Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

ARF suppression by MYC but not MYCN confers increased malignancy of aggressive pediatric brain tumors

  • Oliver J. Mainwaring,
  • Holger Weishaupt,
  • Miao Zhao,
  • Gabriela Rosén,
  • Anna Borgenvik,
  • Laura Breinschmid,
  • Annemieke D. Verbaan,
  • Stacey Richardson,
  • Dean Thompson,
  • Steven C. Clifford,
  • Rebecca M. Hill,
  • Karl Annusver,
  • Anders Sundström,
  • Karl O. Holmberg,
  • Maria Kasper,
  • Sonja Hutter,
  • Fredrik J. Swartling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36847-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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CDKN2A loss and p53 mutations are rare in MYC-driven Group 3 medulloblastomas (MBs). Here the authors generated a transgenic mouse model of Group 3 MB by MYC overexpression and show that MYC suppresses ARF to drive tumorigenesis.