TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 19, Issue 8 (August 2005)

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Leading Article

FOXP1, a gene highly expressed in a subset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, is recurrently targeted by genomic aberrations

I Wlodarska, E Veyt, P De Paepe, P Vandenberghe, P Nooijen, I Theate, L Michaux, X Sagaert, P Marynen, A Hagemeijer and C De Wolf-Peeters

Leukemia 19: 1299-1305; advance online publication, June 9, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403813

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Spotlight on Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

Efficacy of gemtuzumab ozogamicin on ATRA- and arsenic-resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells

A Takeshita, K Shinjo, K Naito, H Matsui, N Sahara, K Shigeno, T Horii, N Shirai, M Maekawa, K Ohnishi, T Naoe and R Ohno

Leukemia 19: 1306-1311; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403807

Antiangiogenic treatment with endostatin inhibits progression of AML in vivo

G Schuch, L Oliveira-Ferrer, S Loges, E Laack, C Bokemeyer, D K Hossfeld, W Fiedler and S Ergun

Leukemia 19: 1312-1317; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403824

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Review

Wilms' tumour gene 1 (WT1) in human neoplasia

U Keilholz, H D Menssen, A Gaiger, A Menke, Y Oji, Y Oka, C Scheibenbogen, H Stauss, E Thiel and H Sugiyama

Leukemia 19: 1318-1323; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403817

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Keynote Address

Is there a role for postremission therapy in older adults with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)?

J M Rowe

Leukemia 19: 1324-1327; advance online publication, June 9, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403827

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Commentaries

HOX genes: not just myeloid oncogenes any more

H J Lawrence, N A Fischbach and C Largman

Leukemia 19: 1328-1330; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403816

Higher-grade transformation of follicular lymphoma – a continuous enigma

I S Lossos

Leukemia 19: 1331-1333; advance online publication, May 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403801

Intrahospital supervised exercise training: a complementary tool in the therapeutic armamentarium against childhood leukemia

A Lucia, M Ramírez, A F San Juan, S J Fleck, J García-Castro and L Madero

Leukemia 19: 1334-1337; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403799

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Original Manuscripts

Acute Non-Lymphocytic Leukemias

DEK-CAN molecular monitoring of myeloid malignancies could aid therapeutic stratification

L Garçon, M Libura, E Delabesse, F Valensi, V Asnafi, C Berger, C Schmitt, T Leblanc, A Buzyn and E Macintyre

Leukemia 19: 1338-1344; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403835

Prognostic significance of FLT3 internal tandem duplication and tyrosine kinase domain mutations for acute myeloid leukemia: a meta-analysis

M Yanada, K Matsuo, T Suzuki, H Kiyoi and T Naoe

Leukemia 19: 1345-1349; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403838

The novel triterpenoid CDDO-Me suppresses MAPK pathways and promotes p38 activation in acute myeloid leukemia cells

M Konopleva, R Contractor, S M Kurinna, W Chen, M Andreeff and P P Ruvolo

Leukemia 19: 1350-1354; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403828

AML patients with Down syndrome have a high cure rate with AML-BFM therapy with reduced dose intensity

U Creutzig, D Reinhardt, S Diekamp, M Dworzak, J Stary and M Zimmermann

Leukemia 19: 1355-1360; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403814

Mutations in the receptor tyrosine kinase pathway are associated with clinical outcome in patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia harboring t(8;21)(q22;q22)

T Nanri, N Matsuno, T Kawakita, H Suzushima, F Kawano, H Mitsuya and N Asou

Leukemia 19: 1361-1366; advance online publication, May 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403803

Expression and methylation status of the FHIT gene in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

M Iwai, H Kiyoi, K Ozeki, T Kinoshita, N Emi, R Ohno and T Naoe

Leukemia 19: 1367-1375; advance online publication, May 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403805

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Normal Lymphoid Cells

Aberrant expression of tetraspanin molecules in B-cell chronic lymphoproliferative disorders and its correlation with normal B-cell maturation

