The SKM-1 Leukemic Cell Line Established from a Patient with Progression to Myelomonocytic Leukemia in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)-Contribution to Better Understanding of MDS
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Leukemia & Lymphoma
- Vol. 17 (3-4), 335-339
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10428199509056841
Abstract
Although molecular and cytogenetic studies strongly point to the role of oncogenes, the mechanisms underlying the development of MDS and their progressive evolution to AML are still largely unknown. It has been postulated that AML has a preleukemic stage and a multi step pathogenesis, with the preleukemic stem cell able to undergo clonal evolution, with the acquisition of karyotypic abnormalities, leading to the development of acute leukemic subclones. The activations of the ras oncogenes or inactivation of the p53 anti-oncogene by point mutations have been described recently in several cases of MDS as well as AML, suggesting a critical role for these alterations in the development of these myelogenous leukemias. We reported previously establishment of a leukemic cell line, SKM-1, from the patient who initially possessed multiple point mutations of ras genes but lost these mutations during disease progression to myelomonocytic leukemia with acquisition of chromosomal abnormalities involving the p53 anti-oncogene. This process is characterized by genetic instabilities probably due to the failure of their DNA repairment leading to abnormal control of cell proliferation and differentiation. Studying this cell line, SKM-1, is a promising approach to understand the mechanisms of the initiation, disease progression, alterations of DNA repairment, and genetic instability in MDS and myelogenous malignancies.Keywords
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