PMID- 22297294 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120724 LR - 20211203 IS - 2041-4889 (Electronic) VI - 3 IP - 2 DP - 2012 Feb 2 TI - The EIF4EBP3 translational repressor is a marker of CDC73 tumor suppressor haploinsufficiency in a parathyroid cancer syndrome. PG - 266 LID - 10.1038/cddis.2012.6 [doi] AB - Germline mutation of the tumor suppressor gene CDC73 confers susceptibility to the hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome associated with a high risk of parathyroid malignancy. Inactivating CDC73 mutations have also been implicated in sporadic parathyroid cancer, but are rare in sporadic benign parathyroid tumors. The molecular pathways that distinguish malignant from benign parathyroid transformation remain elusive. We previously showed that a hypomorphic allele of hyrax (hyx), the Drosophila homolog of CDC73, rescues the loss-of-ventral-eye phenotype of lobe, encoding the fly homolog of Akt1s1/ PRAS40. We report now an interaction between hyx and Tor, a central regulator of cell growth and autophagy, and show that eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein (EIF4EBP), a translational repressor and effector of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), is a conserved target of hyx/CDC73. Flies heterozygous for Tor and hyx, but not Mnn1, the homolog of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) tumor suppressor associated with benign parathyroid tumors, are starvation resistant with reduced basal levels of Thor/4E-BP. Human peripheral blood cell levels of EIF4EBP3 were reduced in patients with CDC73, but not MEN1, heterozygosity. Chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated occupancy of EIF4EBP3 by endogenous parafibromin. These results show that EIF4EBP3 is a peripheral marker of CDC73 function distinct from MEN1-regulated pathways, and suggest a model whereby starvation resistance and/or translational de-repression contributes to parathyroid malignant transformation. FAU - Zhang, J-H AU - Zhang JH AD - Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. FAU - Seigneur, E M AU - Seigneur EM FAU - Pandey, M AU - Pandey M FAU - Loshakov, A AU - Loshakov A FAU - Dagur, P K AU - Dagur PK FAU - Connelly, P S AU - Connelly PS FAU - Koo, L AU - Koo L FAU - Panicker, L M AU - Panicker LM FAU - Simonds, W F AU - Simonds WF LA - eng GR - Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural DEP - 20120202 PL - England TA - Cell Death Dis JT - Cell death & disease JID - 101524092 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (CDC73 protein, human) RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (Drosophila Proteins) RN - 0 (EIF4EBP3 protein, human) RN - 0 (Hyx protein, Drosophila) RN - 0 (MEN1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Mnn1 protein, Drosophila) RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Proteins) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (tor protein, Drosophila) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 4.1.1.- (Carboxy-Lyases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Autophagy MH - Biomarkers/metabolism MH - Carboxy-Lyases/genetics/metabolism MH - Carrier Proteins/*genetics/metabolism MH - Drosophila Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Drosophila melanogaster MH - Germ-Line Mutation MH - Haploinsufficiency MH - Heterozygote MH - Humans MH - Parathyroid Glands/*metabolism/pathology MH - Parathyroid Neoplasms/*genetics/metabolism/pathology MH - Protein Biosynthesis MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics/metabolism MH - Sequence Homology, Amino Acid MH - Signal Transduction MH - Syndrome MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/metabolism MH - Tumor Suppressor Proteins/*genetics/metabolism PMC - PMC3288348 EDAT- 2012/02/03 06:00 MHDA- 2012/07/25 06:00 PMCR- 2012/02/01 CRDT- 2012/02/03 06:00 PHST- 2012/02/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/02/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/07/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - cddis20126 [pii] AID - 10.1038/cddis.2012.6 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Cell Death Dis. 2012 Feb 2;3(2):266. doi: 10.1038/cddis.2012.6.