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1. Mitochondrial inhibitors circumvent adaptive resistance to venetoclax and cytarabine combination therapy in acute myeloid leukemia

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Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Thomas Farge, Eléonore Kaphan, Emeline Boet, Francois Vergez, Marie Sabatier, Jérôme Kluza, Nathalie Nicot, Yujue Wang, Andrew H. Wei, Aurélie Bousard, Noémie Gadaud, Pierre-Luc Mouchel, Ambrine Sahal, Nesrine Aroua, Ing Soo Tiong, Nathaniel Polley, Lucille Stuani, Mathilde Gotanègre, Quentin Fovez, Tony Kaoma, Laura Poillet-Perez, Claudie Bosc, Estelle Saland, Marie Tosolini, Guillaume Cognet, Rafael J. Argüello, Florian Rambow, Jean-Jacques Fournié, Christian Recher, Carine Joffre, Clément Larrue, Xiaoyang Su, Jean-Christophe Marine, Jerome Tamburini, Céline Mazzotti, Muriel Picard, Hervé Avet-Loiseau, Florence Cabon, Latifa Jarrou, Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (CRCT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LabEx Toucan, LabEx Toucan - Toulouse, Leuven Center for Cancer Biology (VIB-KU-CCB), Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)-Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie [Ghent, Belgique] (VIB), Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier - Faculté de médecine Purpan (UTPS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT), Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux [Bordeaux] (CRCTB), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Pôle Anesthésie Réanimation [CHU de Toulouse], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Rutgers cancer institute of New Jersey [Newark, NJ], Cancer Heterogeneity, Plasticity and Resistance to Therapies - UMR 9020 - U 1277 (CANTHER), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille - Luminy (CIML), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), and The Alfred Hospital and Monash University - Department of Clinical Haematology - Melbourne

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Cancer Research, Combination therapy, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Cell, Oxidative phosphorylation, chemistry.chemical_compound, In vivo, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Medicine, Humans, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Sulfonamides, business.industry, Venetoclax, Cytarabine, Myeloid leukemia, Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic, carbohydrates (lipids), Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, chemistry, Cancer research, Azacitidine, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

Therapy resistance represents a major clinical challenge in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here we define a ‘MitoScore’ signature, which identifies high mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in vivo and in patients with AML. Primary AML cells with cytarabine (AraC) resistance and a high MitoScore relied on mitochondrial Bcl2 and were highly sensitive to venetoclax (VEN) + AraC (but not to VEN + azacytidine). Single-cell transcriptomics of VEN + AraC-residual cell populations revealed adaptive resistance associated with changes in oxidative phosphorylation, electron transport chain complex and the TP53 pathway. Accordingly, treatment of VEN + AraC-resistant AML cells with electron transport chain complex inhibitors, pyruvate dehydrogenase inhibitors or mitochondrial ClpP protease agonists substantially delayed relapse following VEN + AraC. These findings highlight the central role of mitochondrial adaptation during AML therapy and provide a scientific rationale for alternating VEN + azacytidine with VEN + AraC in patients with a high MitoScore and to target mitochondrial metabolism to enhance the sensitivity of AML cells to currently approved therapies. Sarry and colleagues demonstrate that adaptive resistance to venetoclax + cytarabine therapy in acute myeloid leukemia relies on mitochondrial respiration and show that combination with electron transport chain complex inhibitors delays relapse in patient-derived xenograft models in vivo.

Published
2021

2. Ferritin heavy/light chain (FTH1/FTL) expression, serum ferritin levels, and their functional as well as prognostic roles in acute myeloid leukemia

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Thomas Farge, Marie-Virginie Larcher, Françoise Huguet, Estelle Saland, Suzanne Tavitian, Emilie Bérard, Audrey Sarry, Mauricette Michallet, François Vergez, Sarah Bertoli, Claudie Bosc, Etienne Paubelle, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Eric Delabesse, Xavier Thomas, Christian Recher, and Clément Larrue

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Adult, Male, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Odds Ratio, Humans, Medicine, FTH1, Aged, Proportional Hazards Models, biology, Gene Expression Regulation, Leukemic, business.industry, Gene Expression Profiling, Induction chemotherapy, Myeloid leukemia, Hematology, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Gene signature, Prognosis, Combined Modality Therapy, Ferritin, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Haematopoiesis, Treatment Outcome, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Apoferritins, Ferritins, biology.protein, Cancer research, Cytarabine, Female, Inflammation Mediators, Stem cell, Oxidoreductases, business, Biomarkers, 030215 immunology, medicine.drug
Abstract

