title: A Drosophila melanogaster homologue of the T-cell oncogene HOX11 localises to a cluster of homeobox genes.
abstract: The human homeobox gene HOX11 has been identified at the site of a chromosomal translocation in a subset of T-cell acute leukaemias. In the mouse genome, the hox11 family consists of at least three related genes, each of which possesses a highly conserved homeobox. To assist in elucidating the roles of this gene, a homologue was studied from Drosophila melanogaster. This gene, 311, shares similar identity to all three murine family members and contains the threonine residue in helix 3 of the homeodomain characteristic of the Hox11 family. It maps to a cluster of NK-homeobox genes which function in muscle development. Gene 311 exhibits a similar temporal pattern of expression to the NK genes in this cluster. Therefore, 311 may constitute part of a homeobox cluster in which the genes are both co-ordinately regulated and functionally related.
authors.affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Dear
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Rabbitts
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D017344:Genes, Insect; D006801:Humans; D015459:Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger