Review Article

MicroRNAs in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Other Blood Disorders

Table 1

MiR-15/107 group involvement in common blood disorders§.

Blood disordersMiR-15/107 group alterationsAbnormalities associatedEffects of miRNAs

AMLMiR-15a/16 decreased in (11q23) AML patients [82], elevated in patients with complete remission, and decreased with relapse [83]MiR-15a/16 enhanced ATRA effects inducing AML cell differentiation [83]

APLMiR-15a/16 upregulation and miR-107 downregulation in a cohort of APL patients [135]Patients showed increased miR-15/107 during remission, and miR-15/107 upregulation was induced by ATRA in vitro in APL cells [135]

MiR-15a/16 underexpressed in CLL patients with 13q14 deletion and NZB mice (CLL model) [96, 99]Uncontrolled B-1 cell proliferation [97]Overexpression of miR-15a/16 in CLL murine model resulted in exclusive elimination of malignant B-1 cells [136]
CLLMiR-195 upregulation reported from a study of 9 CLL patients compared to normal controls [137]Not determined
MiR-107 downregulated in CLL patients [138]Underexpression of miR-107 resulted in overexpression of oncogenic PLAG-1 protein [138]

MMMiR-15a/16 decreased in MM patients [62]Uncontrolled clonal plasma cell proliferation and proangiogenesis in bone marrow [62]MiR-15a/16 targeted cell cycle regulators, inhibited NF-κB pathway, and downregulated proangiogenic genes [62]

SLEmiR-15a upregulated in spleen cells from NZB/NZW F1 mice (SLE model), when disease fully developed (manuscript accepted for publication)Elevated autoreactive antibody producing cells terminally differentiated plasma cellsMiR-15a enhanced plasma cell differentiation

§AML: acute myeloid leukemia; APL: acute promyelocytic leukemia; CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukemia; MM: multiple myeloma; SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus; PLAG-1: pleomorphic adenoma gene.