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BLOOD
Volume 127, Issue 5, Pages 572-581Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-04-643270
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- Else Kroner-Fresenius-Stiftung [2010/A106]
- Deutsche Jose Carreras Leukamie-Stiftung e.V. [11/28f]
- Deutsche Krebshilfe [109528]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [GK1660, TRR130]
- Bundesministerium fur Gesundheit
- Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
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The sequential activation of distinct developmental gene networks governs the ultimate identity of a cell, but the mechanisms involved in initiating downstream programs are incompletely understood. The pre-B-cell receptor (pre-BCR) is an important checkpoint of B-cell development and is essential for a pre-B cell to traverse into an immature B cell. Here, we show that activation of myocyte enhancer factor 2 (Mef2) transcription factors (TFs) by the pre-BCR is necessary for initiating the subsequent genetic network. We demonstrate that B-cell development is blocked at the pre-B-cell stage in mice deficient for Mef2c and Mef2d TFs and that pre-BCR signaling enhances the transcriptional activity of Mef2c/d through phosphorylation by the Erk5 mitogen-activating kinase. This activation is instrumental in inducing Kruppel-like factor 2 and several immediate early genes of the AP1 and Egr family. Finally, we show that Mef2 proteins cooperate with the products of their target genes (Irf4 and Egr2) to induce secondary waves of transcriptional regulation. Our findings uncover a novel role for Mef2c/d in coordinating the transcriptional network that promotes early B-cell development.
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