title: The B-lymphocyte maturation promoting transcription factor BLIMP1/PRDI-BF1 maps to D6S447 on human chromosome 6q21-q22.1 and the syntenic region of mouse chromosome 10.
abstract: The human PRDI-BF1 or BLIMP1 gene and its mouse homolog Blimp1 are members of the recently realized PR domain family that includes the retinoblastoma interacting zinc finger gene RIZ and the MDS1-EVI1 leukemia cancer gene. The specific high-level expression of Blimp1 in late B and plasma cells, its induction during B-cell differentiation, and its ability to drive B-cell maturation suggest that this gene may play a role in the differentiation and pathogenesis of B cells. We have now mapped the physical location of BLIMP1 near the marker D6S447 on human chromosome 6q21-q22.1; we have also mapped Blimp1 to mouse Chromosome 10 at 14 cM distal to the Myb locus and to a region homologous to the location of BLIMP1. Deletions of the 6q21-q22 region are common in several human malignancies, particularly in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL). The data led us to suggest that BLIMP1 may be a candidate B-NHL tumor suppressor gene.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Mock
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: LePaslier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D018244:Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6; D016147:Genes, Tumor Suppressor; D006801:Humans; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D000074462:Positive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: C513258:Prdm1 protein, mouse; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C087042:PRDM1 protein, human; D000074462:Positive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1