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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2004, p. 10882-10893, Vol. 24, No. 24
0270-7306/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.24.10882-10893.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Expression Profiling of Murine Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Cells Reveals Multiple Model-Dependent Progression Signatures{dagger}

Matthew J. Walter,1,2 John S. Park,1,2 Steven K. M. Lau,1,2 Xia Li,2 Andrew A. Lane,1,2 Rakesh Nagarajan,3 William D. Shannon,2,4,5 and Timothy J. Ley1,2,5*

Division of Oncology,1 Department of Medicine,2 Department of Pathology & Immunology,3 Division of Biostatistics,4 Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri5

Received 30 April 2003/ Returned for modification 28 June 2004/ Accepted 30 August 2004

Leukemia results from the expansion of self-renewing hematopoietic cells that are thought to contain mutations that contribute to disease initiation and progression. Studies of the gene expression profiles of human acute myeloid leukemia samples has allowed their classification based on the presence of translocations and French-American-British subtypes, but it is not yet clear whether their molecular signatures reflect the initiating mutations or mutations acquired during progression. To begin to address this question, we examined the expression profiles of normal murine promyelocyte-enriched samples, nontransformed murine promyelocytes expressing human promyelocytic leukemia-retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML-RAR{alpha}) fusion gene, and primary acute promyelocytic leukemia cells. The expression profile of nontransformed cells expressing PML-RAR{alpha} was remarkably similar to that of wild-type promyelocytes. In contrast, the expression profiles of fully transformed cells from three acute promyelocytic leukemia model systems were all different, suggesting that the expression signature of acute promyelocytic leukemia cells reflects the genetic changes that contributed to progression. To further evaluate these progression events, we compared two high-penetrance acute promyelocytic leukemia models that both commonly acquire an interstitial deletion of chromosome 2 during progression. The two models exhibited distinct gene expression profiles, suggesting that the dominant molecular signatures of murine acute promyelocytic leukemia can be influenced by several independent progression events.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Oncology, Section of Stem Cell Biology, Campus Box 8007, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110-1093. Phone: (314) 362-9337. Fax: (314) 362-9333. E-mail: tley{at}im.wustl.edu.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://mcb.asm.org.


Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2004, p. 10882-10893, Vol. 24, No. 24
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.24.10882-10893.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.




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