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Blood, 15 May 2004, Vol. 103, No. 10, pp. 3890-3896. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on January 15, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-10-3695.
NEOPLASIA TEL-AML1 promotes development of specific hematopoietic lineages consistent with preleukemic activityFrom the Molecular Haematology and Cancer Biology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom; and the Division of Molecular Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom.
The t(12;21)(p13;q22) translocation is the most common chromosomal abnormality yet identified in any pediatric leukemia and gives rise to the TEL-AML1 fusion product. To investigate the effects of TEL-AML1 on hematopoiesis, fetal liver hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) were transduced with retroviral vectors expressing this fusion protein. We show that TEL-AML1 dramatically alters differentiation of HPCs in vitro, preferentially promoting B-lymphocyte development, enhancing self-renewal of B-cell precursors, and leading to the establishment of long-term growth factordependent preB-cell lines. However, it had no effect on myeloid development in vitro. Further experiments were performed to determine whether TEL-AML1 also demonstrates lineage-specific activity in vivo. TEL-AML1expressing HPCs displayed a competitive advantage in reconstituting both B-cell and myeloid lineages in vivo but had no effect on reconstitution of the T-cell lineage. Despite promoting these alterations in hematopoiesis, TEL-AML1 did not induce leukemia in transplanted mice. Our study provides a unique insight into the role of TEL-AML1 in leukemia predisposition and a potential model to study the mechanism of leukemogenesis associated with this fusion.
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