IRF8 and leukemia: Our gene expression profiling results found some differences in the effects of the three leukemia cell lines on BMSCs: TF-1 and K562 stimulated BMSC pro-inflammatory molecule production, while TF-1α down-regulated BMSC Col3A1 expression and up-regulating IRF8 although with a small fold change and the pathways most represented in the differentially expressed genes included Rac, actin cytoskeleton, growth factor hormone and death receptor signaling.