PUBLICATION
Overcoming myelosuppression due to synthetic lethal toxicity for FLT3-targeted acute myeloid leukemia therapy
- Authors
- Warkentin, A.A., Lopez, M.S., Lasater, E.A., Lin, K., He, B., Leung, A.Y., Smith, C.C., Shah, N.P., Shokat, K.M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141223-3
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- eLIFE 3: (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Leung, Anskar
- Keywords
- FLT3, KIT, biochemistry, chemical synthesis, human biology, leukemia, medicine, protein kinase, staurosporine, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry
- Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use
- Antineoplastic Agents/toxicity*
- Bone Marrow Diseases/chemically induced*
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/drug therapy*
- Models, Biological
- Mutation
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Zebrafish
- fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3/drug effects*
- fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3/genetics
- PubMed
- 25531068 Full text @ Elife
Citation
Warkentin, A.A., Lopez, M.S., Lasater, E.A., Lin, K., He, B., Leung, A.Y., Smith, C.C., Shah, N.P., Shokat, K.M. (2014) Overcoming myelosuppression due to synthetic lethal toxicity for FLT3-targeted acute myeloid leukemia therapy. eLIFE. 3.
Abstract
Activating mutations in FLT3 confer poor prognosis for individuals with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Clinically active investigational FLT3 inhibitors can achieve complete remissions, but their utility has been hampered by acquired resistance and myelosuppression attributed to a 'synthetic lethal toxicity' arising from simultaneous inhibition of FLT3 and KIT. We report a novel chemical strategy for selective FLT3 inhibition while avoiding KIT inhibition with the staurosporine analog, Star 27. Star 27 maintains potency against FLT3 in proliferation assays of FLT3-transformed cells compared to KIT-transformed cells, shows no toxicity towards normal human hematopoiesis at concentrations that inhibit primary FLT3-mutant AML blast growth, and is active against mutations that confer resistance to clinical inhibitors. As a more complete understanding of kinase networks emerges it may be possible to define anti-targets such as KIT in the case of AML to allow improved kinase inhibitor design of clinical agents with enhanced efficacy and reduced toxicity.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping