| Literature DB >> 23770013 |
Peter G Miller1, Fatima Al-Shahrour, Kimberly A Hartwell, Lisa P Chu, Marcus Järås, Rishi V Puram, Alexandre Puissant, Kevin P Callahan, John Ashton, Marie E McConkey, Luke P Poveromo, Glenn S Cowley, Michael G Kharas, Myriam Labelle, Sebastian Shterental, Joji Fujisaki, Lev Silberstein, Gabriela Alexe, Muhammad A Al-Hajj, Christopher A Shelton, Scott A Armstrong, David E Root, David T Scadden, Richard O Hynes, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Kimberly Stegmaier, Craig T Jordan, Benjamin L Ebert.
Abstract
We used an in vivo small hairpin RNA (shRNA) screening approach to identify genes that are essential for MLL-AF9 acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We found that Integrin Beta 3 (Itgb3) is essential for murine leukemia cells in vivo and for human leukemia cells in xenotransplantation studies. In leukemia cells, Itgb3 knockdown impaired homing, downregulated LSC transcriptional programs, and induced differentiation via the intracellular kinase Syk. In contrast, loss of Itgb3 in normal hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells did not affect engraftment, reconstitution, or differentiation. Finally, using an Itgb3 knockout mouse model, we confirmed that Itgb3 is dispensable for normal hematopoiesis but is required for leukemogenesis. Our results establish the significance of the Itgb3 signaling pathway as a potential therapeutic target in AML.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23770013 PMCID： PMC3746037 DOI： 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.05.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Cell ISSN： 1535-6108 Impact factor: 31.743