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Hecht A, Meyer JA, Behnert A, Wong E, Chehab F, Olshen A, Hechmer A, Aftandilian C, Bhat R, Choi SW, Chonat S, Farrar JE, Fluchel M, Frangoul H, Han JH, Kolb EA, Kuo DJ, MacMillan ML, Maese L, Maloney KW, Narendran A, Oshrine B, Schultz KR, Sulis ML, Van Mater D, Tasian SK, Hofmann WK, Loh ML, Stieglitz E. Molecular and phenotypic diversity of CBL-mutated juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Haematologica 2020; 107:178-186. [PMID: 33375775 PMCID: PMC8719097 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2020.270595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Mutations in the CBL gene were first identified in adults with various myeloid malignancies. Some patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) were also noted to harbor mutations in CBL, but were found to have generally less aggressive disease courses compared to patients with other forms of Ras pathway-mutant JMML. Importantly, and in contrast to most reports in adults, the majority of CBL mutations in JMML patients are germline with acquired uniparental disomy occurring in affected marrow cells. Here, we systematically studied a large cohort of 33 JMML patients with CBL mutations and found that this disease is highly diverse in presentation and overall outcome. Moreover, we discovered somatically acquired CBL mutations in 15% of pediatric patients who presented with more aggressive disease. Neither clinical features nor methylation profiling were able to distinguish patients with somatic CBL mutations from those with germline CBL mutations, highlighting the need for germline testing. Overall, we demonstrate that disease courses are quite heterogeneous even among patients with germline CBL mutations. Prospective clinical trials are warranted to find ideal treatment strategies for this diverse cohort of patients.
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- Anna Hecht
- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Little Rock, AR; Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Salt Lake City, UT
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- The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial and Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of California, San Diego/ Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
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- Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders/Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of California, San Diego/ Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
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- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Pediatrics and Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta
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- British Columbia Children's Hospital and Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 1275 York Avenue. 10065 New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Division of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Department of Pediatrics and Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Hematology/Oncology, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
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Rossoff J, Huynh V, Rau RE, Macy ME, Sulis ML, Schultz KR, Burke MJ, Athale U, O'Brien MM, Gregory JJ, van der Sluis IM, Keller FG, Zwaan CM, Suttorp M, Hijiya N. Experience with ponatinib in paediatric patients with leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2020; 189:363-368. [PMID: 31975387 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.16338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Ponatinib has proven to be effective in adults with Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukaemias, but data in paediatrics are scarce. Among paediatric patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (n = 9) or acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (n = 12) treated with varying doses of ponatinib in 13 centres, 71% showed a decrease in disease burden after a median of three months. Ponatinib was well tolerated, with grade 3 toxicities occurring in 29% of patients. Toxicities were similar to those reported in adults, with the exception of arterial thrombotic events, which were not observed. Ponatinib has a favourable safety profile in this paediatric cohort, but dose-finding studies are needed.
