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US 20050287530A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2005/0287530 A1 Croce et al. (43) Pub. Date: Dec. 29, 2005 (54) TCL-1B GENE AND PROTEIN AND Publication Classification RELATED METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS (51) Int. Cl." ............................ C12O 1/68; CO7H 21/04; (76) Inventors: Carlo M. Croce, Philadelphia, PA A61K 39/395; CO7K 14/82; (US); Yuri Pekarsky, Philadelphia, PA CO7K 16/30 (US) (52) U.S. Cl. ......................... 435/6; 435/69.1; 435/320.1; 435/325; 530/350; 530/388.8; Correspondence Address: 424/155.1; 536/23.5 HAMILTON, BROOK, SMITH & REYNOLDS, P.C. 530 VIRGINA ROAD (57) ABSTRACT P.O. BOX 91.33 CONCORD, MA 01742-9133 (US) The TCL1 gene family, located on the human chromosome at the 14q32.1 locus, are implicated in the development of (21) Appl. No.: 10/678,790 T-cell malignancies. The present invention discloses the identification and characterization of new members of this (22) Filed: Oct. 2, 2003 gene family, the TCL-1b, TNG1 and TNG2 genes. The TCL-1b, TNG1 and TNG2 gene sequences are expressed at Related U.S. Application Data very low levels in normal bone marrow and peripheral lymphocytes, but are activated in T-cell leukemia and lym (63) Continuation of application No. 09/526,329, filed on phoma by rearrangements of the 14q32.1 locus. The present Mar. 15, 2000, now abandoned. invention relates to the identification of these chromosome 14 abnormalities, and methods for detecting and treating any (60) Provisional application No. 60/124,714, filed on Mar. T-cell malignancies that develop, as well as preventing the 15, 1999. development of these T-cell malignancies. 20kb t(1414) r" 9S "" t(14:14) t(14:14) to/14) MEKKNBBEC RKK S C S M C K E F S N S S M 1 2 3 4 L3 kb. 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B - actin --- Figure 8 Patent Application Publication Dec. 29, 2005 Sheet 9 of 10 US 2005/0287530 A1 ###############5)|HS) v V v vy v H Patent Application Publication Dec. 29, 2005 Sheet 10 of 10 US 2005/0287530 A1 Flexible loop a Figure 10 US 2005/0287530 A1 Dec. 29, 2005 TCL-1B GENE AND PROTEIN AND RELATED in humans (T-CLL) and is activated in these leukemias by, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS iuxtaposition to the T-cell receptor C/6 locus caused by chromosomal translocations, t(14:14)(q11;32), CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED t(7,14)(q35;q32), or inversions inv(14)(q11;q32). Normally APPLICATIONS TCL1 expression is observed in early T-cell progenitors (CD4-CD8CD3) and lymphoid cells of the B-cell lineage: 0001. This application claims priority, in part, under 35 pre B-cells and immature IgM expressing B-cells. Introduc USC S 119 based upon U.S. Provisional Patent Application tion of a TCL1 transgene under the control of alck promoter No. 60/124,714 filed Mar. 15, 1999. caused mature T-cell leukemia in mice. (Virgilio et al., 1998, 0002 This invention was made in part with government Proc Natl AcadSci USA, 95:3885-3889). support under Grant numbers CA39880 and CA51083 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The govern 0008 However, some cases of T-cell malignancies with ment has certain rights in the invention. abnormalities Such as gene amplification at 14q32.1 did not show activation of the TCL1 expression, Suggesting that FIELD OF THE INVENTION perhaps an additional oncogene may be located in 14q32.1. The second member of the TCL1 gene family, MTCP1, is 0003. The present invention relates to the field of molecu located at Xq28 and activated in rare cases of mature T-cell lar biology, more particularly to the isolation and character leukemia with a tX;14)(q28;q11) translocation. The present ization of a third member of the TCL1 gene family, specifi invention involves the isolation and characterization of the cally TCL-1b, also activated by chromosomal third member of the TCL1 gene family, TCL1b, located at rearrangements in T cell leukemias. 