Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a highly heterogeneous disease. In our study, we found that overexpressing IL-34 in AML cells accelerates the AML progression and shorten the mice survival, which is medicated by LSC level. We used one of the LSC markers, c-Kit, to divide AML cells. The goals of this study aim to reveal the mechanism mediated by IL-34 overexpression, we performed the RNAseq profiling of MA9-c-kit-, MA9-c-kit+ and MA9-IL-34 AML cells.
Project description:Aberrant activation of β-catenin is a common event in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and is recognized as an independent predictor of poor prognosis. Although increased β-catenin signaling in AML has been associated with AML1-ETO and PML-RARα translocation products, and activating mutations in the FLT3 receptor, it remains unclear which mechanisms activate β-catenin in AML more broadly. Here, we describe a novel link between interleukin-3 (IL-3) signaling and the regulation of β-catenin in myeloid transformation and AML. Using a murine model of HoxB8 and IL-3 cooperation we show that IL-3 modulates β-catenin protein levels, and Cre-induced deletion of β-catenin abolishes IL-3 dependent growth and colony formation. In the erythroleukemic cell line TF-1.8, we observed increased β-catenin protein levels and nuclear localization in response to IL-3, which correlated with transcriptional induction of β-catenin target genes. Furthermore, IL-3 promoted β-catenin accumulation in a subset of AML patient samples, and microarray gene expression analysis of these cells revealed induction of WNT/β-catenin and TCF4 transcriptional gene signatures in an IL-3 dependent manner. This study is the first to link β-catenin activation to IL-3 and suggests that targeting IL-3 signaling may be an effective approach for the inhibition of β-catenin activity in some patients with AML. AML patient samples (AML1-4) were cultured in the presence or absence of hIL-3 for 6 or 16h.
Project description:The paper describes a model of acute myeloid leukaemia.
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Optimal control of acute myeloid leukaemia
Jesse A. Sharp, Alexander P Browning, Tarunendu Mapder, Kevin Burrage, Matthew J Simpson
Journal of Theoretical Biology 470 (2019) 30–42
Abstract:
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a blood cancer affecting haematopoietic stem cells. AML is routinely treated with chemotherapy, and so it is of great interest to develop optimal chemotherapy treatment strategies. In this work, we incorporate an immune response into a stem cell model of AML, since we find that previous models lacking an immune response are inappropriate for deriving optimal control strategies. Using optimal control theory, we produce continuous controls and bang-bang controls, corre- sponding to a range of objectives and parameter choices. Through example calculations, we provide a practical approach to applying optimal control using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle. In particular, we describe and explore factors that have a profound influence on numerical convergence. We find that the convergence behaviour is sensitive to the method of control updating, the nature of the control, and to the relative weighting of terms in the objective function. All codes we use to implement optimal control are made available.
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Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation with specific isolation of chromatin associated proteins (ChIP-SICAP) was used to identify chromatin-bound interactors of CEBPA and RUNX1 in the 3q-rearranged human myeloid leukemia cell line HNT-34.
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Project description:Aberrant activation of β-catenin is a common event in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and is recognized as an independent predictor of poor prognosis. Although increased β-catenin signaling in AML has been associated with AML1-ETO and PML-RARα translocation products, and activating mutations in the FLT3 receptor, it remains unclear which mechanisms activate β-catenin in AML more broadly. Here, we describe a novel link between interleukin-3 (IL-3) signaling and the regulation of β-catenin in myeloid transformation and AML. Using a murine model of HoxB8 and IL-3 cooperation we show that IL-3 modulates β-catenin protein levels, and Cre-induced deletion of β-catenin abolishes IL-3 dependent growth and colony formation. In the erythroleukemic cell line TF-1.8, we observed increased β-catenin protein levels and nuclear localization in response to IL-3, which correlated with transcriptional induction of β-catenin target genes. Furthermore, IL-3 promoted β-catenin accumulation in a subset of AML patient samples, and microarray gene expression analysis of these cells revealed induction of WNT/β-catenin and TCF4 transcriptional gene signatures in an IL-3 dependent manner. This study is the first to link β-catenin activation to IL-3 and suggests that targeting IL-3 signaling may be an effective approach for the inhibition of β-catenin activity in some patients with AML.
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