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Blood, 15 May 2004, Vol. 103, No. 10, pp. 3897-3904.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on January 29, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-11-4026.
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Deregulated expression in Ph+ human leukemias of AHI-1, a gene activated by insertional mutagenesis in mouse models of leukemia
Xiaoyan Jiang,
Yun Zhao,
Wing-Yiu Chan,
Suzanne Vercauteren,
Emily Pang,
Sean Kennedy,
Frank Nicolini,
Allen Eaves, and
Connie Eaves
From the Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver; the Departments of Medical Genetics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and the Department of Hematology, Hospital E. Herriot, Lyon, France.
Ahi-1/AHI-1 (Abelson helper integration site-1) encodes a family of protein isoforms containing one Src homology 3 (SH3) domain and multiple tryptophan-aspartic acid 40 (WD40)repeat domains. The function of these proteins is unknown, but involvement in leukemogenesis has been suggested by the high frequency of Ahi-1 mutations seen in certain virus-induced murine leukemias. Here we show that in both mice and humans, Ahi-1/AHI-1 expression is highest in the most primitive hematopoietic cells with specific patterns of down-regulation in different lineages. Cells from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML; n = 28) show elevated AHI-1 transcripts in all disease phases and, in chronic phase, in the leukemic cells at all stages of differentiation, including quiescent (G0) CD34+ cells as well as terminally differentiating cells. In the most primitive linCD34+CD38 CML cells, transcripts for the 2 shorter isoforms of AHI-1 are also increased. Although 15 of 16 human lymphoid and myeloid leukemic cell lines showed aberrant control of AHI-1 expression, this was not seen in blasts obtained directly from patients with acute Philadelphia chromosomenegative (Ph) leukemia (n = 15). Taken together, our results suggest that down-regulation of AHI-1 expression is an important conserved step in primitive normal hematopoietic cell differentiation and that perturbations in AHI-1 expression may contribute to the development of specific types of human leukemia.

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