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The Mutation Profile of Calreticulin in Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Leukemia.

ABSTRACT: Calreticulin (CALR) plays important roles in cell proliferation, apoptosis, and immune responses. CALR mutations were described recently in Janus kinase 2 gene (JAK2)-negative or MPL-negative primary myelofibrosis (PMF) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) patients. CALR trails JAK2 as the second most mutated gene in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). However, little is known about CALR mutation in Chinese patients with leukemia. In the present study, a cohort of 305 Chinese patients with hematopoietic neoplasms was screened for CALR mutations, with the aim of uncovering the frequency of CALR mutations in leukemia and MPNs.Polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing were performed to analyze mutations of CALR in 305 patients with hematopoietic malignancies, including 135 acute myeloid leukemia patients, 57 acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients, and 113 MPN patients.CALR mutations were found in 10.6% (12 of 113) of samples from patients with MPNs. CALR mutations were determined in 11.3% (6 of 53), 21.7% (5 of 23), and 9.1% (1/11) of patients with ET, PMF, and unclassifiable MPN, respectively.We showed that MPN patients carrying CALR mutations presented with higher platelet counts and lower hemoglobin levels compared to those with mutated JAK2. However, all of the leukemia patients had negative results for CALR mutations.

SUBMITTER: Wang J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5111462 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Mutation Profile of Calreticulin in Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Leukemia.

Wang Jingyi J Hao Jianguo J He Na N Ji Chunyan C Ma Daoxin D

Turkish journal of haematology : official journal of Turkish Society of Haematology 20150806 3

<h4>Objective</h4>Calreticulin (CALR) plays important roles in cell proliferation, apoptosis, and immune responses. CALR mutations were described recently in Janus kinase 2 gene (JAK2)-negative or MPL-negative primary myelofibrosis (PMF) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) patients. CALR trails JAK2 as the second most mutated gene in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). However, little is known about CALR mutation in Chinese patients with leukemia. In the present study, a cohort of 305 Chinese pa ...[more]

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Project description:Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are clonal hematopoietic diseases that include essential thrombocytosis (ET), polycythemia vera (PV) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) as well as BCR-ABL+ chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). In the past several years, studies with cDNA microarrays have defined patterns of gene expression corresponding to specific molecular abnormalities, oncologic phenotypes, and clinical outcomes in hematologic malignancies. This study was aimed at the description of a gene expression signature in MPN which would eventually present a new pathogenetic approaching and also diagnostic as well as prognostic information. Using cDNA microarray analysis, involving 25,100 unique genes, we studied the gene expression profile of the pluripotent hematopoietic CD34+ stem cells and mature granulocytes obtained from peripheral blood of ET, PV, PMF and CML patients compared with healthy individuals. The average number of CD34+ cells (cells/µl) in peripheral blood was approximately 6 in PV and ET, 111 in PMF and 2880 in CML as measured by flow cytometry. A somatic point mutation JAK2V617F was detected in 93% of PV, 73% of PMF and 55% of ET patients within genetically homogenous population. The homozigosity for JAK2V617F mutation was the highest in PV (60%), less prominent in PMF (42%) and low in ET (11%) patients. The JAK2V617F mutation negative patients were also negative for exon 12 mutations. Approximately 420, 680 and 1130 genes had unique expression among CD34+ cells of ET, PV and PMF patients, respectively. In addition comparing to healthy controls, ET, PV, PMF and CML patients showed difference in 840, 1180, 1160 and 2050 expressed genes, respectively. Furthermore, we studied EPO and JAK-STAT signaling pathways related genes expression in MPN. The FOS, RAF1 and JAK2 gene expression, related to EPO signaling pathway, was elevated in ET, PV, PMF and reduced in CML comparing to healthy controls. Related to these genes, the JAK2V617F mutation homozygous and heterozygous patients generally displayed more significant differences comparing to patients with no mutation. STAT5 gene expression was decreased in all MPN patients. CSF3R, STAT1 and STAT3 gene expression, related to JAK-STAT signaling pathway, was elevated in ET, PV, PMF and reduced in CML comparing to healthy controls. CREBBP gene expression was reduced in CD34+ cells of ET, PV and PMF patients, but during maturation it enhanced expression in granulocytes. In conclusion, molecular profiling of CD34+ cells and granulocytes revealed a certain number of genes with changed expression that, beyond their recognized function in disease pathogenesis, can be related to patients’ clinical characteristics and may have an imminent prognostic relevance.

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The Mutation Profile of Calreticulin in Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Leukemia.

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The Mutation Profile of Calreticulin in Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Leukemia.

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