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  • Title: Rapid and transient decrease of N-myc expression in retinoic acid-induced differentiation of OTF9 teratocarcinoma stem cells.
    Author: Kato K, Kanamori A, Kondoh H.
    Journal: Mol Cell Biol; 1990 Feb; 10(2):486-91. PubMed ID: 2405249.
    Abstract:
    The level of expression of N-myc in mouse teratocarcinoma stem cells is very high. Previous studies have shown that N-myc expression significantly decreases when the stem cells are subjected to long-term induction for differentiation by retinoic acid (RA). We found that in a stem cell line, OTF9, a steep yet transient decrease of N-myc expression takes place much earlier, immediately after induction by RA. To examine whether this decrease is responsible for differentiation, we constructed a gene, miwNmyc, to express N-myc cDNA constitutively and transformed OTF9 cells with this gene construct. Transformants under the constitutive expression of miwNmyc differentiated normally, as judged by morphological changes and by modulation of c-myc, Hox1.1, and laminin B1 expression. Therefore, transient decrease of N-myc expression may be the consequence of RA-induced differentiation, even though it occurs very early in the process. Alternatively, in addition to N-myc decrease, there may be redundant mechanisms which lead to OTF9 differentiation after induction by RA, so that suppression of N-myc decrease is bypassed by at least one other mechanism.
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