@article{481ad4a03c5d4f55b33b6a327703f1fd,
title = "Sox4 Is a Key Oncogenic Target in C/EBPα Mutant Acute Myeloid Leukemia",
abstract = "Mutation or epigenetic silencing of the transcription factor C/EBPα is observed in \textasciitilde{}10\% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In both cases, a common global gene expression profile is observed, but downstream targets relevant for leukemogenesis are not known. Here, we identify Sox4 as a direct target of C/EBPα whereby its expression is inversely correlated with C/EBPα activity. Downregulation of Sox4 abrogated increased self-renewal of leukemic cells and restored their differentiation. Gene expression profiles of leukemia-initiating cells (LICs) from both Sox4 overexpression and murine C/EBPα mutant AML models clustered together but differed from other types of AML. Our data demonstrate that Sox4 overexpression resulting from C/EBPα inactivation contributes to the development of leukemia with a distinct LIC phenotype.",
author = "Hong Zhang and Meritxell Alberich-Jorda and Giovanni Amabile and Henry Yang and Staber, \{Philipp B.\} and Annalisa DiRuscio and Welner, \{Robert S.\} and Alexander Ebralidze and Junyan Zhang and Elena Levantini and V{\'e}ronique Lefebvre and Valk, \{Peter J.M.\} and Ruud Delwel and Maarten Hoogenkamp and Claus Nerlov and J{\"o}rg Cammenga and Borja Saez and Scadden, \{David T.\} and Constanze Bonifer and Min Ye and Tenen, \{Daniel G.\}",
note = "Funding Information: This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grants HL 56745 and CA118316 and Harvard Stem Cell Institute grant DP-0086-10-00. M.A. was supported by Navrat grant LK21307 from the Czech Ministry of Youth, Health and Sports. G.A. was supported by a Collegio Ghislieri fellowship. P.S. was supported by the Austrian Research Foundation and European Union. A.D.R. was supported by the Societa{\textquoteright} Italiana di Ematologia Sperimentale borsa di studio “Dr. Tito Bastianello.” R.S.W. was supported by the Jose Carreras Leukemia Foundation (FIJC F11/01). E.L. was supported by FAMRI CIA. V.L. was supported by National Institutes of Health grant NIH/NIAMS R01 AR54153. C.B. and M.H. were supported by grants from Leukaemia Lymphoma Research. We thank all members of the Tenen laboratory and Kristian Reckzeh for helpful discussions, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Flow Cytometry Core for their expertise, Angie Tan Lay Keng and Lee Ming Hui from the NUS-Duke genomic facility in Singapore for their expertise in microarray analysis, and Archibald Perkins and Joseph R. Nevins for providing us with experimental reagents. ",
year = "2013",
month = nov,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1016/j.ccr.2013.09.018",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "575--588",
journal = "Cancer Cell",
issn = "1535-6108",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "5",
}