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Varghese LN, Ungureanu D, Liau NPD, Young SN, Laktyushin A, Hammaren H, Lucet IS, Nicola NA, Silvennoinen O, Babon JJ, Murphy JM. Mechanistic insights into activation and SOCS3-mediated inhibition of myeloproliferative neoplasm-associated JAK2 mutants from biochemical and structural analyses. Biochem J 2014; 458:395-405. [PMID: 24354892 PMCID: PMC4085142 DOI: 10.1042/bj20131516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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JAK2 (Janus kinase 2) initiates the intracellular signalling cascade downstream of cell surface receptor activation by cognate haemopoietic cytokines, including erythropoietin and thrombopoietin. The pseudokinase domain (JH2) of JAK2 negatively regulates the catalytic activity of the adjacent tyrosine kinase domain (JH1) and mutations within the pseudokinase domain underlie human myeloproliferative neoplasms, including polycythaemia vera and essential thrombocytosis. To date, the mechanism of JH2-mediated inhibition of JH1 kinase activation as well as the susceptibility of pathological mutant JAK2 to inhibition by the physiological negative regulator SOCS3 (suppressor of cytokine signalling 3) have remained unclear. In the present study, using recombinant purified JAK2JH1-JH2 proteins, we demonstrate that, when activated, wild-type and myeloproliferative neoplasm-associated mutants of JAK2 exhibit comparable enzymatic activity and inhibition by SOCS3 in in vitro kinase assays. SAXS (small-angle X-ray scattering) showed that JAK2JH1-JH2 exists in an elongated configuration in solution with no evidence for interaction between JH1 and JH2 domains in cis. Collectively, these data are consistent with a model in which JAK2's pseudokinase domain does not influence the activity of JAK2 once it has been activated. Our data indicate that, in the absence of the N-terminal FERM domain and thus cytokine receptor association, the wild-type and pathological mutants of JAK2 are enzymatically equivalent and equally susceptible to inhibition by SOCS3.
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- Leila N. Varghese
- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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Santaguida M, Schepers K, King B, Sabnis AJ, Forsberg EC, Attema JL, Braun BS, Passegué E. JunB protects against myeloid malignancies by limiting hematopoietic stem cell proliferation and differentiation without affecting self-renewal. Cancer Cell 2009; 15:341-52. [PMID: 19345332 PMCID: PMC2669108 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2009.02.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2008] [Revised: 12/18/2008] [Accepted: 02/12/2009] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Loss of the JunB/AP-1 transcription factor induces a myeloproliferative disease (MPD) arising from the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) compartment. Here, we show that junB inactivation deregulates the cell-cycle machinery and increases the proliferation of long-term repopulating HSCs (LT-HSCs) without impairing their self-renewal or regenerative potential in vivo. We found that JunB loss destabilizes a complex network of genes and pathways that normally limit myeloid differentiation, leading to impaired responsiveness to both Notch and TGF-beta signaling due in part to transcriptional deregulation of the Hes1 gene. These results demonstrate that LT-HSC proliferation and differentiation are uncoupled from self-renewal and establish some of the mechanisms by which JunB normally limits the production of myeloid progenitors, hence preventing initiation of myeloid malignancies.
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- Marianne Santaguida
- The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
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- The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
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- The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
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- Institute for Biology of Stem Cells, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, 95064, USA
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- Institute for Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, 221 84 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
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- The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA
- Corresponding author: Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD, University of California San Francisco, Institute for Regeneration Medicine, 513 Parnassus Avenue, MSB-1471E, Box 0525, San Francisco, CA 94143-0525, USA, Phone: 415-476-2426, Fax: 415-514-2346, E-mail:
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Kareva NP, Efremov AV, Loseva MI, Ageeva TG, Pozdniakova SV. [Modification of antitumor chemotherapy toxicity in exposure to millimetric waves in experiment]. Patol Fiziol Eksp Ter 2007:19-21. [PMID: 18154082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Kim A, Morgan K, Hasz DE, Wiesner SM, Lauchle JO, Geurts JL, Diers MD, Le DT, Kogan SC, Parada LF, Shannon K, Largaespada DA. Beta common receptor inactivation attenuates myeloproliferative disease in Nf1 mutant mice. Blood 2006; 109:1687-91. [PMID: 17090653 PMCID: PMC1794059 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-05-025395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) syndrome is caused by germline mutations in the NF1 tumor suppressor, which encodes neurofibromin, a GTPase activating protein for Ras. Children with NF1 are predisposed to juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and lethally irradiated mice given transplants with homozygous Nf1 mutant (Nf1-/-) hematopoietic stem cells develop a fatal myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that models JMML. We investigated the requirement for signaling through the GM-CSF receptor to initiate and sustain this MPD by generating Nf1 mutant hematopoietic cells lacking the common beta chain (Beta c) of the GM-CSF receptor. Mice reconstituted with Nf1-/-, beta c-/- stem cells did not develop evidence of MPD despite the presence of increased number of immature hematopoietic progenitors in the bone marrow. Interestingly, when the Mx1-Cre transgene was used to inactivate a conditional Nf1 mutant allele in hematopoietic cells, concomitant loss of beta c-/- reduced the severity of the MPD, but did not abrogate it. Whereas inhibiting GM-CSF signaling may be of therapeutic benefit in JMML, our data also demonstrate aberrant proliferation of Nf1-/-myeloid progenitors that is independent of signaling through the GM-CSF receptor.
