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Choi WT, Folsom MR, Azim MF, Meyer C, Kowarz E, Marschalek R, Timchenko NA, Naeem RC, Lee DA. C/EBPbeta suppression by interruption of CUGBP1 resulting from a complex rearrangement of MLL. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 177:108-14. [PMID: 17854664 PMCID: PMC3311538 DOI: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2007.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2007] [Revised: 06/14/2007] [Accepted: 07/02/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Abstract
Translocations involving the mixed-lineage leukemia gene (MLL) confer a poor prognosis in acute leukemias. In t(1;11)(q21;q23), MLL is fused reciprocally with AF1q. Here we describe a t(1;11)(q21;q23) with a secondary event involving insertion of the telomeric portion of MLL into the p arm of chromosome 11 (11p11). We show that this latter event interrupts the CUG triplet repeat binding protein-1 (CUGBP1) gene, a translational enhancer of C/EBPbeta. We then showed that these cells have reduced expression of CUGBP1 and C/EBPbeta when compared to other AML blasts. This is the first report to describe insertional disruption of the CUGBP1 gene and to suggest a role for the CUGBP1-C/EBPbeta pathway in leukemogenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta/antagonists & inhibitors
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta/genetics
- CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta/metabolism
- CELF1 Protein
- Child
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Gene Rearrangement
- Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Infant
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Myeloid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myeloid/pathology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein/genetics
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Translocation, Genetic
- Zinc Fingers
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Affiliation(s)
- William T. Choi
- Division of Pediatrics, Cell Therapy Section, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Pediatrics Research Unit #853, Houston, TX 77030-4009
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030
- The Texas Children’s Cancer Center Cytogenetics Core Laboratory, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6621 Fannin, MC 3-3320, Houston, TX
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- The Texas Children’s Cancer Center Cytogenetics Core Laboratory, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6621 Fannin, MC 3-3320, Houston, TX
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology/ZAFES/Diagnostic Center of Acute Leukemia, University of Frankfurt, Max-von Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, D-60438, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology/ZAFES/Diagnostic Center of Acute Leukemia, University of Frankfurt, Max-von Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, D-60438, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology/ZAFES/Diagnostic Center of Acute Leukemia, University of Frankfurt, Max-von Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt/Main, D-60438, Germany
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- Huffington Center on Aging and Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030
- The Texas Children’s Cancer Center Cytogenetics Core Laboratory, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6621 Fannin, MC 3-3320, Houston, TX
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- Division of Pediatrics, Cell Therapy Section, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Pediatrics Research Unit #853, Houston, TX 77030-4009
- Corresponding author. Tel.: 713-563-5404; fax: 713-563-5406. (D.A. Lee)
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Horstmann M, Argyriou-Tirita A, Borkhardt A, Kabisch H, Kapaun P, Winkler K, Haas OA. MLL/ENL fusion in congenital acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a unique t(11;18;19). Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1996; 88:103-9. [PMID: 8640717 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00276-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
To elucidate the events leading to a unique complex translocation involving chromosomes 11, 18, and 19 in a congenital progenitor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, we have performed comprehensive cytogenetic and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses as well as molecular genetic studies on the DNA and RNA level. We were able to confirm the cytogenetic interpretation of this complex t(11;18;19)(q23;q22;p13.3) by chromosome painting. Involvement of the MLL gene on 11q23 became evident by Southern blot analysis as well as by FISH with a YAC clone containing the respective gene. Despite the fact that the additional signals of the split YAC clone were observed on the abnormal chromosome 18, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) revealed a MLL/ENL hybrid mRNA, which is specific for a t(11;19)(q23;p13.3). This gene fusion most probably represents the critical part of this rearrangement. The transfer of the translocated part of the split YAC clone onto chromosome 18 indicates that the second break must have occurred in the vicinity of the first one, at a distance too close to be resolved by FISH. Whether this break took place within chromosome 11 or 19 sequences, up- or downstream of the MLL/ENL fusion, and whether this translocation results from a concerted simultaneous exchange of material or from two separate sequential events in consecutive cell generations remains open.
