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ArticleNature genetics2011

Mutant nucleophosmin and cooperating pathways drive leukemia initiation and progression in mice.

George S Vassiliou, Jonathan L Cooper, Roland Rad, Juan Li, Stephen Rice, Anthony Uren, Lena Rad, Peter Ellis, Rob Andrews, Ruby Banerjee and 6 more

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Article in Nature genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers.

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150citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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150 citing papers in PubMed, 226 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

George S VassiliouMouse Genomics Team, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. gsv20@sanger.ac.uk
Jonathan L Cooper
Roland Rad
Juan Li
Stephen Rice
Anthony Uren
Lena Rad
Peter Ellis
Rob Andrews
Ruby Banerjee
Carolyn Grove
Wei Wang
Pentao Liu
Penny Wright
Mark Arends
Allan Bradley
Wellcome Sanger Institute · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBAddenbrooke's Hospital · GBThe Netherlands Cancer Institute · NL

Funding

Cancer Research UK A7273Medical Research Council MC_UP_A652_1001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a molecularly diverse malignancy with a poor prognosis whose largest subgroup is characterized by somatic mutations in NPM1, which encodes nucleophosmin. These mutations, termed NPM1c, result in cytoplasmic dislocation of nucleophosmin and are associated with distinctive transcriptional signatures, yet their role in leukemogenesis remains obscure. Here we report that activation of a humanized Npm1c knock-in allele in mouse hemopoietic stem cells causes Hox gene overexpression, enhanced self renewal and expanded myelopoiesis. One third of mice developed delayed-onset AML, suggesting a requirement for cooperating mutations. We identified such mutations using a Sleeping Beauty transposon, which caused rapid-onset AML in 80% of mice with Npm1c, associated with mutually exclusive integrations in Csf2, Flt3 or Rasgrp1 in 55 of 70 leukemias. We also identified recurrent integrations in known and newly discovered leukemia genes including Nf1, Bach2, Dleu2 and Nup98. Our results provide new pathogenetic insights and identify possible therapeutic targets in NPM1c+ AML.

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MutationAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBase SequenceDisease ProgressionGene ExpressionGene Knock-In TechniquesHematopoietic Stem CellsHomeodomain ProteinsHumansLeukemia, ExperimentalLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMiceMice, TransgenicMolecular Sequence DataMyelopoiesisHomeodomain ProteinsNPM1 protein, humanNpm1 protein, mouseNuclear ProteinsNucleophosminRecombinant Proteins

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PMID21441929
PMCPMC3084174
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