TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissecting the role of aberrant DNA methylation in human leukaemia
AU - Amabile, Giovanni
AU - Di Ruscio, Annalisa
AU - Müller, Fabian
AU - Welner, Robert S.
AU - Yang, Henry
AU - Ebralidze, Alexander K.
AU - Zhang, Hong
AU - Levantini, Elena
AU - Qi, Lihua
AU - Martinelli, Giovanni
AU - Brummelkamp, Thijn
AU - Le Beau, Michelle M.
AU - Figueroa, Maria E.
AU - Bock, Christoph
AU - Tenen, Daniel G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/22
Y1 - 2015/5/22
N2 - Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by the genetic translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) encoding for the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene. However, many molecular mechanisms of the disease progression still remain poorly understood. A growing body of evidence suggests that the epigenetic abnormalities are involved in tyrosine kinase resistance in CML, leading to leukaemic clone escape and disease propagation. Here we show that, by applying cellular reprogramming to primary CML cells, aberrant DNA methylation contributes to the disease evolution. Importantly, using a BCR-ABL inducible murine model, we demonstrate that a single oncogenic lesion triggers DNA methylation changes, which in turn act as a precipitating event in leukaemia progression.
AB - Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by the genetic translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) encoding for the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene. However, many molecular mechanisms of the disease progression still remain poorly understood. A growing body of evidence suggests that the epigenetic abnormalities are involved in tyrosine kinase resistance in CML, leading to leukaemic clone escape and disease propagation. Here we show that, by applying cellular reprogramming to primary CML cells, aberrant DNA methylation contributes to the disease evolution. Importantly, using a BCR-ABL inducible murine model, we demonstrate that a single oncogenic lesion triggers DNA methylation changes, which in turn act as a precipitating event in leukaemia progression.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84930225198
U2 - 10.1038/ncomms8091
DO - 10.1038/ncomms8091
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 6
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
M1 - 7091
ER -