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Mutations in the p53 gene occur in diverse human tumour types

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, December 1989
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Title
Mutations in the p53 gene occur in diverse human tumour types
Published in
Nature, December 1989
DOI 10.1038/342705a0
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Authors

Janice M. Nigro, Suzanne J. Baker, Antonette C. Preisinger, J. Milburn Jessup, Richard Hosteller, Karen Cleary, Sandra H. Signer, Nancy Davidson, Stephen Baylin, Peter Devilee, Thomas Glover, Francis S. Collins, Ainsley Weslon, Rama Modali, Curtis C. Harris, Bert Vogelstein

Abstract

The p53 gene has been a constant source of fascination since its discovery nearly a decade ago. Originally considered to be an oncogene, several convergent lines of research have indicated that the wild-type gene product actually functions as a tumour suppressor gene. For example, expression of the neoplastic phenotype is inhibited, rather than promoted, when rat cells are transfected with the murine wild-type p53 gene together with mutant p53 genes and/or other oncogenes. Moreover, in human tumours, the short arm of chromosome 17 is often deleted. In colorectal cancers, the smallest common region of deletion is centred at 17p13.1; this region harbours the p53 gene, and in two tumours examined in detail, the remaining (non-deleted) p53 alleles were found to contain mutations. This result was provocative because allelic deletion coupled with mutation of the remaining allele is a theoretical hallmark of tumour-suppressor genes. In the present report, we have attempted to determine the generality of this observation; that is, whether tumours with allelic deletions of chromosome 17p contain mutant p53 genes in the allele that is retained. Our results suggest that (1) most tumours with such allelic deletions contain p53 point mutations resulting in amino-acid substitutions, (2) such mutations are not confined to tumours with allelic deletion, but also occur in at least some tumours that have retained both parental 17p alleles, and (3) p53 gene mutations are clustered in four 'hot-spots' which exactly coincide with the four most highly conserved regions of the gene. These results suggest that p53 mutations play a role in the development of many common human malignancies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Denmark 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Serbia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 307 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 75 23%
Student > Bachelor 48 15%
Researcher 37 12%
Student > Master 35 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 8%
Other 48 15%
Unknown 53 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 74 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 69 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 66 21%
Engineering 11 3%
Chemistry 10 3%
Other 27 8%
Unknown 63 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2022.
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