14q32.1 and also activated by rearrangements at 14q32.1 in T-cell leukemias. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 0009 Rearrangements of the TCL-1 locus at chromo 0004. There is a cow association between particular chro Some 14q32.1 are unique, in that the other locus involved in mosomal abnormalities, e.g., chromosomal translocations, these rearrangements, namely the TCR C/6 locus, is also on inversions, and deletions, and certain types of malignancy chromosome 14 at Subband q11 (Croce et al., 1985, Science indicating that Such abnormalities may have a causative role 227:1044-1047; Isobe et al., 1988, Proc Natl AcadSci USA, in the cancer process. Chromosomal abnormalities may lead 85:3933-3937). For this reason, the rearrangements to gene fusion resulting in chimeric oncoproteins, Such as is observed cytogenetically are either chromosomal inver observed in the majority of the tumors involving the myeloid Sions, inv(14) (q11;q32), involving only one of the chromo lineage. Alternatively, chromosomal abnormalities may lead Somes 14 or translocations involving both. chromosomes 14 to deregulation of protooncogenes by their juxtaposition to Such as the t014;14) (q11;q32), or more rarely, the t07:14) a regulatory element active in the hematopoietic cells, Such (q35;q32) involving the TCR Blocus at 7q35 (Isobe et al., as is observed in the translocation occurring in the lympho 1988, Proc Natl AcadSci USA, 85:3933-3937). Several of cytic lineage (Virgilio et al., 1993, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. the breakpoints at 14q32.1 involved in these translocations USA, 90:9275-9279). have been cloned and characterized (Russo et al., 1988, Cell, 0005 Non random chromosomal translocations are char 51:137-144; Baer, et al., 1987, Proc Natl AcadSci, 84:9069 acteristic of most human hematopoietic malignancies 9073; Mengle-Gaw et al., 1987, EMBO 1:2273-2280; Bert (Haluska et al., 1987, Ann. Rev. Genet, 21:321-345) and may ness et al., 1990, Cancer Genet Cytogenet, 44:47-54). be involved in some solid tumors (Croce, 1987, Cell, 0010. The TCL-1 locus, a chromosomal region of 49:155-156). In B and T cells, chromosomal translocations approximately 350 kb as determined by placement of trans and inversions often occur as a consequence of mistakes location breakpoints on the long range genomic map, has during the normal process of recombination of the genes for recently been cloned (Virgilio, et al., 1993, Proc Natl Acad immunoglobulins (Ig) or T-cell receptors (TCR). These Sci USA, 90:9275-9279). The involvement of such a large rearrangements juxtapose enhancer elements of the Ig or region in translocation events Suggests that activation of the TCR genes to oncogenes whose expression is then deregu putative TCL-1 gene may occur from a distance of many lated (Croce, 1987, Cell, 41: 155-156). In the majority of the kilobases, as previously observed for the BCL-1/CCNDI cases, the rearrangements observed in lymphoid malignan gene in mantle cell lymphoma (Tsujimoto, et al., 1984, cies occur between two different chromosomes. Science 22.4:1403-1406; Rosenberg, et al., 1991, Proc Natl 0006. The TCL-1 locus on chromosome 14 band q32.1 is AcadSci USA, 88:9638-9642; Withers, et al., 1991, Mol Cell frequently involved in the chromosomal translocations and Biol, 11:4846-4853; Motokura and Arnold, 1993, Genes inversions with the T-cell receptor genes observed in Several Chrom & Cancer, 7:89-95) and the MYC oncogene in post-thymic types of T-cell leukemias and lymphomas, Burkitt lymphoma (Dalla-Favera, et al., 1982, Proc Natl including T-prolymphocytic leukemias (T-PLL) (Brito-Ba AcadSci USA, 79:7824-7827; Nishikura, et al., 1983, Proc bapulle and Catovsky, 1991, Cancer Genet. Cytogenet, Natl Acad Sci USA, 80:4822-4826) and in acute T-cell 55:1-9), acute and chronic leukemias associated with the leukemia (Erikson, et al., 1986, Science, 232:884-886).