High PD-L1 Expression Predicts for Worse Outcome of Leukemia Patients with Concomitant NPM1 and FLT3 Mutations

Compared to solid tumors, the role of PD-L1 in hematological malignancies is less explored, and the knowledge in this area is mostly limited to lymphomas. However, several studies indicated that PD-L1 is also overexpressed in myeloid malignancies. Successful treatment of the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is likely associated with elimination of the residual disease by the immune system, and possible involvement of PD-L1 in this process remains to be elucidated. We analyzed PD-L1 expression on AML primary cells by flow cytometry and, in parallel, transcript levels were determined for the transcription variants v1 and v2. The ratio of v1/v2 cDNA correlated with the surface protein amount, and high v1/v2 levels were associated with worse overall survival (p = 0.0045). The prognostic impact of PD-L1 was limited to AML with mutated nucleophosmin and concomitant internal tandem duplications in the FLT3 gene (p less than 0.0001 for this particular AML subgroup).

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

International journal of molecular sciences - 20(2019), 11 vom: 10. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brodská, Barbora [VerfasserIn]
Otevřelová, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Šálek, Cyril [VerfasserIn]
Fuchs, Ota [VerfasserIn]
Gašová, Zdenka [VerfasserIn]
Kuželová, Kateřina [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

117896-08-9
AML
B7-H1 Antigen
Biomarkers, Tumor
CD274 protein, human
CD34
EC 2.7.10.1
FLT3 protein, human
FLT3-ITD
Fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3
Journal Article
Leukemia
NPM1
NPM1 protein, human
Nuclear Proteins
Nucleophosmin
PD-1
PD-L1 transcript
RNA, Messenger

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Date Completed 19.11.2019

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms20112823

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM298026120