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BLOOD
Volume 129, Issue 11, Pages 1491-1502Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-06-721027
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- National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute [R01CA149109]
- National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R01GM099811]
- Connecticut Regenerative Medicine Fund [15-RMB-YALE-06]
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellowship
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The hematopoietic stem cell-enriched miR-125 family microRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of hematopoiesis. Overexpression of miR-125a or miR-125b is frequent in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and the overexpression of these miRNAs in mice leads to expansion of hematopoietic stem cells accompanied by perturbed hematopoiesis with mostly myeloproliferative phenotypes. However, whether and how miR-125 family miRNAs cooperate with known AML oncogenes in vivo, and how the resultant leukemia is dependent on miR-125 overexpression, are not well understood. Wemodeled the frequent co-occurrence of miR-125b overexpression and MLL translocations by examining functional cooperation between miR-125b and MLL-AF9. By generating a knock-in mouse model in which miR-125b overexpression is controlled by doxycycline induction, we demonstrated that miR-125b significantly enhances MLL-AF9-driven AML in vivo, and the resultant leukemia is partially dependent on continued overexpression of miR-125b. Surprisingly, miR-125b promotes AML cell expansion and suppresses apoptosis involving a non-cell-intrinsic mechanism. MiR-125b expression enhances VEGFA expression and production from leukemia cells, in part by suppressing TET2. Recombinant VEGFA recapitulates the leukemia-promoting effects of miR-125b, whereas knockdown of VEGFAor inhibition of VEGF receptor 2 abolishes the effects of miR-125b. In addition, significant correlation betweenmiR-125bandVEGFAexpression is observed in human AMLs. Our data reveal cooperative and dependent relationships between miR-125b and the MLL oncogene in AML leukemogenesis, and demonstrate a miR-125b-TET2-VEGFA pathway in mediating non-cell-intrinsic leukemia-promoting effects by an oncogenic miRNA
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