Double minutes arise from circular extrachromosomal DNA intermediates which integrate into chromosomal sites in human HL-60 leukemia cells.
Open Access
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 85 (6), 1887-1895
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci114650
Abstract
Amplification of oncogenes has been found to be an important prognostic factor in behavior of patients' malignancies. In this study we have used new gel electrophoresis techniques to follow the location of amplified c-myc oncogene sequences in HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells. In passages 46-62 of the cells, the cells contain amplified c-myc sequences on submicroscopic circular extrachromosomal DNA (episomes). With increased passages in culture (passages 63-72) the cells lose the episome c-myc sequences with a shift of those sequences to double minutes. With additional passage in culture, the c-myc shifts from the double minutes to a chromosomal site der(5)t(5;17)(q11.2;q?11.2). Concomitant with the shift of the c-myc sequences into the chromosomal compartment is a phenotypic change of a shortened cell-doubling time. These studies provide the first molecular evidence of a progression from a submicroscopic location for amplified oncogene sequences to a chromosomal location for the amplified sequences. This molecularly documented model can now be used to test various strategies to prevent incorporation of extrachromosomally located oncogene sequences into chromosomal sites. Prevention of integration of the oncogene sequences into chromosomal sites could modulate progression of patients' tumors.Keywords
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