Negative regulation of activation-induced cytidine deaminase gene transcription in developing B cells by a PU.1-interacting intronic region.

Mol Immunol

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Division of Genetics and Development, Children's Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: November 2024

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID, encoded by Aicda) plays a key role in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination in germinal center B cells. However, off-target effects of AID are implicated in human leukemia and lymphoma. A mouse model of precursor B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia driven by deletion of the related transcription factors PU.1 and Spi-B revealed C->T transition mutations compatible with being induced by AID. Therefore, we hypothesized that PU.1 negatively regulates Aicda during B cell development. Aicda mRNA transcript levels were increased in leukemia cells and bone marrow pre-B cells lacking PU.1 and/or Spi-B, relative to wild type cells. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, PU.1 was found to interact with a negative regulatory region (R2-1) within the first intron of Aicda. CRISPR-Cas9-induced mutagenesis of R2-1 in cultured pre-B cells resulted in upregulation of Aicda in response to lipopolysaccharide stimulation. Mutation of the PU.1 interaction site and neighboring sequences resulted in reduced repressive ability of R2-1 in transient transfection analysis followed by luciferase assays. These results show that a PU.1-interacting intronic region negatively regulates Aicda transcription in developing B cells.

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