Objectives We previously reported the prognostic value of serum ferritin in younger patients with intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The aims of this study were to confirm this finding in a larger cohort regardless of age and prognostic subgroups, to explore the expression and functional role of ferritin in AML cells as well as the regulation of serum ferritin levels in AML patients. Patients/materials/methods Serum ferritin levels at diagnosis were collected in a cohort of 525 patients treated by intensive chemotherapy. In silico, in vitro, and in vivo analyses were conducted to assess the pattern of expression and functional role of FTH1 and FTL in AML. Results We confirmed the independent prognostic value of serum ferritin. In transcriptomic databases, FTH1 and FTL were overexpressed in AML and leukemic stem cells compared to normal hematopoietic stem cells. The gene signature designed from AML patients overexpressing FTH1 revealed a significant enrichment in genes of the immune and inflammatory response including Nf-KB pathway, oxidative stress, or iron pathways. This gene signature was enriched in cytarabine-resistant AML cells in a patient-derived xenograft model. FTH1 protein was also overexpressed in patient's samples and correlated with the in vitro cytotoxic activity of cytarabine. Lastly, we demonstrated that chemotherapy induced an inflammatory response including a significant increase in serum ferritin levels between day 1 and 8 of induction chemotherapy that was blocked by dexamethasone. Conclusion Ferritin is deregulated in most AML patients likely through inflammation, associated with chemoresistance, and could represent a new therapeutic target.

Published
2018

3. Extracellular ATP and CD39 Activate cAMP-Mediated Mitochondrial Stress Response to Promote Cytarabine Resistance in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Margherita Ghisi, Jerome Tamburini, Marie Sabatier, Massimiliano Bardotti, Francisco Azuaje, Jean-Charles Portais, Christian Récher, Carine Joffre, Lucille Stuani, Pierre-Luc Mouchel, Camille Laurent, Marie-Laure Nicolau-Travers, Fetta Mazed, Claudie Bosc, Nathalie Nicot, Nesrine Aroua, Mathilde Gotanègre, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Estelle Saland, Clément Larrue, Floriant Bellvert, Fabienne De Toni, Latifa Jarrou, Mohsen Hosseini, Charlotte Syrykh, Ryan Gwilliam, François Vergez, Tony Kaoma, Sarah Gandarillas, Muriel Picard, Thomas Farge, Emeline Boet, Nathalie Bonnefoy, Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Centre Régional d'Exploration Fonctionnelle et Ressources Expérimentales (CREFRE), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Pôle Anesthésie Réanimation [CHU de Toulouse], Service d'anatomopathologie, Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM - U1194 Inserm - UM), CRLCC Val d'Aurelle - Paul Lamarque-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), Canceropole GSO 2014-E07, Région Auvergne-Rhone-AlpesRégion Bourgogne-Franche-ComteRégion Hauts-de-FranceRégion Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Fondation Toulouse Cancer Santé, Plan Cancer 2014-BioSys, Fondation ARC, Fondation de France, ANR-11-LABX-0068,TOUCAN,Analyse intégrée de la résistance dans les cancers hématologiques(2011), ANR-11-PHUC-0001,CAPTOR,Cancer et Pharmacologie : Projet de Toulouse-Oncopole et de sa Région(2011), CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Rangueil Hospital, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Toulouse, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Cell, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Downregulation and upregulation, In vivo, Antigens, CD, hemic and lymphatic diseases, medicine, Humans, Ectonucleotidase, Cytotoxicity, business.industry, Apyrase, Cytarabine, Myeloid leukemia, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Mitochondria, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, Cell culture, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cancer research, Female, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

