title: Single-translocation and double-chimeric transcripts: detection of NUP98-HOXA9 in myeloid leukemias with HOXA11 or HOXA13 breaks of the chromosomal translocation t(7;11)(p15;p15).
abstract: It has been demonstrated that the chromosomal translocation t(7;11)(p15;p15) in patients with human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) invariably involves fusion of the nucleoporin gene, NUP98, on chromosome 11 and the class 1 HOX gene, HOXA9, on chromosome 7, and that the fusion gene NUP98-HOXA9 is an important gene in myeloid leukemogenesis. Here are reported 2 novel chromosome 7p15 targets of the t(7;11)(p15;p15) chromosomal translocation in 2 patients with CML and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Southern blot and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analyses of leukemia cell DNA failed to show rearrangement of HOXA9, whereas NUP98 was found to be rearranged in both cases. Reverse transcription-PCR analysis using a NUP98 primer and a degenerate primer corresponding to the third helix of the homeodomain of HOXA demonstrated that NUP98 was fused in-frame to HOXA11 in the patient with CML and to HOXA13 in the patient with MDS. The chromosomal breakpoints on 7p15 were located within introns of HOXA11 or HOXA13 genes. In both patients chimeric NUP98-HOXA9 transcripts were also observed. These findings suggest that AbdB-type HOXA genes are common targets of t(7;11)(p15;p15) chromosomal translocations and that a single translocation can produce more than one NUP98-HOXA fusion gene, presumably because of altered splicing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Carcinogenesis, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujino
authors.forename: Akitaka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Kazuma
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohyashiki
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hatano
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Takuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D001483:Base Sequence; D019457:Chromosome Breakage / Q000235:genetics; D002880:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11 / Q000235:genetics; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7 / Q000235:genetics; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D028861:Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D015514:Oncogene Proteins, Fusion / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis*; D014178:Translocation, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: C484298:HOXA11 protein, human; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; C452437:NUP98-HOXA11 fusion protein, human; C452438:NUP98-HOXA13 fusion protein, human; C400441:NUP98-HOXA9 fusion protein, human; D028861:Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins; D015514:Oncogene Proteins, Fusion; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C099959:homeobox protein HOXA13