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Blood, 15 February 2008, Vol. 111, No. 4, pp. 2388-2391. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on December 12, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-09-111245.
Submitted September 6, 2007
LBMC, CNRS UMR5239, IFR128, Faculte de Medecine Lyon Sud, Universite Lyon, Lyon, France * Corresponding author; email: eric.gilson{at}ens-lyon.fr.
In this study, we explored the telomeric changes that occur in B-Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (B-CLL), in which telomere length has recently been demonstrated to be a powerful prognostic marker. We carried out a transcriptomic analysis of telomerase components (hTERT and Dyskerin), shelterin proteins (TRF1, TRF2, hRAP1, TIN2, POT1 and TPP1) and of a set of multifunctional proteins involved in telomere maintenance (hEST1A, MRE11, RAD50, Ku80 and RPA1) in peripheral B-cells from 42 B-CLL patients and 20 healthy donors. We found that in B-CLL cells, the expressions of hTERT, Dyskerin, TRF1, hRAP1, POT1, hEST1A, MRE11, RAD50 and Ku80 were more than twofold reduced (p<0.001), contrasting with the higher expression of TPP1 and RPA1 (p<0.001). This differential expression pattern suggests that both telomerase downregulation and changes in telomeric proteins composition are involved in the pathogenesis of B-CLL
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