Project description:We report the genome wide distribution of H3K79 dimethylation in mouse MLL-AF6 positive leukemias to assess whether this epigenetic mark drives MLL-target gene expression. Examination of H3K79 dimethylation in bone marrow cells from sacrificed terminally ill MLL-AF6 positive leukemic mice. The retroviral MSCV-IRES-neo-MLL-AF6 construct was transduced into mouse bone marrow lineage negative Kit +, Sca + (LSK) cells and these cells were injected after G418 selection into irradiated syngenic mice to establish MLL-AF6 positive leukemias.
Project description:The MLL gene on chromosome 11 fuses to the AF6 gene on chromosome 6 in a balanced chromosomal translocation that is characetristic of certain adult and pediatric human leukemias. We established a murine leukemia model of MLL-AF6 using the retroviral MLL-AF6 contruct in a bone marrow transplantation system. The ML2 human MLL-AF6 positive leukemia cell line was used for gene expression profiling to assess the transctiptional profile in MLL-AF6 leukemias.
Project description:Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) with MLL gene rearrangements demonstrate unique gene expression profiles driven by MLL-fusion proteins. Here, we identify the circadian clock transcription factor SHARP1 as a novel oncogenic target in MLL-AF6 AML, which has the worst prognosis among all subtypes of MLL rearranged AMLs. SHARP1 is expressed solely in MLL-AF6 AML, and its expression is regulated directly by MLL-AF6 / DOT1L. Suppression of SHARP1 induces robust apoptosis of human MLL-AF6 AML cells. Genetic deletion in mice delays the development of leukemia and attenuated leukemia-initiating potential, while sparing normal hematopoiesis. Mechanistically, SHARP1 binds to transcriptionally active chromatin across the genome and activates genes critical for cell survival as well as key oncogenic targets of MLL-AF6. Our findings demonstrate the unique oncogenic role for SHARP1 in MLL-AF6 AML.
Project description:We report the genome wide distribution of H3K79 dimethylation in the human MLL-AF6 rearranged cell line ML2 as well as the human MOLM13 and HL60 cell lines Examination of H3K79 dimethylation in the MLL-AF6 fusion positive human leukemia cell line ML2 and control cell lines MOLM-13 and HL60. The MLL-AF6 positive ML2 cell line (obtained from DSMZ) and the cell lines HL60 and MOLM 13 were grown under standard conditions and 1 million cells were fixed/crosslinked and used for ChIP-seq with H3K79 dimethylation specific antibody Ab3594 (Abcam)
Project description:The MLL gene on chromosome 11 fuses to the AF6 gene on chromosome 6 in a balanced chromosomal translocation that is characetristic of certain adult and pediatric human leukemias. We established a murine leukemia model of MLL-AF6 using the retroviral MLL-AF6 contruct in a bone marrow transplantation system.
Project description:The MLL gene on chromosome 11 fuses to the AF6 gene on chromosome 6 in a balanced chromosomal translocation that is characetristic of certain adult and pediatric human leukemias. We established a murine leukemia model of MLL-AF6 using the retroviral MLL-AF6 contruct in a bone marrow transplantation system. The ML2 human MLL-AF6 positive leukemia cell line was used for gene expression profiling to assess the transctiptional profile in MLL-AF6 leukemias. RNA was extracted from the ML2 cell line cultured under standard conditionswith TRIZOL (Invitrogen), purified using RNAeasy(Qiagen) and hybridized onto Affymetrix arrays.
Project description:We report the genome wide distribution of H3K79 dimethylation in mouse MLL-AF6 positive leukemias to assess whether this epigenetic mark drives MLL-target gene expression.
Project description:The purpose of this study is to investigate the transcriptional programs as it relates to disease latency initiated by different MLL fusion proteins, including: MLL-AF1p, MLL-AF6, MLL-Gas7, MLL-AF9 and MLL-ENL. Leukemia cell lines were established by transforming kit+ mouse bone marrow cells with retroviruses coding MLL-AF1p, MLL-AF6, MLL-Gas7, MLL-AF9 or MLL-ENL. At early phase after the cell lines were established, cells growing at exponential phase (cell density at 0.5~1x106/ml) were harvested for RNA extraction and sequencing purpose.