Relapses driven by chemoresistant leukemic cell populations are the main cause of mortality for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here, we show that the ectonucleotidase CD39 (ENTPD1) is upregulated in cytarabine-resistant leukemic cells from both AML cell lines and patient samples in vivo and in vitro. CD39 cell-surface expression and activity is increased in patients with AML upon chemotherapy compared with diagnosis, and enrichment in CD39-expressing blasts is a marker of adverse prognosis in the clinics. High CD39 activity promotes cytarabine resistance by enhancing mitochondrial activity and biogenesis through activation of a cAMP-mediated adaptive mitochondrial stress response. Finally, genetic and pharmacologic inhibition of CD39 ecto-ATPase activity blocks the mitochondrial reprogramming triggered by cytarabine treatment and markedly enhances its cytotoxicity in AML cells in vitro and in vivo. Together, these results reveal CD39 as a new residual disease marker and a promising therapeutic target to improve chemotherapy response in AML. Significance: Extracellular ATP and CD39–P2RY13–cAMP–OxPHOS axis are key regulators of cytarabine resistance, offering a new promising therapeutic strategy in AML. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1426

Published
2020

4. Adrenomedullin-CALCRL Axis Controls Relapse-Initiating Drug Tolerant Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells

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Quentin Heydt, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Nizar Serhan, Jan-Henrik Mikesch, Thomas Farge, Ambrine Sahal, Christian Récher, Clément Larrue, Christoph Schliemann, Marie Sabatier, Nesrine Aroua, Nathan Guiraud, Sarah Mouche, Emeline Boet, Marine Dubois, Lucille Stuani, Jerome Tamburini, François Vergez, Pierre-Luc Mouchel, Estelle Saland, Mathilde Gotanègre, Tony Kaoma, Claudie Bosc, Linus Angenendt, and Marie-Laure Nicolau-Travers

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Gene knockdown, business.industry, Myeloid leukemia, CALCRL, Cell cycle, Adrenomedullin, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Cytarabine, medicine, Cancer research, E2F1, Stem cell, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

Drug tolerant leukemic cell subpopulations may explain frequent relapses in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), suggesting that these Relapse-Initiating Cells (RICs) persistent after chemotherapy represent bona fide targets to prevent drug resistance and relapse. We uncovered that the G-protein coupled receptor CALCRL is expressed in leukemic stem cells (LSCs) and RICs, and that the overexpression of CALCRL and/or of its ligand adrenomedullin (ADM) and not CGRP correlates to adverse outcome in AML. CALCRL knockdown impairs leukemic growth, decreases LSC frequency and sensitizes to cytarabine in patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models. Mechanistically, the ADM-CALCRL axis drives cell cycle, DNA repair and mitochondrial OxPHOS function of AML blasts dependent on E2F1 and BCL2. Finally, CALCRL depletion reduces LSC frequency of RICs post-chemotherapy in vivo. In summary, our data highlight a critical role of ADM-CALCRL in post-chemotherapy persistence of these cells, and disclose a promising therapeutic target to prevent relapse in AML.

Published
2020

5. Extracellular ATP and CD39 activate cAMP-mediated mitochondrial stress response to promote cytarabine resistance in acute myeloid leukemia

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Francisco Azuale, Margherita Ghisi, Fetta Mazed, Claudie Bosc, Marie-Laure Nicolau-Travers, François Vergez, Thomas Farge, Mathilde Gotanègre, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Jerome Tamburini, Nesrine Aroua, Clément Larrue, Jean-Charles Portais, Floriant Bellvert, Pierre-Luc Mouchel, Christian Récher, Massimiliano Bardotti, Fabienne De Toni, Camille Laurent, Emeline Boet, Marie Sabatier, Lucille Stuani, Nathalie Bonnefoy, Charlotte Syrykh, Ryan Gwilliam, Tony Kaoma, Latifa Jarrou, Sarah Gandarillas, Estelle Saland, Nathalie Nicot, and Mohsen Hosseini

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Chemotherapy, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Cell, Myeloid leukemia, medicine.anatomical_structure, Downregulation and upregulation, Cell culture, In vivo, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Cancer research, medicine, Cytarabine, business, Cytotoxicity, medicine.drug
Abstract

Relapses driven by chemoresistant leukemic cell populations are the main cause of mortality for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here, we show that the ectonucleotidase CD39 (ENTPD1) is upregulated in cytarabine (AraC)-resistant leukemic cells from both AML cell lines and patient samplesin vivoandin vitro. CD39 cell surface expression and activity is increased in AML patients upon chemotherapy compared to diagnosis and enrichment in CD39-expressing blasts is a marker of adverse prognosis in the clinics. High CD39 activity promotes AraC resistance by enhancing mitochondrial activity and biogenesis through activation of a cAMP-mediated response. Finally, genetic and pharmacological inhibition of CD39 eATPase activity blocks the mitochondrial reprogramming triggered by AraC treatment and markedly enhances its cytotoxicity in AML cellsin vitroandin vivo. Together, these results reveal CD39 as a new prognostic marker and a promising therapeutic target to improve chemotherapy response in AML.SIGNIFICANCEExtracellular ATP and CD39-cAMP-OxPHOS axis are key regulators of cytarabine resistance, offering a new promising therapeutic strategy in AML.

