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CANCER CELL
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 161-171Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1535-6108(03)00019-9
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 55209] Funding Source: Medline
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A specific association with mixed lineage leukemias suggests that MILL oncoproteins may selectively target early multipotent hematopoietic progenitors or stem cells. We demonstrate here that a representative MILL fusion protein, MLL-GAS7, impairs the differentiation and enhances the in vitro growth of murine hematopoietic cells with multipotent features. The multilineage differentiation potential of these cells was suggested by their immuno-phenotypes and transcriptional programs and confirmed by their ability to induce three pathologically distinct leukemias in mice, including an acute biphenotypic leukemia (ABL) that recapitulates the distinctive hallmark features of many MILL-associated leukemias in humans. This experimental modeling of ABL in mice highlights its origin from multipotential progenitors that arrest at a bipotential stage specifically targeted or induced by MLL oncogenes.
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