Akinduro, Olufolake and Weber, Tom S. and Ang, Heather and Haltalli, Myriam and Ruivo, Nicola and Duarte, Delfim and Rashidi, N.M. and Hawkins, Edwin D. and Duffy, Ken R. and Lo Celso, Christina (2018) Proliferation dynamics of acute myeloid leukaemia and haematopoietic progenitors competing for bone marrow space. Nature Communications, 9 (519). ISSN 2041-1723

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Leukaemia progressively invades bone marrow (BM), outcompeting healthy haematopoiesis by mechanisms that are not fully understood. Combining cell number measurements with a short-timescale dual pulse labelling method, we simultaneously determine the proliferation dynamics of primitive haematopoietic compartments and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). We observe an unchanging proportion of AML cells entering S phase per hour throughout disease progression, with substantial BM egress at high levels of infiltration. For healthy haematopoiesis, we find haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) make a significant contribution to cell production, but we phenotypically identify a quiescent subpopulation with enhanced engraftment ability. During AML progression, we observe that multipotent progenitors maintain a constant proportion entering S phase per hour, despite a dramatic decrease in the overall population size. Primitive populations are lost from BM with kinetics that are consistent with ousting irrespective of cell cycle state, with the exception of the quiescent HSC subpopulation, which is more resistant to elimination.

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Keywords:	Proliferation dynamics; acute myeloid leukaemia; haematopoietic progenitors; bone marrow space;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	10166
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02376-5
Depositing User:	Dr Ken Duffy
Date Deposited:	01 Nov 2018 16:30
Journal or Publication Title:	Nature Communications
Publisher:	Nature Research
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	CRUK, European Research Council (ERC), Science Foundation Ireland, Wellcome Tust, FCT/GABBA
URI:	https://www.nature.com
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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