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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2024

Oncotherapy resistance explained by Darwinian and Lamarckian models.

Yogen Saunthararajah

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Yogen Saunthararajah

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell and antibody therapies directed against surface molecules on B cells, e.g., CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CD19 CAR-T), are now standard for patients with chemorefractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias and other B cell malignancies. However, early relapse rates remain high. In this issue of the JCI, Aminov, Giricz, and colleagues revealed that leukemia cells resisting CD19-targeted therapy had reduced CD19 but also low CD22 expression and were sensitive to Bruton's tyrosine kinase and/or MEK inhibition. Overall, their observations support the evolution of resistance following a Lamarckian model: the oncotherapy directly elicits adaptive, resistance-conferring reconfigurations, which are then inherited by daughter cells as epigenetic changes. The findings prompt reflection also on the broader role of epigenetics in decoupling of replication from lineage differentiation activation by the B cell lineage master transcription factor hub. Such oncogenesis and resistance mechanisms, being predictable and epigenetic, offer practical opportunities for intervention, potentially non-cross-resistant and safe vis-à-vis present cytotoxic and CAR-T treatments.

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Receptors, Chimeric AntigenAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAgammaglobulinaemia Tyrosine KinaseAntigens, CD19B-LymphocytesHumansAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAgammaglobulinaemia Tyrosine KinaseAntigens, CD19Receptors, Chimeric Antigen

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PMID38618954
PMCPMC11014649
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