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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2024

Function of PML-RARA in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia.

Ugo Testa, Elvira Pelosi

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The Influences of RARγ on the Behavior of Normal and Cancer Stem Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Case report:Frontiers in oncology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ugo TestaDepartment of Oncology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. ugo.testa@iss.it.
Elvira PelosiDepartment of Oncology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transformation of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) from the most fatal to the most curable subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), with long-term survival exceeding 90%, has represented one of the most exciting successes in hematology and in oncology. APL is a paradigm for oncoprotein-targeted cure.APL is caused by a 15/17 chromosomal translocation which generates the PML-RARA fusion protein and can be cured by the chemotherapy-free approach based on the combination of two therapies targeting PML-RARA: retinoic acid (RA) and arsenic. PML-RARA is the key driver of APL and acts by deregulating transcriptional control, particularly RAR targets involved in self-renewal or myeloid differentiation, also disrupting PML nuclear bodies. PML-RARA mainly acts as a modulator of the expression of specific target genes: genes whose regulatory elements recruit PML-RARA are not uniformly repressed but also may be upregulated or remain unchanged. RA and arsenic trioxide directly target PML-RARA-mediated transcriptional deregulation and protein stability, removing the differentiation block at promyelocytic stage and inducing clinical remission of APL patients.

Indexed as

Leukemia, Promyelocytic, AcuteOncogene Proteins, FusionTretinoinAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsArsenicalsArsenic TrioxideGene Expression Regulation, LeukemicHumansOxidesAntineoplastic AgentsArsenicalsArsenic TrioxideOncogene Proteins, FusionOxidespromyelocytic leukemia-retinoic acid receptor alpha fusion oncoproteinTretinoinAcute promyelocytic leukemiaAll-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA)Arsenic trioxide (ATO)DifferentiationGene regulationRetinoic acidTranscription

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