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| Title: | Pyjacker identifies enhancer hijacking events in acute myeloid leukemia including MNX1 activation via deletion 7q |
| Creators Name: | Sollier, E., Riedel, A., Toprak, U.H., Wierzbinska, J.A., Weichenhan, D., Schmid, J.P., Hakobyan, M., Touzart, A., Jahn, E., Vick, B., Brown-Burke, F., Kelly, K., Kelekci, S., Pejkovska, A., Goyal, A., Baehr, M., Breuer, K., Chen, M.J.M., Llamazares-Prada, M., Hartmann, M., Schoenung, M., Correia, N., Trumpp, A., Abdullah, Y., Klingmueller, U., Mughal, S.S., Brors, B., Westermann, F., Schlesner, M., Vosberg, S., Herold, T., Greif, P.A., Pfeifer, D., Luebbert, M., Fischer, T., Heidel, F., Gebhard, C., Walter, W., Haferlach, T., Eisfeld, A.K., Mrozek, K., Nicolet, D., Bullinger, L., Smeenk, L., Erpelinck, C., Mulet-Lazaro, R., Delwel, R., Ernst, A., Scherer, M., Lutsik, P., Jeremias, I., Doehner, K., Doehner, H., Lipka, D.B. and Plass, C. |
| Abstract: | Acute myeloid leukemia with complex karyotype (ckAML) is characterized by high genomic complexity, including frequent TP53 mutations and chromothripsis. We hypothesized that the numerous genomic rearrangements could reposition active enhancers near proto-oncogenes, leading to their aberrant expression. We developed pyjacker, a computational tool for the detection of enhancer hijacking events, and applied it to a cohort of 39 ckAML samples. Pyjacker identified motor neuron and pancreas homeobox 1 (MNX1), a gene aberrantly expressed in 1.4% of AML patients, often as a result of del(7)(q22q36) associated with hijacking of a CDK6 enhancer. MNX1-activated cases show significant co-occurrence with BCOR mutations and a gene signature shared with t(7;12)(q36;p13) pediatric AML. We demonstrated that MNX1 is a dependency gene, as its knockdown in a xenograft model reduces leukemia cell fitness. In conclusion, enhancer hijacking is a frequent mechanism for oncogene activation in AML. |
| Keywords: | Animals, Mice |
| Source: | bioRxiv |
| Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
| Article Number: | 2024.09.11.611224 |
| Date: | 13 September 2024 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.11.611224 |
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