Project description:While the role of the paired-type homeobox transcription factor MIXL1 in early ebryonic development has been previously established, very little is known about the role of MIXL1 in adult hematopoiesis. To determine what role MIXL1 plays in adult hematopoietic cells, we used an established enforced expression line for FLAG-tagged MIXL1 in U937, then isolated targetted regions of the genome by ChIP-Seq. Through this analysis, we identified new putative direct transcirptional targets for MIXL1 in AML and hematopoiesis.
Project description:While the role of the paired-type homeobox transcription factor MIXL1 in early embryonic development has been previously established, very little is known about the role of MIXL1 in adult hematopoiesis. To determine what role MIXL1 plays in adult hematopoietic cells, we established an enforced expression model for MIXL1 in the cell line U937, then analyzed the changes of gene expression caused by increased expression of MIXL1 by microarray analysis.
