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Cloning of genes involved in chromosomal translocations by high-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray.

ABSTRACT: High-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray (SNP-chip) is a useful tool to define gene dosage levels over the whole genome, allowing precise detection of deletions and duplications/amplifications of chromosomes in cancer cells. We found that this new technology can also identify breakpoints of chromosomes involved in unbalanced translocations, leading to identification of fusion genes. Using this technique, we found that the PAX5 gene was rearranged to a variety of partner genes including ETV6, FOXP1, AUTS2, and C20orf112 in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The 3' end of the PAX5 gene was replaced by the partner gene. The PAX5 fusion products bound to PAX5 recognition sequences as strongly as wild-type PAX5 and suppressed its transcriptional activity in a dominant-negative fashion. In human B cell leukemia cells, binding of wild-type PAX5 to a regulatory region of BLK, one of the direct downstream target genes of PAX5, was diminished by expression of the PAX5-fusion protein, leading to repression of BLK. Expression of PAX5-fusion genes in murine bone marrow cells blocked development of mature B cells. PAX5-fusion proteins may contribute to leukemogenesis by blocking differentiation of hematopoietic cells into mature B cells. SNP-chip is a powerful tool to identify fusion genes in human cancers.

SUBMITTER: Kawamata N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2575257 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cloning of genes involved in chromosomal translocations by high-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray.

Kawamata Norihiko N Ogawa Seishi S Zimmermann Martin M Niebuhr Birte B Stocking Carol C Sanada Masashi M Hemminki Kari K Yamatomo Go G Nannya Yasuhito Y Koehler Rolf R Flohr Thomas T Miller Carl W CW Harbott Jochen J Ludwig Wolf-Dieter WD Stanulla Martin M Schrappe Martin M Bartram Claus R CR Koeffler H Phillip HP

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080812 33

High-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray (SNP-chip) is a useful tool to define gene dosage levels over the whole genome, allowing precise detection of deletions and duplications/amplifications of chromosomes in cancer cells. We found that this new technology can also identify breakpoints of chromosomes involved in unbalanced translocations, leading to identification of fusion genes. Using this technique, we found that the PAX5 gene was rearranged to a variety of partner ...[more]

PMID: 18697940

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Project description:Reciprocal chromosomal translocations (RCTs) leading to the formation of fusion genes are important drivers of hematological cancers. Although the general requirements for breakage and fusion are fairly well understood, quantitative support for a general mechanism of RCT formation is still lacking. The aim of this paper is to analyze available high-throughput datasets with computational and robust statistical methods, in order to identify genomic hallmarks of translocation partner genes (TPGs). Our results show that fusion genes are generally overexpressed due to increased promoter activity of 5' TPGs and to more stable 3'-UTR regions of 3' TPGs. Furthermore, expression profiling of 5' TPGs and of interaction partners of 3' TPGs indicates that these features can help to explain tissue specificity of hematological translocations. Analysis of protein domains retained in fusion proteins shows that the co-occurrence of specific domain combinations is non-random and that distinct functional classes of fusion proteins tend to be associated with different components of the gene fusion network. This indicates that the configuration of fusion proteins plays an important role in determining which 5' and 3' TPGs will combine in specific fusion genes. It is generally accepted that chromosomal proximity in the nucleus can explain the specific pairing of 5' and 3' TPGS and the recurrence of hematological translocations. Using recently available data for chromosomal contact probabilities (Hi-C) we show that TPGs are preferentially located in early replicated regions and occupy distinct clusters in the nucleus. However, our data suggest that, in general, nuclear position of TPGs in hematological cancers explains neither TPG pairing nor clinical frequency. Taken together, our results support a model in which genomic features related to regulation of expression and replication timing determine the set of candidate genes more likely to be translocated in hematological tissues, with functional constraints being responsible for specific gene combinations.

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Cloning of genes involved in chromosomal translocations by high-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray.

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Cloning of genes involved in chromosomal translocations by high-resolution single nucleotide polymorphism genomic microarray.

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