title: Survivin expression in chronic myeloid leukemia.
abstract: In this study, we investigated the expression of survivin (SVV) in 44 patients with typical Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in different phases of the disease as well as in 20 matched healthy donors. We found a very high SVV expression in a predominant percentage of CML patients. We also observed a significantly increased SVV expression in patients in accelerated/blastic phase of the disease compared to patients in chronic phase. Moreover, SVV expression levels correlated in all CML patients with % of Ph-chromosome positive cells, with Bcr-Abl expression levels and with WBC-count. Based on this finding we suggest that SVV detection and monitoring in CML could represent both a useful biomarker and attractive candidate for devising new targeted and combined therapies in CML.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pathology Section, University of Catania, via Androne 83, Catania I-95124, Italy. econte@unict.it
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Conte
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stagno
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guglielmo
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scuto
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Consoli
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Messina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D051034:Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000097:blood*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D000077022:Survivin
chemical_list: C107489:BIRC5 protein, human; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D051034:Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D000077022:Survivin