Both leukaemic and normal peripheral B lymphoid cells are highly sensitive to the selective pharmacological inhibition of pro-survival Bcl-2 with ABT-199.
- Author(s)
- Khaw, S L; Merino, D; Anderson, M A; Glaser, S P; Bouillet, P; Roberts, A W; Huang, D C S;
- Details
- Publication Year 2014-01-09,Volume 28,Issue #6,Page 1207-15
- Journal Title
- Leukemia
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Overexpression of the pro-survival protein Bcl-2 marks many B lymphoid malignancies and contributes to resistance to many commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. The first effective BH3 mimetic inhibitors of Bcl-2, ABT-737 and navitoclax, also target Bcl-xL causing dose-limiting thrombocytopenia. This prompted the development of the Bcl-2 selective antagonist, ABT-199. Here, we show that in lymphoid cells, ABT-199 specifically causes Bax/Bak-mediated apoptosis that is triggered principally by the initiator BH3-only protein Bim. As expected, malignant cells isolated from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) are highly sensitive to ABT-199. However, we found that normal, untransformed mature B cells are also highly sensitive to ABT-199, both in vitro and in vivo. By contrast, the B cell precursors are largely spared, as are cells of myeloid origin. These results pinpoint the likely impact of the pharmacological inhibition of Bcl-2 by ABT-199 on the normal mature haemopoietic cell lineages in patients and have implications for monitoring during ABT-199 therapy, as well as for the clinical utility of this very promising targeted agent.Leukemia accepted article preview online, 9 January 2014. doi:10.1038/leu.2014.1.
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Keywords
- ABT-199; ABT-737; BCL2; chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; apoptosis; lymphocyte subsets
- Research Division(s)
- Cancer And Haematology; Molecular Genetics Of Cancer; Chemical Biology
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.1
- NHMRC Grants
- NHMRC/461219, NHMRC/461221, NHMRC/1051235, NHMRC/1016701,
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