Journal
LEUKEMIA
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 644-653Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2011.264
Keywords
oncogene; transcription factor; stem cells
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Funding
- National Cancer Institute [CA95111, P0178890]
- European LeukemiaNet
- AIRC
- AIL
- Fondazione Del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna
- NIAID [AI059294]
- American-Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF)
- National Institutes of Health [T32-CA09683-14]
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Expression of c-Myb is required for normal hematopoiesis and for proliferation of myeloid leukemia blasts and a subset of T-cell leukemia, but its role in B-cell leukemogenesis is unknown. We tested the role of c-Myb in p190(BCR/ABL)-dependent B-cell leukemia in mice transplanted with p190(BCR/ABL)-transduced marrow cells with a c-Myb allele (Myb(f/d)) and in double transgenic p190(BCR/ABL)/Myb(w/d) mice. In both models, loss of a c-Myb allele caused a less aggressive B-cell leukemia. In p190(BCR/ABL)-expressing human B-cell leukemia lines, knockdown of c-Myb expression suppressed proliferation and colony formation. Compared with c-Myb(w/f) cells, expression of Bmi1, a regulator of stem cell proliferation and maintenance, was decreased in pre-B cells from Myb(w/d) p190(BCR/ABL) transgenic mice. Ectopic expression of a mutant c-Myb or Bmi1 enhanced the proliferation and colony formation of Myb(w/d) p190(BCR/ABL) B-cells; by contrast, Bmi1 downregulation inhibited colony formation of p190(BCR/ABL)-expressing murine B cells and human B-cell leukemia lines. Moreover, c-Myb interacted with a segment of the human Bmi1 promoter and enhanced its activity. In blasts from 19 Ph-1 adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients, levels of c-Myb and Bmi1 showed a positive correlation. Together, these findings support the existence of a c-Myb-Bmi1 transcription-regulatory pathway required for p190(BCR/ABL) leukemogenesis. Leukemia (2012) 26, 644-653; oi:10.1038/leu.2011.264; published online 30 September 2011
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