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- Andrew Kim
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, USA
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Middleton MK, Zukas AM, Rubinstein T, Jacob M, Zhu P, Zhao L, Blair I, Puré E. Identification of 12/15-lipoxygenase as a suppressor of myeloproliferative disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 203:2529-40. [PMID: 17043146 PMCID: PMC2118138 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Though Abl inhibitors are often successful therapies for the initial stages of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), refractory cases highlight the need for novel molecular insights. We demonstrate that mice deficient in the enzyme 12/15-lipoxygenase (12/15-LO) develop a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that progresses to transplantable leukemia. Although not associated with dysregulation of Abl, cells isolated from chronic stage 12/15-LO–deficient (Alox15) mice exhibit increased activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3–kinase (PI3-K) pathway, as indicated by enhanced phosphorylation of Akt. Furthermore, the transcription factor interferon consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP) is hyperphosphorylated and displays decreased nuclear accumulation, translating into increased levels of expression of the oncoprotein Bcl-2. The ICSBP defect, exaggerated levels of Bcl-2, and prolonged leukemic cell survival associated with chronic stage Alox15 MPD are all reversible upon treatment with a PI3-K inhibitor. Remarkably, the evolution of Alox15 MPD to leukemia is associated with additional regulation of ICSBP on an RNA level, highlighting the potential usefulness of the Alox15 model for understanding the transition of CML to crisis. Finally, 12/15-LO expression suppresses the growth of a human CML–derived cell line. These data identify 12/15-LO as an important suppressor of MPD via its role as a critical upstream effector in the regulation of PI3-K–dependent ICSBP phosphorylation.
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Uçüncü H, Ertekin MV, Yörük O, Sezen O, Ozkan A, Erdoğan F, Kiziltunç A, Gündoğdu C. Vitamin E and L-carnitine, separately or in combination, in the prevention of radiation-induced oral mucositis and myelosuppression: a controlled study in a rat model. J Radiat Res 2006; 47:91-102. [PMID: 16571922 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.47.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine the effects of vitamin E (VE) and L-carnitine (LC) supplementation, separately or in combination, on radiation-induced oral mucositis and myelosuppression. Group 1 received no treatment (control). Group 2 received 15 Gray of 60Co gamma irradiation as a single dose to total cranium (IR). Group 3, 4, and 5 received irradiation plus 40 mg/kg/day VE (IR+VE) or 200 mg/kg/day LC (IR+LC) or in combination (IR+VE+LC) respectively. Clinically and histopathologically, assessments of mucosal reactions were performed by two independent experts in Radiation Oncology and Pathology, respectively. Hematologic analyses and antioxidant enzyme evaluations were also performed. Irradiation significantly increased oral mucositis, and decreased thrombocyte and White Blood Cell counts. A significant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and decrease in superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activities in plasma were found in the IR group. VE and LC administration, separately, plus irradiation significantly delayed the starting day, and reduced the severity of, oral mucositis. This administration also reduced a fall in the numbers of thrombocyte and WBC caused by irradiation, and decreased the MDA level, and increased the activity of SOD and CAT enzymes in the plasma. VE and LC, in combination, plus irradiation did not provide a superior radioprotection against radiation-induced toxicities.