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- Jenna Rossoff
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange, CA, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Medical Faculty, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Dresden University, Dresden, Germany
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- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Picarsic J, Pysher T, Zhou H, Fluchel M, Pettit T, Whitehead M, Surrey LF, Harding B, Goldstein G, Fellig Y, Weintraub M, Mobley BC, Sharples PM, Sulis ML, Diamond EL, Jaffe R, Shekdar K, Santi M. BRAF V600E mutation in Juvenile Xanthogranuloma family neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS-JXG): a revised diagnostic algorithm to include pediatric Erdheim-Chester disease. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2019; 7:168. [PMID: 31685033 PMCID: PMC6827236 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-019-0811-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
The family of juvenile xanthogranuloma family neoplasms (JXG) with ERK-pathway mutations are now classified within the "L" (Langerhans) group, which includes Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and Erdheim Chester disease (ECD). Although the BRAF V600E mutation constitutes the majority of molecular alterations in ECD and LCH, only three reported JXG neoplasms, all in male pediatric patients with localized central nervous system (CNS) involvement, are known to harbor the BRAF mutation. This retrospective case series seeks to redefine the clinicopathologic spectrum of pediatric CNS-JXG family neoplasms in the post-BRAF era, with a revised diagnostic algorithm to include pediatric ECD. Twenty-two CNS-JXG family lesions were retrieved from consult files with 64% (n = 14) having informative BRAF V600E mutational testing (molecular and/or VE1 immunohistochemistry). Of these, 71% (n = 10) were pediatric cases (≤18 years) and half (n = 5) harbored the BRAF V600E mutation. As compared to the BRAF wild-type cohort (WT), the BRAF V600E cohort had a similar mean age at diagnosis [BRAF V600E: 7 years (3-12 y), vs. WT: 7.6 years (1-18 y)] but demonstrated a stronger male/female ratio (BRAF V600E: 4 vs WT: 0.67), and had both more multifocal CNS disease ( BRAFV600E: 80% vs WT: 20%) and systemic disease (BRAF V600E: 40% vs WT: none). Radiographic features of CNS-JXG varied but typically included enhancing CNS mass lesion(s) with associated white matter changes in a subset of BRAF V600E neoplasms. After clinical-radiographic correlation, pediatric ECD was diagnosed in the BRAF V600E cohort. Treatment options varied, including surgical resection, chemotherapy, and targeted therapy with BRAF-inhibitor dabrafenib in one mutated case. BRAF V600E CNS-JXG neoplasms appear associated with male gender and aggressive disease presentation including pediatric ECD. We propose a revised diagnostic algorithm for CNS-JXG that includes an initial morphologic diagnosis with a final integrated diagnosis after clinical-radiographic and molecular correlation, in order to identify cases of pediatric ECD. Future studies with long-term follow-up are required to determine if pediatric BRAF V600E positive CNS-JXG neoplasms are a distinct entity in the L-group histiocytosis category or represent an expanded pediatric spectrum of ECD.
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- J Picarsic
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Children's Hematology Oncology Centre, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Pathology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Acquired Brain Injury Service, Alyn Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, England
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- Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Sulis ML, Blonquist TM, Stevenson KE, Hunt SK, Kay-Green S, Athale UH, Clavell LA, Cole PD, Kelly KM, Laverdiere C, Leclerc JM, Michon B, Schorin MA, Welch JG, Neuberg DS, Sallan SE, Silverman LB. Effectiveness of antibacterial prophylaxis during induction chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2018; 65:e26952. [PMID: 29319209 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/06/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Pediatric patients receiving induction chemotherapy for newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at high risk of developing life-threatening infections. We investigated whether uniform antibacterial guidelines, including mandatory antibacterial prophylaxis in afebrile patients during induction, decreases the incidence of microbiologically documented bacteremia. METHODS Between 2012 and 2015, 230 patients with newly diagnosed ALL (aged 1-21) were enrolled on Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium Protocol 11-001 (DFCI 11-001). Induction therapy, regardless of risk group, included vincristine, prednisone, doxorubicin, methotrexate, and PEG-asparaginase. Afebrile patients received fluoroquinolone prophylaxis at the initiation of induction and those presenting with fever received broad-spectrum antibiotics; antibiotics were continued until blood count recovery. Rates of documented bacteremias and fungal infections on DFCI 11-001 were compared to those on the predecessor protocol (DFCI 05-001), which included the same induction phase without antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines. RESULTS Sixty-six (28.7%) patients received fluoroquinolone prophylaxis, the remaining patients received broad-spectrum antibiotics. Twenty-four (36.4%) patients on prophylaxis developed fever and seven (10.6%) developed bacteremia. The overall rate of infection during induction on DFCI 11-001 was lower than on DFCl 05-001 (14.3% vs. 26.3%, P < 0.0001) due to a decreased rate of bacteremia (10.9% vs. 24.4%, P < 0.0001). The rate of fungal infections (4.8% vs. 3.6%) and induction death (0.9% vs. 2%) was not significantly different. CONCLUSION For children with newly diagnosed ALL, uniform antibiotic administration until blood count recovery, including fluoroquinolone prophylaxis for afebrile patients, reduced the incidence of bacteremia during the induction phase. Larger, randomized studies should be performed to confirm these findings.
