a small subset of cells within a tumor, termed cancer stem cells. In this episode, Eliot Wilson talks to Professor Michael Clarke, former head of the Royal United Services Institute, about the UK's Integrated Review and how far it represents a break from traditional thinking on our place in the world. These results suggest that the activity of some mutant p53 proteins can be functionally modified by exogenous compounds. The lack of expression correlates with a lack of detectable HLA-DR mRNA. This functional subset of cancer cells is operationally defined as the "cancer stem cell" (CSC) subset. We report that Bcl-XL, which functions like Bcl-2 to inhibit apoptosis, is highly expressed in MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cells. To solve this problem, a new generation of tumor-specific, conditionally replicative adenoviruses is being developed. With noninvasive imaging approaches, as few as 10 cells of stably labeled BCSCs could be tracked in vivo, enabling studies of early tumor growth and spontaneous metastasis. My research is located in three overlapping fields: (a) linguistic and cultural transfer from Mediterranean Antiquity to the medieval European vernaculars; (b) comparative study of epic and heroic narrative traditions, especially in Greek, Latin, and Babylonian, and of their Celtic and Germanic successors and analogues; (c) semantic Diehn, M., Cho, R. W., Dorie, M., KULP, A., Weissman, I. L., Brown, M., Clarke, M. F. Cancer stem cells in head and neck squamous carcinoma. The Leopard 2 tanks are what the Ukrainians really need, more than the Challenger 2 and Abrams tanks, Clarke argued. Differentially expressed genes were used to generate a 186-gene "invasiveness" gene signature (IGS), which was evaluated for its association with overall survival and metastasis-free survival in patients with breast cancer or other types of cancer.There was a significant association between the IGS and both overall and metastasis-free survival (P<0.001, for both) in patients with breast cancer, which was independent of established clinical and pathological variables. An interleukin-6 family member, interleukin-11 is identified as a secondary target of twinfilin 1 in the microRNA-30c signalling pathway. View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2496-1, View details for Web of Science ID 000485326200019, View details for DOI 10.1158/1538-7445.SABCS18-SY17-02, View details for Web of Science ID 000488129901140, View details for Web of Science ID 000453773601250. Recent studies have uncovered a number of Bcl-2-related gene products that regulate apoptosis either negatively or positively, and Bcl-2 forms heterodimers with at least one of these proteins, Bax. Upon transfer to 32.5 degrees C, these G1 synchronized cell populations quickly lost viability. Liu, H., Patel, M., Prescher, J., Qian, D., Dalerba, P., Lin, J., Shimono, Y., Dirbas, F., Contag, C., Gambhir, S., Clarke, M. What can we learn about self renewal and drug resistance from the isolation of epithelial tumor stem cells? Published algorithms for automatic cell annotation are limited to known cell types and fail to capture novel populations, especially cancer cells. We show that a minority population of CD44(+) cancer cells, which typically comprise <10% of the cells in a HNSCC tumor, but not the CD44(-) cancer cells, gave rise to new tumors in vivo. Here we developed a CSC model for the study of human colorectal cancer (CRC). In contrast, no proviral methylation was detected in any of the cell lines examined, suggesting a functional correlation between methylation and viral RNA expression. Patients with relapsed/ refractory testicular cancer benefit most from ABMT if they have platinum-sensitive disease in first relapse. We define cell type signature scores, which allow the inference of cell types that contribute to cell-free RNA for a variety of diseases. Prof Mike Clarke is Professor of Zoology at La Trobe University. Furthermore, in several other nonhematopoietic tissues, cells could be separated into distinct subpopulations with differential Bmi-1 expression. These data represent a new resource for cell biology, reveal gene expression in poorly characterized cell populations and enable the direct and controlled comparison of gene expression in cell types that are shared between tissues, such as T lymphocytes and endothelial cells from different anatomical locations. His group was the first to discover that the proto-oncogene Bmi-1 regulates stem cell self-renewal via an epigenetic mechanism. Therapeutic Implications of the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis, Dysregulated gene expression networks in human acute myelogenous leukemia stem cells. LONDON Dancer, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, prodigal son, perfectionist, art-world darling, club-world star: Michael Clark was for a long time . Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is found at the end of this article. identify miR-22 as both a repressor of TET proteins and a powerful oncogene in the mammary epithelium and hematopoietic system. Unfortunately, viruses are limited in their ability to diffuse through tissue. In many tissues, a cellular hierarchy exists in which a small population of stem cells is responsible for the production of the mature cells of the organ. He is especially known for his research into the evolution of cooperative breeding in honeyeaters, particularly the genus Manorina and for his work on the response of fauna and flora to wildfire (Clarke 2008, Clarke et al. Subsequently, the majority of tumors adapt to the withdrawal of KrasG12D expression and return. C-myb is involved in regulating normal human hematopoiesis, and inhibits dimethyl sulfoxide-induced differentiation of Friend murine erythroleukemia (F-MEL) cells. CD47, a "don't eat me" signal for phagocytic cells, is expressed on the surface of all human solid tumor cells. When a promoter containing these elements is used to control the expression of the pro-apoptotic gene harakiri, the induction of cell death can be activated by estrogens and hypoxia, and inhibited by antiestrogens such as tamoxifen. Recently, his group described a molecular mechanism that confers resistance to radiation in breast cancer stem cells. Raised by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, on Chicago's South Side, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. Murine CD18 can be expressed on the cell surface of up to 20% of the mature cells generated by the culture system, suggesting that clinically significant levels of gene transfer may be occurring. Bcl11b(high) cells are enriched for cells that can regenerate mammary glands in secondary transplants. We investigated the existence of colonic Paneth-like cells that have a distinct transcriptional signature and support Lgr5(+) stem cells.We used multicolor fluorescence-activated cell sorting to isolate different subregions of colon crypts, based on known markers, from dissociated colonic epithelium of mice. The nucleotide sequence of a transforming human c-sis complementary DNA shows an open reading frame 723 base pairs in length located downstream from an in-phase terminator thymine-guanine-adenine codon. A basic domain, Lys(305)-Arg(306), is required for p53 nuclear import, and a carboxyl-terminal domain, namely the cytoplasmic sequestration domain (CSD) from residues 326-355, could block the nuclear import of Lys(305) or Arg(306) mutated p53. , because these cells drive tumor development, strategies designed to target this population may lead to effective... 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