PLX101636

GSE102730: C/EBP overexpression overrides epigenetic reprogramming by RUNX1-ETO and RUNX1-EVI1 [RNA-seq]

• Organsim human
• Type RNASEQ
• Target gene
• Project ARCHS4

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease caused by recurrent mutations in the transcription regulatory machinery. As a result, malignant myeloid cells display abnormal growth and are blocked in differentiation. One type of recurrent mutations affects RUNX1 which is subject to mutations and translocations, the latter giving rise to fusion proteins with aberrant transcriptional activities. We recently compared the mechanism by which the products of the t(8;21) and the t(3;21) translocation RUNX1-ETO and RUNX1-EVI1 globally reprogram the epigenome. We demonstrated that a main component of the block in differentiation in both types of AML is direct repression of the gene encoding for the crucial myeloid regulator C/EBP by both fusion proteins. We also showed that CEBPA upregulation is required for the release of the differentiation block after oncogene knock-down. In the study presented here we examined at the global level the response of t(8;21) and t(3;21) cells to C/EBP overexpression. We show that C/EBP overexpression does not change oncoprotein expression or globally displace these proteins from their binding sites, but up-regulates a core set of common target genes important for myeloid differentiation and interferes with leukemic growth, highlighting CEBPA regulated pathways as targets for therapeutic intervention. SOURCE: Salam,Adli,Assi (s.a.assi@bham.ac.uk) - University of Birmingham