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"studies showing that the ARF gene encoded by the tumor-suppressive gene locus, INK4A, is induced after expression of c-MYC or other mitogenic transcription factors, like E2F [33]. The authors suggest that activation of cell cycle deregulating genes is translated into activation of the ARF gene, which encodes a p53-stabilizing protein [34]. Consistent with this model, fibroblasts from ARF-/- mice are largely refractory to c-MYC-induced apoptosis"
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"We have shown that the cyclin dependent kinase Cdk2, although redundant for cell cycle progression, has a unique role in suppressing a Myc induced senescence program : Myc activation elicited expression of p16 (INK4a) and p21 (Cip1), and caused senescence in cells lacking Cdk2, but not in Cdk2-proficient cells."
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"Myc has been shown to be suppressed by p53 through several different mechanisms, which include not only direct transcriptional repression but also the induction of miR‐145 and the lncRNA MILIP by p53.32, 33, 34, 35 On the other hand, Myc induces the mRNA expression of the alternative reading frame of p16 (ARF), which in turn activates p53.36 Myc has been demonstrated to confer a cancer stem cell–like phenotype to human HCC cell lines when the function of p53 is disrupted."