Distinct interactions of PML-RARalpha and PLZF-RARalpha with co-repressors determine differential responses to RA in APL.

He, Li-Zhen, Guidez, Fabien, Tribioli, Carla, Peruzzi, Daniela, Ruthardt, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-3811, Zelent, Arthur and Pandolfi, Pier Paolo 1998. Distinct interactions of PML-RARalpha and PLZF-RARalpha with co-repressors determine differential responses to RA in APL. Nature Genetics 18 , 126–135. 10.1038/ng0298-126

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Abstract

Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), associated with chromosomal translocations involving the retinoic acid receptor alpha gene (RARA) and the PML gene, is sensitive to retinoic acid (RA) treatment, while APL patients harbouring translocations between RARA and the PLZF gene do not respond to RA. We have generated PML-RARA and PLZF-RARA transgenic mice and show here that these fusion proteins play a critical role in leukaemogenesis and in determining responses to RA in APL, because PLZF-RARA transgenic mice develop RA-resistant leukaemia, while PML-RARA mice are responsive to RA treatment. We demonstrate that both PML-RARalpha and PLZF-RARalpha fusion proteins can act as transcriptional repressors and are able to interact with nuclear receptor transcriptional co-repressors, such as SMRT. PLZF-RARalpha, but not PML-RARalpha, can form, via its PLZF moiety, co-repressor complexes which are insensitive to RA. Histone deacetylase inhibitors such as Trichostatin A (TSA), in combination with RA, can overcome the transcriptional repressor activity of PML-RARalpha and PLZF-RARalpha as well as the unresponsiveness of PLZF-RARalpha-expressing leukaemic cells to RA. Thus, our findings unravel a crucial role for transcriptional silencing in APL pathogenesis and resistance to RA in APL.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Nature Research
ISSN:	1061-4036
Date of Acceptance:	6 January 1998
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2024 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166045

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