[HTML][HTML] Leukemic stem cells and therapy resistance in acute myeloid leukemia

P Stelmach, A Trumpp - Haematologica, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A major obstacle in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is refractory disease or
relapse after achieving remission. The latter arises from a few therapy-resistant cells within …

CDK5: an oncogene or an anti-oncogene: location location location

K Nikhil, K Shah - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies have uncovered various physiological functions of CDK5 in many
nonneuronal tissues. Upregulation of CDK5 and/or its activator p35 in neurons promotes …

Blockade of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis triggers autophagic degradation of oncoprotein FLT3-ITD in acute myeloid leukemia

H Ma, J Cui, Z Liu, W Fang, S Lu, S Cao, Y Zhang… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
The internal tandem duplication of the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3-ITD) is one of the
most frequent genetic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Limited and transient …

ENT1 blockade by CNX-774 overcomes resistance to DHODH inhibition in pancreatic cancer

NJ Mullen, R Thakur, SK Shukla, NV Chaika… - Cancer letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), a key enzyme for de novo synthesis
of pyrimidine nucleotides, have failed in clinical trials for various cancers despite robust …

SETDB1 suppresses NK cell-mediated immunosurveillance in acute myeloid leukemia with granulo-monocytic differentiation

YH Chang, K Yamamoto, T Fujino, TW Wang… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Monocytic acute myeloid leukemia (AML) responds poorly to current treatments, including
venetoclax-based therapy. We conducted in vivo and in vitro CRISPR-Cas9 library …

DHODH: a promising target in the treatment of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

AN Sexauer, G Alexe, K Gustafsson… - Blood …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) have a poor
prognosis with few therapeutic options. With the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets …

FLT3-Mutated Leukemic Stem Cells: Mechanisms of Resistance and New Therapeutic Targets

D Capelli - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The treatment and cure of FLT3-mutated AML (FLT3mut) is still a
challenge despite the availability of mutation-targeted FLT3 inhibitors (FLT3i). This is a …

Therapeutic targeting of leukemia stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia

K Barbosa, AJ Deshpande - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
One of the distinguishing properties of hematopoietic stem cells is their ability to self-renew.
Since self-renewal is important for the continuous replenishment of the hematopoietic stem …

Monocytic Differentiation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells: Diagnostic Criteria, Biological Heterogeneity, Mitochondrial Metabolism, Resistance to and Induction by …

Ø Bruserud, F Selheim… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
We review the importance of monocytic differentiation and differentiation induction in non-
APL (acute promyelocytic leukemia) variants of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a …

Targeting the Leukemic stem cell protein machinery by inhibition of mitochondrial pyrimidine synthesis

E Donato, A Trumpp - EMBO molecular medicine, 2022 - embopress.org
Acute Myeloid Leukemia is one of the most aggressive blood cancers with a high frequency
of relapse. While standard chemotherapy is able to target rapidly proliferating immature …