S Barrena, J Almeida, M Yunta, A López, N Fernández-Mosteirín, M Giralt, M Romero, L Perdiguer, M Delgado, A Orfao and P A Lazo

Leukemia 19: 1376-1383; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403822

T-Cell Leukemia

Efficient engraftment of primary adult T-cell leukemia cells in newborn NOD/SCID/beta2-microglobulinnull mice

N Kawano, F Ishikawa, K Shimoda, M Yasukawa, K Nagafuji, T Miyamoto, E Baba, T Tanaka, S Yamasaki, H Gondo, T Otsuka, K Ohshima, L D Shultz, K Akashi and M Harada

Leukemia 19: 1384-1390; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403829

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

Molecular heterogeneity of sporadic adult Burkitt-type leukemia/lymphoma as revealed by PCR and cytogenetics: correlation with morphology, immunology and clinical features

T Burmeister, S Schwartz, H-A Horst, H Rieder, N Gökbuget, D Hoelzer and E Thiel

Leukemia 19: 1391-1398; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403847

Overt testicular disease at diagnosis of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: lack of therapeutic role of local irradiation

N Hijiya, W Liu, J T Sandlund, S Jeha, B I Razzouk, R C Ribeiro, J E Rubnitz, S C Howard, E P Kyzer, D S Redd, C Cheng, G K Rivera, M M Hudson, M V Relling and C-H Pui

Leukemia 19: 1399-1403; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403843

Oncogenes

Dlk1 in normal and abnormal hematopoiesis

S Sakajiri, J O'Kelly, D Yin, C W Miller, W K Hofmann, K Oshimi, L-Y Shih, K-H Kim, H S Sul, C H Jensen, B Teisner, N Kawamata and H P Koeffler

Leukemia 19: 1404-1410; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403832

Cytogenetics

Common 4q24 deletion in four cases of hematopoietic malignancy: early stem cell involvement?

F Viguié, A Aboura, D Bouscary, S Ramond, A Delmer, G Tachdjian, J P Marie and N Casadevall

Leukemia 19: 1411-1415; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403818

Minimal Residual Disease

Prognostic impact of RT-PCR-based quantification of WT1 gene expression during MRD monitoring of acute myeloid leukemia

M Weisser, W Kern, S Rauhut, C Schoch, W Hiddemann, T Haferlach and S Schnittger

Leukemia 19: 1416-1423; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403809

Myelodysplasias

Incidence and prognostic significance of karyotype abnormalities in de novo primary myelodysplastic syndromes: a study on 331 patients from a single institution

P Bernasconi, C Klersy, M Boni, P M Cavigliano, S Calatroni, I Giardini, B Rocca, R Zappatore, M Caresana, J Quarna, M Lazzarino and C Bernasconi

Leukemia 19: 1424-1431; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403806

Immunology

Cell-based selection of internalizing fully human antagonistic antibodies directed against FLT3 for suppression of leukemia cell growth

B Williams, A Atkins, H Zhang, D Lu, X Jimenez, H Li, M-N Wang, D Ludwig, P Balderes, L Witte, Y Li and Z Zhu

Leukemia 19: 1432-1438; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403825

Differentiation

SET-induced calcium signaling and MAPK/ERK pathway activation mediate dendritic cell-like differentiation of U937 cells

A Kandilci and G C Grosveld

Leukemia 19: 1439-1445; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403826

Stem Cell Transplantation

A defined donor activating natural killer cell receptor genotype protects against leukemic relapse after related HLA-identical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

S Verheyden, R Schots, W Duquet and C Demanet

Leukemia 19: 1446-1451; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403839

Lymphoma

Insights into the multistep transformation process of lymphomas: IgH-associated translocations and tumor suppressor gene mutations in clonally related composite Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas

R Schmitz, C Renné, R Rosenquist, M Tinguely, V Distler, F Menestrina, M Lestani, T Stankovic, B Austen, A Bräuninger, M-L Hansmann and R Küppers

Leukemia 19: 1452-1458; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403841

A limited role for TP53 mutation in the transformation of follicular lymphoma to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

