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Pyruvate Anaplerosis is a Targetable Vulnerability in Persistent Leukaemic Stem Cells

ABSTRACT: Deregulated oxidative metabolism is a hallmark of leukaemia. While use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) such as imatinib has led to increased survival of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients, it fails to eradicate disease initiating leukemic stem cells (LSCs). Whether TKI-treated CML LSCs remain metabolically deregulated is unknown. Using clinically and physiologically relevant assays we generated multi-omics datasets that offer unprecedented insight into nutrient fate in patient derived CML LSCs. We demonstrate that LSCs have increased glucose anaplerosis when compared to normal hematopoietic stem cells. While imatinib treatment reverses BCR-ABL-mediated LSC metabolic reprogramming, stable isotope-assisted metabolomics revealed that deregulated glucose anaplerosis is unaffected by imatinib. Encouragingly, genetic ablation of glucose anaplerosis sensitises CML cells to imatinib. Finally, we demonstrate that the clinical oral-available inhibitor MSDC-0160 targets glucose anaplerosis in robust pre-clinical CML models. Collectively these results highlight glucose anaplerosis as a persistent and therapeutically targetable vulnerability in imatinib-treated CML patient samples.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE216837 | GEO | 2023/06/27

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:We previously demonstrated that Alox5 deficiency impairs the function of LSCs and prevents the initiation of BCR-ABL-induced CML. To identify the pathways in which Alox5 gene regulates function of LSCs, we performed a comparative DNA microarray analysis using total RNA isolated from non-BCR-ABL-expressing Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+, BCR-ABL-expressing wild type LSCs and BCR-ABL-expressing Alox5-/- LSCs. The result was validated by quantitative real-time PCR analysis of non-BCR-ABL-expressing Lin-Sca-1+c-Kit+, BCR-ABL-expressing wild type LSCs and BCR-ABL-expressing Alox5-/- LSCs. We have shown that Alox5 is a critical regulator of leukemia stem cells (LSCs) in a BCR-ABL-induced chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) mouse model, and we hypothesize that the Alox5 pathway represents a major molecular network that regulates LSC function. Therefore, we sought to further dissect this pathway by comparing the gene expression profiles of wild type and Alox5-/- LSCs derived from our mouse model for BCR-ABL-induced CML. DNA microarray analysis revealed a small group of candidate genes that exhibited changes in the levels of transcription in the absence of Alox5 expression. In particular, we noted that the expression of the Msr1 gene was up-regulated in Alox5-/- LSCs, suggesting that Msr1 might suppress the proliferation of LSCs. Using our CML mouse model, we show that Msr1 is down-regulated by BCR-ABL and this down-regulation is partially restored by Alox5 deletion, and that Msr1 deletion causes acceleration of CML development. Moreover, Msr1 deletion markedly increases LSC function through its effects on cell cycle progression and apoptosis. We also show that Msr1 affects CML development by regulating the PI3K-AKT pathway and ?-Catenin. Together, these results demonstrate that Msr1 suppresses LSCs and CML development. The enhancement of Msr1 function may be of significance in the development of novel therapeutic strategies targeting CML. To identify genes that are regulated by BCR-ABL in LSCs and LSCs without Alox5 gene, we compared the gene profile between wild type(WT) LSCs or Alox5-/- LSCs.

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Pyruvate Anaplerosis is a Targetable Vulnerability in Persistent Leukaemic Stem Cells

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