Heterogeneity in lineage derivation of Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia expressing p190BCR-ABL or p210BCR-ABL: determination by analysis of individual colonies with the polymerase chain reaction. Cancer Res 1993 Jul 15;53(14):3289-93
Date
07/15/1993Pubmed ID
8324740Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0027160624 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 14 CitationsAbstract
The molecular hallmark of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the expression of 1 of 2 alternate forms of the aberrant BCR-ABL protein-p210BCR-ABL or p190BCR-ABL. The presence of BCR-ABL message provides a target for analyzing the lineage derivation of this disease. We, therefore, studied myeloid and erythroid progenitor involvement in Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL. Bone marrow low-density cells from Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL patients (5 with the p190BCR-ABL and 2 with the p210BCR-ABL anomaly) were cultured in the mixed colony culture assay. cDNA from individually plucked colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage and burst-forming unit-erythroid colonies was then analyzed using the hybridization protection assay in conjunction with the polymerase chain reaction to detect BCR-ABL molecular aberrations. Colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage and burst-forming unit-erythroid colonies from 1 of 5 p190BCR-ABL-positive patients and 1 of 2 p210BCR-ABL-positive patients expressed BCR-ABL transcripts, whereas colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage and burst-forming unit-erythroid colonies from the other patients did not. Our study suggests that the origin of both p190BCR-ABL- and p210BCR-ABL-positive ALL is heterogenous with involvement of either a pluripotent precursor or a lymphoid lineage-committed hematopoietic progenitor.
Author List
Estrov Z, Talpaz M, Kantarjian HM, Zipf TF, McClain KL, Kurzrock RAuthor
Razelle Kurzrock MD Center Associate Director, Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAged
Bone Marrow
Child
Female
Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Philadelphia Chromosome
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Tumor Stem Cell Assay