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ArticleEMBO molecular medicine2024

Targeting the mevalonate or Wnt pathways to overcome CAR T-cell resistance in TP53-mutant AML cells.

Jan Mueller, Roman R Schimmer, Christian Koch, Florin Schneiter, Jonas Fullin, Veronika Lysenko, Christian Pellegrino, Nancy Klemm, Norman Russkamp, Renier Myburgh and 7 more

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Article in EMBO molecular medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Jan Mueller *Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Roman R Schimmer *Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-8508
Christian KochDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-0681-4265
Florin SchneiterDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.
Jonas FullinDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Veronika LysenkoDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Christian PellegrinoDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7898-9988
Nancy KlemmDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Norman RusskampDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Renier MyburghDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Laura VoltaDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-2451
Alexandre Pa TheocharidesDepartment of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kari J KurppaInstitute of Biomedicine and Medicity Research Laboratories, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8286-2429
Benjamin L EbertDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Timm SchroederDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.
Markus G Manz *Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4676-7931
Steffen Boettcher *Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. steffen.boettcher@usz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9937-0957
University of Zurich · CHETH Zurich · CHDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USUniversity Hospital of Zurich · CHUniversity of Turku · FI

Funding

Swiss Cancer League KFS-4885-08-2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TP53-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) are characterized by chemotherapy resistance and represent an unmet clinical need. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells might be a promising therapeutic option for TP53-mutant AML/MDS. However, the impact of TP53 deficiency in AML cells on the efficacy of CAR T-cells is unknown. We here show that CAR T-cells engaging TP53-deficient leukemia cells exhibit a prolonged interaction time, upregulate exhaustion markers, and are inefficient to control AML cell outgrowth in vitro and in vivo compared to TP53 wild-type cells. Transcriptional profiling revealed that the mevalonate pathway is upregulated in TP53-deficient AML cells under CAR T-cell attack, while CAR T-cells engaging TP53-deficient AML cells downregulate the Wnt pathway. In vitro rational targeting of either of these pathways rescues AML cell sensitivity to CAR T-cell-mediated killing. We thus demonstrate that TP53 deficiency confers resistance to CAR T-cell therapy and identify the mevalonate pathway as a therapeutic vulnerability of TP53-deficient AML cells engaged by CAR T-cells, and the Wnt pathway as a promising CAR T-cell therapy-enhancing approach for TP53-deficient AML/MDS.

Indexed as

Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMevalonic AcidHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveT-LymphocytesTumor Suppressor Protein p53Wnt Signaling PathwayMevalonic AcidTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53AMLCAR T-Cell TherapyMevalonate PathwayTP53 Mutations

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PMID38355749
PMCPMC10940689
OpenAlexW4391813074

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