Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

ZBTB7A mutations in acute myeloid leukaemia with t(8;21) translocation

  • Luise Hartmann,
  • Sayantanee Dutta,
  • Sabrina Opatz,
  • Sebastian Vosberg,
  • Katrin Reiter,
  • Georg Leubolt,
  • Klaus H. Metzeler,
  • Tobias Herold,
  • Stefanos A. Bamopoulos,
  • Kathrin Bräundl,
  • Evelyn Zellmeier,
  • Bianka Ksienzyk,
  • Nikola P. Konstandin,
  • Stephanie Schneider,
  • Karl-Peter Hopfner,
  • Alexander Graf,
  • Stefan Krebs,
  • Helmut Blum,
  • Jan Moritz Middeke,
  • Friedrich Stölzel,
  • Christian Thiede,
  • Stephan Wolf,
  • Stefan K. Bohlander,
  • Caroline Preiss,
  • Linping Chen-Wichmann,
  • Christian Wichmann,
  • Maria Cristina Sauerland,
  • Thomas Büchner,
  • Wolfgang E. Berdel,
  • Bernhard J. Wörmann,
  • Jan Braess,
  • Wolfgang Hiddemann,
  • Karsten Spiekermann,
  • Philipp A. Greif

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11733
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The t(8;21) translocation is often found in acute myeloid leukaemia but is not sufficient for development of the disease. In this study, the authors identify frequent mutations in the transcriptional repressor, ZBTB7A, in these patients and show that the mutations reduce DNA binding activity.