FLT3 mutations confer enhanced proliferation and survival properties to multipotent progenitors in a murine model of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

Benjamin H. Lee, Zuzana Tothova, Ross L. Levine, Kristina Anderson, Natalija Buza-Vidas, Dana E. Cullen, Elizabeth P. McDowell, Jennifer Adelsperger, Stefan Frhling, Brian J. P. Huntly, Miloslav Beran, Sten Eirik W Jacobsen, D. Gary Gilliland

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Abstract

Despite their known transforming properties, the effects of leukemogenic FLT3-ITD mutations on hematopoietic stem and multipotent progenitor cells and on hematopoietic differentiation are not well understood. We report a mouse model harboring an ITD in the murine Flt3 locus that develops myeloproliferative disease resembling CMML and further identified FLT3-ITD mutations in a subset of human CMML. These findings correlated with an increase in number, cell cycling, and survival of multipotent stem and progenitor cells in an ITD dose-dependent manner in animals that exhibited alterations within their myeloid progenitor compartments and a block in normal B cell development. This model provides insights into the consequences of constitutive signaling by an oncogenic tyrosine kinase on hematopoietic progenitor quiescence, function, and cell fate.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-380
JournalCancer Cell
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Cancer and Oncology

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