A Preliminary Study Evaluating IKAROS Protein Expression and IKZF1 mRNA Transcripts in B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Journal Title: GUJARAT CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH JOURNAL - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 1
Abstract
IKAROS, a zinc finger transcription factor protein encoded by the IKZF1 gene is crucial for hematopoiesis in humans. Loss of function mutations in IKZF1 have been implicated in adult and pediatric B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL). Our aim is to evaluate the incidence of IKAROS protein expression and IKZF1 mRNA transcripts in BALL patients. IKAROS protein expression was evaluated in total 34 patients diagnosed as de- novo B-ALL using flow cytometry and IKZF1 mRNA Transcripts were detected using reverse transcriptase - polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method in 13 patients. The expression levels of the IKAROS protein and IKZF1 isoforms were analysed and correlated with clinical and hematological parameters. B-ALL patients with presence of only IK-6 isoform were associated with high WBC count, blast count (>85%) as well as progenitor cell markers CD34 and Tdt positivity. Also there was a significant correlation of low hemoglobin and CD19 positivity with IKAROS protein over expression. In one of the patient we found only 09% of IKAROS protein, having two dominant negative isoforms IK-4 and IK-6 with absence of normal isoforms, which might suggest disease aggressiveness. However, IKAROS protein evaluation by flow cytometry method should be correlated with IKAROS isoforms in more number of B- ALL patients so that the clinical relevance of IKAROS protein could be established. Correlation with conventional prognostic markers suggests that the patients showing the presence of IK-6 isoform can be considered as high risk patients.
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Dhruv p1 Nimavat, Darshita Patel, Shalvi Mehta, Hemangini Vora
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