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- Title
A Limited Role for the Cell Cycle Regulator Cyclin A1 in Murine Leukemogenesis.
- Authors
Bäumer, Nicole; Bäumer, Sebastian; Haak, Miriam; Koschmieder, Steffen; Schönig, Kai; Berdel, Wolfgang E.; Müller-Tidow, Carsten
- Abstract
The quest for novel therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is still ongoing. One of such targets, cyclin A1, was shown to be overexpressed in AML including AML stem cells. However, the function of cyclin A1 in AML is largely unknown, and the data on its impact on patients´ survival remain controversial. Therefore, we developed a transgenic mouse model of stem cell-directed inducible cyclin A1 overexpression and crossed these mice with PML-RARα-knockin mice, which develop an AML M3-like phenotype. To observe the effects of cyclin A1 loss-of-function, we also crossed PML-RARα-knockin mice to cyclin A1-knockout mice. Neither overexpression nor loss of cyclin A1 significantly altered leukemogenesis in PML-RARα-knockin mice. These findings imply that upregulation of cyclin A1 is not essential for leukemogenesis. Our data suggest that cyclin A1 does not represent a suitable target for AML therapy.
- Subjects
LEUKEMIA etiology; CELL cycle regulation; LEUKEMIA treatment; MYELOID leukemia; CYCLINS; GENE expression; LABORATORY mice
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0129147