Jaju, Rina J., Fidler, Carrie, Haas, Oskar A., Strickson, Amanda J., Watkins, Fiona, Clark, Kevin, Cross, Nicholas C.P., Cheng, Jan-Fang, Aplan, Peter D., Kearney, Lyndal, Boultwood, Jacqueline and Wainscoat, James S. (2001) A novel gene, NSD1, is fused to NUP98 in the t(5;11)(q35;p15.5) in de novo childhood acute myeloid leukemia. Blood, 98 (4), 1264-1267. (doi:10.1182/blood.V98.4.1264).
Abstract
The recurrent translocation t(5;11)(q35;p15.5) associated with a 5q deletion, del(5q), has been reported in childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We report the cloning of the translocation breakpoints in de novo childhood AML harboring a cryptic t(5;11)(q35;p15.5). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis demonstrated that the nucleoporin gene (NUP98) at 11p15.5 was disrupted by this translocation. By using 3'-rapid amplification of complementary DNA ends (3'-RACE) polymerase chain reaction, we identified a chimeric messenger RNA that results in the in-frame fusion of NUP98 to a novel gene, NSD1. The NSD1 gene has 2596 amino acid residues and a 85% homology to the murine Nsd1 with the domain structure being conserved. The NSD1 gene was localized to 5q35 by FISH and is widely expressed. The reciprocal transcript, NSD1-NUP98, was also detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. This is the first report in which the novel gene NSD1 has been implicated in human malignancy.
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