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PLOS ONE
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138257
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- Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research [12030]
- MRC [MR/K01076X/1, G0501688] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0501688, MR/K01076X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The MYB transcription factor plays critical roles in normal and malignant haematopoiesis. We previously showed that MYB was a direct activator of FLT3 expression within the context of acute myeloid leukaemia. During normal haematopoiesis, increasing levels of FLT3 expression determine a strict hierarchy within the haematopoietic stem and early progenitor compartment, which associates with lymphoid and myeloid commitment potential. We use the conditional deletion of the Myb gene to investigate the influence of MYB in Flt3 transcriptional regulation within the haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) hierarchy. In accordance with previous report, in vivo deletion of Myb resulted in rapid biased differentiation of HSC with concomitant loss of proliferation capacity. We find that loss of MYB activity also coincided with decreased FLT3 expression. At the chromatin level, the Flt3 promoter is primed in immature HSC, but occupancy of further intronic elements determines expression. Binding to these locations, MYB and C/EBP alpha need functional cooperation to activate transcription of the locus. This cooperation is cell context dependent and indicates that MYB and C/EBP alpha activities are inter-dependent in controlling Flt3 expression to influence lineage commitment of multipotential progenitors.
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