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CELL STEM CELL
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 346-358Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.05.027
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- National Cancer Institute [CA90668, CA70970]
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Giant Food Pediatric Cancer Research Fund
- Kyle Haydock Professorship
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Internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations within the FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 (FLT3) render the receptor constitutively active driving proliferation and survival in leukemic blasts. Expression of FLT3-ITD from the endogenous promoter in a murine knockin model results in progenitor expansion and a myeloproliferative neoplasm. In this study, we show that this expansion begins with overproliferation within a compartment of normally quiescent long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs), which become rapidly depleted. This depletion is reversible upon treatment with the small molecule inhibitor Sorafenib, which also ablates the disease. Although the normal LT-HSC has been defined as FLT3(-) by flow cytometric detection, we demonstrate that FLT3 is capable of playing a role within this compartment by examining the effects of constitutively activated FLT3-ITD. This indicates an important link between stem cell quiescence/homeostasis and myeloproliferative disease while also giving novel insight into the emergence of FLT3-ITD mutations in the evolution of leukemic transformation.
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