Differential cellular distribution of retinoic acid during staurosporine potentiation of retinoic acid-induced granulocytic differentiation in human leukemia HL-60 cells

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Yat-Ming Yung ◽  
Eric Ka-Wai Hui
1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 4133-4145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y W Zhang ◽  
S C Bae ◽  
G Huang ◽  
Y X Fu ◽  
J Lu ◽  
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The gene AML1/PEBP2 alphaB encodes the alpha subunit of transcription factor PEBP2/CBF and is essential for the establishment of fetal liver hematopoiesis. Rearrangements of AML1 are frequently associated with several types of human leukemia. Three types of AML1 cDNA isoforms have been described to date; they have been designated AML1a, AML1b, and AML1c. All of these isoforms encode the conserved-Runt domain, which harbors the DNA binding and heterodimerization activities. We have identified a new isoform of the AML1 transcript, termed AML1 deltaN, in which exon 1 is directly connected to exon 4 by alternative splicing. The AML1 deltaN transcript was detected in various hematopoietic cell lines of lymphoid to myeloid cell origin, as revealed by RNase protection and reverse transcriptase PCR analyses. The protein product of AML1 deltaN lacks the N-terminal region of AML1, including half of the Runt domain, and neither binds to DNA nor heterodimerizes with the beta subunit. However, AML1 deltaN was found to interfere with the transactivation activity of PEBP2, and the molecular region responsible for this activity was identified. Stable expression of AML1 deltaN in 32Dcl3 myeloid cells blocked granulocytic differentiation in response to granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. These results suggest that AML1 deltaN acts as a modulator of AML1 function and serves as a useful tool to dissect the functional domains in the C-terminal region of AML1.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e57633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshitaka Sunami ◽  
Marito Araki ◽  
Yumi Hironaka ◽  
Soji Morishita ◽  
Masaki Kobayashi ◽  
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Blood ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Labbaye ◽  
J Zhang ◽  
JL Casanova ◽  
M Lanotte ◽  
J Teng ◽  
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Abstract Retinoic acid is known to induce differentiation of human myeloid leukemia cells in vitro. Recently, all-trans retinoic acid has been used to induce remissions in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia, probably through differentiation of the leukemia cells. Myeloblastin (mbn) is a protease that has been identified in the human leukemia cell line HL-60. Downregulation of this protease can inhibit proliferation and induce differentiation of HL-60-derived leukemia cells. Here we have investigated the regulation of mbn messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in two human leukemia cell lines, HL-60 and NB4, treated with all-trans retinoic acid. Under this treatment, downregulation of mbn mRNA was observed in both cell lines, but was considerably delayed in NB4 cells that carry the t(15;17) translocation characteristic of acute promyelocytic leukemia. We have found that multiple mechanisms were involved in the control of mbn mRNA expression. These mechanisms were different in HL-60 and NB4 cells. Our results show that in HL-60 cells, all-trans retinoic acid rapidly decreased transcription of mbn. In contrast, in the t(15;17)-positive NB4 cells treated with all-trans retinoic acid, upregulation of mbn mRNA expression was followed by a late downregulation, both achieved via posttranscriptional mechanisms.


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