Lutterbach B, Sun D, Schuetz J, Hiebert S W
Department of Biochemistry and the Vanderbilt Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37027, USA.
Mol Cell Biol. 1998 Jun;18(6):3604-11. doi: 10.1128/MCB.18.6.3604.
Chromosomal translocations in acute leukemia that affect the AML-1/CBFbeta transcription factor complex create dominant inhibitory proteins. However, the mechanisms by which these proteins act remain obscure. Here we demonstrate that the multidrug resistance 1 (MDR-1) promoter is a target for AML/ETO transcriptional repression. This repression is of basal, not activated, expression from the MDR-1 promoter and thus represents a new mechanism for AML/ETO function. We have defined two domains in AML/ETO that are required for repression of basal transcription from the MDR-1 promoter: a hydrophobic heptad repeat (HHR) motif and a conserved zinc finger (ZnF) domain termed the MYND domain. The HHR mediates formation of AML/ETO homodimers and AML/ETO-ETO heterodimers. Single serine substitutions at conserved cysteine residues within the predicted ZnFs also abrogate transcriptional repression. Finally, we observe that AML/ETO can also inhibit Ets-1 activation of the MDR-1 promoter, indicating that AML/ETO can disrupt both basal and Ets-1-dependent transcription. The fortuitous inhibition of MDR-1 expression in t(8;21)-containing leukemias may contribute to the favorable response of these patients to chemotherapeutic drugs.
急性白血病中影响AML-1/CBFβ转录因子复合体的染色体易位会产生显性抑制蛋白。然而,这些蛋白的作用机制仍不清楚。在此我们证明多药耐药1(MDR-1)启动子是AML/ETO转录抑制的靶点。这种抑制作用针对的是MDR-1启动子的基础表达而非激活表达,因此代表了AML/ETO发挥功能的一种新机制。我们已经确定了AML/ETO中两个抑制MDR-1启动子基础转录所需的结构域:一个疏水七肽重复(HHR)基序和一个被称为MYND结构域的保守锌指(ZnF)结构域。HHR介导AML/ETO同二聚体和AML/ETO-ETO异二聚体的形成。预测的ZnF内保守半胱氨酸残基处的单个丝氨酸取代也会消除转录抑制。最后,我们观察到AML/ETO还能抑制Ets-1对MDR-1启动子的激活,这表明AML/ETO可以破坏基础转录和Ets-1依赖的转录。在含有t(8;21)的白血病中MDR-1表达的偶然抑制可能有助于这些患者对化疗药物产生良好反应。