A J Davies, A M Lee, C Taylor, A J Clear, L K Goff, S Iqbal, D Cuthbert-Heavens, M Calaminici, A J Norton, T A Lister and J Fitzgibbon

Leukemia 19: 1459-1465; advance online publication, May 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403802

Myeloma

CD45 expression by bone marrow plasma cells in multiple myeloma: clinical and biological correlations

S Kumar, S V Rajkumar, T Kimlinger, P R Greipp and T E Witzig

Leukemia 19: 1466-1470; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403823

Multiple myeloma oncogene 1 (MUM1)/interferon regulatory factor 4 (IRF4) upregulates monokine induced by interferon-bold italic gamma (MIG) gene expression in B-cell malignancy

M Uranishi, S Iida, T Sanda, T Ishida, E Tajima, M Ito, H Komatsu, H Inagaki and R Ueda

Leukemia 19: 1471-1478; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403833

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Biotechnical Methods Section

Simultaneous detection of NPM1 and FLT3-ITD mutations by capillary electrophoresis in acute myeloid leukemia

N I Noguera, E Ammatuna, D Zangrilli, S Lavorgna, M Divona, F Buccisano, S Amadori, C Mecucci, B Falini and F Lo-Coco

Leukemia 19: 1479-1482; advance online publication, June 23, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403846

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Spotlight Correspondence

Gene expression profiling of normal hematopoietic progenitor cells under treatment with imatinib in vitro

S Balabanov, K Bartolovic, M Komor, L Kanz, W K Hofmann and T H Brümmendorf

Leukemia 19: 1483-1485; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403819

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Correspondence

VEGF-induced survival of chronic lymphocytic leukemia is independent of Bcl-2 phosphorylation

L Wang, J E Coad, J M Fortney and L F Gibson

Leukemia 19: 1486-1487; advance online publication, June 16, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403837

Expression of BEX1 in acute myeloid leukemia with MLL rearrangements

H Quentmeier, R Tonelli, R Geffers, A Pession, C C Uphoff and H G Drexler

Leukemia 19: 1488-1489; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403820

Mutational status of IgVH genes in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia and prognosis: percent mutations or antigen-driven selection?

R Bomben, M Dal Bo, A Zucchetto, E Zaina, P Nanni, P Sonego, G Del Poeta, M Degan and V Gattei

Leukemia 19: 1490-1492; advance online publication, June 9, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403830

RBM15 and MKL1 mutational screening in megakaryoblastic leukemia cell lines and clinical samples

H Kawaguchi, J K Hitzler, Z Ma and S W Morris

Leukemia 19: 1492-1494; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403812

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in children and adolescents, excluding Down's syndrome: improved outcome with intensified induction treatment

D Reinhardt, S Diekamp, C Langebrake, J Ritter, J Stary, M Dworzak, A Schrauder, M Zimmermann, G Fleischhack, W-D Ludwig, J Harbott and U Creutzig

Leukemia 19: 1495-1496; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403815

Long-term thalidomide therapy resulted in lack of mdr1 gene expression in a patient with primary resistant multiple myeloma

M Hus, A Dmoszyñska, J Kocki, I Hus, D Jawniak, M Adamczyk-Cioch and N Grzasko

Leukemia 19: 1497-1499; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403811

High expression of EDAG and its significance in AML

L-L An, G Li, K-F Wu, X-T Ma, G-G Zheng, L-G Qiu and Y-H Song

Leukemia 19: 1499-1502; advance online publication, May 26, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403808

Loss of Zap-70 and low molecular weight phosphotyrosine phosphatase occurs after therapy in a patient with B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Z Chen, E Aston and M K Yu

Leukemia 19: 1503-1505; advance online publication, June 2, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403793

Mesenchymal stem cells can be easily isolated from bone marrow of patients with various haematological malignancies but the surface antigens expression may be changed after prolonged ex vivo culture

S-P Yeh, J-G Chang, C-L Lin, W-J Lo, C-C Lee, C-Y Lin and C-F Chiu

Leukemia 19: 1505-1507; advance online publication, May 19, 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403795

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