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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2003, p. 186-194, Vol. 23, No. 1
0270-7306/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.1.186-194.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Proteolytic Cleavage of MLL Generates a Complex of N- and C-Terminal Fragments That Confers Protein Stability and Subnuclear Localization

James J.-D. Hsieh,1 Patricia Ernst,1 Hediye Erdjument-Bromage,2 Paul Tempst,2 and Stanley J. Korsmeyer1*

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115,1 Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 100212

Received 2 August 2002/ Returned for modification 12 September 2002/ Accepted 1 October 2002

The mixed-lineage leukemia gene (MLL, ALL1, HRX) encodes a 3,969-amino-acid nuclear protein homologous to Drosophila trithorax and is required to maintain proper Hox gene expression. Chromosome translocations in human leukemia disrupt MLL (11q23), generating chimeric proteins between the N terminus of MLL and multiple translocation partners. Here we report that MLL is normally cleaved at two conserved sites (D/GADD and D/GVDD) and that mutation of these sites abolishes the proteolysis. MLL cleavage generates N-terminal p320 (N320) and C-terminal p180 (C180) fragments, which form a stable complex that localizes to a subnuclear compartment. The FYRN domain of N320 directly interacts with the FYRC and SET domains of C180. Disrupting the interaction between N320 and C180 leads to a marked decrease in the level of N320 and a redistribution of C180 to a diffuse nuclear pattern. These data suggest a model in which a dynamic post-cleavage association confers stability to N320 and correct nuclear sublocalization of the complex, to control the availability of N320 for target genes. This predicts that MLL fusion proteins of leukemia which would lose the ability to complex with C180 have their stability conferred instead by the fusion partners, thus providing one mechanism for altered target gene expression.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, One Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 632-6402. Fax: (617) 632-6401. E-mail: stanley_korsmeyer{at}dfci.harvard.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2003, p. 186-194, Vol. 23, No. 1
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.1.186-194.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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