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A Multicellular Basis for the Origination of Blast Crisis in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

In English

Författare

  • Rainer Sachs
  • Kerstin Johnsson
  • Philip Hahnfeldt
  • Janet Luo
  • Allen Chen
  • Lynn Hlatky

Summary, in English

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is characterized by a specific chromosome translocation, and its pathobiology is considered comparatively well understood. Thus, quantitative analysis of CML and its progression to blast crisis may help elucidate general mechanisms of carcinogenesis and cancer progression. Hitherto, it has been widely postulated that CML blast crisis originates mainly via cell-autonomous mechanisms such as secondary mutations or genomic instability. However, recent results suggest that carcinogenic transformation may be an inherently multicellular event, in departure from the classic unicellular paradigm. We investigate this possibility in the case of blast crisis origination in CML. A quantitative, mechanistic cell population dynamics model was employed. This model used recent data on imatinib-treated CML; it also used earlier clinical data, not previously incorporated into current mathematical CML/imatinib models. With the pre-imatinib data, which include results on many more blast crises, we obtained evidence that the driving mechanism for blast crisis origination is a cooperation between specific cell types. Assuming leukemic–normal interactions resulted in a statistically significant improvement over assuming either cell-autonomous mechanisms or interactions between leukemic cells. This conclusion was robust with regard to changes in the model's adjustable parameters. Application of the results to patients treated with imatinib suggests that imatinib may act not only on malignant blast precursors, but also, to a limited degree, on the malignant blasts themselves

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2838-2847

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Cancer Research

Volym

71

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Association for Cancer Research Inc.

Ämne

  • Mathematics

Nyckelord

  • Chronic myeloid leukemia
  • differential equations
  • blast crisis
  • mathematical modeling

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1538-7445