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- M L Sulis
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation, Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital New York, New York
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Oncology, San Jorge Children's Hospital, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hospital Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hospital Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universite' de Quebec, Quebec City, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Inova Children's Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.,Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Wang Y, Huang H, Diolaiti D, Martin MS, Modzelewski B, Marks LJ, Rainey AR, Gaviria ES, Sulis ML, Cruz FSD, Ferrando AA, Kung AL. Abstract 1128: Identification of arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 as a novel therapeutic target in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2017-1128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Advances in risk-adapted cytotoxic chemotherapy, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and supportive care have contributed to significant improvements in the survival of patients with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) over the past few decades. However, despite such progress, a significant percentage of both adult and pediatric leukemia patients become refractory to therapy or relapse and eventually die of disease. Hence, there remains an urgent need for the development of effective and targeted therapies for acute leukemia. Recent genetic profiling of solid and hematologic malignancies has identified epigenetic factors as a critical group of genes recurrently mutated in cancer. Additionally, epigenetic dysregulation has been shown to play an important role in the development, progression and maintenance of leukemia. Therefore, pharmacological inhibition of epigenetic factors represents a potential avenue for the development of novel epigenetic-targeted therapies.
In order to identify epigenetic vulnerabilities in leukemia, we developed an epigenetic-focused shRNA screen to search for novel therapeutic targets in human leukemia cell lines both in vitro and in vivo. Specifically, T- and B-ALL cell lines were transduced with a library of shRNAs targeting 449 genes including epigenetic readers, writers and erasers and other chromatin-related factors. Selected cells were subsequently cultured in vitro and concurrently injected into mice. Engraftment of inoculated cells and disease progression were monitored through bioluminescence imaging. Amongst the universe of epigenetic regulatory proteins, the arginine methyl transferase, PRMT5, emerged as the most significantly depleted factor in both in vitro and in vivo screenings.
Chemical inhibition of PRMT5 enzymatic activity effectively reduced protein symmetric dimethyl arginine methylation, altered splicing, inhibited cell growth and promoted apoptosis of both ALL and AML cell lines in vitro. In addition, inhibition of PRMT5 in vivo using patient-derived xenograft (PDX) T-ALL mouse models demonstrated diminished tumor growth and prolonged survival. Notably,
quantification of peripheral blood cell numbers showed that pharmacologic PRMT5 inhibition was well tolerated and did not affect normal hematopoiesis in mice suggesting that a therapeutic window exists for anticancer drugs targeting PRMT5 in acute leukemia. Overall, our data indicates that pre-mRNA processing and in particular RNA splicing modulation may represent novel therapeutic targets in leukemia.
Note: This abstract was not presented at the meeting.
Citation Format: Yunyue Wang, Hui Huang, Daniel Diolaiti, Marta Sanchez Martin, Beata Modzelewski, Lianna J. Marks, Allison R. Rainey, Ervin S. Gaviria, Maria L. Sulis, Filemon S. Dela Cruz, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Andrew L. Kung. Identification of arginine methyltransferase PRMT5 as a novel therapeutic target in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1128. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-1128
