期刊
LEUKEMIA
卷 21, 期 6, 页码 1232-1238出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404686
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MLL; AF4; acute leukemia; reciprocal MLL alleles
The human mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) gene is frequently involved in genetic rearrangements with more than 55 different translocation partner genes, all associated with acute leukemia. Reciprocal chromosomal translocations generate two MLL fusion alleles, where 50- and 30-portions of MLL are fused to gene segments of given fusion partners. In case of t(4;11) patients, about 80% of all patients exhibit both reciprocal fusion alleles, MLL. AF4 and AF4 . MLL, respectively. By contrast, 20% of all t(4;11) patients seem to encode only the MLL . AF4 fusion allele. Here, we analyzed these 'MLL . AF4(+)/AF4(+) . MLL-' patients at the genomic DNA level to unravel their genetic situation. Cryptic translocations and three-way translocations were found in this group of t(4;11) patients. Reciprocal MLL fusions with novel translocation partner genes, for example NF-kappa KB1 and RABGAP1L, were identified and actively transcribed in leukemic cells. In other patients, the reciprocal 30-MLL gene segment was fused out-of-frame to PBX1, ELF2, DSCAML1 and FXYD6. The latter rearrangements caused haploinsufficiency of genes that are normally expressed in hematopoietic cells. Finally, patients were identified that encode only solitary 30-MLL gene segments on the reciprocal allele. Based on these data, we propose that all t(4;11) patients exhibit reciprocal MLL alleles, but due to the individual recombination events, provide different pathological disease mechanisms.
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