Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Notch2 controls non-autonomous Wnt-signalling in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

  • Maurizio Mangolini,
  • Frederik Götte,
  • Andrew Moore,
  • Tim Ammon,
  • Madlen Oelsner,
  • Gloria Lutzny-Geier,
  • Ludger Klein-Hitpass,
  • James C. Williamson,
  • Paul J. Lehner,
  • Jan Dürig,
  • Michael Möllmann,
  • Lívia Rásó-Barnett,
  • Katherine Hughes,
  • Antonella Santoro,
  • Simón Méndez-Ferrer,
  • Robert A. J. Oostendorp,
  • Ursula Zimber-Strobl,
  • Christian Peschel,
  • Daniel J. Hodson,
  • Marc Schmidt-Supprian,
  • Ingo Ringshausen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06069-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The Wnt pathway is one of the core de-regulated pathways in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and is activated in only a subset of patients; however, no universal drivers of the disease have been identified. Here the authors show that Notch2 and β-catenin pathways are the main drivers of the pro-survival bidirectional crosstalk between stromal cells and leukemic cells.