RT Journal Article T1 Development Refractoriness of MLL-Rearranged Human B Cell Acute Leukemias to Reprogramming into Pluripotency. A1 Muñoz-López, Alvaro A1 Romero-Moya, Damià A1 Prieto, Cristina A1 Ramos-Mejía, Verónica A1 Agraz-Doblas, Antonio A1 Varela, Ignacio A1 Buschbeck, Marcus A1 Palau, Anna A1 Carvajal-Vergara, Xonia A1 Giorgetti, Alessandra A1 Ford, Anthony A1 Lako, Majlinda A1 Granada, Isabel A1 Ruiz-Xivillé, Neus A1 Rodríguez-Perales, Sandra A1 Torres-Ruíz, Raul A1 Stam, Ronald W A1 Fuster, Jose Luis A1 Fraga, Mario F A1 Nakanishi, Mahito A1 Cazzaniga, Gianni A1 Bardini, Michela A1 Cobo, Isabel A1 Bayon, Gustavo F A1 Fernandez, Agustin F A1 Bueno, Clara A1 Menendez, Pablo K1 B-ALL K1 DNA methylome K1 MLL-AF4 K1 Sendai virus K1 cancer reprogramming K1 iPSC K1 transcriptome AB Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a powerful tool for disease modeling. They are routinely generated from healthy donors and patients from multiple cell types at different developmental stages. However, reprogramming leukemias is an extremely inefficient process. Few studies generated iPSCs from primary chronic myeloid leukemias, but iPSC generation from acute myeloid or lymphoid leukemias (ALL) has not been achieved. We attempted to generate iPSCs from different subtypes of B-ALL to address the developmental impact of leukemic fusion genes. OKSM(L)-expressing mono/polycistronic-, retroviral/lentiviral/episomal-, and Sendai virus vector-based reprogramming strategies failed to render iPSCs in vitro and in vivo. Addition of transcriptomic-epigenetic reprogramming "boosters" also failed to generate iPSCs from B cell blasts and B-ALL lines, and when iPSCs emerged they lacked leukemic fusion genes, demonstrating non-leukemic myeloid origin. Conversely, MLL-AF4-overexpressing hematopoietic stem cells/B progenitors were successfully reprogrammed, indicating that B cell origin and leukemic fusion gene were not reprogramming barriers. Global transcriptome/DNA methylome profiling suggested a developmental/differentiation refractoriness of MLL-rearranged B-ALL to reprogramming into pluripotency. YR 2016 FD 2016-09-22 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10474 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10474 LA en DS RISalud RD Apr 5, 2025