Abstract
CHROMOSOMAL translocations associated with malignancies often result in deregulated expression of genes encoding transcription factors1. In human T-cell leukaemias such regulators belong to diverse protein families and may normally be expressed widely (for example, Ttg-1/rbtnl, Ttg-2/rbtn2) 2,3, exclusively outside the haematopoietic system (for example, Hoxll) 4, or specifically in haematopoietic cells and other selected sites (for example, tal-1/ SCL, lyl-1) 5,6. Aberrant expression within T cells is thought to interfere with programmes of normal maturation. The most frequently activated gene in acute T-cell leukaemias, tal-1 (also called SCL) 7,8, encodes a candidate regulator of haematopoietic development9, a basic-helix-loop-helix protein5, related to critical myogenic10 and neurogenic11 factors. Here we show by targeted gene disruption in mice12 that tal-1 is essential for embryonic blood formation in vivo. With respect to embryonic erythropoiesis, tal-1 deficiency resembles loss of the erythroid transcription factor GATA-113,14 or the LIM protein rbtn215 .Profound reduction in myeloid cells cultured in vivo from tal-1 null yolk sacs suggests a broader defect manifest at the myelo-erythroid or multipotential progenitor cell level.
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Shivdasani, R., Mayer, E. & Orkin, S. Absence of blood formation in mice lacking the T-cell leukaemia oncoprotein tal-1/SCL. Nature 373, 432–434 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373432a0
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