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- Harun Uçüncü
- Department of Otolaryngology, Atatürk University, Faculty of Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey
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Ishida D, Kometani K, Yang H, Kakugawa K, Masuda K, Iwai K, Suzuki M, Itohara S, Nakahata T, Hiai H, Kawamoto H, Hattori M, Minato N. Myeloproliferative stem cell disorders by deregulated Rap1 activation in SPA-1-deficient mice. Cancer Cell 2003; 4:55-65. [PMID: 12892713 DOI: 10.1016/s1535-6108(03)00163-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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SPA-1 (signal-induced proliferation-associated gene-1) is a principal Rap1 GTPase-activating protein in hematopoietic progenitors. SPA-1-deficient mice developed a spectrum of myeloid disorders that resembled human chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in chronic phase, CML in blast crisis, and myelodysplastic syndrome as well as anemia. Preleukemic SPA-1-deficient mice revealed selective expansion of marrow pluripotential hematopoietic progenitors, which showed abnormal Rap1GTP accumulation. Overexpression of an active form of Rap1 promoted the proliferation of normal hematopoietic progenitors, while SPA-1 overexpression markedly suppressed it. Furthermore, restoring SPA-1 gene in a SPA-1-deficient leukemic blast cell line resulted in the dissolution of Rap1GTP accumulation and concomitant loss of the leukemogenicity in vivo. These results unveiled a role of Rap1 in myeloproliferative stem cell disorders and a tumor suppressor function of SPA-1.
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- Daisuke Ishida
- Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan
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Zinkel SS, Ong CC, Ferguson DO, Iwasaki H, Akashi K, Bronson RT, Kutok JL, Alt FW, Korsmeyer SJ. Proapoptotic BID is required for myeloid homeostasis and tumor suppression. Genes Dev 2003; 17:229-39. [PMID: 12533511 PMCID: PMC195974 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1045603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The proper expansion and contraction of hematopoietic cells requires tight regulation of cell death. BID, a "BH3-only" molecule, amplifies death receptor signals connecting the extrinsic to intrinsic pathways by triggering the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. Bid-deficient mice, as they age, spontaneously develop a myeloproliferative disorder, which progresses from myeloid hyperplasia to a fatal, clonal malignancy closely resembling chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). Thus, an apoptotic defect can result in myeloid leukemogenesis. Premalignant Bid-/- myeloid precursor cells are resistant to death receptor-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, a competitive reconstitution assay demonstrates that Bid-deficient long-term repopulating cells give rise to expanded myelomonocytic cells in vivo. Surprisingly, a single BH3-only molecule operating in the extrinsic death receptor pathway proved essential in vivo for physiologic cell death required to maintain myeloid homeostasis. Moreover, progression to CMML indicates that an upstream BH3-only molecule, BID, is required to suppress tumorigenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis/physiology
- BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/physiology
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Female
- Homeostasis
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/etiology
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/pathology
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/prevention & control
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Myelopoiesis/genetics
- Myelopoiesis/physiology
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/etiology
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/genetics
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/pathology
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/prevention & control
- Signal Transduction
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- Sandra S Zinkel
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Hao SX, Ren R. Expression of interferon consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP) is downregulated in Bcr-Abl-induced murine chronic myelogenous leukemia-like disease, and forced coexpression of ICSBP inhibits Bcr-Abl-induced myeloproliferative disorder. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:1149-61. [PMID: 10648600 PMCID: PMC85233 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.4.1149-1161.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder resulting from the neoplastic transformation of a hematopoietic stem cell. The majority of cases of CML are associated with the (9;22) chromosome translocation that generates the bcr-abl chimeric gene. Alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) treatment induces hematological remission and prolongs life in 75% of CML patients in the chronic phase. It has been shown that mice deficient in interferon consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP), a member of the interferon regulatory factor family, manifest a CML-like syndrome. We have shown that expression of Bcr-Abl in bone marrow (BM) cells from 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-treated mice by retroviral transduction efficiently induces a myeloproliferative disease in mice resembling human CML. To directly test whether icsbp can function as a tumor suppressor gene, we examined the effect of ICSBP on Bcr-Abl-induced CML-like