The consensus sequence of FAMLF alternative splice variants is overexpressed in undifferentiated hematopoietic cells
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, W.L., Luo, D.F., Gao, C., Ding, Y., Wang, S.Y.
FONTE
Braz J Med Biol Res
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
12/06/2015
RESUMO
The familial acute myeloid leukemia related factor gene (FAMLF) was previously identified from a familial AML subtractive cDNA library and shown to undergo alternative splicing. This study used real-time quantitative PCR to investigate the expression of the FAMLF alternative-splicing transcript consensus sequence (FAMLF-CS) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from 119 patients with de novo acute leukemia (AL) and 104 healthy controls, as well as in CD34+cells from 12 AL patients and 10 healthy donors. A 429-bp fragment from a novel splicing variant of FAMLF was obtained, and a 363-bp consensus sequence was targeted to quantify total FAMLF expression. Kruskal-Wallis, Nemenyi, Spearman's correlation, and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to analyze the data. FAMLF-CS expression in PBMCs from AL patients and CD34+ cells from AL patients and controls was significantly higher than in control PBMCs (P<0.0001). Moreover,FAMLF-CS expression in PBMCs from the AML group was positively correlated with red blood cell count (rs=0.317, P=0.006), hemoglobin levels (rs=0.210, P=0.049), and percentage of peripheral blood blasts (rs=0.256, P=0.027), but inversely correlated with hemoglobin levels in the control group (rs=–0.391, P<0.0001). AML patients with high CD34+ expression showed significantly higherFAMLF-CS expression than those with low CD34+ expression (P=0.041). Our results showed thatFAMLF is highly expressed in both normal and malignant immature hematopoietic cells, but that expression is lower in normal mature PBMCs.
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