title: Deletion of IRF-1, mapping to chromosome 5q31.1, in human leukemia and preleukemic myelodysplasia.
abstract: One of the most frequent cytogenetic abnormalities in human leukemia and myelodysplasia is an interstitial deletion within chromosome 5q. A tumor suppressor gene has been hypothesized to lie in 5q31, the smallest commonly deleted region. IRF-1, a gene whose product manifests anti-oncogenic activity, was mapped to 5q31.1. IRF-1 lies between IL-5 and CDC25C and is centromeric to IL-3 and GM-CSF. Among these genes, only IRF-1 was consistently deleted at one or both alleles in 13 cases of leukemia or myelodysplasia with aberrations of 5q31. Inactivating rearrangements of one IRF-1 allele, accompanied by deletion of the second allele, were also identified in one case of acute leukemia. Thus, IRF-1 may be a critically deleted gene in human leukemia and myelodysplasia.
authors.affiliation: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Albuquerque 87131.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Willman
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Sever
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Pallavicini
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Slovak
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Meeker
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: List
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002895:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5; D015342:DNA Probes; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017353:Gene Deletion; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D016147:Genes, Tumor Suppressor; D006801:Humans; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; D007938:Leukemia / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000235:genetics*; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C494257:IRF1 protein, human; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; D010750:Phosphoproteins