C-terminal BRE overexpression in 11q23-rearranged and t(8;16) acute myeloid 
leukemia is caused by intragenic transcription initiation

Marneth, A. E.; Prange, K. H. M.; Al Hinai, A. S. A.; Bergevoet, S. M.; Tesi, N.; Janssen-Megens, E. M.; Kim, B.; Sharifi, N.; Yaspo, M. L.; Kuster, J.; Sanders, M. A.; Stoetman, E. C. G.; Knijnenburg, J.; Arentsen-Peters, Tcjm; Zwaan, C. M.; Stunnenberg, H. G.; van den Heuvel-Eibrink, M. M.; Haferlach, T.; Fornerod, M.; Jansen, J. H.; Valk, P. J. M.; van der Reijden, B. A.; Martens, J. H. A.

doi:10.1038/leu.2017.280

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C-terminal BRE overexpression in 11q23-rearranged and t(8;16) acute myeloid leukemia is caused by intragenic transcription initiation

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Yaspo, M. L.
Gene Regulation and Systems Biology of Cancer (Marie-Laure Yaspo), Independent Junior Research Groups (OWL), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Society;

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Marneth, A. E., Prange, K. H. M., Al Hinai, A. S. A., Bergevoet, S. M., Tesi, N., Janssen-Megens, E. M., et al. (2017). C-terminal BRE overexpression in 11q23-rearranged and t(8;16) acute myeloid leukemia is caused by intragenic transcription initiation. Leukemia: the Journal of Normal and Malignant Hemopoiese; Official Journal of the Leukemia Research Fund U.K., 2017, 1-9. doi:10.1038/leu.2017.280.

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Abstract

Overexpression of the BRE (brain and reproductive organ-expressed) gene defines a distinct pediatric and adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) subgroup. Here we identify a promoter enriched for active chromatin marks in BRE intron 4 causing strong biallelic expression of a previously unknown C-terminal BRE transcript. This transcript starts with BRE intron 4 sequences spliced to exon 5 and downstream sequences, and if translated might code for an N terminally truncated BRE protein. Remarkably, the new BRE transcript was highly expressed in over 50% of 11q23/KMT2A (lysine methyl transferase 2A)-rearranged and t(8;16)/KAT6A-CREBBP cases, while it was virtually absent from other AML subsets and normal tissues. In gene reporter assays, the leukemia-specific fusion protein KMT2A-MLLT3 transactivated the intragenic BRE promoter. Further epigenome analyses revealed 97 additional intragenic promoter marks frequently bound by KMT2A in AML with C-terminal BRE expression. The corresponding genes may be part of a context-dependent KMT2A-MLLT3-driven oncogenic program, because they were higher expressed in this AML subtype compared with other groups. C-terminal BRE might be an important contributor to this program because in a case with relapsed AML, we observed an ins(11;2) fusing CHORDC1 to BRE at the region where intragenic transcription starts in KMT2A-rearranged and KAT6A-CREBBP AML.Leukemia advance online publication, 24 October 2017; doi:10.1038/leu.2017.280.