disease using this murine model for CML. We found that expression of the ICSBP protein was significantly decreased in Bcr-Abl-induced CML-like disease. Forced coexpression of ICSBP inhibited the Bcr-Abl-induced colony formation of BM cells from 5-FU-treated mice in vitro and Bcr-Abl-induced CML-like disease in vivo. Interestingly, coexpression of ICSBP and Bcr-Abl induced a transient B-lymphoproliferative disorder in the murine model of Bcr-Abl-induced CML-like disease. Overexpression of ICSBP consistently promotes rather than inhibits Bcr-Abl-induced B lymphoproliferation in a murine model where BM cells from non-5-FU-treated donors were used, indicating that ICSBP has a specific antitumor activity toward myeloid neoplasms. We also found that overexpression of ICSBP negatively regulated normal hematopoiesis. These data provide direct evidence that ICSBP can act as a tumor suppressor that regulates normal and neoplastic proliferation of hematopoietic cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/pharmacology
- B-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Base Sequence
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Colony-Forming Units Assay
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA Primers/genetics
- Disease Models, Animal
- Down-Regulation
- Fluorouracil/pharmacology
- Genes, abl
- Hematopoiesis/genetics
- Humans
- Interferon Regulatory Factors
- Interferons/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/pathology
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders/etiology
- Lymphoproliferative Disorders/genetics
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/genetics
- Myeloproliferative Disorders/prevention & control
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Repressor Proteins/metabolism
- Translocation, Genetic
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- S X Hao
- Department of Biology, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA
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Theodossiou C, Kroog G, Ettinghausen S, Tolcher A, Cowan K, O'Shaughnessy J. Acute arterial thrombosis in a patient with breast cancer after chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, leucovorin, cyclophosphamide, and interleukin-3. Cancer 1994; 74:2808-10. [PMID: 7954241 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19941115)74:10<2808::aid-cncr2820741011>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Interleukin-3 (IL-3) is an experimental agent used to ameliorate neutropenia in patients receiving chemotherapy. Arterial thrombotic episodes after use of IL-3 have not been reported previously. METHODS The case of a patient with Stage III adenocarcinoma of the breast who developed hypotension and acute cerebellar artery and superior mesenteric artery thrombosis after receiving chemotherapy and treatment with IL-3 is reported. RESULTS To the authors' knowledge, this is the first patient with arterial thrombosis reported after treatment with IL-3. CONCLUSIONS Interleukin-3 may be associated with increased propensity for thrombosis.
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- C Theodossiou
- Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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O'Brien ME, Nicolson M, Montes A, Tidy A, Ashley S, Powles TJ. Phase I study of mitozantrone, methotrexate and mitomycin with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (filgrastim) in patients with advanced breast cancer. Br J Cancer 1994; 70:980-3. [PMID: 7524607 PMCID: PMC2033556 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1994.433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The combination of mitozantrone, methotrexate and mitomycin (3M) gives a response rate of around 50% in patients with advanced breast cancer. The predominant toxicity is haematological. In this study, previously untreated patients were given 3M with increasing doses of mitozantrone (7-14 mg m-2) with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (metHuG-CSF) (filgrastim) to prevent marrow toxicity. Doses administered were 7 mg m-2 mitomycin i.v. 6 weekly, methotrexate i.v. 35 mg m-2 (maximum 50 mg) 3 weekly and mitozantrone i.v. 3 weekly as follows: 7 mg m-2, six patients (group 1); 10 mg m-2, six patients (group 2); 12 mg m-2, six patients (group 3); 14 mg m-2, six patients (group 4); all on day 1 for six cycles at the assigned dose. All patients received filgrastim (Amgen 0.3 mg ml-1) at a dose of 5 micrograms kg-1 subcutaneously daily on days 4-17 of each cycle. All treatment was given on an out-patient basis. A total of 24 patients were entered into the study. The median age was 63 years (range 48-75). ECOG performance status was 0 in ten, 1 in 11 patients and 2 in three patients. Locoregional disease alone was present in seven patients. The remainder had one or more sites of metastases. The actual dose administered to the 24 patients was as follows. The six patients in group 1 all completed six courses of treatment as per protocol. In group 2, three patients completed six courses, two stopped because of toxicity after one and four courses and one had progressive disease after one course. In group 3, three patients completed and three stopped early because of progressive disease. In group 4, two patients completed, one progressed after four courses and three responding patients stopped treatment because of toxicity. The maximum tolerated dose of mitozantrone in the 3M combination was 12 mg m-2. The use of filgrastim with increasing doses of chemotherapy prevents neutropenia, but other toxicities, namely thrombocytopenia and lethargy, then become dose limiting.
