Transcription profiling of mouse pre-leukemic stem cells and leukemic stem cells
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ABSTRACT: The molecular pathways mediating unlimited self-renewal and alleged drug resistant properties that are believed to be key for maintenance and re-initiation of leukemia during relapse are largely unexplored area. To gain further insights into the potential pathways responsible for the conversion and establishment of leukemic stem cells (LSC), we molecularly dissected and compared the cell populations enriched in pre-LSC and LSC. In this model, pre-LSC were identified as early transduced primary cells carrying the initiating event and endowed with the ability to induce leukemia in vivo with a long latency. LSC were defined as leukemic cells harvested from primary mice transplanted with pre-LSC that had then acquired additional events and were capable of inducing leukemia in secondary mice with a very short latency.
Pre-LSC were generated by transformation of cKit+ purified cells derived from mouse bone marrow with MLL-ENL retrovirus and subjected to several rounds of replating in methylcellulose. A cell line (pre-LSC bulk population) was subsequently generated and injected into mice. Cells derived from a leukemic mouse were used to generate the LSC cell line (LSC bulk population). Pre-LSC and LSC bulk populations and their clonal deriviatives were used in microarray experiments to help identify key events which convert pre-LSC to LSC.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: JENNY YEUNG
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2618 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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