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Chang BH, Willis SG, Stork L, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Camitta BM, Winick NJ, Druker BJ, Schultz KR. Imatinib resistant BCR-ABL1 mutations at relapse in children with Ph+ ALL: a Children's Oncology Group (COG) study. Br J Haematol 2012; 157:507-10. [PMID: 22299775 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2012.09039.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sanda T, Tyner JW, Gutierrez A, Ngo VN, Moriggl R, Ahn Y, Glover J, Chang BH, Willis SG, Zhou W, Gray NS, Staudt LM, Druker BJ, Look AT. Abstract 2809: Pathway dependence on the tyrosine kinase TYK2 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-2809] [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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To identify novel oncogenic pathways that are dysregulated in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), we carried out an RNA interference (RNAi) screen using a retroviral library of inducible short-hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) in T-ALL cell lines. We found that loss of TYK2, a JAK family tyrosine kinase, was lethal in each of three T-ALL cell lines that we tested in this screen. An independent RNAi screen using a small-interference RNA (siRNA) library that individually silences each member of the tyrosine kinase gene family in primary T-ALL cells from a pediatric T-ALL specimens also demonstrated a dependence on TYK2 for cell viability. We confirmed by targeted knock-down analysis with multiple independent shRNAs that the loss of TYK2 induces apoptosis in T-ALL cells, whereas knock-down of other JAK proteins (JAK1, JAK2 or JAK3) had no effect. The TYK2 protein is constitutively phosphorylated on tyrosine residues in many T-ALL cell lines, and sequence analysis of the TYK2 gene in T-ALL cell lines and patient samples revealed a diversity of TYK2 point mutations in the FERM domain (V15A), pseudo-kinase domain (V731I) and kinase domain (E957D and R1027H). TYK2 cDNAs harboring each of these mutations, but not wild-type TYK2 cDNA, could transform Ba/F3 cells to factor-independent growth, and TYK2 was heavily phosphorylated in the Ba/F3 cell lines transformed with mutant cDNAs, indicating that these mutations activated the TYK2 kinase. TYK2-dependent T-ALL cell lines and the transformed Ba/F3 cells were sensitive to small-molecule JAK/TYK2 inhibitors. Moreover, we identified that inhibition of TYK2 induces downregulation of STAT1 phosphorylation, and that loss of STAT1 inhibits the growth of TYK2-dependent T-ALL cells, indicating that this transcription factor is involved in the TYK2 pathway and required for cell survival. Gene expression analysis after TYK2 or STAT1 knock-down in TYK2-dependent T-ALL cell lines revealed that BCL2 is upregulated by this pathway. In conclusion, our results establish a requirement for the TYK2-STAT1 pathway to promote T-ALL cell the survival, and establish TYK2 as a novel therapeutic target for this disease.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 2809. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-2809
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- 2Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
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- 3City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA
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- 4Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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- 1Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., Boston, MA
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- 2Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
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- 2Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
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- 2Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR
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Press RD, Willis SG, Laudadio J, Mauro MJ, Deininger MWN. Determining the rise in BCR-ABL RNA that optimally predicts a kinase domain mutation in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia on imatinib. Blood 2009; 114:2598-605. [PMID: 19625707 PMCID: PMC2756120 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-08-173674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [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: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 07/12/2009] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
In imatinib-treated chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), secondary drug resistance is often caused by mutations in the BCR-ABL kinase domain (KD). As alternative therapies are available for imatinib resistance, early identification of mutations may prevent disease progression. Because most patients are routinely monitored by BCR-ABL quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), it is important to define the optimal increase in BCR-ABL that should trigger mutation testing. Expert panels have provisionally recommended a 10-fold BCR-ABL increase as the trigger for mutation screening, acknowledging the lack of consensus. To address this question, we monitored 150 CML patients by quantitative PCR and DNA sequencing. Thirty-five different mutations were identified in 53 patients, and, during 22.5 months (median) of follow-up after sequencing, mutations were significantly predictive of shorter progression-free survival. An unbiased receiver operating characteristic analysis identified a 2.6-fold increase in BCR-ABL RNA as the optimal cutoff for predicting a concomitant KD mutation, with a sensitivity of 77% (94% if including subsequent samples). The 2.6-fold threshold approximated the analytic precision limit of our PCR assay. In contrast, transcript rise cutoffs of 5-fold or greater had poor diagnostic sensitivity and no significant association with mutations. We conclude that the currently recommended 10-fold threshold to trigger mutation screening is insensitive and not universally applicable.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Benzamides
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/analysis
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/chemistry
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/diagnosis
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation/physiology
- Phosphotransferases/chemistry
- Phosphotransferases/genetics
- Piperazines/therapeutic use
- Prognosis
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- Pyrimidines/therapeutic use
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Retrospective Studies
- Up-Regulation/genetics
- Young Adult
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Affiliation(s)
- Richard D Press
- Department of Pathology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97201, USA.
