| First Author | Wolff L | Year | 1996 |
| Journal | Curr Top Microbiol Immunol | Volume | 211 |
| Pages | 191-9 | PubMed ID | 8585950 |
| Mgi Jnum | J:31371 | Mgi Id | MGI:79401 |
| Doi | 10.1007/978-3-642-85232-9_19 | Citation | Wolff L, et al. (1996) Retroviral insertional mutagenesis in murine promonocytic leukemias: c-myb and Mml1. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 211:191-9 |
| abstractText | Studies have focused on two genetic loci, c-myb and Mml1, whose activation by retroviral insertional mutagenesis contribute to promonocytic leukemia in our acute monocytic leukemia (AMoL) model. Multiple mechanisms of activation of c-myb by retroviral insertional mutagenesis implicate both transcriptional deregulation and protein truncation in conversion of this proto-oncogene to an oncogene. Because transformation by c-Myb can be viewed as a block to differentiation our studies moved into two in vitro systems to evaluate effects of truncated forms of c-Myb on cytokine induced maturation of myeloid progenitors to the granulocyte and macrophage lineages. Deregulated expression of truncated and full length c-Myb did not result in maintenance of the myelomonocytic progenitor state but rather a block in differentiation at intermediate to late steps in the maturation processes of myelomonocytic cells. Our results argue that inhibition of differentiation is due to c-Myb's ability to maintain the proliferative state of cells. Interestingly, the phenotype of continuously proliferating monocytic cells resembles that of the tumor cell phenotype. Recently we identified a new target of integration, Mml1, which is rearranged in ten promonocytic leukemias that do not have c-myb rearrangements. This locus which was mapped to chromosome 10 is presently being characterized. |
