PMID- 35953207 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220815 LR - 20220823 IS - 0091-679X (Print) IS - 0091-679X (Linking) VI - 171 DP - 2022 TI - Immunoblotting-assisted assessment of JAK/STAT and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling in myeloproliferative neoplasms CD34+ stem cells. PG - 81-109 LID - S0091-679X(22)00052-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.04.005 [doi] AB - Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (pH-MPNs) origin from the clonal expansion of hematopoietic stem cells with acquired mutations leading to uncontrolled proliferation of differentiated myeloid cells. The main entities of Ph-MPNs are represented by Polycythemia Vera (PV), Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Myelofibrosis (MF) that are characterized by microvascular disorders, thrombosis and bleeding, splenomegaly secondary to extramedullary hematopoiesis, various degree of bone marrow fibrosis and a progressive risk of leukemic transformation. Somatic mutations in myeloid genes including JAK2, CALR, and MPL cause the constitutive activation of the Janus Kinase 2 (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway that confers proliferative and differentiative advantage to mutated hematopoietic progenitors and ultimately drives the development of a Ph-MPNs phenotype. Beyond the JAK/STAT axis, a wide number of intracellular signaling pathways were found deregulated in Ph-MPNs including the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt)/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) constitutive activation. In this chapter, we provide a detailed protocol for the immunoblotting assisted assessment of Ph-MPNs pathways activation. This protocol can be easily adapted to study protein expression and phosphorylation of hematopoietic stem progenitors and differentiated cell lineages. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Calabresi, Laura AU - Calabresi L AD - Center for Research and Innovation for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. FAU - Balliu, Manjola AU - Balliu M AD - Center for Research and Innovation for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. FAU - Bartalucci, Niccolo AU - Bartalucci N AD - Center for Research and Innovation for Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: niccolo.bartalucci@unifi.it. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220726 PL - United States TA - Methods Cell Biol JT - Methods in cell biology JID - 0373334 RN - 0 (Calreticulin) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (MTOR protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.10.2 (Janus Kinase 2) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Calreticulin/genetics MH - Humans MH - Immunoblotting MH - Janus Kinase 2/genetics MH - Mutation MH - *Myeloproliferative Disorders/genetics MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics MH - *Polycythemia Vera/genetics MH - *Primary Myelofibrosis/genetics MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/genetics MH - Stem Cells MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - CD34+ cells OT - Essential thrombocythemia OT - Hematopoietic colonies OT - Immunoblotting OT - JAK2 OT - Myelofibrosis OT - Myeloproliferative neoplasms OT - Polycythemia vera OT - STAT5 COIS- Disclosures LC, MB, and NB have no conflicts of interest to disclose. EDAT- 2022/08/12 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/16 06:00 CRDT- 2022/08/11 21:06 PHST- 2022/08/11 21:06 [entrez] PHST- 2022/08/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/16 06:00 [medline] AID - S0091-679X(22)00052-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.04.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Cell Biol. 2022;171:81-109. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.04.005. Epub 2022 Jul 26.