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Glycolysis is a main catabolic pathway of glucose metabolism, accompanied by ATP synthesis. More than 30 enzymes are involved in glycolysis, and genes that encode them can be considered housekeeping genes due to the high conservatism and evolutionary antiquity of the process. We studied the expression of these genes in kidney papillary cancer and planocellular lung cancer via the bioinformatic analysis of transcriptome database and method of quantitative real time PCR. Quantitative analysis of mRNA level demonstrated that only a part ofgenes that encode glycolysis enzymes maintain relatively stable mRNA level, including the HK1, ADPGK, GPI, PGK1, and PKM2 genes in kidney papillary cancer and the ADPGK, ALDOA, GAPDH, PGK1, BPGM, ENO1, and PKM2 genes in planocellular lung cancer. The frequent increase in the mRNA expression of PFKP, ALDOA, and GAPDH genes in kidney cancer, as well as the GPI gene in lung cancer, were detected for the first time by real time PCR. For other genes, their differential expression was demonstrated; the cases of both a decrease and increase in the mRNA level were detected. Thus, several genes that can be used as control genes in transcriptome analysis by real time PCR in kidney and lung cancer, as well as a number of differentially expressed genes that can be potential oncomarkers, were identified.

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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogenous clonal blood disease of a neoplastic origin. There are challenging issues for the intermediate-risk AML group, which is defined as non-homogeneous due to a variety of gene mutations (FLT3, NPM1, CEBPA, etc.), prediction of differential clinical course, relapse risk, and selection of adequate therapy. In this context, a search for new molecular markers with sufficient prognostic value for the relapse risk estimation in AML cases with no detectable cytogenetic abnormalities represents a high-priority task for clinical molecular oncohematology. We analyzed prognostic significance of BAALC (Brain And Acute Leukemia, Cytoplasmic) gene overexpression in 93 AML patients during the posttransplant period, in order to estimate feasibility of BAALC expression level monitoring, to predict the relapse risk, and to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of BAALC gene expression assay, to the purpose of minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring. BAALC expression was determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in fresh bone marrow samples. Patients were dichotomized at BAALC's individual and general cut-off into low and high expressers. We have concluded that BAALC overexpression above both individual and common cut-off levels is recognized as a prognostically significant factor for posttransplant relapse risk estimation, overall survival and relapse-free survival. A more detailed analysis of BAALC as a marker for estimation of therapeutic efficiency was performed. We have also compared its sensitivity to the reference techniques for minimal residual disease monitoring (i.e., qPCR-based detection of chimeric gene transcripts), showing inferior sensitivity of such approach to MRD detection in post-transplant period, at least, for our study group. Serial BAALC monitoring may be recommended for clinical relapse prediction during the post-transplant period in AML patients.

This article presents data demonstrating frequent BAALC hyperexpression, also in combination with WT1 hyperexpression, in children and adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Treatment included allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The analysis of serial measurements of BAALC and WT1 expression level in 50 AML patients (37 adults and 13 children) showed that the increased BAALC expression is more common in patients with M1, M2, M4, and M5 FAB variants of AML with equal frequency in adults and children. Furthermore, the increased BAALC expression was rather common in combination with the increased WT1 expression, which predicted poorer prognosis. Since BAALC expression level in AML patients is closely related to AMLproducing progenitor cells of leukemia hemato poiesis, a serial study of this phenomenon off ers insights into the role of these cells in emergence and development of post-transplantation relapses, which is of both theoretical and practical importance.

Aim. To estimate the efficacy of chemotherapy in acute leukemia patients resistant to previous standard treatment according to the series measurement of WT1 expression. Materials & Methods. The series measurement of WT1 expression formed the basis of the efficacy estimation of induction chemotherapy in 31 patients (15 men and 16 women aged from 3 months to 68 years; the median age was 28 years) with prognostically unfavourable variants of acute myeloid (AML) and lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) (23 AML and 8 ALL patients). The WT1 gene expression was measured at baseline and 2-3 weeks after the treatment by the quantitative real-time PCR. The threshold level for detection was 250 copies of WT1/10⁴ copies of ABL. The cytogenetic profile of leukemia cells was assessed by standard cytogenetics and FISH. Results. The baseline expression level of WT1 varied from 305 to 58,569 copies/10⁴ copies of ABL. The expected reduction of WT1 expression after the first induction chemotherapy treatment was reported in 22/23 (96 %) AML patients and in 6/8 (75 %) ALL patients. According to our results WT1 expression reached the threshold in 13/31 (42 %) patients, including 9 AML patients and 4 ALL patients. After 11/31 (35 %) patients received the second course of treatment, WT1 expression level became normal in 8 cases (5 ALL and 3 AML patients). Despite high dose chemotherapy, HSCT and such agents as blinatumomab and gemtuzumab, an unfavourable outcome was observed in 18/31 (58 %) patients including 6 patients with complex karyotype (CK+) and 2 patients with monosomal karyotype (MK+). Once the MK+ and CK+ combination was observed, in another case the MK+ was combined with the prognostically unfavourable inv(3)(q21q26) inversion. Conclusion. Our results show that the molecular monitoring should be included as part of treatment of the prognostically unfavourable acute leukemia. The WT1 gene was shown to be the most appropriate marker. WT1 expression was shown to correlate with the common fusion genes allowing to estimate the blast cell count at the molecular level.

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ConclusionHaplo-HSCT in 1 and 2 remissions of AL allows to achieve 10-year OS in 64.7% of children, while the type of acute leukemia does not influence the outcome of haplo-HSCT. The acceptable frequency of development of aGVHD III 0 -IV 0 -18.6% allows to treat haplo-HSCT as therapy in 1 and 2 remissions of high risk group. The main complication of haplo-HSCT is relapse -23.5% in the early posttransplant period to D + 100.