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| Author(s): |
Bárbara da Costa Reis Monte Mór
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2007-12-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Ferreira Costa;
Carmino Antonio de Souza;
Kleber Gomes Franchini;
Maria de de Loudes Lopes Ferrari Chauffaille;
Dimas Tadeu Covas
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| Advisor: | Fernando Ferreira Costa |
| Abstract | |
Polycythemia vera (PV) is a chronic myeloproliferative disorder that arises through clonal proliferation of multipotent hematopoietic progenitors. PV patients present bone marrow trilineage expansion, leading to increased production of mature red cells, granulocytes and platelets. Important PV features are elevated red cell mass, despite normal or subnormal erythropoietin (EPO) levels, and endogenous erythroid colony (EEC) formation. The JAK2 V617F mutation, present in the majority of polycythemia vera (PV) patients, causes a JAK2 constitutive activation and seems to be responsible for the PV phenotype. However, the transcriptional changes triggered by the mutation have not yet been totally characterized. Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) was used to perform a large scale gene expression study in bone marrow cells of a newly-diagnosed PV patient harboring the JAK2 V617F mutation and in normal bone marrow cells from healthy donors. Genes overexpressed in PV are involved in important biological processes, such as signal transduction, cellular differentiation, cellular proliferation, cell cycle, apoptosis, immune response and transcriptional regulation. JUNB was one of the genes up-regulated in PV and overexpression of JUNB was also detected by quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in hematopoietic cells of another two JAK2 V617F PV patients. Using Ba/F3-EPOR cell lines and primary human erythroblast cultures, JUNB was found to be expressed after Epo addition and JunB protein was shown to be constitutively induced by JAK2 V617F. In addition, JUNB knock down reduced the clonogenic and proliferative potential of human erythroid progenitors. Furthermore, in PV, the JAK2 V617F driven erythropoisis was more sensitive to JunB downregulation than normal erythropoiesis. Hence, these results demonstrate that JunB may play a major role in the development of JAK2 V617F myeloproliferative disorders (AU) | |