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Tyner JW, Rutenberg-Schoenberg ML, Erickson H, Willis SG, O'Hare T, Deininger MW, Druker BJ, Loriaux MM. Functional characterization of an activating TEK mutation in acute myeloid leukemia: a cellular context-dependent activating mutation. Leukemia 2009; 23:1345-8. [PMID: 19340004 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2009.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Tyner JW, Loriaux MM, Erickson H, Eide CA, Deininger J, MacPartlin M, Willis SG, Lange T, Druker BJ, Kovacsovics T, Maziarz R, Gattermann N, Deininger MW. High-throughput mutational screen of the tyrosine kinome in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia 2008; 23:406-9. [PMID: 18615102 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2008.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Press RD, Galderisi C, Yang R, Rempfer C, Willis SG, Mauro MJ, Druker BJ, Deininger MW. A Half-Log Increase in BCR-ABL RNA Predicts a Higher Risk of Relapse in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with an Imatinib-Induced Complete Cytogenetic Response. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 13:6136-43. [DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bradeen HA, Eide CA, O'Hare T, Johnson KJ, Willis SG, Lee FY, Druker BJ, Deininger MW. Comparison of imatinib mesylate, dasatinib (BMS-354825), and nilotinib (AMN107) in an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-based mutagenesis screen: high efficacy of drug combinations. Blood 2006; 108:2332-8. [PMID: 16772610 PMCID: PMC1895563 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-02-004580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 298] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BMS-354825 (dasatinib) and AMN107 (nilotinib) are potent alternate Abl inhibitors with activity against many imatinib mesylate-resistant BCR-ABL kinase domain (KD) mutants, except T315I. We used N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU)-exposed Ba/F3-p210(BCR-ABL) cells to compare incidence and types of KD mutants emerging in the presence of imatinib mesylate, dasatinib, and nilotinib, alone and in dual combinations. Although ENU is expected to induce mutations in multiple proteins, resistant clones were almost exclusively BCR-ABL KD mutant at relevant concentrations of nilotinib and dasatinib, consistent with a central role of KD mutations for resistance to these drugs. Twenty different mutations were identified with imatinib mesylate, 10 with nilotinib (including only 1 novel mutation, E292V) and 9 with dasatinib. At intermediate drug levels the spectrum narrowed to F317V and T315I for dasatinib and Y253H, E255V, and T315I for nilotinib. Thus, cross-resistance is limited to T315I, which is also the only mutant isolated at drug concentrations equivalent to maximal achievable plasma trough levels. With drug combinations maximal suppression of resistant clone outgrowth was achieved at lower concentrations compared with single agents, suggesting that such combinations may be equipotent to higher-dose single agents. However, sequencing uniformly revealed T315I, consistent with the need for a T315I inhibitor, to completely block resistance.
