Transcription profiling of isolated granulocyte macrophage progenitors were incubated with a retrovirus that expressed either GFP or MLL-AF9 and GFP reveals MLL-AF9 transforms committed progenitors to leukemia stem cells by activation of a stem cell program (expt 1)

ABSTRACT: Leukemias and other cancers possess a rare population of cells capable of self-renewal, and eradication of these cancer stem cells is likely necessary for long-term cancer-free survival. Given that both normal and cancer stem cells are capable of self-renewal the extent to which cancer stem cells resemble normal tissue stem cells is a critical issue if targeted therapies are to be developed. We introduced the MLL-AF9 fusion protein encoded by the t(9;11)(p22;q23) found in human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) into murine committed granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (GMP). The resultant leukemias contained cells with an immunophenotype similar to normal GMP that were highly enriched for leukemia stem cells (LSC). Detailed gene expression comparisons between normal hematopoietic stem cells

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Scott Armstrong 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3721 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress