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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-20
pubmed:abstractText
Chromosomal translocations involving the Mixed-Lineage Leukaemia (MLL) gene underlie many human leukaemias and MLL rearrangements are found in both acute myelogenous and acute lymphoblastic leukaemias. To assess the functionally relevant haematopoietic cell contexts for MLL fusions to be tumorigenic, we have generated different lines of mice in which de novo Mll-associated translocations occur. In these models, reciprocal chromosomal translocations occur by means of Cre-loxP-mediated recombination (translocator mice) in different cells of the haematopoietic system (namely haematopoietic stem cells, semi-committed progenitors or committed T or B cells). Translocations between Mll and Enl cause myeloid neoplasias, initiating in stem cells or progenitors while no tumours arose when the translocation was restricted to the B-cell compartment. Despite the absence of tumorigenesis, Mll-Enl translocations did occur and Mll-Enl fusion mRNA was expressed in B-cell-restricted translocators. A permissive cellular environment is therefore required for oncogenicity of Mll-associated translocations since the occurrence of Mll-Enl does not promote unrestricted proliferation in all haematopoietic cellular contexts, consistent with a specific instructive role of the MLL-fusion proteins in leukaemogenesis.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1476-5594
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1945-50
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Antigens, CD19, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Integrases, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Leukemia, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Myeloid Progenitor Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:17906700-Translocation, Genetic
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Leukaemia lineage specification caused by cell-specific Mll-Enl translocations.
pubmed:affiliation
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't