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MESH Headings
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19/genetics
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/congenital
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic/genetics
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Affiliation(s)
- M Horstmann
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital, University Hamburg, Germany
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Takahashi N, Miura I, Ohshima A, Nimura T, Hashimoto K, Hatano Y, Utsumi S, Kume M, Saito K, Kobayashi Y, Saito M, Seto M, Ueda R, Miura AB. Translocation (9;11;22)(p22;q23;q11). A new type of complex variant translocation of t(9;11)(p22;q23) with MLL rearrangement. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1996; 88:26-9. [PMID: 8630974 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(95)00297-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
We describe a patient with acute monocytic leukemia (M5a, FAB classification) associated with a new type of variant translocation (9;11). Southern blot analysis showed the rearrangement of the MLL (ALL-1/HRX) gene at 11q23. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with painting probes of chromosomes 9, 11, and 22 revealed the translocation as t(9;11;22) (p22;q23;q11). This is more evidence that the production of chimeric mRNA following the translocation of the LTG9 (MLLT3/AF9) gene at 9p22 to 11q is a critical event in this leukemia subtype.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Blotting, Southern
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute/genetics
- Male
- Translocation, Genetic
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Affiliation(s)
- N Takahashi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan
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Miura I, Yamaguchi A, Takatsu H, Miura AB. New variant t(9;11;14)(p22;q23;q24) suggests a translocation of 9p to 11q as the critical genetic event. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1993; 71:176-7. [PMID: 8281524 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(93)90027-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
We describe a patient with M5a (FAB classification) associated with a new type of variant translocation (9;11), namely t(9;11;14)(p22;q23;q24). The translocation of chromosome fragment from 9p to 11q is the common feature among the five variant translocations in the literature and our patient.
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Affiliation(s)
- I Miura
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Japan
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MESH Headings
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Down Syndrome/complications
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/etiology
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/therapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/etiology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/therapy
- Male
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Affiliation(s)
- O A Haas
- Children's Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), St. Anna Children's Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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We have identified a human homolog of the Drosophila trithorax protein that is structurally altered by 11q23 translocations in acute leukemias. Human trithorax (HRX) is a predicted 431 kd protein containing two potential DNA-binding motifs consisting of zinc fingers conserved with the fly protein and nonconserved amino-terminal "AT hook" motifs related to the DNA-binding motifs in HMG proteins. 11q23 translocations disrupt the HRX gene between these two motifs, and in a t(11;19)-carrying cell line fusion transcripts are expressed from both derivative chromosomes. The more abundant derivative 11 transcript codes for a chimeric protein containing the AT hook motifs fused to a previously undescribed protein (ENL) from chromosome 19. These data suggest a novel role for a trithorax-homologous protein in multilineage human leukemias that may be mediated by DNA binding within the minor groove at AT-rich sites, implicated to play an important role in bacterial IHF-, yeast datin-, and mammalian HMG-mediated gene activation.
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- D C Tkachuk
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305
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Affiliation(s)
- B D Young
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Department of Medical Oncology, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
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Rowley JD. The der(11) chromosome contains the critical breakpoint junction in the 4;11, 9;11, and 11;19 translocations in acute leukemia. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 1992; 5:264-6. [PMID: 1384682 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.2870050316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Translocations involving 11q23 are recurring abnormalities in human acute leukemia cells of either lymphoid or myeloid lineage. Analysis of 13 variant translocations associated with four of these [t(4;11), t(6;11), t(9;11) and t(11;19)] reveals that the der(11) chromosome is conserved in all of them and therefore contains the critical genetic rearrangement. The MLL gene (myeloid/lymphoid leukemia) is involved in each of these translocations. It is transcribed from centromere to telomere. The present analysis indicates that the 5' region of MLL on the der(11) is juxtaposed to the coding sequences of genes on each of the other translocation partners.
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MESH Headings
- Acute Disease
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Humans
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic/genetics
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Affiliation(s)
- J D Rowley
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Hawkins JM, Craig JM, Secker-Walker LM, Prentice HG, Mehta AB. Ewing's sarcoma t(11;22) in a case of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1991; 55:157-62. [PMID: 1933817 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(91)90072-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Chromosome analysis of bone marrow cells from a patient with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia M2 revealed the translocation t(11;22)(q24;q12) usually associated with Ewing's sarcoma. Molecular investigations ruled out the possibility that this was a variant Philadelphia translocation with breakpoints in the major breakpoint cluster region. Although cytogenetic analysis was not available at diagnosis, this abnormality was found both pre- and postallogeneic bone marrow transplant.
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- J M Hawkins
- Cytogenetics, Royal Free Hospital Medical School, London, UK
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Ferro MT, del Potro E, Krsnik I, Villegas A, Fernández-Rañada JM, Resino M, García-Sagredo JM, San-Román C. Unusual translocations and other changes in acute leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1991; 54:163-71. [PMID: 1884348 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(91)90204-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
We report three cases of ANLL and one case of ALL in which we found chromosome abnormalities not previously described. The first patient had a (9;11;16)(p22;q23;p13) translocation in the relapse after bone marrow transplantation. In the second case, a secondary leukemia following a Wilms' tumor, there was a single chromosome anomaly, an inversion of chromosome 13. The third case also presented an isochromosome 13q. In the fourth patient we observed a translocation between two achrocentric chromosomes, as in the third patient, but not of the Robertsonian type: t(21;21)(q22.1;q22.5).
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Affiliation(s)
- M T Ferro
- Medical Genetics Dept., Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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