The preleukemic state of mice reconstituted with Mixl1-transduced marrow cells
- Author(s)
- Metcalf, D; Glaser, S; Mifsud, S; Di Rago, L; Robb, L;
- Details
- Publication Year 2007-12-11,Volume 104,Issue #50,Page 20013-20018
- Journal Title
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Murine granulocytic cells, in becoming leukemic, need to acquire enhanced self-generation and a capacity for autocrine growth stimulation. Mice transplanted with bone marrow cells transduced with the Mixl1 homeobox gene develop a very high frequency of myeloid leukemia derived from the transduced cells. Preleukemic mice contained a high frequency of transduced clonogenic granulocytic cells. They exhibited an abnormally high capacity for self-replication and could generate immortalized granulocytic cell lines that remained absolutely dependent on either GM-CSF or IL-3 and were not leukemic. Organs from mice repopulated by marrow cells transduced either with Mixl1 or the control murine stem cell virus vector exhibited a capacity to produce IL-3 in vitro, activity being highest with the lungs, marrow, bladder, and thymus. Supporting evidence for the in vivo production of IL-3 was the frequent development of mast cells in the marrow. Overexpression of Mixl1 appears capable of inducing an abnormal self-renewal capacity in granulocytic precursors. Aberrant production of IL-3 was not present in the continuous Mixl cell lines and was therefore not in itself likely to be a leukemogenic change but it could support the enhanced survival and proliferation of the Mixl1 granulocytic populations until a final leukemogenic mutation occurs in them.
- Publisher
- NATL ACAD SCIENCES
- Keywords
- ACUTE MYELOID-LEUKEMIA; GM-CSF; HEMATOPOIETIC-CELLS
- Link To PubMed Central Version
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2148414/
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0710339104
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