Published
2019

6. Targeting Myeloperoxidase Disrupts Mitochondrial Redox Balance and Overcomes Cytarabine Resistance in Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Claudie Bosc, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Marc Piechaczyk, Thomas Farge, Sonia Zaghdoudi, Mohsen Hosseini, Hamid Reza Rezvani, Véronique Guyonnet-Duperat, Clément Larrue, Mathilde Gotanègre, Nesrine Aroua, Pierre Luc Mouchel, Latifa Jarrou, Marie Sabatier, Christian Recher, Guillaume Bossis, Estelle Saland, Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Transfert de gènes à visée thérapeutique dans les cellules souches, Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (CRCT), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Plate-forme de vectorologie, Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-SFR TransBioMed, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (IGMM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)

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0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Myeloid, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Apoptosis, Mice, SCID, medicine.disease_cause, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Mice, Inbred NOD, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Molecular Targeted Therapy, RNA, Neoplasm, RNA, Small Interfering, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Membrane Potential, Mitochondrial, chemistry.chemical_classification, biology, Chemistry, Cytarabine, Myeloid leukemia, Mitochondria, Neoplasm Proteins, 3. Good health, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Myeloperoxidase, Oxidation-Reduction, medicine.drug, Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Oxidative phosphorylation, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Animals, Humans, Peroxidase, Reactive oxygen species, Gene Expression Profiling, medicine.disease, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, Hypochlorous Acid, Oxidative Stress, 030104 developmental biology, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Cancer research, biology.protein, Reactive Oxygen Species, Transcriptome, Oxidative stress
Abstract

Chemotherapies alter cellular redox balance and reactive oxygen species (ROS) content. Recent studies have reported that chemoresistant cells have an increased oxidative state in hematologic malignancies. In this study, we demonstrated that chemoresistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells had a lower level of mitochondrial and cytosolic ROS in response to cytarabine (AraC) and overexpressed myeloperoxidase (MPO), a heme protein that converts hydrogen peroxide to hypochlorous acid (HOCl), compared with sensitive AML cells. High MPO-expressing AML cells were less sensitive to AraC in vitro and in vivo. They also produced higher levels of HOCl and exhibited an increased rate of mitochondrial oxygen consumption when compared with low MPO-expressing AML cells. Targeting MPO expression or enzyme activity sensitized AML cells to AraC treatment by triggering oxidative damage and sustaining oxidative stress, particularly in high MPO-expressing AML cells. This sensitization stemmed from mitochondrial superoxide accumulation, which impaired oxidative phosphorylation and cellular energetic balance, driving apoptotic death and selective eradication of chemoresistant AML cells in vitro and in vivo. Altogether, this study uncovers a noncanonical function of MPO enzyme in maintaining redox balance and mitochondrial energetic metabolism, therefore affecting downstream pathways involved in AML chemoresistance. Significance: These findings demonstrate the role of myeloperoxidase in the regulation of ROS levels and sensitivity of AML cells to cytarabine, an essential chemotherapeutic backbone in the therapy of AML.

Published
2019

7. Dendrogenin A Enhances Anti-Leukemic Effect of Anthracycline in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

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Christian Récher, Marc Poirot, Philippe de Medina, Rémy Betous, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Sandrine Silvente-Poirot, Thomas Farge, Estelle Saland, Pierre-Luc Mouchel, Jean-Sébastien Hoffmann, Nizar Serhan, Service Hématologie - IUCT-Oncopole [CHU Toulouse], Pôle Biologie [CHU Toulouse], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Pôle IUCT [CHU Toulouse], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (CRCT), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Équipe labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer [Toulouse], Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer [Paris] (LNCC), Affichem SAS [Toulouse], Laboratoire d’Excellence ‘TOUCAN’ [Toulouse], Poirot, Marc, Service d'Hématologie [IUCT Toulouse], Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