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Mansour MR, Sulis ML, Duke V, Foroni L, Jenkinson S, Koo K, Allen CG, Gale RE, Buck G, Richards S, Paietta E, Rowe JM, Tallman MS, Goldstone AH, Ferrando AA, Linch DC. Prognostic implications of NOTCH1 and FBXW7 mutations in adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated on the MRC UKALLXII/ECOG E2993 protocol. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:4352-6. [PMID: 19635999 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2009.22.0996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Notch pathway activation by mutations in either NOTCH1 and/or FBXW7 is one of the most common molecular events in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and, in pediatric disease, predicts for favorable outcome. Their prognostic significance in adult T-ALL is unclear. We sought to evaluate the outcome according to mutation status of patients with adult T-ALL treated on the United Kingdom Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia XII (UKALLXII)/Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) E2993 protocol. METHODS NOTCH1 and FBXW7 were screened by a combination of denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography and sequencing in 88 adult patients with T-ALL treated on the UKALLXII/ECOG E2993 protocol and compared with clinical characteristics and outcome. RESULTS NOTCH1 and FBXW7 mutations were common (60% and 18%, respectively) and were not associated with age or WBC count. NOTCH1 heterodimerization domain mutations were associated with FBXW7 mutations (P = .02), and NOTCH1 proline, glutamic acid, serine, threonine (PEST) rich domain and FBXW7 mutations were mutually exclusive. There were an equal number of high- and standard-risk patients in the NOTCH1 and FBXW7 mutated (MUT) groups. Patients wild type (WT) for both markers trended toward poorer event-free survival (EFS; MUT v WT, 51% v 27%, P = .10; hazard ratio, 0.6). Analysis by each marker individually was not significantly predictive of outcome (NOTCH1 MUT v WT, EFS 49% v 34%, P = .20; FBXW7 MUT v WT, EFS 53% v 41%, P.72). CONCLUSION NOTCH1 and FBXW7 mutant-positive patients do not fare sufficiently well to warrant an individualized treatment approach in future studies.
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- Marc R Mansour
- Department of Haematology, University College London, UCL Cancer Institute, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
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Palomero T, Barnes KC, Real PJ, Glade Bender JL, Sulis ML, Murty VV, Colovai AI, Balbin M, Ferrando AA. CUTLL1, a novel human T-cell lymphoma cell line with t(7;9) rearrangement, aberrant NOTCH1 activation and high sensitivity to gamma-secretase inhibitors. Leukemia 2006; 20:1279-87. [PMID: 16688224 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Activating mutations in NOTCH1 are present in over 50% of human T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) samples and inhibition of NOTCH1 signaling with gamma-secretase inhibitors (GSI) has emerged as a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of this disease. Here, we report a new human T-cell lymphoma line CUTLL1, which expresses high levels of activated NOTCH1 and is extremely sensitive to gamma-secretase inhibitors treatment. CUTLL1 cells harbor a t(7;9)(q34;q34) translocation which induces the expression of a TCRB-NOTCH1 fusion transcript encoding a membrane-bound truncated form of the NOTCH1 receptor. GSI treatment of CUTLL1 cells blocked NOTCH1 processing and caused rapid clearance of activated intracellular NOTCH1. Loss of NOTCH1 activity induced a gene expression signature characterized by the downregulation of NOTCH1 target genes such as HES1 and NOTCH3. In contrast with most human T-ALL cell lines with activating mutations in NOTCH1, CUTLL1 cells showed a robust cellular phenotype upon GSI treatment characterized by G1 cell cycle arrest and increased apoptosis. These results show that the CUTLL1 cell line has a strong dependence on NOTCH1 signaling for proliferation and survival and supports that T-ALL patients whose tumors harbor t(7;9) should be included in clinical trials testing the therapeutic efficacy NOTCH1 inhibition with GSIs.
