title: Erythroleukemia induction by Friend murine leukemia virus: insertional activation of a new member of the ets gene family, Fli-1, closely linked to c-ets-1.
abstract: The retroviral integration site Fli-1 is rearranged in 75% of the erythroleukemia cell clones induced by Friend murine leukemia virus (F-MuLV), whereas Spi-1/PU.1, a member of the ets family of DNA-binding proteins, is rearranged in 95% of the erythroleukemias induced by Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV). To determine the transcriptional domain defined by Fli-1, we have isolated a cDNA clone that is highly expressed only in erythroleukemia cell lines with Fli-1 rearrangements. The protein sequence of this cDNA is very similar to Erg2, another member of the ets gene family. The hydrophilic carboxy-terminal end of the Fli-1 cDNA shares significant sequence similarity to the DNA-binding ETS domain found in all members of the ets family. PFGE analysis localized Fli-1 within 240 kb of the ets-1 proto-oncogene on mouse chromosome 9 and human chromosome 11q23, suggesting that ets-1 and Fli-1 arose from a common ancestral gene by gene duplication. The involvement of the murine Fli-1, Spi-1, and avian v-ets genes in erythroleukemia induction suggests that activation of ets gene family members plays an important role in the progression of these multistage malignancies.
authors.affiliation: Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ben-David
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Giddens
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Letwin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bernstein
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D002472:Cell Transformation, Viral; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005622:Friend murine leukemia virus / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D004915:Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: C494041:ETS1 protein, human; C494042:Ets1 protein, mouse; C000715470:MAS1 protein, human; D000090063:Proto-Oncogene Mas; D050784:Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-1; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D014157:Transcription Factors; D004247:DNA