Authors: Raminder Singh Julia Fröbel RonPatrick Cadeddu Ingmar Bruns Thomas Schroeder Daniela Brünnert Christian Matthias Wilk Luiz Fernando Zerbini Rainer Haas Akos Czibere
Publish Date: 2011/06/30
Volume: 91, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-181
Abstract
Acute myeloid leukemia AML is a heterogeneous hematological malignancy Treatment of patients suffering from highrisk AML as defined by clinical parameters cytogenetics and/or molecular analyses is often unsuccessful OSI461 is a proapoptotic compound that has been proposed as a novel therapeutic option for patients suffering from solid tumors like prostate or colorectal carcinoma But little is known about its antiproliferative potential in AML Hence we treated bone marrow derived CD34+ selected blast cells from 20 AML patients and the five AML cell lines KG1a THP1 HL60 U937 and MV411 with the physiologically achievable concentration of 1 μM OSI461 or equal amounts of DMSO as a control Following incubation with OSI461 we found a consistent induction of apoptosis and an accumulation of cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle In addition we demonstrate that the OSI461 mediated antiproliferative effects observed in AML are associated with the induction of the proapoptotic cytokine mda7/IL24 and activation of the growth arrest and DNAdamage inducible genes GADD 45α and 45γ Furthermore OSI461 treated leukemia cells did not regain their proliferative potential for up to 8 days after cessation of treatment following the initial 48 h treatment period with 1 μM OSI461 This indicates sufficient targeting of the leukemiainitiating cells in our in vitro experiments through OSI461 The AML samples tested in this study included samples from patients who were resistant to conventional chemotherapy and/or had FLT3ITD mutations demonstrating the high potential of OSI461 in human AMLAC and IB are supported by grants from Leukämie Liga eV Düsseldorf Germany and the Forschungskommission of the HeinrichHeineUniversity Düsseldorf Germany AC is further supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe through a Dr Mildred Scheel fellowship award and by a research fellowship award from the European Association of Hematology EHA LFZ is supported by Department of Defense grants PC051217 and OC0060439
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