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- Heather A Bradeen
- Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, L592, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Lange T, Park B, Willis SG, Deininger MWN. BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations in chronic myeloid leukemia: not quite enough to cause resistance to imatinib therapy? Cell Cycle 2005; 4:1761-6. [PMID: 16319529 DOI: 10.4161/cc.4.12.2261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 11/19/2022] Open
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Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treated with imatinib in early chronic phase tend to have durable remissions, but there is a high rate of relapse in patients with advanced disease. Mutations in the kinase domain of BCR-ABL that impair drug binding have been identified as the major mechanism of resistance. It is not known when exactly these mutations arise, but in some patients retrospective analysis of pretherapeutic samples demonstrated identical mutations, suggesting selection in the presence of drug. In the present study we have used a highly sensitive PCR assay to screen for kinase domain mutations in pretherapeutic samples from CML patients, irrespective of their subsequent response to imatinib. We find that kinase domain mutations are demonstrable in approximately 1/3 of patients with accelerated phase or blast crisis and that the presence of two copies of the Philadelphia chromosome is strongly correlated with mutation detection. Unexpectedly, kinase domain mutant clones were not invariably selected in the presence of drug, suggesting that additional mechanisms must contribute to a fully drug resistant leukemia.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Benzamides
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/chemistry
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation/genetics
- Phenotype
- Phosphotransferases/genetics
- Piperazines/pharmacology
- Piperazines/therapeutic use
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Pyrimidines/pharmacology
- Pyrimidines/therapeutic use
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Retrospective Studies
- Sensitivity and Specificity
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- Thoralf Lange
- Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of Leipzig, Germany
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Willis SG, Lange T, Demehri S, Otto S, Crossman L, Niederwieser D, Stoffregen EP, McWeeney S, Kovacs I, Park B, Druker BJ, Deininger MW. High-sensitivity detection of BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations in imatinib-naive patients: correlation with clonal cytogenetic evolution but not response to therapy. Blood 2005; 106:2128-37. [PMID: 15914554 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-03-1036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 243] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mutations in the kinase domain (KD) of BCR-ABL are the leading cause of acquired imatinib resistance. In some cases, identical mutations were detected at relapse and in pretherapeutic specimens, consistent with selection of resistant clones in the presence of drug. However, the incidence of KD mutations in imatinibnaive patients, irrespective of response to therapy, is unknown. We studied mutation frequency in 66 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), using cDNA sequencing and allele-specific oligonucleotide-polymerase chain reaction (ASO-PCR) assays for 8 common mutations. Thirteen patients were positive by ASO-PCR only, 1 by ASO-PCR and sequencing, and 1 by sequencing only (overall frequency, 22.7%). T315I was most frequent (12% of patients). Eleven of the 14 patients with positive ASO-PCR had follow-up samples available for sequencing. Wild-type sequence was detected in 6 of 11, 2 different mutations in 1 of 11, and identical mutations in 4 of 11 patients, 2 of whom had achieved major cytogenetic response. In multivariate analysis mutation detection was associated with clonal cytogenetic evolution, exposure to 6-Thioguanine, and a low platelet count, but not with response to imatinib, event-free survival, and overall survival. KD mutants present at low levels do not invariably lead to relapse, and additional factors are required to induce a fully drug-resistant phenotype. (Blood. 2005; 106:2128-2137)
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Benzamides
- Clone Cells
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics
- Female
- Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/genetics
- Gene Frequency
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/mortality
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multivariate Analysis
- Mutation
- Piperazines
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Pyrimidines
- Risk Factors
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Treatment Outcome
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephanie G Willis
- OHSU Cancer Institute, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Mailcode L592, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Crossman LC, O'Hare T, Lange T, Willis SG, Stoffregen EP, Corbin AS, O'Brien SG, Heinrich MC, Druker BJ, Middleton PG, Deininger MWN. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the coding region of ABL and its effects on sensitivity to imatinib. Leukemia 2005; 19:1859-62. [PMID: 16151465 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2403935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 11/08/2022]
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We have identified a gene polymorphism (K247R) within or close to the P-loop of BCR-ABL, which leads to the substitution of arginine for lysine. We investigated the allelic frequency of K247R by screening 157 CML patients and 213 healthy blood donors with conventional sequencing, restriction enzyme digest and single strand conformational polymorphism analysis, and found the arginine allele to be rare. Three out of five CML patients with the arginine allele of K247R failed to achieve a major cytogenetic response to imatinib, suggesting that the arginine allele may have reduced sensitivity. However, despite K247R's position in or near to the P-loop, biochemical and cellular assays of imatinib and dasatinib sensitivity showed no alteration compared to wild type. Clinicians should be aware that possession of the arginine allele of K247R does not reflect a mutation that necessitates a change in the therapeutic strategy, unless there are other signs of inadequate response to drug.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Arginine
- Benzamides
- Blood Donors
- Case-Control Studies
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
- Female
- Genes, abl/genetics
- Humans
- Imatinib Mesylate
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Piperazines/pharmacology
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Pyrimidines/pharmacology
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- L C Crossman
- Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA.
