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7. Abnormalities of chromosome band 8p11 in leukemia: two clinical syndromes can be distinguished on the basis of MOZ involvement

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Aguiar, R. C. T., Chase, A., Coulthard, S., Macdonald, D. H. C., Carapeti, M., Reiter, A., Sohal, J., Lennard, A., Goldman, J. M., and Nicholas Cross

Subjects
Chromosome Aberrations, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, Chromosome Mapping, Nuclear Proteins, CREB-Binding Protein, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute, Translocation, Genetic, Blotting, Southern, Acetyltransferases, Chromosome Inversion, Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute, Trans-Activators, Humans, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, Histone Acetyltransferases, Transcription Factors
Abstract

Two distinct leukemia syndromes are associated with abnormalities of chromosome band 8p11. First, a myeloproliferative disorder with features characteristic of both chronic myeloid leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and second, an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with French-American-British (FAB) M4/5 morphology and prominent erythrophagocytosis. The two syndromes are exemplified by a t(8;13)(p11;q12) and a t(8;16)(p11;p13), respectively, but cytogenetic variants of both have been described. Recently, the t(8;16) has been cloned and shown to fuse the MOZ gene at 8p11 to the CBP gene at 16p13. We have used fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), Southern blotting, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to refine the 8p11 breakpoint in three cases with t(8;13)(p11;q12) and in a single case of AML-M5 with a clinical picture apparently identical to that found in patients with a t(8;16), but characterized by an inv(8)(p11q13). FISH analysis was performed with several 8p11 CEPH yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) clones. YAC 782H11 was centromeric to the one case with t(8;13) tested, but was telomeric to the inv(8). YAC 847B12 was telomeric to both the t(8;13) and the inv(8), whereas YAC 829D12 was centromeric to the t(8;13), but split by the inv(8). Southern blotting and PCR of YAC 829D12 showed that it contained the MOZ gene. A 900-bp MOZ fragment encompassing the published t(8;16) breakpoint was amplified by PCR from normal peripheral blood leukocyte cDNA and used to probe Southern blots of patient DNA. A rearrangement was detected in the case with inv(8), but not in any of the three cases with t(8;13). Southern blotting with a CBP probe and RT-PCR with MOZ and CBP primers suggested that the inv(8) does not result in a cryptic MOZ-CBP fusion. It is likely, therefore, that MOZ is fused to a novel gene at 8q13 in this case. We conclude that the t(8;13) breakpoint is flanked by YACs 782H11 and 847B12 and is at least 1 Mb telomeric to MOZ. MOZ is involved, however, in a new variant of the t(8;16).

Published
1997

11. The commonly deleted region at 9p21-22 in lymphoblastic leukemias spans at least 400 kb and includes p16 but not p15 or the IFN gene cluster.

Author

Aguiar, R C T, Sill, H, Goldman, J M, Cross, N C P, Aguiar, R C, and Cross, N C

Subjects
*TUMOR suppressor genes, *CHROMOSOMES, *LYMPHOBLASTIC leukemia, *MYELOID leukemia
Abstract

Chromosome band 9p21-22 is one of the most common targets for deletions in cancer. The p16 tumor suppressor gene maps to this region and is inactivated in a wide variety of tumor cell lines and primary tumors. However, in some of the neoplasms with frequent 9p21 loss of heterozygosity (LOH), a structurally and functionally normal p16 is found suggesting that this gene might not be the primary or only target for inactivation. To define the smallest region of overlap of deletions at chromosome band 9p21-22 and to clarify the involvement of p16, p15 and the IFN cluster gene in lymphoblastic leukemias, we used a multiplex polymerase chain reaction to construct a detailed map of deletions at 9p21-22. We studied DNA from 30 lymphoblastic leukemia patients and nine cell lines using 10 genes/markers that map to this region, including four STS markers located between p16 and D9S171 (STS1, STS2) or between p16 and IFNalpha (STS3, STS4). We found that the size of the deletions in this region is variable and that the commonly deleted region spans at least 400 kb; it includes the p16 gene but excludes the IFN gene cluster and the p15 gene. The identification of this commonly deleted region enables a more focused search for other putative tumor suppressor gene at 9p21 which could be relevant to leukemogenesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1997
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