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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
The AML1/ETO fusion transcript is expressed in virtually all patients with t(8;21) (q22;q22) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The fusion transcript can be detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in most of these patients in long-term complete remission (CR) following conventional chemotherapy or autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT). However, AML1/ETO expression has not been analyzed in a series of patients following allogeneic BMT. We examined CR bone marrow (BM) samples and, in some cases, blood samples from 10 patients with t(8;21) leukemia who underwent allogeneic BMT in either first or second remission or first or second relapse. A variety of myeloablative regimens were used. Eight patients received non-T-cell depleted BM from matched sibling donors, one patient received a T-cell depleted haploidentical BM, and one patient received a non-T-cell depleted BM from a matched unrelated donor (MUD). Five patients developed acute and/ or chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD). The furthest time points analyzed for the AML1/ETO transcript in the 10 patients in CR following allogeneic BMT ranged from 7.5 to 83.0 months. Sufficient RNA was extracted from the most recent BM or BM and blood samples from nine patients to assay for presence or absence of the AML1/ETO fusion transcript by RT-PCR. The fusion transcript was detected by RT-PCR in all nine of these patient samples; eight were positive in BM and one was negative in BM, but positive in blood. The fusion transcript could not be detected in a BM sample from the tenth patient obtained 7.5 months after BMT, but the amount of RNA available was suboptimal. Hematopoietic chimerism could be demonstrated in sorted CD34+ BM cells from two of four patient CR BM samples with RT-PCR evidence of the fusion transcript. Additionally, in one of the two cases with chimerism, we demonstrated an abnormal clonal population of recipient cells in the CR BM sample by fluorescence in situ hybridization. One patient died of complications from GVHD, while the other nine patients remain alive without evidence of relapse, with a median follow-up time of 27 (range, 7.5 to 87) months post-BMT. These data suggest that allogeneic BMT, like conventional chemotherapy and autologous BMT, is not sufficient to eradicate cells expressing AML1/ETO, and that a positive RT-PCR for the fusion transcript post allogeneic BMT is compatible with continued CR.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
88
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2183-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-5-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Bone Marrow, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Bone Marrow Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Child, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Core Binding Factor Alpha 2 Subunit, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Leukemia, Myeloid, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-RNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8822938-Translocation, Genetic
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Persistence of the AML1/ETO fusion transcript in patients treated with allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for t(8;21) leukemia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Hematologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't