High ERG expression in human HSPCs promotes progenitor but not stem cell proliferation and molecular signatures that are enriched in high ERG leukemia.

ABSTRACT: ERG is an Ets-transcription factor required for normal blood stem cell development. High ERG expression in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is associated with a stem cell signature and poor prognosis. In murine over-expression models, human ERG is a potent oncogene that induces both T-ALL and AML. However the functional and molecular consequences of high ERG expression in normal hematopoietic stem/progenitors (HSPCs), and how this contributes to leukemia development, are unknown. Here we show that retroviral transduction of ERG into human CD34+ cells and maintenance of ERG at levels present in high ERG AML results in altered myeloid and T cell differentiation and an increase in the self-renewal capacity of transduced progenitors but not the mo

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Jason Wong 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-53665 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress