A quantitative proteomics approach identifies ETV6 and IKZF1 as new regulators of an ERG-driven transcriptional network

Ashwin Unnikrishnan, Yi F Guan, Yizhou Huang, Dominik Beck, Julie A I Thoms, Sofie Peirs, Kathy Knezevic, Shiyong Ma, Inge V de Walle, Ineke de Jong, Zara Ali, Ling Zhong, Mark J Raftery, Tom Taghon, Jonas Larsson, Karen L MacKenzie, Pieter Van Vlierberghe, Jason W H Wong, John E Pimanda

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Aberrant stem cell-like gene regulatory networks are a feature of leukaemogenesis. The ETS-related gene (ERG), an important regulator of normal haematopoiesis, is also highly expressed in T-ALL and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). However, the transcriptional regulation of ERG in leukaemic cells remains poorly understood. In order to discover transcriptional regulators of ERG, we employed a quantitative mass spectrometry-based method to identify factors binding the 321 bp ERG +85 stem cell enhancer region in MOLT-4 T-ALL and KG-1 AML cells. Using this approach, we identified a number of known binders of the +85 enhancer in leukaemic cells along with previously unknown binders, including ETV6 and IKZF1. We confirmed that ETV6 and IKZF1 were also bound at the +85 enhancer in both leukaemic cells and in healthy human CD34+ haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Knockdown experiments confirmed that ETV6 and IKZF1 are transcriptional regulators not just of ERG, but also of a number of genes regulated by a densely interconnected network of seven transcription factors. At last, we show that ETV6 and IKZF1 expression levels are positively correlated with expression of a number of heptad genes in AML and high expression of all nine genes confers poorer overall prognosis.

Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)10644-10661
TidskriftNucleic Acids Research
Volym44
Nummer22
DOI
StatusPublished - 2016 dec. 15

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© The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Medicinsk genetik och genomik (Här ingår: Genterapi)
  • Mikrobiologi inom det medicinska området

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