Investigation on the role of the ATM gene in chronic myeloid leukaemia

J. V. Melo, A. Kumberova, A. G. Van Dijk, J. M. Goldman, M. R. Yuille

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    Abstract

    Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is characterised by an indolent, chronic phase (CP) preceding an acute transformation to blast crisis (BC). While the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene is strongly implicated in the CP, the molecular changes underlying BC are largely unknown. The ataxia telangiectasia gene, ATM, is a candidate gene for this transformation because the complex karyotypes associated with BC of CML suggest that DNA double-strand break repair is defective and because the ABL pathway involves the interaction between the Abl and the Atm proteins. We performed a mutational analysis for ATM in CML using genomic DNA from 14 CML cell lines and 59 CML patients in BC. No clearly deleterious nucleotide changes were observed. A new polymorphism C4138T was discovered which results in a non-conservative amino acid substitution (H1380Y). This variant lies in the Atm recognition motif for the Abl protein. While ATM is unlikely to contribute substantially to CML, further investigation of the H1380Y substitution should clarify whether it has any functional effect.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1448-1450
    Number of pages2
    JournalLeukemia
    Volume15
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

    Keywords

    • Ataxia telangiectasia
    • Blast crisis
    • Chronic myeloid leukaemia
    • Genomic instability
    • Mutation

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