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Science 8 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5557, pp. 1079 - 1082
DOI: 10.1126/science.1065173

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Methyltransferase Recruitment and DNA Hypermethylation of Target Promoters by an Oncogenic Transcription Factor

Luciano Di Croce,1* Veronica A. Raker,1 Massimo Corsaro,1 Francesco Fazi,2 Mirco Fanelli,15 Mario Faretta,1 Francois Fuks,4 Francesco Lo Coco,3 Tony Kouzarides,4 Clara Nervi,2 Saverio Minucci,1 Pier Giuseppe Pelicci16*

DNA methylation of tumor suppressor genes is a frequent mechanism of transcriptional silencing in cancer. The molecular mechanisms underlying the specificity of methylation are unknown. We report here that the leukemia-promoting PML-RAR fusion protein induces gene hypermethylation and silencing by recruiting DNA methyltransferases to target promoters and that hypermethylation contributes to its leukemogenic potential. Retinoic acid treatment induces promoter demethylation, gene reexpression, and reversion of the transformed phenotype. These results establish a mechanistic link between genetic and epigenetic changes during transformation and suggest that hypermethylation contributes to the early steps of carcinogenesis.

1 Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
2 Department of Histology and Medical Embryology,
3 Department of Cellular Biotechnology and Hematology, University of Rome, "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy.
4 Wellcome/CRC Institute and Department of Pathology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
5 Department of Morphological Science, University of Camerino, Italy.
6 Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC) Institute for Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ldicroce{at}lar.ieo.it (L.D.C.); pgpelicci{at}ieo.it (P.G.P.)


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Cancer Res. 63, 498-504
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Inhibitors of Histone Deacetylase and DNA Methyltransferase Synergistically Activate the Methylated Metallothionein I Promoter by Activating the Transcription Factor MTF-1 and Forming an Open Chromatin Structure.
K. Ghoshal, J. Datta, S. Majumder, S. Bai, X. Dong, M. Parthun, and S. T. Jacob (2002)
Mol. Cell. Biol. 22, 8302-8319
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A Novel Dnmt3a Isoform Produced from an Alternative Promoter Localizes to Euchromatin and Its Expression Correlates with Active de Novo Methylation.
T. Chen, Y. Ueda, S. Xie, and E. Li (2002)
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 38746-38754
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Cancer epigenomics.
C. Plass (2002)
Hum. Mol. Genet. 11, 2479-2488
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Alternative Promoter Identified between a Hypermethylated Upstream Region of Repetitive Elements and a CpG Island in Human ABO Histo-blood Group Genes.
Y. Kominato, Y. Hata, H. Takizawa, K. Matsumoto, K. Yasui, J.-i. Tsukada, and F.-i. Yamamoto (2002)
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 37936-37948
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Dnmt3L is a transcriptional repressor that recruits histone deacetylase.
R. Deplus, C. Brenner, W. A. Burgers, P. Putmans, T. Kouzarides, Y. d. Launoit, and F. Fuks (2002)
Nucleic Acids Res. 30, 3831-3838
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Epstein-Barr virus in gastric adenocarcinomas: association with ethnicity and CDKN2A promoter methylation.
Q N Vo, J Geradts, M L Gulley, D A Boudreau, J C Bravo, and B G Schneider (2002)
J. Clin. Pathol. 55, 669-675
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Methylation and the Genome: the Power of a Small Amendment.
F. D. Urnov (2002)
J. Nutr. 132, 2450S-2456
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Loss of Retinoic Acid Receptor {beta} Gene Expression Is Linked to Aberrant Histone H3 Acetylation in Lung Cancer Cell Lines.
Y.-A. Suh, H.-Y. Lee, A. Virmani, J. Wong, K. K. Mann, W. H. Miller Jr., A. Gazdar, and J. M. Kurie (2002)
Cancer Res. 62, 3945-3949
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The Oncoprotein Set/TAF-1beta , an Inhibitor of Histone Acetyltransferase, Inhibits Active Demethylation of DNA, Integrating DNA Methylation and Transcriptional Silencing.
N. Cervoni, N. Detich, S.-b. Seo, D. Chakravarti, and M. Szyf (2002)
J. Biol. Chem. 277, 25026-25031
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Methylation Matters: Modeling a Manageable Genome.
J. M. Ordway and T. Curran (2002)
Cell Growth Differ. 13, 149-162
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