Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Restricted cell cycle is essential for clonal evolution and therapeutic resistance of pre-leukemic stem cells

  • Cedric S. Tremblay,
  • Jesslyn Saw,
  • Sung Kai Chiu,
  • Nicholas C. Wong,
  • Kirill Tsyganov,
  • Sarah Ghotb,
  • Alison N. Graham,
  • Feng Yan,
  • Andrew A. Guirguis,
  • Stefan E. Sonderegger,
  • Nicole Lee,
  • Paul Kalitsis,
  • John Reynolds,
  • Stephen B. Ting,
  • David R. Powell,
  • Stephen M. Jane,
  • David J. Curtis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06021-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Cell cycle kinetics of pre-leukemic stem cells (pre-LSCs) may be an important determinant of clonal evolution and therapeutic resistance. Here, the AUs use a transgenic T-ALL mouse model that allows non-dividing cells to be tracked and identify a subset of non-dividing pre-LSCs maintained by p21.