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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2018

Hypoxia-induced upregulation of BMX kinase mediates therapeutic resistance in acute myeloid leukemia.

Jolieke G van Oosterwijk, Daelynn R Buelow, Christina D Drenberg, Aksana Vasilyeva, Lie Li, Lei Shi, Yong-Dong Wang, David Finkelstein, Sheila A Shurtleff, Laura J Janke and 5 more

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jolieke G van OosterwijkDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Daelynn R BuelowDivision of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Christina D DrenbergDivision of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Aksana VasilyevaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Lie LiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Lei ShiDepartment of Biostatistics.
Yong-Dong WangDepartment of Computational Biology.
David FinkelsteinDepartment of Computational Biology.
Sheila A ShurtleffDepartment of Pathology, and.
Laura J JankeDepartment of Pathology, and.
Stanley PoundsDepartment of Biostatistics.
Jeffrey E RubnitzDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Hiroto InabaDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Navjotsingh PablaDivision of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Sharyn D BakerDivision of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USThe Ohio State University · USCancer Research And Biostatistics · US

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI CHARLES ROBERTS · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
Translational Therapeutics Research Program (TT)P30CA016058 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Jennifer A. Woyach · 1985 to 2026
$132.3M
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of childhood AMLR01CA138744 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI BAKER, SHARYN D · 2010 to 2019
$3.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016058NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NCI NIH HHS R01 CA138744
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncogenic addiction to the Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) is a hallmark of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that harbors the FLT3-internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) mutation. While FLT3 inhibitors like sorafenib show initial therapeutic efficacy, resistance rapidly develops through mechanisms that are incompletely understood. Here, we used RNA-Seq-based analysis of patient leukemic cells and found that upregulation of the Tec family kinase BMX occurs during sorafenib resistance. This upregulation was recapitulated in an in vivo murine FLT3-ITD-positive (FLT3-ITD+) model of sorafenib resistance. Mechanistically, the antiangiogenic effects of sorafenib led to increased bone marrow hypoxia, which contributed to HIF-dependent BMX upregulation. In in vitro experiments, hypoxia-dependent BMX upregulation was observed in both AML and non-AML cell lines. Functional studies in human FLT3-ITD+ cell lines showed that BMX is part of a compensatory signaling mechanism that promotes AML cell survival during FLT3 inhibition. Taken together, our results demonstrate that hypoxia-dependent upregulation of BMX contributes to therapeutic resistance through a compensatory prosurvival signaling mechanism. These results also reveal the role of off-target drug effects on tumor microenvironment and development of acquired drug resistance. We propose that the bone marrow niche can be altered by anticancer therapeutics, resulting in drug resistance through cell-nonautonomous microenvironment-dependent effects.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, NeoplasmGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGene Expression Regulation, LeukemicTumor MicroenvironmentUp-RegulationCell HypoxiaChildChild, PreschoolFemalefms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3HumansInfantLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMaleProtein-Tyrosine KinasesSignal TransductionBMX protein, humanFLT3 protein, humanfms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3Protein-Tyrosine KinasesSorafenibBone marrowHematologyhypoxiaLeukemiasOncology

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PMID29227282
PMCPMC5749502
OpenAlexW2772088685

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