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10374889

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-6-29
pubmed:abstractText
Methods of minimal residual disease (MRD) detection in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) include chromosome analysis, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques. We report a novel method to detect intracellular BCR-ABL messenger on single cells using in situ RT-PCR, which can be performed on blood and marrow slides, without extraction of the nucleic acid. After cellular permeabilization and fixation, the mRNA BCR-ABL was reverse transcribed and amplified by PCR using digoxigenin-labelled dUTP. The reaction was revealed with the anti-digoxigenin FITC antibody. On the fluorescent microscope, a strong positive green fluorescence signal was observed in 98-99% cells in Ph1-positive cell lines. A faint signal was detected in 1.5% and 2% of negative cell lines. Likewise, a faint signal was found in 1.6-2.8% of the cells in five normal controls (mean 2.2 +/- 1.1%). The positive threshold for in situ RT-PCR was therefore determined as mean + 2 s.d. = 4.4% cells. We used in situ RT-PCR by comparison to cytogenetics (at least 30 mitoses examined), and two-step RT-PCR (10(-6) sensitivity in our hands) in bone marrow samples from 13 CML patients: two patients at diagnosis and 11 patients in hematological remission after alpha interferon (three patients), hydroxyurea (one patient) autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) (one patient) and allogeneic BMT (six patients). In the two diagnostic patients, 90 and 95% cells were respectively strongly positive by in situ RT-PCR. In the six patients treated by allogeneic BMT, the median percentage of positive cells was 2.4% (range 1.8-3.2). All six patients had normal karyotype and negative two-step RT-PCR results. In the five other patients, two were treated by hydroxyurea alone or autologous BMT, and 11 and 13% of the cells were strongly positive; three were treated with interferon and 14-62% of the cells were positive, generally weakly. All five patients had persistence of Ph1 (in 9-56% mitoses), and positive RT-PCR results after one round. In conclusion, in situ RT-PCR can specifically identify cells with BCR-ABL transcript and its results are concordant with those of karyotype and RT-PCR. Because of its limited sensitivity and specificity, however, it appears to have limited value in the analysis of MRD. On the other hand, it can evaluate the presence and intensity of BCR-ABL fusion transcript at the single cell level, and this could be useful in treatment monitoring.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0887-6924
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
818-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of BCR-ABL transcripts in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) using an in situ RT-PCR assay.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire d'Hématologie, CHU Lille, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't