| First Author | Kang J | Year | 2002 |
| Journal | EMBO J | Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 | Pages | 1447-55 |
| PubMed ID | 11889050 | Mgi Jnum | J:75272 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:2176155 | Doi | 10.1093/emboj/21.6.1447 |
| Citation | Kang J, et al. (2002) Targeted disruption of NBS1 reveals its roles in mouse development and DNA repair. EMBO J 21(6):1447-55 |
| abstractText | Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease that shares some common defects with ataxia-telangiectasia. The gene product mutated in NBS, named NBS1, is a component of the Mre11 complex that is involved in DNA strand-break repair. To elucidate the physiological roles of NBS1, we disrupted the N-terminal exons of the NBS1 gene in mice. NBS1(m/m) mice are viable, growth retarded and hypersensitive to ionizing radiation (IR). NBS1(m/m) mice exhibit multiple lymphoid developmental defects, and rapidly develop thymic lymphoma. In addition, female NBS1(m/m) mice are sterile due to oogenesis failure. NBS1(m/m) cells are impaired in cellular responses to IR and defective in cellular proliferation. Most systematic and cellular defects identified in NBS1(m/m) mice recapitulate those in NBS patients, and are essentially identical to those observed in Atm(-/-) mice. In contrast to Atm(-/-) mice, spermatogenesis is normal in NBS1(m/m) mice, indicating that distinct roles of ATM have differential requirement for NBS1 activity. Thus, NBS1 and ATM have overlapping and distinct functions in animal development and DNA repair. |
