1. Sorafenib promotes graft-versus-leukemia activity in mice and humans through IL-15 production in FLT3-ITD-mutant leukemia cells
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Donald Bunjes, Sebastian Halbach, Dietmar Pfeifer, Philipp Hemmati, Robert S. Negrin, Fabio Ciceri, Jean-Yves Cahn, Markus Ditschkowski, Pavan Reddy, Kathrin Hanke, Daniela Dörfel, Susan Klaeger, Jürgen Finke, Zehan Hu, Gabriele Ihorst, Gérard Socié, Sanaz Taromi, Andreas Hochhaus, Glen A Kennedy, Omid Shah, Andreas Neubauer, Robert Thimme, Michael Schultheiss, Sabine Spath, Dietrich W. Beelen, Sandra Duquesne, Arnim Weber, Geoffrey R. Hill, Ronjon Chakraverty, Jürgen Kuball, Guido Kobbe, Nikolas von Bubnoff, Andrea S. Henden, Betul Oran, Burkhard Becher, Bernhard Kuster, Christoph Rummelt, Lena Osswald, Hartmut Bertz, Wolfgang Bethge, Eva-Maria Wagner, Arnon Nagler, Eliana Ruggiero, Saar Gill, Miguel Waterhouse, Andreas Mackensen, Dominik Bettinger, Francis Baumgartner, Florian Kuchenbauer, Anita Sarma, Takanori Teshima, Erika L. Pearce, Antonia M.S. Müller, Kathleen Stabla, John M. Magenau, Evelyn Ullrich, Nicolaus Kröger, Georg Häcker, Simone Thomas, Myriam Labopin, Ghulam J. Mufti, Jan E. Ehlert, Lutz P. Müller, Marie Follo, Dominik Wolf, Tony Andreas Müller, Michael Lübbert, Jacqueline Schnell, Christof Scheid, Takeshi Kondo, Donal P. McLornan, Thomas Pabst, Konrad Wilhelm, Chiara Bonini, Wolf Rösler, Simon Richardson, Cordula A. Jilg, Andrea Schmidts, Luca Vago, Joseph H. Antin, Annette Schmitt-Graeff, Yakup Tanriver, Michael A. Caligiuri, Wolfgang Herr, Kai-Li Yan, Lukas Braun, Daniel J. Weisdorf, Katayoun Rezvani, Giang Lam Vuong, Tilman Brummer, Stephan Meckel, Ralph Wäsch, Geoffroy Andrieux, Soroush Doostkam, Hauke Busch, Dennis Dong Hwan Kim, Sabine Gerull, Bruce R. Blazar, Robert Zeiser, Merav Bar, Flore Sicre-de-Fontbrune, Daniel Feger, Melanie Börries, Wolfgang Melchinger, Petya Apostolova, C. Leiber, Udo Holtick, Walter J.F.M. van der Velden, Renate Arnold, Rainer Claus, Justus Duyster, Nimitha R. Mathew, David O’Sullivan, Alexandros Spyridonidis, S K Metzelder, Thomas Schroeder, Jörg Halter, Johanna Haag, Friedrich Stölzel, Christoph Schmid, Anna Lena Illert, Claudia Lengerke, Björn Hackanson, Joern Dengjel, Francis Ayuk, Rainer Ordemann, Sonia Tugues, Marco Prinz, Inken Hilgendorf, Andreas Burchert, Mathew, Nimitha R, Baumgartner, Franci, Braun, Luka, O'Sullivan, David, Thomas, Simone, Waterhouse, Miguel, Müller, Tony A, Hanke, Kathrin, Taromi, Sanaz, Apostolova, Petya, Illert, Anna L, Melchinger, Wolfgang, Duquesne, Sandra, Schmitt-Graeff, Annette, Osswald, Lena, Yan, Kai-Li, Weber, Arnim, Tugues, Sonia, Spath, Sabine, Pfeifer, Dietmar, Follo, Marie, Claus, Rainer, Lübbert, Michael, Rummelt, Christoph, Bertz, Hartmut, Wäsch, Ralph, Haag, Johanna, Schmidts, Andrea, Schultheiss, Michael, Bettinger, Dominik, Thimme, Robert, Ullrich, Evelyn, Tanriver, Yakup, Vuong, Giang Lam, Arnold, Renate, Hemmati, Philipp, Wolf, Dominik, Ditschkowski, Marku, Jilg, Cordula, Wilhelm, Konrad, Leiber, Christian, Gerull, Sabine, Halter, Jörg, Lengerke, Claudia, Pabst, Thoma, Schroeder, Thoma, Kobbe, Guido, Rösler, Wolf, Doostkam, Soroush, Meckel, Stephan, Stabla, Kathleen, Metzelder, Stephan K, Halbach, Sebastian, Brummer, Tilman, Hu, Zehan, Dengjel, Joern, Hackanson, Björn, Schmid, Christoph, Holtick, Udo, Scheid, Christof, Spyridonidis, Alexandro, Stölzel, Friedrich, Ordemann, Rainer, Müller, Lutz P, Sicre-de-Fontbrune, Flore, Ihorst, Gabriele, Kuball, Jürgen, Ehlert, Jan E, Feger, Daniel, Wagner, Eva-Maria, Cahn, Jean-Yve, Schnell, Jacqueline, Kuchenbauer, Florian, Bunjes, Donald, Chakraverty, Ronjon, Richardson, Simon, Gill, Saar, Kröger, Nicolau, Ayuk, Franci, Vago, Luca, Ciceri, Fabio, Müller, Antonia M, Kondo, Takeshi, Teshima, Takanori, Klaeger, Susan, Kuster, Bernhard, Kim, Dennis