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MESH Headings
- Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Line, Tumor/cytology
- Cell Line, Tumor/physiology
- Child
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor/physiology
- Humans
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/drug therapy
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia-Lymphoma, Adult T-Cell/pathology
- Receptor, Notch1/genetics
- Receptor, Notch1/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
- Translocation, Genetic
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- T Palomero
- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Deleu S, Choi K, Pesesse X, Cho J, Sulis ML, Parsons R, Shears SB. Physiological levels of PTEN control the size of the cellular Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) pool. Cell Signal 2005; 18:488-98. [PMID: 15979280 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2005.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2005] [Revised: 05/17/2005] [Accepted: 05/24/2005] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
To understand how a signaling molecule's activities are regulated, we need insight into the processes controlling the dynamic balance between its synthesis and degradation. For the Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 signal, this information is woefully inadequate. For example, the only known cytosolic enzyme with the capacity to degrade Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 is the tumour-suppressor PTEN [J.J. Caffrey, T. Darden, M.R. Wenk, S.B. Shears, FEBS Lett. 499 (2001) 6 ], but the biological relevance has been questioned by others [E.A. Orchiston, D. Bennett, N.R. Leslie, R.G. Clarke, L. Winward, C.P. Downes, S.T. Safrany, J. Biol. Chem. 279 (2004) 1116 ]. The current study emphasizes the role of physiological levels of PTEN in Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 homeostasis. We employed two cell models. First, we used a human U87MG glioblastoma PTEN-null cell line that hosts an ecdysone-inducible PTEN expression system. Second, the human H1299 bronchial cell line, in which PTEN is hypomorphic due to promoter methylation, has been stably transfected with physiologically relevant levels of PTEN. In both models, a novel consequence of PTEN expression was to increase Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 pool size by 30-40% (p<0.01); this response was wortmannin-insensitive and, therefore, independent of the PtdIns 3-kinase pathway. In U87MG cells, induction of the G129R catalytically inactive PTEN mutant did not affect Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P(5) levels. PTEN induction did not alter the expression of enzymes participating in Ins(1,3,4,5,6)P5 synthesis. Another effect of PTEN expression in U87MG cells was to decrease InsP6 levels by 13% (p<0.02). The InsP6-phosphatase, MIPP, may be responsible for the latter effect; we show that recombinant human MIPP dephosphorylates InsP6 to D/L-Ins(1,2,4,5,6)P5, levels of which increased 60% (p<0.05) following PTEN expression in U87MG cells. Overall, our data add higher inositol phosphates to the list of important cellular regulators [Y. Huang, R.P. Wernyj, D.D. Norton, P. Precht, M.C. Seminario, R.L. Wange, Oncogene, 24 (2005) 3819 ] the levels of which are modulated by expression of the highly pleiotropic PTEN protein.
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- Sandrine Deleu
- Inositol Signaling Section, Laboratory of Signal Transduction, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHSS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Haddad E, Sulis ML, Jabado N, Blanche S, Fischer A, Tardieu M. Frequency and severity of central nervous system lesions in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Blood 1997; 89:794-800. [PMID: 9028310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
We have retrospectively assessed the neurological manifestations in 34 patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in a single center. Clinical, radiological, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology data were analyzed according to treatment modalities. Twenty-five patients (73%) had evidence of central nervous system (CNS) disease at time of diagnosis, stressing the frequency of CNS involvement early in the time course of HLH. Four additional patients who did not have initial CNS disease, who did not die early from HLH complications, and who were not transplanted, also developed a specific CNS disease. Therefore, all surviving and nontransplanted patients had CNS involvement. Initially, CNS manifestations consisted of isolated lymphocytic meningitis in 20 patients and meningitis with clinical and radiological neurological symptoms in nine patients. For these nine patients, neurological symptoms consisted of seizures, coma, brain stem symptoms, or ataxia. The outcome of patients treated by systemic and intrathecal chemotherapy and/or immunosuppression exclusively (n = 16) was poor, as all died following occurrence of multiple relapses or CNS disease progression in most cases. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from either an HLA identical sibling (n = 6) or haplo identical parent (n = 3) was performed in nine patients, once first remission of CNS and systemic disease was achieved. Seven are long-term survivors including three who received an HLA partially identical marrow. All seven are off treatment with normal neurological function and cognitive development. In four other patients, BMT performed following CNS relapses was unsuccessful. Given the frequency and the poor outcome of CNS disease in HLH, BMT appears, therefore, to be the only available treatment procedure that is capable of preventing HLH CNS disease progression and that can result in cure when performed early enough after remission induction.
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- E Haddad
- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Unité INSERM 429, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- C Floris
- Divisione Medicina I, Ospedale Oncologico, A. Businco, Calgliari, Italy
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Sulis E, Floris C, Sulis ML, Zurrida S, Piro S, Pintus A, Contu L. Interferon administered intralesionally in skin and oral cavity lesions in heterosexual drug addicted patients with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 1989; 25:759-61. [PMID: 2714351 DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(89)90217-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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