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Hematology - Molecular Biology
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IRF4 Is a Suppressor of c-Myc Induced B Cell Leukemia
Published:
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Author:
Simanta Pathak et al.
by Simanta Pathak, Shibin Ma, Long Trinh, James Eudy, Kay-Uwe Wagner, Shantaram S. Joshi, Runqing Lu
Interferon regulatory factor 4 (IRF4) is a critical transcriptional regulator in B cell development and function. We have previously shown that IRF4, together with IRF8, orchestrates pre-B cell development by limiting pre-B cell expansion and by promoting pre-B cell differentiation. Here, we report that IRF4 suppresses c-Myc induced leukemia in EµMyc mice. Our results show that c-Myc induced leukemia was greatly accelerated in the IRF4 heterozygous mice (IRF4+/-Myc); the average age of mortality in the IRF4+/-Myc mice was only 7 to 8 weeks but was 20 weeks in the control mice. Our results show that IRF4+/-Myc leukemic cells were derived from large pre-B cells and were hyperproliferative and resistant to apoptosis. Further analysis revealed that the majority of IRF4+/-Myc leukemic cells inactivated the wild-type IRF4 allele and contained defects in Arf-p53 tumor suppressor pathway. p27kip is part of the molecular circuitry that controls pre-B cell expansion. Our results show that expression of p27kip was lost in the IRF4+/-Myc leukemic cells and reconstitution of IRF4 expression in those cells induced p27kip and inhibited their expansion. Thus, IRF4 functions as a classical tumor suppressor to inhibit c-Myc induced B cell leukemia in EµMyc mice.
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