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Levine RL, Loriaux M, Huntly BJP, Loh ML, Beran M, Stoffregen E, Berger R, Clark JJ, Willis SG, Nguyen KT, Flores NJ, Estey E, Gattermann N, Armstrong S, Look AT, Griffin JD, Bernard OA, Heinrich MC, Gilliland DG, Druker B, Deininger MWN. The JAK2V617F activating mutation occurs in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia, but not in acute lymphoblastic leukemia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood 2005; 106:3377-9. [PMID: 16081687 PMCID: PMC1895066 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-05-1898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 303] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [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] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Activating mutations in tyrosine kinases have been identified in hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic malignancies. Recently, we and others identified a single recurrent somatic activating mutation (JAK2V617F) in the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) tyrosine kinase in the myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs) polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis. We used direct sequence analysis to determine if the JAK2V617F mutation was present in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)/atypical chronic myelogenous leukemia (aCML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), T-cell ALL, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Analysis of 222 patients with AML identified JAK2V617F mutations in 4 patients with AML, 3 of whom had a preceding MPD. JAK2V617F mutations were identified in 9 (7.8%) of 116 CMML/a CML samples, and in 2 (4.2%) of 48 MDS samples. We did not identify the JAK2V617F disease allele in B-lineage ALL (n = 83), T-cell ALL (n = 93), or CLL (n = 45). These data indicate that the JAK2V617F allele is present in acute and chronic myeloid malignancies but not in lymphoid malignancies.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Case-Control Studies
- Enzyme Activation/genetics
- Female
- Humans
- Janus Kinase 2
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/enzymology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/enzymology
- Leukemia, Lymphoid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid/enzymology
- Leukemia, Myeloid/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/enzymology
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Point Mutation
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
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Affiliation(s)
- Ross L Levine
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Grossmann AH, Kolibaba KS, Willis SG, Corbin AS, Langdon WS, Deininger MWN, Druker BJ. Catalytic domains of tyrosine kinases determine the phosphorylation sites within c-Cbl. FEBS Lett 2005; 577:555-62. [PMID: 15556646 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.10.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 08/12/2004] [Revised: 10/08/2004] [Accepted: 10/11/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Catalytic (SH1) domains of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) demonstrate specificity for peptide substrates. Whether SH1 domains differentiate between tyrosines in a physiological substrate has not been confirmed. Using purified proteins, we studied the ability of Syk, Fyn, and Abl to differentiate between tyrosines in a common PTK substrate, c-Cbl. We found that each kinase produced a distinct pattern of c-Cbl phosphorylation, which altered the phosphotyrosine-dependent interactions between c-Cbl and CrkL or phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI3-K). Our data support the concept that SH1 domains determine the final sites of phosphorylation once PTKs reach their target proteins.
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- A H Grossmann
- Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L592 Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Hill JK, Thomas CD, Fox R, Telfer MG, Willis SG, Asher J, Huntley B. Responses of butterflies to twentieth century climate warming: implications for future ranges. Proc Biol Sci 2002; 269:2163-71. [PMID: 12396492 PMCID: PMC1691143 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 323] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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We analyse distribution records for 51 British butterfly species to investigate altitudinal and latitudinal responses to twentieth century climate warming. Species with northern and/or montane distributions have disappeared from low elevation sites and colonized sites at higher elevations during the twentieth century, consistent with a climate explanation. We found no evidence for a systematic shift northwards across all species, even though 11 out of 46 southerly distributed species have expanded in the northern part of their distributions. For a subset of 35 species, we model the role of climate in limiting current European distributions and predict potential future distributions for the period 2070-2099. Most northerly distributed species will have little opportunity to expand northwards and will disappear from areas in the south, resulting in reduced range sizes. Southerly distributed species will have the potential to shift northwards, resulting in similar or increased range sizes. However, 30 out of 35 study species have failed to track recent climate changes because of lack of suitable habitat, so we revised our estimates accordingly for these species and predicted 65% and 24% declines in range sizes for northern and southern species, respectively. These revised estimates are likely to be more realistic predictions of future butterfly range sizes.
