| Identity |
| Other names | AF17 (ALL1 fused gene from chromosome 17) |
| HGNC | MLLT6 |
| Location | 17q21 |
| Location_base_pair | Starts at 34115399 and ends at 34139582 bp from pter ( according to hg18-Mar_2006). |
| Local_order | proximal to RARA, also in 17q21; HLF is even more distal in 17q22 |
| DNA/RNA |
| Transcription | 7.5 and 5 kb mRNA; coding sequence: 3.3 kb |
| Protein |
| Description | 1093 amino acids; N- term - 3 Zn fingers (LAP type) and a leucine zipper - C-term; a leucine zipper is a dimerization motif |
| Localisation | nuclear |
| Function | transcriptional regulation factor |
| Homology | with AF10 and BR140, a gene sitting in 3p25 |
| Implicated in |
| Entity | t(11;17)(q23;q21) /ANLL --> MLL-AF17 |
| Disease | ANLL and MDS |
| Cytogenetics | additional anomaly: +8 |
| Hybrid/Mutated Gene | 5' MLL - 3' AF17 |
| Abnormal Protein | N-term AT hook and DNA methyltransferase from MLL fused to the leucine zipper C-term of AF17 |
| External links |
| Bibliography |
| Leucine-zipper dimerization motif encoded by the AF17 gene fused to ALL-1 (MLL) in acute leukemia. |
| Prasad R, Leshkowitz D, Gu Y, Alder H, Nakamura T, Saito H, Huebner K, Berger R, Croce CM, Canaani E |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1994 ; 91 (17) : 8107-8111. |
| PMID 8058765 |
| Chromosome abnormalities in leukaemia: the 11q23 paradigm. |
| Young BD, Saha V |
| Cancer surveys. 1996 ; 28 : 225-245. |
| PMID 8977038 |
| Molecular basis of 11q23 rearrangements in hematopoietic malignant proliferations. |
| Bernard OA, Berger R |
| Genes, chromosomes & cancer. 1995 ; 13 (2) : 75-85. |
| PMID 7542910 |
| 11q23 rearrangements in acute leukemia. |
| Rubnitz JE, Behm FG, Downing JR |
| Leukemia : official journal of the Leukemia Society of America, Leukemia Research Fund, U.K. 1996 ; 10 (1) : 74-82. |
| PMID 8558942 |
| REVIEW articles | automatic search in PubMed |
| Last year publications | automatic search in PubMed |
| Contributor(s) |
| Written | 12-1997 | Jean-Loup Huret |
| Citation |
| This paper should be referenced as such : |
| Huret JL . MLLT6 (myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia (trithorax homolog, Drosophila); translocated to, 6). Atlas Genet Cytogenet Oncol Haematol. December 1997 . URL : http://AtlasGeneticsOncology.org/Genes/AF17.html |
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