Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

TAF1 plays a critical role in AML1-ETO driven leukemogenesis

  • Ye Xu,
  • Na Man,
  • Daniel Karl,
  • Concepcion Martinez,
  • Fan Liu,
  • Jun Sun,
  • Camilo Jose Martinez,
  • Gloria Mas Martin,
  • Felipe Beckedorff,
  • Fan Lai,
  • Jingyin Yue,
  • Alejandro Roisman,
  • Sarah Greenblatt,
  • Stephanie Duffort,
  • Lan Wang,
  • Xiaojian Sun,
  • Maria Figueroa,
  • Ramin Shiekhattar,
  • Stephen Nimer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12735-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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AML1-ETO is a fusion protein in which acetylation of lysine-43 is critical to leukemogenesis. Here, they show that TAF1 is required for AML1-ETO mediated gene expression such that it binds to acetylated AML1-ETO to facilitate the association of AML1-ETO with chromatin, and consequently, promotes leukemic self-renewal.