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- M E O'Brien
- Section of Medicine, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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Kondo S, Yin D, Takeuchi J, Morimura T, Oda Y, Kikuchi H. bcl-2 gene enables rescue from in vitro myelosuppression (bone marrow cell death) induced by chemotherapy. Br J Cancer 1994; 70:421-6. [PMID: 8080725 PMCID: PMC2033346 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1994.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Recent studies have shown that the use of cytokines such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to ameliorate chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression may enhance the viability of tumour cells with functional receptors for these cytokines. In this study, therefore, we used murine bone marrow (BM) cells in an in vitro model in an attempt to determine whether topoisomerase inhibitors (camptothecin, etoposide and doxorubicin) induce myelosuppression (BM cell death) and whether novel treatments other than the administration of G-CSF can be used for rescue from myelosuppression. DNA fragmentation assay, ultrastructural analysis and cell cycle analysis demonstrated that these chemotherapeutic agents induced apoptosis in BM cells. We demonstrated in addition that enforced expression of the bcl-2 gene in BM cells by MPZenNeo (bcl-2) retroviral gene transfer increased resistance to the apoptosis induced by these agents. These findings suggest the possibility that enforced expression of the bcl-2 gene in BM cells using gene transfer techniques may enable rescue from chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression.
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- S Kondo
- Department of Neurosurgery, National Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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Drug-induced myelosuppression is a frequent reason for curtailing chemotherapy in cancer patients. 'Rescue' of myelosuppressed patients with autologous marrow transplants is reasonably advanced and permits an increase in the dose of anticancer drugs. Despite this improvement, patients often relapse with drug resistance disease. The human multidrug resistance (mdr1) gene might make it possible to render hemopoietic stem cells resistant to anticancer drugs after transfer of this gene. By introducing resistant stem cells into patients it might be possible to treat these patients repeatedly with otherwise ablative therapy. This review explores the feasibility of mdr1 gene therapy.
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- J J Boesen
- TNO-Medical Biological Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Proietti E, Tritarelli E, Gabriele L, Testa U, Greco G, Pelosi E, Gabbianelli M, Belardelli F, Peschle C. Combined interleukin 1 beta/interleukin 2 treatment in mice: synergistic myelostimulatory activity and protection against cyclophosphamide-induced myelosuppression. Cancer Res 1993; 53:569-76. [PMID: 8425189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Abstract
We have studied the effects of single and combined treatment with interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) and interleukin 2 (IL-2) on spleen and bone marrow hematopoiesis in normal mice. Injection of IL-1 beta alone was followed by a significant increase in the number of granulocytes in spleen and progenitors (burst-forming units-erythroid and colony-forming units-granulomonocytic) in both spleen and bone marrow, s compared to control mice. In contrast, IL-2 alone induced only a slight increase in the number of marrow colony-forming units-granulomonocytic and had no significant effect on spleen progenitors. Repeated injections of both IL-1 beta and IL-2 resulted in a synergistic increase in spleen weight and splenocyte number, as compared to mice treated with the single cytokine regimen; in particular, the combined treatment induced a marked rise in the number of neutrophilic granulocytes and erythroblasts, whereas splenic lymphocytes were not affected. This regimen also caused a synergistic increase in the number of spleen and marrow progenitor cells: a time-course analysis showed an elevation in numbers of both burst-forming units-erythroid and colony-forming units-granulomonocytic, first in marrow (day 10) and subsequently in spleen (day 18). Combined IL-1 beta/IL-2 treatment dampened the decrease and accelerated the recovery of myeloid cells after cyclophosphamide injection, whereas the single cytokine regimen was not effective. Similarly, the rebound of WBC (especially neutrophilic granulocytes) after cyclophosphamide treatment was markedly enhanced by the combined treatment, whereas the single cytokine regimen was ineffective. These results, indicating a myelostimulatory effect by the combined cytokine regimen, together with our previous observations showing a synergistic antitumor activity by IL-1/IL-2 treatment in experimental mouse tumors (V. Ciolli et al., J. Exp. Med., 173: 313-322, 1991), may provide the basis for the development of new combination therapies with cytokines and antiblastic agents in the treatment of cancer patients.
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- E Proietti
- Department of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Jones BM. Screening for pre-leukaemia. Med Lab Sci 1989; 46:230-43. [PMID: 2691799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The pre-leukaemic state includes a variety of haematological conditions which in some patients precede the onset of acute leukaemia. These abnormalities may be primary or secondary to a known genetic insult. In some cases the condition may be associated with one of the constitutional syndromes characterised by genetic instability. The appropriate laboratory investigation to determine diagnosis and prognosis are examined.
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Boranić M, Stanković V, Hrsak I, Slijepcević M. Suppression of mortality occurring in middlethally irradiated mice injected with allogeneic spleen cells. Rev Eur Etud Clin Biol 1971; 16:466-71. [PMID: 4107068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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