Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell-restricted Cdx2 expression induces transformation to myelodysplasia and acute leukemia

  • Therese Vu,
  • Jasmin Straube,
  • Amy H. Porter,
  • Megan Bywater,
  • Axia Song,
  • Victoria Ling,
  • Leanne Cooper,
  • Gabor Pali,
  • Claudia Bruedigam,
  • Sebastien Jacquelin,
  • Joanne Green,
  • Graham Magor,
  • Andrew Perkins,
  • Alistair M. Chalk,
  • Carl R. Walkley,
  • Florian H. Heidel,
  • Pamela Mukhopadhyay,
  • Nicole Cloonan,
  • Stefan Gröschel,
  • Jan-Philipp Mallm,
  • Stefan Fröhling,
  • Claudia Scholl,
  • Steven W. Lane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16840-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The caudal-related homeobox transcription factor CDX2 is expressed in leukemic cells in the majority of patients with leukemia but not during normal blood formation. Here, the authors report a mouse model with conditional Cdx2 expression showing de novo leukemic transformation, and use it to optimize treatment in high-risk AML.