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Blood, 15 August 2005, Vol. 106, No. 4, pp. 1223-1231.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 28, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-02-0551.
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Submitted February 8, 2005
Accepted April 12, 2005
Differential requirements for the activation domain and FOG-interaction surface of GATA-1 in megakaryocyte gene expression and development
Andrew G Muntean and John D Crispino*
Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
* Corresponding author; email: crispino{at}huggins.bsd.uchicago.edu.
GATA1 is mutated in patients with two different disorders. First, individuals with a GATA1 mutation that blocks the interaction between GATA-1 and its cofactor FOG-1 suffer from dyserythropoietic anemia and thrombocytopenia. Second, children with Down syndrome who develop acute megakaryoblastic leukemia harbor mutations in GATA1 that lead to the exclusive expression of a shorter isoform named GATA-1s. To determine the effect of these patient specific mutations on GATA-1 function, we first compared the gene expression profile between wild-type and GATA-1 deficient megakaryocytes. Next, we introduced either GATA-1s or a FOG binding mutant (V205G) into GATA-1 deficient megakaryocytes and assessed the effect on differentiation and gene expression. While GATA-1 deficient megakaryocytes failed to undergo terminal differentiation and proliferated excessively in vitro, GATA-1s expressing cells displayed proplatelet formation and other features of terminal maturation, but continued to proliferate aberrantly. In contrast, megakaryocytes that expressed V205G GATA-1 exhibited reduced proliferation, but failed to undergo maturation. Examination of the expression of megakaryocyte-specific genes in the various rescued cells correlated with the observed phenotypic differences. These studies show that GATA-1 is required for both normal regulation of proliferation and terminal maturation of megakaryocytes, and further, that these functions can be uncoupled by mutations in GATA1.

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