Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

A non-cell-autonomous role for Pml in the maintenance of leukemia from the niche

  • Jlenia Guarnerio,
  • Lourdes Maria Mendez,
  • Noboru Asada,
  • Archita Venugopal Menon,
  • Jacqueline Fung,
  • Kelsey Berry,
  • Paul S. Frenette,
  • Keisuke Ito,
  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02427-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Persistence of resistant leukemic cells after therapy is the main cause of relapse. Here, the authors show that mesenchymal stem cells-derived PML is involved in the maintenance of leukemia cells through Cxcl1 and IL6 and that PML inhibition enhances sensitivity to chemotherapy.