TY - JOUR
T1 - Pre-clinical validation of a novel, highly sensitive assay to detect PML-RARα mRNA using real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction
AU - Slack, James L.
AU - Bi, Wan Li
AU - Livak, Kenneth J.
AU - Beaubier, Nike
AU - Yu, Min
AU - Clark, Michelle
AU - Kim, Soon H.
AU - Gallagher, Robert E.
AU - Willman, Cheryl L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by National Institutes of Health grants CA75049 (to J.L.S.) and CA56771 (to R.E.G.) .
PY - 2001/11
Y1 - 2001/11
N2 - We have developed a sensitive and quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for detection of PML-RARα, the fusion oncogene present as a specific marker in >99% of cases of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The assay is linear over at least 5 orders of magnitude of input DNA or RNA, and detects as few as 4 copies of PML-RARα plasmid DNA. PML-RARα transcripts could be detected in mixtures containing 2 to 5 pg of RNA from fusion-containing cells in a background of 1 μg of RNA from PML-RARα-negative cells. Using 1.0 to 2.5 μg of input RNA, the sensitivity of the assay was between 10-5 and 10-6. Furthermore, determination of GAPDH copy number in each reaction allowed an accurate assessment of sample-to-sample variation in RNA quality and reaction efficiency, with consequent definition of a detection limit for each sample assayed. Using an internal calibrator, assay precision was high, with coefficients of variation between 10 and 20%. An interlaboratory study using coded samples demonstrated excellent reproducibility and high concordance between laboratories. This assay will be used to test the hypothesis that sensitive and quantitative measurement of leukemic burden, during or after therapy of APL, can stratify patients into discrete risk groups, and thereby serve as a basis for risk-adapted therapy in APL.
AB - We have developed a sensitive and quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for detection of PML-RARα, the fusion oncogene present as a specific marker in >99% of cases of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The assay is linear over at least 5 orders of magnitude of input DNA or RNA, and detects as few as 4 copies of PML-RARα plasmid DNA. PML-RARα transcripts could be detected in mixtures containing 2 to 5 pg of RNA from fusion-containing cells in a background of 1 μg of RNA from PML-RARα-negative cells. Using 1.0 to 2.5 μg of input RNA, the sensitivity of the assay was between 10-5 and 10-6. Furthermore, determination of GAPDH copy number in each reaction allowed an accurate assessment of sample-to-sample variation in RNA quality and reaction efficiency, with consequent definition of a detection limit for each sample assayed. Using an internal calibrator, assay precision was high, with coefficients of variation between 10 and 20%. An interlaboratory study using coded samples demonstrated excellent reproducibility and high concordance between laboratories. This assay will be used to test the hypothesis that sensitive and quantitative measurement of leukemic burden, during or after therapy of APL, can stratify patients into discrete risk groups, and thereby serve as a basis for risk-adapted therapy in APL.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60665-4
DO - 10.1016/S1525-1578(10)60665-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 11687597
AN - SCOPUS:0035189081
SN - 1525-1578
VL - 3
SP - 141
EP - 149
JO - Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
JF - Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
IS - 4
ER -