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Title: | High-Throughput Drug Library Screening in Primary KMT2A-Rearranged Infant ALL Cells Favors the Identification of Drug Candidates That Activate P53 Signaling | Authors: | Wander, Priscilla Arentsen-Peters, Susan T C J M Vrenken, Kirsten S Pinhanҫos, Sandra Mimoso Koopmans, Bianca Dolman, M Emmy M Jones, Luke Garrido Castro, Patricia Schneider, Pauline Kerstjens, Mark Molenaar, Jan J Pieters, Rob Zwaan, Christian Michel Stam, Ronald W |
Keywords: | MLL-rearrangements; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; infant ALL; p53; drug library screening | Issue Date: | 10-Mar-2022 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Biomedicines | Volume: | 10 | Issue: | 3 | Abstract: | KMT2A-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in infants (<1 year of age) represents an aggressive type of childhood leukemia characterized by a poor clinical outcome with a survival chance of <50%. Implementing novel therapeutic approaches for these patients is a slow-paced and costly process. Here, we utilized a drug-repurposing strategy to identify potent drugs that could expeditiously be translated into clinical applications. We performed high-throughput screens of various drug libraries, comprising 4191 different (mostly FDA-approved) compounds in primary KMT2A-rearranged infant ALL patient samples (n = 2). The most effective drugs were then tested on non-leukemic whole bone marrow samples (n = 2) to select drugs with a favorable therapeutic index for bone marrow toxicity. The identified agents frequently belonged to several recurrent drug classes, including BCL-2, histone deacetylase, topoisomerase, microtubule, and MDM2/p53 inhibitors, as well as cardiac glycosides and corticosteroids. The in vitro efficacy of these drug classes was successfully validated in additional primary KMT2A-rearranged infant ALL samples (n = 7) and KMT2A-rearranged ALL cell line models (n = 5). Based on literature studies, most of the identified drugs remarkably appeared to lead to activation of p53 signaling. In line with this notion, subsequent experiments showed that forced expression of wild-type p53 in KMT2A-rearranged ALL cells rapidly led to apoptosis induction. We conclude that KMT2A-rearranged infant ALL cells are vulnerable to p53 activation, and that drug-induced p53 activation may represent an essential condition for successful treatment results. Moreover, the present study provides an attractive collection of approved drugs that are highly effective against KMT2A-rearranged infant ALL cells while showing far less toxicity towards non-leukemic bone marrow, urging further (pre)clinical testing. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/103191 | ISSN: | 2227-9059 | DOI: | 10.3390/biomedicines10030638 | Rights: | openAccess |
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