BCL6 enables Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition

Cihangir Duy; Christian Hurtz; Seyedmehdi Shojaee; Leandro Cerchietti; Huimin Geng; Srividya Swaminathan; Lars Klemm; Soo Mi Kweon; Rahul Nahar; Melanie Braig; Eugene Park; Yong Mi Kim; Wolf Karsten Hofmann; Sebastian Herzog; Hassan Jumaa; H. Phillip Koeffler; J. Jessica Yu; Nora Heisterkamp; Thomas G. Graeber; Hong Wu; B. Hilda Ye; Ari Melnick; Markus Müschen

doi:10.1038/nature09883

BCL6 enables Ph⁺ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition

Cihangir Duy
, Christian Hurtz
, Seyedmehdi Shojaee
, Leandro Cerchietti
, Huimin Geng
, Srividya Swaminathan
, Lars Klemm
, Soo Mi Kweon
, Rahul Nahar
, Melanie Braig
, Eugene Park
, Yong Mi Kim
, Wolf Karsten Hofmann
, Sebastian Herzog
, Hassan Jumaa
, H. Phillip Koeffler
, J. Jessica Yu
, Nora Heisterkamp
, Thomas G. Graeber
, Hong Wu

B. Hilda Ye, Ari Melnick, Markus Müschen

University of California at San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of Freiburg
Cornell University
University of Hamburg
Heidelberg University
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Yeshiva University
University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are widely used to treat patients with leukaemia driven by BCR-ABL1 (ref. 1) and other oncogenic tyrosine kinases. Recent efforts have focused on developing more potent TKIs that also inhibit mutant tyrosine kinases. However, even effective TKIs typically fail to eradicate leukaemia-initiating cells (LICs), which often cause recurrence of leukaemia after initially successful treatment. Here we report the discovery of a novel mechanism of drug resistance, which is based on protective feedback signalling of leukaemia cells in response to treatment with TKI. We identify BCL6 as a central component of this drug-resistance pathway and demonstrate that targeted inhibition of BCL6 leads to eradication of drug-resistant and leukaemia-initiating subclones.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	384-8
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature
Volume	473
Issue number	7347
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09883
State	Published - May 19 2011

Keywords

ADP-Ribosylation Factor 1/metabolism
Animals
Cell Survival/drug effects
DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/antagonists & inhibitors
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
Humans
Mice
Mice, Inbred NOD
Mice, SCID
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/drug therapy
Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6
Transcription, Genetic
Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism

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Duy, C., Hurtz, C., Shojaee, S., Cerchietti, L., Geng, H., Swaminathan, S., Klemm, L., Kweon, S. M., Nahar, R., Braig, M., Park, E., Kim, Y. M., Hofmann, W. K., Herzog, S., Jumaa, H., Koeffler, H. P., Yu, J. J., Heisterkamp, N., Graeber, T. G., ... Müschen, M. (2011). BCL6 enables Ph⁺ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition. Nature, 473(7347), 384-8. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09883

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BCL6 enables Ph⁺ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells to survive BCR-ABL1 kinase inhibition

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