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0301 basic medicine, autophagy, Cancer Research, Programmed cell death, Anthracycline, Daunorubicin, DNA damage, DNA repair, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], synergy, anthracycline, lcsh:RC254-282, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, AML, hemic and lymphatic diseases, medicine, Idarubicin, Chemistry, Myeloid leukemia, primary sample, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, 3. Good health, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Haematopoiesis, 030104 developmental biology, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, dendrogenin A, CLDX, Cancer research, LXR, DDA, medicine.drug
Abstract

Dendrogenin A (DDA), a mammalian cholesterol metabolite with tumor suppressor properties, has recently been shown to exhibit strong anti-leukemic activity in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells by triggering lethal autophagy. Here, we demonstrated that DDA synergistically enhanced the toxicity of anthracyclines in AML cells but not in normal hematopoietic cells. Combination index of DDA treatment with either daunorubicin or idarubicin indicated a strong synergism in KG1a, KG1 and MV4-11 cell lines. This was confirmed in vivo using immunodeficient mice engrafted with MOLM-14 cells as well as in a panel of 20 genetically diverse AML patient samples. This effect was dependent on Liver X Receptor &beta, a major target of DDA. Furthermore, DDA plus idarubicin strongly increased p53BP1 expression and the number of DNA strand breaks in alkaline comet assays as compared to idarubicin alone, whereas DDA alone was non-genotoxic. Mechanistically, DDA induced JNK phosphorylation and the inhibition of AKT phosphorylation, thereby maximizing DNA damage induced by idarubicin and decreasing DNA repair. This activated autophagic cell death machinery in AML cells. Overall, this study shows that the combination of DDA and idarubicin is highly promising and supports clinical trials of dendrogenin A in AML patients.

Published
2020

8. Chemotherapy-resistant human acute myeloid leukemia cells are not enriched for leukemic stem cells but require oxidative metabolism

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François Vergez, Marine Fraisse, Nicolas Broin, Thomas Farge, Robin L. Perry, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Audrey Sarry, Suzanne Tavitian, Stéphanie Cassant-Sourdy, Mayumi Sugita, Laetitia K. Linares, Jason S. Iacovoni, Claudie Bosc, Olivier Duchamp, Gwenn Danet-Desnoyers, Fabienne De Toni, Sarah J. Scotland, Y Barreira, Pierre Hirsch, Emmanuel Griessinger, Estelle Saland, Camille Montersino, Rémy Castellano, Héléna Boutzen, Nizar Serhan, Laurent Vallar, Martin Carroll, Christian Recher, Moshen Hosseini, Yves Collette, Lara Gales, François Delhommeau, Marion David, Marie-Laure Nicolau-Travers, Jean-Charles Portais, Nesrine Aroua, Lucille Stuani, Clément Larrue, Tony Kaoma, Tony Lionel Palama, Mary A. Selak, Barbara Garmy-Susini, Virginie Féliu, Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole (IUCT Oncopole - UMR 1037), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia], Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires (I2MC), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Oncology, University Hospital-Hälsouniversitetet Universitetssjukhuset, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier (IRCM - U1194 Inserm - UM), CRLCC Val d'Aurelle - Paul Lamarque-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Fédération nationale des Centres de lutte contre le Cancer (FNCLCC)-Fédération nationale des Centres de lutte contre le Cancer (FNCLCC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), U1065 Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UNSA), Oncodesign, UMS006 Service d'Experimentation Animale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMR-S938 CDR Saint-Antoine, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - 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Subjects
CD36 Antigens, 0301 basic medicine, Myeloid, cancerologie, Mitochondrion, human health, Oxidative Phosphorylation, Mice, pharmacotherapy, 0302 clinical medicine, protéine mitochondriale, chimiothérapie, leucemie, Cytarabine, leukemia, Myeloid leukemia, santé humaine, Mitochondria, 3. Good health, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, medicine.anatomical_structure, Biochemistry, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, oncologie, oncology, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Stem cell, medicine.drug, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Downregulation and upregulation, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Animals, Humans, Cell Lineage, chimiothérapie, oncologie, cancerologie, approche thérapeutique, leucemie, protéine mitochondriale, santé humaine, approche thérapeutique, medicine.disease, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays, carbohydrates (lipids), 030104 developmental biology, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Cell culture, Cancer research, pharmacotherapy, oncology, leukemia, human health, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract

