Prenatal and postnatal myeloid cells demonstrate stepwise progression in the pathogenesis of MLL fusion gene leukemia
Prenatal and postnatal myeloid cells demonstrate stepwise progression in the pathogenesis of MLL fusion gene leukemia
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DOI:
10.1182/blood-2002-05-1515
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发表时间:
2003-04-15
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20.3
通讯作者:
Kersey, JH
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作者:
Johnson, JJ;Chen, WL;Kersey, JH
The steps to leukemia following an in utero fusion of MLL (HRX, ALL-1) to a partner gene in humans are not. known. introduction of the MII-AF9 fusion gene into embryonic stem cells results in leukemia in mice with cell-type specificity similar to. humans. In this study we used myeloid colony assays, immunophenotyping, and transplantation to evaluate myelopoiesis in MII-AF9 mice. Colony assays demonstrated that both prenatal and postnatal MII-AF9 tissues have significantly increased numbers of CP11b(+)/CD117(+)/Gr-1(+/-) myeloid cells, often in compact clusters. The self-renewal capacity of prenatal myeloid progenitors was found to decrease following serial replating of colony-forming cells. In contrast, early postnatal myeloid progenitors increased following replating; however, the enhanced self-renewal of early postnatal myeloid progenitor cells was limited and did not result in long-term cell, lines or leukemia in vivo. Unlimited replating, longterm CD11b/Gr-1(+) myeloid call lines, and the ability to produce early leukemia in Vivo in transplantation experiments, were found only in mice with overt leukemia. Prenatal MII-AF9 tissues had reduced total I (mature and progenitor) CD11b/Gr-1+ cells compared with wild-type tissues. Colony replating, immunophenotyping, and cytochemistry suggest that any perturbation of cellular differentiation from the prenatal stage onward is partial and largely reversible. We describe a no vel informative in vitro and in vivo model system that permits study of the stages in the pathogenesis of MII fusion gene leukemia, beginning in prenatal myeloid cells, I progressing to a second stage, in the postnatal period and, finally, resulting in overt leukemia in adult animals. (C) 2003 by The American Society of Hematology.