Prognostic significance of high GFI1 expression in AML of normal karyotype and its association with a FLT3-ITD signature

Giacomo Volpe, David Walton, David Grainger, Carl Ward, Pierre Cauchy, Daniel Blakemore, Daniel Coleman, Peter Cockerill, Paloma Garcia, Jonathan Frampton

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Abstract

Growth Factor Independence 1 (GFI1) is a transcriptional repressor that plays a critical role during both myeloid and lymphoid haematopoietic lineage commitment. Several studies have demonstrated the involvement of GFI1 in haematological malignancies and have suggested that low expression of GFI1 is a negative indicator of disease progression for both myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). In this study, we have stratified AML patients into those defined as having a normal karyotype (CN-AML). Unlike the overall pattern in AML, those patients with CN-AML have a poorer survival rate when GFI1 expression is high. In this group, high GFI1 expression is paralleled by higher FLT3 expression, and, even when the FLT3 gene is not mutated, exhibit a FLT3-ITD signature of gene expression. Knock-down of GFI1 expression in the human AML Fujioka cell line led to a decrease in the level of FLT3 RNA and protein and to the down regulation of FLT3-ITD signature genes, thus linking two major prognostic indicators for AML.
Original languageEnglish
Article number11148
JournalScientific Reports
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2017

Keywords

  • acute myeloid leukaemia
  • mechanism of disease

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