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Biological mechanisms of function of the HIC1 tumor suppressor
Hlavatá, Adéla ; Kořínek, Vladimír (advisor) ; Macůrková, Marie (referee)
The tumor suppressor gene HIC1 encodes a BTB/POZ transcription repressor. Its promotor is frequently hypermetylated in large numbers of tumors. HIC1 also functions as a negative modulator of the Wnt signalling pathway, which fundamentally participates in regulation of stem cell renewal of the intestinal epithelium. Thanks to its structural features the intestinal epithelium represents a convenient model tissue to study stem cells and their pathology. To overcome the embryonic lethality of the complete Hic1 "knock-out" the conditional deletion of the gene in adult mouse tissue was chosen to evaluate the Hic1 biological aktivity. By the chip expression analysis of mouse embryonic fibroblasts we discovered a number of new target genes of Hic1, the most interesting of them - in respect to cancer - we considered the Toll-like receptor 2 gene. The expression of Hic1 target genes is likely to be co-regulated by p53 although the direct regulation wasn't proved. Hic1 affects the proportion of the differentiated intestinal epithelial cells types possibly via regulation of Atoh1. After conditional deletion of Hic1 in the intestinal epithelium we observed and quantitatively confirmed a significant increase of the amounts of goblet cells. We concluded that Hic1 affects differentiation pathways in intestinal...
Stem cells in somatic tissues of mammals - past and present view
Hlavatá, Adéla ; Kořínek, Vladimír (advisor) ; Krylov, Vladimír (referee)
The homeostatic self-renewal of tissues in the adult mammal organism is maintained by stem- cell activity. The majority of tissue-specific stem cells are dispersed in a tissue in a low number. The small intestinal epithelium is a suitable model tissue for study of the stem cells because of its regular structure and rapid self-renewal. One of the first knowledge about the intestinal stem cell characteristics was obtained from the experiments with the mice embryonal aggregation chimeras and the transgenic chimeras. There were obtained a crucial role of the Wnt signalization pathway in the control of dynamics of the stem cells and contextual coherent finding of the unique molecular marker protein of the intestinal stem cells Lgr5. Subsequently, the genetically modified mice with "reporter" genes produced from the Lgr5 locus became the main tool in the intestinal epithelial stem cell research. The views on dividing organization and particular identity of the intestinal stem cells are still controversial. keywords: stem cells, crypt base cells, intestinal epithelium, chimera, the Wnt signaling pathway, Lgr5, reporter mouse strains

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