Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 1998, p. 7432-7443, Vol. 18, No. 12
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(CBF
)-Smooth-Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain Sequesters CBF
2 into
Cytoskeletal Filaments and Aggregates
Oncogenesis and Development Section, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892,1 and Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 037552
Received 31 March 1998/Returned for modification 19 May 1998/Accepted 10 September 1998
The fusion gene CBFB-MYH11 is generated by the
chromosome 16 inversion associated with acute myeloid leukemias. This
gene encodes a chimeric protein involving the core binding factor
(CBF
) and the smooth-muscle myosin heavy chain (SMMHC). Mouse model studies suggest that this chimeric protein CBF
-SMMHC
dominantly suppresses the function of CBF, a heterodimeric
transcription factor composed of DNA binding subunits (CBF
1 to 3)
and a non-DNA binding subunit (CBF
). This dominant suppression
results in the blockage of hematopoiesis in mice and
presumably contributes to leukemogenesis. We used
transient-transfection assays, in combination with immunofluorescence
and green fluorescent protein-tagged proteins, to monitor
subcellular localization of CBF
-SMMHC, CBF
, and CBF
2 (also
known as AML1 or PEBP2
B). When expressed individually, CBF
2
was located in the nuclei of transfected cells, whereas CBF
was
distributed throughout the cell. On the other hand, CBF
-SMMHC formed
filament-like structures that colocalized with actin filaments. Upon
cotransfection, CBF
2 was able to drive localization of CBF
into
the nucleus in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, CBF
2 colocalized with CBF
-SMMHC along the filaments instead of
localizing to the nucleus. Deletion of the CBF
-interacting domain
within CBF
-SMMHC abolished this CBF
2 sequestration, whereas
truncation of the C-terminal-end SMMHC domain led to nuclear
localization of CBF
-SMMHC when coexpressed with CBF
2.
CBF
2 sequestration by CBF
-SMMHC was further confirmed in
vivo in a knock-in mouse model. These observations suggest that
CBF
-SMMHC plays a dominant negative role by sequestering CBF
2
into cytoskeletal filaments and aggregates, thereby disrupting
CBF
2-mediated regulation of gene expression.
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