Figure 1

MS4A3 is strongly repressed by EVI1 in human myeloid cells. A) Heatmap summarizing expression changes of 56 genes affected by induction of EVI1 in U937T_EVI1-HA cells (clones E10 and E14) as determined by microarray analyses at different time points after transfer to tetracycline (tet) free media. Parental U937T cells and U937T_vec (clone P2) cells incubated with or without tet for 48 h were used as controls. Log₂ transformed expression changes relative to cultures maintained in the presence of tet (red, upregulated; blue, downregulated) are shown in descending order. B) qRT-PCR confirmed repression of MS4A3 in U937T_EVI1-HA, but not U937T_vec cells after tet withdrawal. C, D) qRT-PCR showing EVI1-mediated down-regulation of MS4A3 in U937 (C) or HL-60 (D) cells constitutively expressing ectopic EVI1. E) qRT-PCR showing induction of MS4A3 after siRNA mediated down-regulation of EVI1 in UCSD-AML1 cells. Data in B-E represent means + SEMs from at least three independent biological replicate experiments. F) MS4A3 mRNA levels in a panel of 12 human myeloid cell lines (8 with low and 4 with high EVI1 expression) represented in GEO data set GSE35159 [54]. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 (Student’s t-test, two-tailed). The induction of MS4A3 after knock-down of EVI1 in UCSD-AML1 cells was not significant, but an at least 1.8-fold up-regulation was observed in four out of four independent biological replicate experiments.