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- J K Hill
- Department of Biology, PO Box 373, University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK.
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Warren MS, Hill JK, Thomas JA, Asher J, Fox R, Huntley B, Roy DB, Telfer MG, Jeffcoate S, Harding P, Jeffcoate G, Willis SG, Greatorex-Davies JN, Moss D, Thomas CD. Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change. Nature 2001; 414:65-9. [PMID: 11689943 DOI: 10.1038/35102054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 966] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [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]
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Habitat degradation and climate change are thought to be altering the distributions and abundances of animals and plants throughout the world, but their combined impacts have not been assessed for any species assemblage. Here we evaluated changes in the distribution sizes and abundances of 46 species of butterflies that approach their northern climatic range margins in Britain-where changes in climate and habitat are opposing forces. These insects might be expected to have responded positively to climate warming over the past 30 years, yet three-quarters of them declined: negative responses to habitat loss have outweighed positive responses to climate warming. Half of the species that were mobile and habitat generalists increased their distribution sites over this period (consistent with a climate explanation), whereas the other generalists and 89% of the habitat specialists declined in distribution size (consistent with habitat limitation). Changes in population abundances closely matched changes in distributions. The dual forces of habitat modification and climate change are likely to cause specialists to decline, leaving biological communities with reduced numbers of species and dominated by mobile and widespread habitat generalists.
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- M S Warren
- Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset BH20 5QP, UK
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Riviere GR, Smith KS, Willis SG, Riviere KH. Phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity among cultivable pathogen-related oral spirochetes and Treponema vincentii. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:3676-80. [PMID: 10523573 PMCID: PMC85722 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.11.3676-3680.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recent findings challenge the assumption that pathogen-related oral spirochetes (PROS) are related to Treponema pallidum. Treponema vincentii, grown in OMIZ-Pat media, cross-reacted with monoclonal antibody H9-2 against T. pallidum, and cultivable PROS had 16S rRNA gene sequences similar to those of T. vincentii (C.-B. Choi, C. Wyss, and U. B. Göbel. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:1922-1925, 1996). Aims of the present study were to determine whether antigen phenotypes of oral treponemas were influenced by growth conditions and to evaluate the genetic relatedness of cultivable PROS to T. pallidum and T. vincentii. Results show that three T. pallidum monoclonal antibodies (H9-1, H9-2, and F5) cross-reacted with whole cells from four Treponema species grown in modified OMIZ-Pat medium, but not with treponemas grown in NOS medium. Only H9-2 reacted in immunoblots with reduced proteins from cultivable PROS and T. vincentii. Three of five PROS isolates were amplified by T. vincentii-specific PCR, and one was amplified by Treponema medium-specific PCR. None were amplified by T. pallidum-specific PCR. Three of five PROS isolates had 16S ribosomal DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns identical to that of T. vincentii, and the patterns of two isolates resembled that of T. medium. Arbitrarily primed-PCR profiles from whole genomic DNA were distinct among five PROS isolates and two T. vincentii strains. Thus, PROS isolates represent a heterogeneous group of treponemas that share some 16S rRNA gene sequences with T. vincentii and T. medium, but not with T. pallidum. It is proposed that the PROS nomenclature be dropped.
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- G R Riviere
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201-3097, USA.
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Willis SG, Smith KS, Dunn VL, Gapter LA, Riviere KH, Riviere GR. Identification of seven Treponema species in health- and disease-associated dental plaque by nested PCR. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:867-9. [PMID: 9986879 PMCID: PMC84590 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.867-869.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Species-specific nested PCR was used to detect Treponema amylovorum, Treponema denticola, Treponema maltophilum, Treponema medium, Treponema pectinovorum, Treponema socranskii, and Treponema vincentii in dental plaque. Subjects with periodontitis harbored all species, but T. pectinovorum and T. vincentii were not found in plaque from disease-free subjects.
