Abstract
Myelodysplasia syndrome 1 (MDS1) and Ecotropic viral integration site 1 (EVI1) complex (MECOM) locus encode multiple isoforms of the EVI1 protein that are essential for normal vertebrate development and when inappropriately expressed play a significant role in malignancy and in particular leukaemias. However, the function of individual EVI1 isoforms is not fully understood. Recently, EVI1 or PRDM3, which is structurally closely related to the brown adipose tissue determining factor PRDM16, was shown to be required for differentiation of adipocytes. In this study, we show that 3T3-L1 preadipocytes sustain expression of all Evi1 isoforms examined, including Mds1-Evi1, Evi1FL, Evi1Δ324, Evi1FL + 9 and Evi1Δ105 throughout the adipogenesis differentiation programme. We also show that differentiation markers are enhanced by enforced expression of either Evi1, Evi1FL + 9 or Evi1Δ105 isoforms. Interestingly 3T3-L1 differentiation markers are also moderately enhanced by enforced expression of Evi1Δ324, which lacks part of the N-ter-minal zinc finger domain (ZF1), demonstrating a biological activity for this particular isoform. Enforced expression of an Evi1 mutant lacking C-terminal binding protein (CtBP) co-repressor protein binding activity fails to stimulate 3T3-L1 differentiation markers and may have dominant negative activity, causing partial inhibition of this developmental programme. These studies show that multiple EVI1 isoforms are expressed in adipocytes and can stimulate adipogenic markers in a manner that is partially independent of the ZF1 DNA binding domain but fully dependent upon interaction with co-repressor CtBP proteins.
Highlights
Myelodysplasia syndrome 1 (MDS1) and Ecotropic virus integration site 1 (EVI1) complex (MECOM) locus gene transcripts include MDS1, Ecotropic viral integration site 1 (EVI1) and a fusion of part of MDS1 with EVI1 [1] and their inappropriate expressions are associated with poor prognosis leukaemias and other malignancies [2] [3]
Highest Evi1 expression is observed when either 2 × 104 or 5 × 104 cells were used for virus infection and 5 × 104 cells were chosen for further experiments
In this study a transient retroviral infection system was developed to investigate the effect of enforced EVI1 expression on 3T3-L1 pre-adipocyte cell differentiation to adipocytes
Summary
Myelodysplasia syndrome 1 (MDS1) and Ecotropic virus integration site 1 (EVI1) complex (MECOM) locus gene transcripts include MDS1, EVI1 and a fusion of part of MDS1 with EVI1 [1] and their inappropriate expressions are associated with poor prognosis leukaemias and other malignancies [2] [3]. Those transcripts containing EVI1 encode transcription factors with multiple cys2his zinc finger DNA binding motifs [4] and are required for mammalian development [5]. These studies show that EVI1 converts nonadipogenic cells to adipocytes and knockdown (KD) suppresses preadipocyte differentiation by impairing CCAAT/Enhancer-binding protein-beta (CEBPβ) assisted induction of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma 2 (PPARγ2)
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