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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 2, Pages 654-666Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.060934
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA-76480, P30 CA021765, CA-21765] Funding Source: Medline
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Leukemia-specific chromosome translocations involving the nucleoporin CAN/NUP214 lead to expression of different fusion genes including DEK-CAN, CAN-ABL, and SET-CAN. DEK-CAN and CAN-ABL1 are associated with acute myeloid leukemia and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, respectively, whereas SET-CAN was identified in a patient with acute undifferentiated leukemia. in addition, SET is overexpressed in solid tumors of the breast, uterus, stomach, and rectum. Ectopic expression of SET-CAN inhibits vitamin-D-3-induced differentiation of the human promonocytic U937cells, whereas ectopic SET expression induces differentiation. Here, we assessed the leukemogenic potential of SET-CAN in the hematopoietic system of transgenic mice. Although SET-CAN mice showed expansion of an early progenitor cell pool and partial depletion of lymphocytes, the animals were not leukemia-prone and did not show shortening of disease latency after retroviral tagging. This suggests that SET-CAN expression in acute undifferentiated leukemia might determine the primitive phenotype of the disease, whereas secondary genetic lesions are necessary for disease development. Surprisingly, SET-CAN mice developed spontaneous hyperplasia of the stomach mucosa, which coincided with overexpression of beta-catenin and vastly increased numbers of proliferating gastric mucosa cells, suggesting a role of SET-CAN in proliferation of certain epithelial cells.
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