VAV1-Cre mediated hematopoietic deletion of CBL and CBL-B leads to JMML-like aggressive early-neonatal myeloproliferative disease
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: // Wei An 1, 2 , Bhopal C. Mohapatra 1, 3 , Neha Zutshi 1, 4 , Timothy A. Bielecki 1 , Benjamin T. Goez 1 , Haitao Luan 1, 2 , Fany Iseka 1, 2 , Insha Mushtaq 1, 4 , Matthew D. Storck 1 , Vimla Band 1, 2, 5 , Hamid Band 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 1 Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA 2 Departments of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA 3 Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA 4 Departments of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA 5 Departments of Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA Correspondence to: Hamid Band, email: [email protected] Keywords: CBL, ubiquitin ligase, HSC, neonatal hematopoiesis, JMML Received: May 10, 2016 Accepted: June 30, 2016 Published: July 16, 2016 ABSTRACT CBL and CBL-B ubiquitin ligases play key roles in hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis and their aberrations are linked to leukemogenesis. Mutations of CBL, often genetically-inherited, are particularly common in Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML), a disease that manifests early in children. JMML is fatal unless corrected by bone marrow transplant, which is effective in only half of the recipients, stressing the need for animal models that recapitulate the key clinical features of this disease. However, mouse models established so far only develop hematological malignancy in adult animals. Here, using VAV1-Cre-induced conditional CBL/CBL-B double knockout (DKO) in mice, we established an animal model that exhibits a neonatal myeloproliferative disease (MPD). VAV1-Cre induced DKO mice developed a strong hematological phenotype at postnatal day 10, including severe leukocytosis and hepatomegaly, bone marrow cell hypersensitivity to cytokines including GM-CSF, and rapidly-progressive disease and invariable lethality. Interestingly, leukemic stem cells were most highly enriched in neonatal liver rather than bone marrow, which, along with the spleen and thymus, were hypo-cellular. Nonetheless, transplantation assays showed that both DKO bone marrow and liver cells can initiate leukemic disease in the recipient mice with seeding of both spleen and bone marrow. Together, our results support the usefulness of the new hematopoietic-specific CBL/CBL-B double KO animal model to study JMML-related pathogenesis and to further understand the function of CBL family proteins in regulating fetal and neonatal hematopoiesis. To our knowledge, this is the first mouse model that exhibits neonatal MPD in infancy, by day 10 of postnatal life.
Source: Oncotarget
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: Molecular Control of EGF Receptor Down-Regulation, G2304788540, A novel regulator of p53, ROLE OF THE ECD A NOVEL CELL CYCLE REGULATOR IN BREAST CANCER, G3498129444, G3780238105, G3977408364, G4119534169, Nebraska Center for Cellular Signaling, G5850682332, G5853396361, G6168207296, G629954890, G6322330734, HECD:A NOVEL REGULATOR OF MAMMARY EPITHELIAL CELL SURVIVAL, G7302086222, ErbB2 Downregulation Through HSP90 Inhibition, G8878039642, G8958450966, G9000041484, G9000210543, G9000291827, Buffett Cancer Center Support Grant, Cancer Biology Training Program
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