Dr Athar Aziz A.Aziz@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
Dr Athar Aziz A.Aziz@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
EJ Baxter
C Edwards
CY Cheong
M Ito
A Bench
R Kelley
Y Silber
PA Beer
K Chng
MB Renfree
K McEwen
D Gray
J Nangalia
GJ Mufti
E Hellstrom-Lindberg
JJ Kiladjian
MF McMullin
PJ Campbell
AC Ferguson-Smith
AR Green
Large regions of recurrent genomic loss are common in cancers; however, with a few well-characterized exceptions, how they contribute to tumor pathogenesis remains largely obscure. Here we identified primate-restricted imprinting of a gene cluster on chromosome 20 in the region commonly deleted in chronic myeloid malignancies. We showed that a single heterozygous 20q deletion consistently resulted in the complete loss of expression of the imprinted genes L3MBTL1 and SGK2, indicative of a pathogenetic role for loss of the active paternally inherited locus. Concomitant loss of both L3MBTL1 and SGK2 dysregulated erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis, 2 lineages commonly affected in chronic myeloid malignancies, with distinct consequences in each lineage. We demonstrated that L3MBTL1 and SGK2 collaborated in the transcriptional regulation of MYC by influencing different aspects of chromatin structure. L3MBTL1 is known to regulate nucleosomal compaction, and we here showed that SGK2 inactivated BRG1, a key ATP-dependent helicase within the SWI/SNF complex that regulates nucleosomal positioning. These results demonstrate a link between an imprinted gene cluster and malignancy, reveal a new pathogenetic mechanism associated with acquired regions of genomic loss, and underline the complex molecular and cellular consequences of “simple” cancer-associated chromosome deletions.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Jun 27, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 27, 2014 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Investigation |
Print ISSN | 0021-9738 |
Electronic ISSN | 1558-8238 |
Publisher | American Society for Clinical Investigation |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 123 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 2169-2182 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI66113 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/JCI66113 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.jci.org/ |
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