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- S G Willis
- Departments of Pediatric Dentistry, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201-3097, USA
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Rooney-Varga JN, Genthner BR, Devereux R, Willis SG, Friedman SD, Hines ME. Phylogenetic and physiological diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria isolated from a salt marsh sediment. Syst Appl Microbiol 1998; 21:557-68. [PMID: 9924824 DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(98)80068-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 10/16/2022]
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The phylogenetic and physiological diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria inhabiting a salt marsh rhizosphere were investigated. Sulphate-reducing bacteria were isolated from a salt marsh rhizosphere using enrichment cultures with electron donors thought to be prevalent in the rhizosphere of Spartina alterniflora. The relationship between phylogeny and nutritional characteristics of 10 strains was investigated. None of the isolates had 16S rRNA sequences identical to other delta subclass sulphate-reducers, sharing 85.3 to 98.1% sequence similarity with 16S rRNA sequences of their respective closest relatives. Phylogenetic analysis placed two isolates, obtained with ethanol as an electron donor, within the Desulfovibrionaceae. Seven isolates, obtained with acetate, butyrate, propionate, or benzoate, were placed within the Desulfobacteriaceae. One isolate, obtained with butyrate, fell within the Desulfobulbus assemblage, which is currently considered part of the Desulfobacteriaceae family. However, due to the phylogenetic breadth and physiological traits of this group, we propose that it be considered a new family, the "Desulfobulbusaceae." The isolates utilised an array of electron donors similar to their closest relatives with a few exceptions. As a whole, the phylogenetic and physiological data indicate isolation of several sulphate-reducing bacteria which might be considered as new species and representative of new genera. Comparison of the Desulfobacteriaceae isolates' 16S rRNA sequences to environmental clones originating from the same study site revealed that none shared more than 86% sequence similarity. The results provide further insight into the diversity of sulphate-reducing bacteria inhabiting the salt marsh ecosystem, as well as supporting general trends in the phylogenetic coherence of physiological traits of delta Proteobacteria sulphate reducers.
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- J N Rooney-Varga
- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
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Devereux R, Willis SG, Hines ME. Genome sizes of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, and Desulfobulbus propionicus estimated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of linearized chromosomal DNA. Curr Microbiol 1997; 34:337-9. [PMID: 9142739 DOI: 10.1007/s002849900192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 02/04/2023]
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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of linearized, full-length chromosomal DNA was used to estimate the genome sizes of three species of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Genome sizes of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, and Desulfobulbus propionicus were estimated to be 3.1, 3.6, and 3.7 Mb, respectively. These values are double the genome sizes previously determined for two Desulfovibrio species by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA cut with restriction enzymes. PFGE of full-length chromosomal DNA could provide a generally applicable method to rapidly determine bacterial genome size and organization.
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- R Devereux
- United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division, 1 Sabine Island Dr., Gulf Breeze, FL 32561, USA
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Mueller JG, Devereux R, Santavy DL, Lantz SE, Willis SG, Pritchard PH. Phylogenetic and physiological comparisons of PAH-degrading bacteria from geographically diverse soils. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1997; 71:329-43. [PMID: 9195008 DOI: 10.1023/a:1000277008064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [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: 02/04/2023]
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The diversity of bacteria isolated from creosote- contaminated soils in the United States, Norway, and Germany was determined by comparing their ability to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), their phospholipid ester-linked fatty acid (GC-FAME) profiles, sole carbon source utilization patterns (Biolog assays), and 16S rRNA sequences. Bacteria were initially obtained by enrichment with phenanthrene and fluoranthene. Many were capable of degrading a broad range of the PAHs found in creosote. Phenanthrene- or fluoranthene-degraders were abundant in most of the soils tested. Several of the fluoranthene-degrading isolates clustered with Sphingomonas (formerly Pseudomonas) paucimobilis strain EPA505 in the GC-FAME and Biolog analyses and three of the isolates examined by 16S rRNA sequence comparisons showed a close relationship with Sphingomonas. In addition, the Sphingomonas strains showed the most extensive degradation of 4- & 5-ring PAHs in creosote. Burkholderia cepacia strains isolated on phenanthrene from PAH-contaminated soils had limited ability to attack higher molecular weight PAHs either individually or in creosote. Thus, degradation capabilities appeared to be associated with members of certain taxa, independent of the origin of the soils from which the bacteria were isolated.
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- J G Mueller
- SBP Technologies, Inc., Gulf Breeze, FL 32561, USA
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