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LEUKEMIA
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages 1898-1908Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2401933
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MLL/ALL1/HRX; AT-hooks; topoisomerase II; nuclear scaffold/nuclear matrix
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA21765, P30 CA021765] Funding Source: Medline
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The mixed-lineage leukemia gene (MLL) is associated more than 25 chromosomal translocations involving 11q23 in diverse subtypes of human acute leukemia. Conditional expression of a 50 kDa amino terminal fragment spanning the AT hook motifs of MLL (MLL3AT) causes cell cycle arrest, upregulation of p21(Cip1) and p27(Kip1) and partial monocytic differentiation of the monoblastic U937 cell line. suggesting a major role for MLL3AT in MLL-AF9-induced myelomonocytic differentiation. In this study, we analyzed the subcellular localization of conditionally expressed MLL3AT in both U937 and HeLa cell lines. Immunofluorescence staining, confocal laser scanning microscopy and immunoelectron microscopy indicated that MLL3AT, like endogenous MLL, localized in the nucleoplasm in a punctate pattern of distribution, including regions attached to the nuclear envelope and the periphery of the nucleolus. We found that MLL3AT and endogenous MLL were present in interphase nuclear matrices and colocalized with topoisomerase II to mitotic chromosomal scaffolds. Nucleoplasm and nucleolar localization was observed even for MLL-AF9 and MLL-AF4 conditionally expressed chimeric proteins, suggesting a common target conferred by the amino terminus of MLL to many if not all the chimeric MLL proteins. The nuclear matrix/scaffold association suggests a role for the amino terminus of MLL in the modulation of chromatin structure, leading to epigenetic effects on the maintenance of gene expression.
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