Title |
Hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)-2α accelerates disease progression in mouse models of leukemia and lymphoma but is not a poor prognosis factor in human AML
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Published in |
Leukemia, April 2015
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DOI | 10.1038/leu.2015.102 |
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Authors |
C E Forristal, A L Brown, F M Helwani, I G Winkler, B Nowlan, V Barbier, R J Powell, G A Engler, S M Diakiw, A C W Zannettino, S Martin, D Pattabiraman, R J D'Andrea, I D Lewis, J P Levesque |
Abstract |
Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α accumulation promotes hematopoietic stem cells quiescence and is necessary to maintain their self-renewal. However the role of HIF-2α in hematopoietic cells is less clear. We investigated the role of HIF-2α in leukemia and lymphoma cells. HIF-2α expression was high in subsets of human and mouse leukemia and lymphoma cells whereas it was low in normal bone marrow leukocytes. To investigate the role of HIF-2α, we transduced human HIF-2α cDNA in mouse syngeneic models of myeloid pre-leukemia and a transgenic model of B-lymphoma. Ectopic expression of HIF-2α accelerated leukemia cell proliferation in vitro. Mice transplanted with cells transduced with HIF-2α died significantly faster of leukemia or B-lymphoma than control mice transplanted with empty vector transduced cells. Conversely, HIF-2α knock-down in human myeloid leukemia HL60 cells decreased proliferation in vitro and significantly prolonged animal survival following transplantation. In human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), HIF-2α mRNA was significantly elevated in several subsets such as t(15;17), inv(16), complex karyotype and favorable cytogenetic groups. However patients with high HIF-2α expression had a trend to higher disease free survival in univariate analysis. The different effects of HIF-2α overexpression in mouse models of leukemia and human AML illustrates the complexity of this mutliclonal disease.Leukemia accepted article preview online, 29 April 2015. doi:10.1038/leu.2015.102. |
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