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Blood, Vol. 96 No. 2 (July 15), 2000:
pp. 475-482
Deregulated E2F-1 blocks terminal differentiation and loss of
leukemogenicity of M1 myeloblastic leukemia cells without
abrogating induction of p15INK4B and
p16INK4A
Arshad Amanullah,
Barbara Hoffman, and
Dan A. Liebermann
From the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular
Biology and Department of Biochemistry, Temple University School
of Medicine; and Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
The transcription factor E2F-1 has been postulated to play a crucial
role in the control of cell cycle progression because of its ability to
be bound and regulated by the retinoblastoma gene product (pRb).
Exogenous expression of E2F-1, under growth restrictive conditions, was
shown to result in p53-dependent programmed cell death. The
consequences of deregulated expression of E2F-1 on terminal
differentiation of hematopoietic cells in the absence of
E2F-1-mediated apoptosis, as well as mechanistic insights into how
deregulated E2F-1 may affect terminal differentiation, have not been
established. The autonomously proliferating M1 myeloblastic leukemia
cell line, which is null for p53 expression and can be induced by
interleukin-6 (IL-6) to undergo terminal macrophage differentiation
with concomitant loss of leukemogenicity, provides a particularly
attractive model system to address these issues. Deregulated and
continued expression of E2F-1 blocked the IL-6-induced terminal
differentiation program at an early blast stage, giving rise to
immature cells, which continued to proliferate without undergoing
apoptosis and retained their leukemogenic phenotype. Although E2F-1
blocked IL-6-mediated terminal differentiation and its associated
growth arrest, it did not prevent the rapid induction of both
p15INK4B and p16INK4A, inhibition of cdk4
kinase activity, and subsequent hypophosphorylation of pRb. The results
obtained imply that genetic alterations that both impair p53 function
and deregulate E2F-1 expression may render hematopoietic cells
refractory to the induction of differentiation and are, thereby, likely
to play a major role in the progression of leukemias.

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