Loss of MBD2 Attenuates MLL-AF9-Driven Leukemogenesis By Reducing Leukemic Cell Cycling via CDKN1C
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ABSTRACT: Emerging evidence supports that MBD2, a DNA methylation reader, often participated in the transcriptional silencing of hypermethylated genes in cancer cells. Nevertheless, the role of MBD2 in AML remains elusive. Herein, by using MLL-AF9 murine model and human AML cell line, we observed that loss of MBD2 could delay the initiation and propagation of leukemia through serial transplantation experiments. MBD2 depletion significantly reduced the leukemia burden by decreasing the frequency of leukemic stem cells (LSCs), coupled with inhibiting leukemia proliferation, thereby allowing leukemia blasts develop to a more mature state reflecting normal myelopoiesis. Both gene expression analyses and bioinformatic studies revealed that MBD2 negatively modulated the genes related to myeloid differentiation and was necessary to sustain MLL-AF9 oncogenic induced gene programs. We further demonstrated that MBD2 could promote LSC cell cycle progression through epigenetic regulation of CDKN1C transcription by binding to its promoter region. Taken together, our data suggested that MBD2 promotes AML development and could be a therapeutic target of myeloid malignancies.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE166610 | GEO | 2022/02/11
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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