title: The impact of differential binding of wild-type RARalpha, PML-, PLZF- and NPM-RARalpha fusion proteins towards transcriptional co-activator, RIP-140, on retinoic acid responses in acute promyelocytic leukemia.
abstract: Retinoic acid receptor (RA) heterodimer (RAR/RXR) activities have been shown to be repressed by transcriptional co-repressor, SMRT/N-CoR, in the absence of the ligand while upon all-trans retionic acid (ATRA) treatment, SMRT/N-CoR is dissociated from RARalpha leading to gene expression by the recruitment of transcriptional co-activators to the transcriptional complex. The difference in response to ATRA therapy between acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients with PML-RARalpha fusion and PLZF-RARalpha fusion has recently been found to be partially due to the strong association of the transcriptional co-repressor, SMRT/N-CoR, with PLZF domain. We demonstrate that SMRT association, as with PML-RARalpha, can be released from NPM-RARalpha at pharmacological concentration of ATRA (10-6 M). Moreover, we show for the first time that the interaction between the transcriptional co-activator, RIP-140, and PML-, PLZF- or NPM-RARalpha fusion proteins can be positively stimulated by ATRA although they are less sensitive as compared with the wild-type RARalpha. Our results suggest that the dissociation of transcriptional co-repressors, SMRT/N-CoR, and recruitment of co-activators, eg RIP-140, to APL-associated fusion proteins constitute a common molecular mechanism in APL and underlie the responsiveness of the disease to RA therapy. Leukemia (2000) 14, 77-83.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: So
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: So
authors.forename: G X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Q H
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D019281:Dimerization; D006801:Humans; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015514:Oncogene Proteins, Fusion / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000378:metabolism*; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: C120276:NPM-RARalpha protein, human; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D015514:Oncogene Proteins, Fusion; C118318:PLZF-RARalpha fusion protein, human; D015534:Trans-Activators; C093476:promyelocytic leukemia-retinoic acid receptor alpha fusion oncoprotein; D014212:Tretinoin