Dong Hwan, Weisdorf, Daniel, van der Velden, Walter, Dörfel, Daniela, Bethge, Wolfgang, Hilgendorf, Inken, Hochhaus, Andrea, Andrieux, Geoffroy, Börries, Melanie, Busch, Hauke, Magenau, John, Reddy, Pavan, Labopin, Myriam, Antin, Joseph H, Henden, Andrea S, Hill, Geoffrey R, Kennedy, Glen A, Bar, Merav, Sarma, Anita, Mclornan, Donal, Mufti, Ghulam, Oran, Betul, Rezvani, Katayoun, Sha, Omid, Negrin, Robert S, Nagler, Arnon, Prinz, Marco, Burchert, Andrea, Neubauer, Andrea, Beelen, Dietrich, Mackensen, Andrea, von Bubnoff, Nikola, Herr, Wolfgang, Becher, Burkhard, Socié, Gerard, Caligiuri, Michael A, Ruggiero, Eliana, Bonini, Chiara, Häcker, Georg, Duyster, Justu, Finke, Jürgen, Pearce, Erika, Blazar, Bruce R, and Zeiser, Robert
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0301 basic medicine ,Sorafenib ,medicine.drug_class ,Interferon Regulatory Factor-7 ,Medizin ,Graft vs Host Disease ,CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Tyrosine-kinase inhibitor ,Mice ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Animals ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Medicine ,ddc:610 ,neoplasms ,Interleukin-15 ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Myeloid leukemia ,General Medicine ,Cellular Reprogramming ,medicine.disease ,Activating Transcription Factor 4 ,3. Good health ,Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ,Transplantation ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,Leukemia ,030104 developmental biology ,fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 ,Tandem Repeat Sequences ,Interleukin 15 ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 5] ,Cancer research ,IRF7 ,business ,CD8 ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 190745.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Individuals with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harboring an internal tandem duplication (ITD) in the gene encoding Fms-related tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) who relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) have a 1-year survival rate below 20%. We observed that sorafenib, a multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, increased IL-15 production by FLT3-ITD(+) leukemia cells. This synergized with the allogeneic CD8(+) T cell response, leading to long-term survival in six mouse models of FLT3-ITD(+) AML. Sorafenib-related IL-15 production caused an increase in CD8(+)CD107a(+)IFN-gamma(+) T cells with features of longevity (high levels of Bcl-2 and reduced PD-1 levels), which eradicated leukemia in secondary recipients. Mechanistically, sorafenib reduced expression of the transcription factor ATF4, thereby blocking negative regulation of interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) activation, which enhanced IL-15 transcription. Both IRF7 knockdown and ATF4 overexpression in leukemia cells antagonized sorafenib-induced IL-15 production in vitro. Human FLT3-ITD(+) AML cells obtained from sorafenib responders following sorafenib therapy showed increased levels of IL-15, phosphorylated IRF7, and a transcriptionally active IRF7 chromatin state. The mitochondrial spare respiratory capacity and glycolytic capacity of CD8(+) T cells increased upon sorafenib treatment in sorafenib responders but not in nonresponders. Our findings indicate that the synergism of T cells and sorafenib is mediated via reduced ATF4 expression, causing activation of the IRF7-IL-15 axis in leukemia cells and thereby leading to metabolic reprogramming of leukemia-reactive T cells in humans. Therefore, sorafenib treatment has the potential to contribute to an immune-mediated cure of FLT3-ITD-mutant AML relapse, an otherwise fatal complication after allo-HCT.
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