Fatty acid metabolism underlies venetoclax resistance in acute myeloid leukemia stem cells

BM Stevens, CL Jones, DA Pollyea, R Culp-Hill… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Venetoclax with azacitidine (ven/aza) has emerged as a promising treatment regimen for
acute myeloid leukemia (AML), with a high percentage of clinical remissions in newly …

Venetoclax with azacitidine disrupts energy metabolism and targets leukemia stem cells in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

DA Pollyea, BM Stevens, CL Jones, A Winters, S Pei… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults. Leukemia
stem cells (LSCs) drive the initiation and perpetuation of AML, are quantifiably associated …

Nicotinamide metabolism mediates resistance to venetoclax in relapsed acute myeloid leukemia stem cells

CL Jones, BM Stevens, DA Pollyea, R Culp-Hill… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
We previously demonstrated that leukemia stem cells (LSCs) in de novo acute myeloid
leukemia (AML) patients are selectively reliant on amino acid metabolism and that treatment …

Targeting the metabolic vulnerability of acute myeloid leukemia blasts with a combination of venetoclax and 8-chloro-adenosine

R Buettner, LXT Nguyen, C Morales, MH Chen… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Background BCL‐2 inhibition through venetoclax (VEN) targets acute myeloid leukemia
(AML) blast cells and leukemic stem cells (LSCs). Although VEN-containing regimens yield …

Monocytic subclones confer resistance to venetoclax-based therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

S Pei, DA Pollyea, A Gustafson, BM Stevens… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Venetoclax-based therapy can induce responses in approximately 70% of older previously
untreated patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, up-front resistance as well …

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

C Bosc, E Saland, A Bousard, N Gadaud, M Sabatier… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Therapy resistance represents a major clinical challenge in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Here we define a 'MitoScore'signature, which identifies high mitochondrial oxidative …

Targeting acute myeloid leukemia with venetoclax; biomarkers for sensitivity and rationale for venetoclax-based combination therapies

MS Griffioen, DC de Leeuw, JJWM Janssen, L Smit - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Venetoclax has proven to be a promising therapy for newly diagnosed,
relapsed and refractory AML patients ineligible for induction chemotherapy. Current ongoing …

Integrated analysis of patient samples identifies biomarkers for venetoclax efficacy and combination strategies in acute myeloid leukemia

H Zhang, Y Nakauchi, T Köhnke, M Stafford, D Bottomly… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Deregulation of the BCL2 gene family plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute
myeloid leukemia (AML). A BCL2 inhibitor, venetoclax, has received approval from the US …

[HTML][HTML] Resistance to venetoclax and hypomethylating agents in acute myeloid leukemia

AN Saliba, AJ John, SH Kaufmann - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite the success of the combination of venetoclax with the hypomethylating agents
(HMA) decitabine or azacitidine in inducing remission in older, previously untreated patients …

Escape from treatment; the different faces of leukemic stem cells and therapy resistance in acute myeloid leukemia

N Van Gils, F Denkers, L Smit - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Standard induction chemotherapy, consisting of an anthracycline and cytarabine, has been
the first-line therapy for many years to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Although this …