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BLOOD
Volume 105, Issue 11, Pages 4223-4225Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-10-3892
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Resistance to L-asparaginase in leukemic cells may be caused by an elevated cellular expression of asparagine synthetase (AS). Previously, we reported that high AS expression did not correlate to L-asparaginase resistance in TEL-AML 1-positive B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In the present study we confirmed this finding in TEL-AML 1-positive patients (n = 28) using microarrays. In contrast, 35 L-asparaginase-resistant TEL-AML 1-negative B-lineage ALL patients had a significant 3.5-fold higher AS expression than 43 sensitive patients (P < .001). Using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RTQ-PCR), this finding was confirmed in an independent group of 39 TEL-AML 1-negative B-lineage ALL patients (P = .03). High expression of AS was associated with poor prognosis (4-year probability of disease-free survival [pDFS] 58% +/- 11%) compared with low expression (4-year pDFS 83% +/- 7%; P = .009). We conclude that resistance to L-asparaginase and relapse risk are associated with high expression of AS in TEL-AML 1-negative but not TEL-AML 1-positive B-lineage ALL.
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