The ENL moiety of the childhood leukemia-associated MLL-ENL oncoprotein recruits human Polycomb 3.

The translocation t(11;19) is frequently found in acute leukemia in infants. This event truncates the proto-oncogene MLL and fuses the 5' end of MLL in frame with the ENL gene. ENL contributes a crucial protein-protein interaction domain to the resulting oncoprotein MLL-ENL. Here we show by yeast two-hybrid assays, GST-pull-down ...
experiments and in a far western blot analysis that this domain is necessary and sufficient to recruit a novel member of the human Polycomb protein family (hPc3). hPc3 RNA was detected throughout the human hematopoietic system. Similar to other Polycomb proteins hPc3 acts as a transcriptional repressor. The ENL-hPc3 interaction was verified by mutual co-precipitation of the proteins from cell extracts. ENL and hPc3 tagged with fluorescent proteins co-localized in living cells in a nuclear dot pattern. An internal region of hPc3 was responsible for binding to ENL. Finally, hPc3 binds to the C-terminus of AF9, another common MLL fusion partner. The recruitment of a repressive function by ENL opens up a new insight into a possible mechanism of leukemogenesis by the fusion protein MLL-ENL.
Mesh Terms:
Amino Acid Sequence, Binding Sites, Blotting, Western, Cell Compartmentation, DNA-Binding Proteins, Humans, Infant, Leukemia, Molecular Sequence Data, Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein, Neoplasm Proteins, Nuclear Proteins, Oncogene Proteins, Fusion, Precipitin Tests, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Proto-Oncogenes, Repressor Proteins, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Transcription Factors, Translocation, Genetic, Two-Hybrid System Techniques
Oncogene
Date: Jan. 25, 2001
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