Chemotherapy-resistant human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells are thought to be enriched in quiescent immature leukemic stem cells (LSC). To validate this hypothesis in vivo, we developed a clinically relevant chemotherapeutic approach treating patient-derived xenografts (PDX) with cytarabine (AraC). AraC residual AML cells are enriched in neither immature, quiescent cells nor LSCs. Strikingly, AraC-resistant preexisting and persisting cells displayed high levels of reactive oxygen species, showed increased mitochondrial mass, and retained active polarized mitochondria, consistent with a high oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) status. AraC residual cells exhibited increased fatty-acid oxidation, upregulated CD36 expression, and a high OXPHOS gene signature predictive for treatment response in PDX and patients with AML. High OXPHOS but not low OXPHOS human AML cell lines were chemoresistant in vivo. Targeting mitochondrial protein synthesis, electron transfer, or fatty-acid oxidation induced an energetic shift toward low OXPHOS and markedly enhanced antileukemic effects of AraC. Together, this study demonstrates that essential mitochondrial functions contribute to AraC resistance in AML and are a robust hallmark of AraC sensitivity and a promising therapeutic avenue to treat AML residual disease. Significance: AraC-resistant AML cells exhibit metabolic features and gene signatures consistent with a high OXPHOS status. In these cells, targeting mitochondrial metabolism through the CD36–FAO–OXPHOS axis induces an energetic shift toward low OXPHOS and strongly enhanced antileukemic effects of AraC, offering a promising avenue to design new therapeutic strategies and fight AraC resistance in AML. Cancer Discov; 7(7); 716–35. ©2017 AACR. See related commentary by Schimmer, p. 670. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 653

Published
2017

9. Bcl-2 protein family expression pattern determines synergistic pro-apoptotic effects of BH3 mimetics with hemisynthetic cardiac glycoside UNBS1450 in acute myeloid leukemia

Author

Marc Diederich, J-E Sarry, J-Y Lee, Hee Young Shin, Claudia Cerella, Aloran Mazumder, Estelle Saland, K-W Kim, Anthoula Gaigneaux, M. Dicato, Thomas Farge, Flavia Radogna, François Vergez, and Christian Recher

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Myeloid, Protein family, bcl-X Protein, Apoptosis, Biology, Cardiac Glycosides, 03 medical and health sciences, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Humans, MCL1, Letter to the Editor, Cardiac glycoside, U937 cell, Myeloid leukemia, Hematology, U937 Cells, medicine.disease, Leukemia, Haematopoiesis, Cardenolides, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Oncology, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2, Cancer research, Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein, biological phenomena, cell phenomena, and immunity, Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins, medicine.drug
Abstract

Bcl-2 protein family expression pattern determines synergistic pro-apoptotic effects of BH3 mimetics with hemisynthetic cardiac glycoside UNBS1450 in acute myeloid leukemia

Published
2016

10. Abstract B06: Studying cytarabine resistance through PDX models in acute myeloid leukemia

Author

Thomas Farge

Subjects
Cancer Research, business.industry, Cancer, Myeloid leukemia, Context (language use), Gene signature, Cell cycle, medicine.disease, Immune system, Oncology, Immunology, medicine, Cancer research, Cytarabine, Stem cell, business, medicine.drug
Abstract

