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Blood, 1 March 2005, Vol. 105, No. 5, pp. 2093-2098.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on September 2, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-03-1114.
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Submitted March 24, 2004
Accepted August 21, 2004
Detection of BCR-ABL kinase mutations in CD34+ cells from chronic myelogenous leukemia patients in complete cytogenetic remission on imatinib mesylate treatment
Su Chu, Helen Xu, Neil P Shah, David S Snyder, Stephen J Forman, Charles L Sawyers, and Ravi Bhatia*
Division of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* Corresponding author; email: rbhatia{at}coh.org.
The BCR-ABL kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate induces complete cytogenetic responses (CCR) in a high proportion of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients. However patients in CCR usually demonstrate evidence of residual BCR-ABL+ progenitors. The mechanisms underlying persistence of small numbers of malignant progenitors in imatinib-sensitive patients are unclear. BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations affecting drug binding can lead to secondary resistance to imatinib. We show here that kinase mutations could be detected in CD34+ cells isolated from CML patients in CCR on imatinib. The majority of mutations seen have not been reported in previous clinical studies. Interestingly several of the involved amino acid positions have been implicated in an in vitro mutagenesis screen. These BCR-ABL mutations were associated with varying levels of imatinib resistance. Two of five patients in whom mutations were detected on initial evaluation have relapsed. In addition four patients in whom mutations were not initially detected, but with rising BCR-ABL mRNA levels on Q-PCR analysis, had mutations detected on follow up evaluation. We conclude that BCR-ABL kinase mutations can be detected in CD34+ cells from CML patients in CCR on imatinib, may contribute to persistence of small populations of malignant progenitors, and could be a potential source of relapse.

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