Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: July 1

The research roundup provides an overview of the past week’s research from Mayo Clinic Laboratories consultants, including featured abstracts and a complete list of published studies and reviews.


Featured Abstract

PRMT1-mediated FLT3 arginine methylation promotes maintenance of FLT3-ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

The presence of FLT3-ITD mutations in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is associated with poor clinical outcome. FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), although effective in kinase ablation, do not eliminate primitive FLT3-ITD+ leukemia cells, which are potential sources of relapse. Thus understanding mechanisms underlying FLT3-ITD+ AML cell persistence is essential to devise future AML therapies. Here, we show that expression of PRMT1, the primary type I arginine methyltransferase, significantly increases in AML cells relative to normal hematopoietic cells.

Published to PubMed This Week

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