The major therapeutic barrier in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is chemotherapy resistance. AML cells resistant to conventional chemotherapy targeting DNA synthesis are thought to be enriched in quiescent leukemic stem cells (LSCs). In order to better understand chemotherapy resistance in AML, we analyzed the response to cytarabine (AraC) through patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models with 20 primary AML patient specimens from two clinical sites and in the context of a French “Innovative models initiative” (IMODI) program. After confirming AML engraftment, highly immunodeficient NOD/LtSz-scid IL2Rγc null (NSG) mice were treated with AraC administered IP for 5 days as a single agent at 60 mg/kg daily, which correlates with human dosing. In all mice treated with this regimen, there was a significant but variable cytoreductive effect (4- to 46-fold reduction of tumor cell burden; 2- to 13-fold induction of apoptosis) at 3 days post-treatment. This in vivo AraC response in PDX models has been compared to clinicobiological data of their matched patients (including overall survival, FAB classification, and age at diagnosis). Furthermore, residual leukemic cells (RLCs), surviving after in vivo AraC treatment, have been characterized for their cell surface phenotype, stem cell frequency, cell cycle and metabolic status. Gene expression of RLCs from three different PDX models showed an enrichment of genes involved in inflammatory, immune and stress/ROS responses. When tested in three independent cohorts of AML patients (Verhaak et al. 2009; TGCA. 2011; Metzeler et al. 2011), the down-regulated gene signature is associated with an unfavorable prognosis in patients treated with intensive chemotherapy. Altogether, these results suggest a novel model of AraC chemotherapy resistance uncovering the control of the oxidative and mitochondrial energy metabolism in vivo and the relevance of PDX models for clinical investigations and new preclinical drug assessment. Further studies of the role of immune and stromal microenvironment will be assessed in this model to extend our findings in a more relevant setting. Citation Format: Thomas Farge{Authors}. Studying cytarabine resistance through PDX models in acute myeloid leukemia. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference: Patient-Derived Cancer Models: Present and Future Applications from Basic Science to the Clinic; Feb 11-14, 2016; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2016;22(16_Suppl):Abstract nr B06.

Published
2016

11. The Combination of ATRA and Dasatinib for Differentiation Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemias with IDH Mutations

Author

Lara Gales, Thomas Farge, Jean-Charles Portais, Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Mathilde Cathebras, Helena Boutzen, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Fabienne de Toni, Nizar Serhan, Estelle Saland, François Vergez, Marion David, Demas Veronique, Yang Guangli, Florence Castelli, Eric Delabesse, Christophe Junot, Clément Larrue, and Christian Recher

Subjects
Mutation, Myeloid, Immunology, Mutant, Myeloid leukemia, Cell Biology, Hematology, Pharmacology, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Biochemistry, Dasatinib, medicine.anatomical_structure, LYN, Apoptosis, Differentiation therapy, hemic and lymphatic diseases, medicine, Cancer research, neoplasms, medicine.drug
Abstract

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by the accumulation of malignant blasts with impaired differentiation programs due to recurrent mutations, amongst which IDH mutations occur in 15% of AML patients. Here, we show both in vitro as well as in a xenografted mouse model, that clinically achievable doses of ATRA are sufficient to achieve a terminal granulocytic differentiation in primary AML samples and in AML cell lines harboring IDH1-R132H mutation. There is no effect at this concentration on the WT controls. This is associated with reduction of both proliferation and colony formation, and further leads to apoptosis, thereby improving overall survival of mutant xenografted mice. We further showed, through transcriptomic and western blot analysis, that specific ATRA sensitivity is due to overexpression and activation of C/EBPα in the presence of IDH1-R132H mutation. This primes blasts into myeloid differentiation. Moreover, IDH1 R132H mutation also reduces LYN activation, and thus, also sensitizes to clinically achievable doses of dasatinib, a LYN inhibitor. As ATRA induces a brief LYN activation, which transiently reduces ATRA activity, its combination with dasatinib synergistically increases differentiation. In vivo, the combination of ATRA and dasatinib reduces tumor growth of mutant xenografted mice. The combination ATRA and dasatinib might also be considered for other IDH mutations that produce 2-hydroxyglutarate, since treatment with the mutant-specific oncometabolite (eg. 2-hydroxyglutarate) sensitizes AML cells to ATRA and dasatinib-induced differentiation. Finally, ATRA also reduces BCL2 expression specifically in the presence of IDH1 R132H mutation. Since it has been shown that IDH mutations increase BCL2 dependence in leukemic cells, our results identified a subgroup of patients that is likely to respond to pharmacologic concentrations of ATRA. To conclude, our data provide the preclinical rationale for investigating the use of the combination ATRA and dasatinib in a subgroup of patients who carry IDH1 R132H mutation, in clinical trials. The addition of a BCL2 inhibitor such as ABT-199 would also be considered. Disclosures Off Label Use: ATRA and dasatinib for treatment of non APL AML. Recher:Celgene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Sunesis: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Amgen: Research Funding; Chugai: Research Funding.

Published
2015

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