Importantly, co-expression of SOCS1 with BCR-ABL led to the development of a MPD phenotype with a prolonged disease latency compared to BCR-ABL alone in a murine bone marrow transplantation model.
Furthermore, curcumin increased the transcript levels of SOCS1 and SOCS3 and significantly inhibited the clonogenic activity of hematopoietic progenitors from patients with MPNs.
Furthermore, SB increased the transcript levels of SOCS1 and SOCS3 and inhibited the clonogenic activity of hematopoietic progenitors from patients with MPNs.
SOCS3, SOCS1 and PTPN6 methylation occurred in both JAK2V617F-positive (35.1% for SOCS3; 14.9% for SOCS1; 8.1% for PTPN6) and JAK2V617F-negative (57.1% for SOCS3; 14.3% for SOCS1; and 9.5% for PTPN6) CMPD.
Our results suggest that epigenetic inactivation of SOCS-1 may be a complementary mechanism to the JAK2V617F mutation in the pathogenesis of MPD that leads to dysregulation of JAK-STAT signal transduction and thus contributes to growth factor hypersensitivity.