The leukemic oncogene EVI1 hijacks a MYC super-enhancer by CTCF-facilitated loops
oleh: Sophie Ottema, Roger Mulet-Lazaro, Claudia Erpelinck-Verschueren, Stanley van Herk, Marije Havermans, Andrea Arricibita Varea, Michael Vermeulen, H. Berna Beverloo, Stefan Gröschel, Torsten Haferlach, Claudia Haferlach, Bas J. Wouters, Eric Bindels, Leonie Smeenk, Ruud Delwel
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2021-09-01 |
Deskripsi
Chromosome rearrangements can be a cause of altered oncogene expression in cancer, such as a 3q26 translocation in some acute myeloid leukemias (AML) that leads to overexpression of EVI1. Here the authors engineer this rearrangement in a cell line and show that EVI1 overexpression is a result of ‘enhancer hijacking’ of the MYC superenhancer, which is facilitated by CTCF-mediated loops.