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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) associated with a t(15;17) translocation generates a PML/RAR alpha chimaeric gene which is transcribed as a fusion PML/RAR alpha mRNA. To clarify the pathophysiologic role of PML/RAR alpha in APL patients, we examined the expression of PML/RAR alpha in haemopoietic colonies in five patients with APL by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis. By the two-step RT-PCR method, we demonstrated that PML/RAR alpha positive clones were present in progenitor cells including both CFU-GM and BFU-E in two cases. This result suggests that the translocation of PML/RAR alpha occurred in a pluripotent stem cell in some APL patients. In four patients we detected two amplified cDNA fragments of 780 and 640 bp which presumably arose by alternative splicing of the PML gene. Interestingly, of CFU-GM and BFU-E colonies examined in four patients, there were three different types of colonies: those expressing only the 780 bp fragment, those expressing only the 640 bp fragment, and those expressing both fragments. This suggests that alternative splicing was clonally determined in each colony. We describe a useful RT-PCR technique for the study of gene expression in a limited number of haemopoietic precursor cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0007-1048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
85
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
477-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Neoplastic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Protein Multimerization, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Receptors, Retinoic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8136268-Tumor Suppressor Proteins
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
PML/RAR alpha fusion gene is expressed in both granuloid/macrophage and erythroid colonies in acute promyelocytic leukaemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't