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The MLL-Een knockin fusion gene enhances proliferation of myeloid progenitors derived from mouse embryonic stem cells and causes myeloid leukaemia in chimeric mice

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2006-10
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So, Chi Wai Eric
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Kong, CT
Sham, MH
So, CWE
Cheah, KSE
Chen, SJ
Chan, LC
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Abstract
Rearrangement of the mixed lineage leukaemia ( MLL) gene with extra eleven nineteen ( EEN) was previously identified in an infant with acute myeloid leukaemia. Using homologous recombination, we have created a mouse equivalent of the human MLL-EEN allele and showed that when MIIEen/+ embryonic stem ( ES) cells were induced to differentiate in vitro into haemopoietic cells, there was increased proliferation of myeloid progenitors with self-renewal property. We also generated MIIEen/+ chimeric mice, which developed leukaemia displaying enlarged livers, spleens, thymuses and lymph nodes owing to infiltration of MIIEen/–expressing leukemic cells. Immunophenotyping of cells from enlarged organs and bone marrow ( BM) of the MIIEen/- chimeras revealed an accumulation of Mac-1(+)/Gr-1(-) immature myeloid cells and a reduction in normal B- and T-cell populations. We observed differential regulation of Hox genes between myeloid cells derived from MIIEen/+ ES cells and mouse BM leukemic cells which suggested different waves of Hox expression may be activated by MLL fusion proteins for initiation ( in ES cells) and maintenance ( in leukemic cells) of the disease. We believe studies of MLL fusion proteins in ES cells combined with in vivo animal models offer new approaches to the dissection of molecular events in multistep pathogenesis of leukaemia.
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https://repository.icr.ac.uk/handle/internal/2501
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https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404342
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eng
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2006-10
Citation
LEUKEMIA, 2006, 20 pp. 1829 - 1839
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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

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