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Session X : Cell death in cancer Poster X, 58<br />

Jpk, a novel cell death inducer, regulates the expression of Hoxa7 in F9 teratocarcinoma<br />

cells, but not during apoptosis<br />

Eun Young Lee <strong>and</strong> Myoung Hee Kim<br />

Department of Anatomy, Embryology Lab., Brain Korea 21 Project for Medical<br />

Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Sodaemoongu Shinchondong 134, Seoul,<br />

120-752, Korea. E-mail: nannaya1210@paran.com ; mhkim1@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr<br />

Increased expression of both Meis1 <strong>and</strong> Hox genes, such as Hoxa7 <strong>and</strong> –a9 has been<br />

characterized in several acute myeloid leukemia. Although the overexpression of Meis1 alone<br />

was shown to induce massive apoptosis, coexpression of Meis1 <strong>and</strong> Hox was reported to<br />

suppress the apoptosis, suggesting that Hox protein might participate in the apoptotic process.<br />

Jpk was isolated as a putative regulatory factor associating with the upstream regulatory<br />

sequence of murine Hoxa7. Since overexpression of Jpk caused apoptosis in bacteria as well<br />

as in eukaryotic cells, we tried to analyze the relationship between Jpk <strong>and</strong> Hoxa7 during<br />

apoptosis after confirming the regulatory effect of Jpk on the expression of Hoxa7 in F9<br />

teratocarcinoma cells. For that purpose, an effector (pEGFP-Jpk) <strong>and</strong> reporter (pGL2-NM307)<br />

plasmid containing a luciferase gene under the 307 bp (NM307) of Hoxa7 upstream<br />

regulatory sequence were constructed. In the presence of Jpk (effector), luciferase activity<br />

was increased <strong>and</strong> this enhancement was decreased by siRNA against Jpk, suggesting that Jpk<br />

is a regulatory factor of Hoxa7. In order to see whether Jpk still regulate the expression of<br />

Hoxa7 during apoptosis, F9 cells were transiently transfected with pcDNA-Jpk, <strong>and</strong> analyzed<br />

the expression of Jpk, Hoxa7, <strong>and</strong> CHOP-10 using RT-PCR. Hoxa7 was not upregulated in<br />

the presence of Jpk whereas CHOP-10 was upregulated, indicating that the regulatory<br />

mechanism of Jpk on the expression of Hoxa7 might be different depending on the cell status;<br />

i. e., apoptotic or proliferative condition.<br />

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