The Bone Marrow Niche – The Tumor Microenvironment That Ensures Leukemia Progression

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The human body requires a constant delivery of fresh blood cells that are needed to maintain body homeostasis. Hematopoiesis is the process that drives the formation of new blood cells from a single stem cell. This is a complex, orchestrated and tightly regulated process that occurs within the bone marrow. When such process is faulty or deregulated, leukemia arises, develops and thrives by subverting normal hematopoiesis and availing the supplies of this rich milieu.

In this book chapter we will describe and characterize the bone marrow microenvironment and its key importance for leukemia expansion. The several components of the bone marrow niche, their interaction with the leukemic cells and the cellular pathways activated within the malignant cells will be emphasized. Finally, novel therapeutic strategies to target this sibling interaction will also be discussed.

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Abbreviations

PDK:

3-Phosphinositide-dependent Protein Kinase

Ang:

Angiopoietin

AGM:

Aorta-gonad-mesonephros

ALL:

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

AML:

Acute Myeloid Leukemia

B-ALL:

B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

BM:

Bone Marrow

BMP:

Bone Morphogenetic Protein

CNS:

Central Nervous System

CML:

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

CSF:

Colony-stimulating Factor

CLP:

Common Lymphoid Progenitor

CMP:

Common Myeloid Progenitor

CAR:

CXCL12 Abundant Reticular cells

CXCR4:

C-X-C chemokine receptor 4

CXCL12:

C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 12

Ara-C:

Cytarabine

Dll-1:

Delta-like-1

DHH:

Desert Hedgehog

ETP-ALL:

Early T-cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

EC:

Endothelial Cells

ECM:

Extracellular Matrix

FABP4:

Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4

FAO:

Fatty Acid Oxidation

FGF:

Fibroblast Growht Factor

FL:

Fetal Liver

GAL:

Galectin

GMP:

Granulocyte-monocyte Progenitors

G-CSF:

Granulocyte-stimulating factor

GLI:

Glioma Zinc Finger Transcription Factor

HSC:

Hematopoietic Stem Cell

HIF:

Hypoxia Inducible Factor

IHH:

Indian Hedgehog

IFN:

Interferon

IGFBP:

Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein

IL:

Interleukin

ICAM-1:

Intracellular Adhesion Molecule-1

ICN:

Intracellular Notch

JAK:

Janus kinase

LepR:

Leptin receptor

LIC:

Leukemia Initiating Cell

LSC:

Leukemic Stem Cell

LSK:

Lin Sca-1+ c-Kit+

LT-HSC:

Long-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cell

LFA-1:

Lymphocyte Function Associated Antigen-1

mTOR:

Mammalian Target of Rapamycin

MEP:

Megakaryocyte-erythrocyte Progenitors

MSC:

Mesenchymal Stem Cell

OB:

Osteoblast

OC:

Osteoclast

OPN:

Osteopontin

PDX:

Patient-derived Xenograft

PTEN:

Phosphatase and Tensin Homologue

PIP2:

Phosphatidyl-Inositol 4,5-Bisphosphate

PIP3:

Phosphatidyl-Inositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate

PI3K:

Phospho-Inositol-3-Kinase

PKB/Akt:

Protein Kinase B

RBC:

Red Blood Cell

ST-HSC:

Short-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cell

STAT:

Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription

SMO:

Smoothened

SHH:

Sonic Hedgehog

SCF:

Stem Cell Factor

SC:

Stromal Cell

SDF-1:

Stromal Derived Factor -1

SNC:

Sympathetic neural cells

T-ALL:

T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

TCF/LEF:

T-cell factor/Lymphoid enhancer binding factor

TGF:

Transforming Growth Factor

TPO:

Thrombopoietin

TNF:

Tumor Necrosis Factor

TKI:

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor

VCAM-1:

Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1

VE:

Vascular Endothelial

VEGF:

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

VEGFR:

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor

VLA-4:

Very Late Antigen-4

VHL:

von Hippel-Lindau

WNT:

Wingless and INT-1

WHO:

World Health Organization

YS:

Yolk-Sac

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Cardoso, B.A. (2020). The Bone Marrow Niche – The Tumor Microenvironment That Ensures Leukemia Progression. In: Serpa, J. (eds) Tumor Microenvironment . Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34025-4_14

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