In a zebrafish mutagenesis screen to identify genes essential for myelopoiesis, we identified an insertional allele hi1727, which disrupts the gene encoding RNA helicase dead-box 18 (Ddx18). Homozygous Ddx18 mutant embryos exhibit a profound loss of myeloid and erythroid cells along with cardiovascular abnormalities and reduced size. These mutants also display prominent apoptosis and a G1 cell-cycle arrest. Loss of p53, but not Bcl-xl overexpression, rescues myeloid cells to normal levels, suggesting that the hematopoietic defect is because of p53-dependent G1 cell-cycle arrest. We then sequenced primary samples from 262 patients with myeloid malignancies because genes essential for myelopoiesis are often mutated in human leukemias. We identified 4 nonsynonymous sequence variants (NSVs) of DDX18 in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient samples. RNA encoding wild-type DDX18 and 3 NSVs rescued the hematopoietic defect, indicating normal DDX18 activity. RNA encoding one mutation, DDX18-E76del, was unable to rescue hematopoiesis, and resulted in reduced myeloid cell numbers in ddx18(hi1727/+) embryos, indicating this NSV likely functions as a dominant-negative allele. These studies demonstrate the use of the zebrafish as a robust in vivo system for assessing the function of genes mutated in AML, which will become increasingly important as more sequence variants are identified by next-generation resequencing technologies.
Ddx18 is essential for cell-cycle progression in zebrafish hematopoietic cells and is mutated in human AML / E. Payne, N. Bolli, J. Rhodes, O. Abdel-Wahab, R. Levine, C. Hedvat, R. Stone, A. Khanna-Gupta, H. Sun, J. Kanki, H. Gazda, A. Beggs, F. Cotter, A. Look. - In: BLOOD. - ISSN 0006-4971. - 118:4(2011 Jul 28), pp. 903-915.
Titolo: | Ddx18 is essential for cell-cycle progression in zebrafish hematopoietic cells and is mutated in human AML |
Autori: | BOLLI, NICCOLO' (Secondo) |
Parole Chiave: | diamond-blackan anemia; acute myeloid-leukemia; ribosomal-subunit biogenesis; saccharomyces-cerevisiae; positional cloning; helicase HAS1P; protein S19; gene; RNA; mutations |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore MED/15 - Malattie del Sangue |
Data di pubblicazione: | 28-lug-2011 |
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Tipologia: | Article (author) |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2010-11-318022 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01 - Articolo su periodico |
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