AFF1

AF4/FMR2 family, member 1

Identifiers

AFF1; AF4; MGC134969; MLLT2; PBM1

External IDs

OMIM: 159557 MGI: 1100819 HomoloGene: 4340 GeneCards: AFF1 Gene

Gene Ontology
Molecular function	• sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity
Cellular component	• nucleus
Biological process	• transcription, DNA-dependent • regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

RefSeq (mRNA)

RefSeq (protein)

Location (UCSC)

Chr 4:
87.86 – 88.06 Mb

Chr 5:
104.12 – 104.28 Mb

PubMed search

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[2]

AF4/FMR2 family member 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AFF1 gene.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

DISCONTINUED: The record for PBM1 has been withdrawn by HGNC.^[4]

References

^ Domer PH, Fakharzadeh SS, Chen CS, Jockel J, Johansen L, Silverman GA, Kersey JH, Korsmeyer SJ (Sep 1993). "Acute mixed-lineage leukemia t(4;11)(q21;q23) generates an MLL-AF4 fusion product". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 90 (16): 7884–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.90.16.7884. PMC 47247. PMID 7689231. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=47247.
^ Gu Y, Nakamura T, Alder H, Prasad R, Canaani O, Cimino G, Croce CM, Canaani E (Dec 1992). "The t(4;11) chromosome translocation of human acute leukemias fuses the ALL-1 gene, related to Drosophila trithorax, to the AF-4 gene". Cell 71 (4): 701–8. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90603-A. PMID 1423625.
^ Chen CS, Hilden JM, Frestedt J, Domer PH, Moore R, Korsmeyer SJ, Kersey JH (Sep 1993). "The chromosome 4q21 gene (AF-4/FEL) is widely expressed in normal tissues and shows breakpoint diversity in t(4;11)(q21;q23) acute leukemia". Blood 82 (4): 1080–5. PMID 8353274.
^ ^a ^b "Entrez Gene: AFF1 AF4/FMR2 family, member 1". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=4299.

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Nakamura T, Alder H, Gu Y, et al. (1993). "Genes on chromosomes 4, 9, and 19 involved in 11q23 abnormalities in acute leukemia share sequence homology and/or common motifs.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 (10): 4631–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.90.10.4631. PMC 46566. PMID 8506309. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=46566.
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Nilson I, Reichel M, Ennas MG, et al. (1997). "Exon/intron structure of the human AF-4 gene, a member of the AF-4/LAF-4/FMR-2 gene family coding for a nuclear protein with structural alterations in acute leukaemia.". Br. J. Haematol. 98 (1): 157–69. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.1522966.x. PMID 9233580.
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Raffini LJ, Slater DJ, Rappaport EF, et al. (2002). "Panhandle and reverse-panhandle PCR enable cloning of der(11) and der(other) genomic breakpoint junctions of MLL translocations and identify complex translocation of MLL, AF-4, and CDK6.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (7): 4568–73. doi:10.1073/pnas.062066799. PMC 123688. PMID 11930009. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=123688.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241.
Bertrand FE, Spengeman JD, Shah N, LeBien TW (2004). "B-cell development in the presence of the MLL/AF4 oncoprotein proceeds in the absence of HOX A7 and HOX A9 expression.". Leukemia 17 (12): 2454–9. doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403178. PMID 14562113.
Caslini C, Serna A, Rossi V, et al. (2004). "Modulation of cell cycle by graded expression of MLL-AF4 fusion oncoprotein.". Leukemia 18 (6): 1064–71. doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403321. PMID 14990976.
Bursen A, Moritz S, Gaussmann A, et al. (2004). "Interaction of AF4 wild-type and AF4.MLL fusion protein with SIAH proteins: indication for t(4;11) pathobiology?". Oncogene 23 (37): 6237–49. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1207837. PMID 15221006.
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Beausoleil SA, Jedrychowski M, Schwartz D, et al. (2004). "Large-scale characterization of HeLa cell nuclear phosphoproteins.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (33): 12130–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404720101. PMC 514446. PMID 15302935. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=514446.
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