The manipulation of apoptosis for cancer therapy using BH3-mimetic drugs

ST Diepstraten, MA Anderson, PE Czabotar… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is regulated by the balance between
prosurvival and proapoptotic BCL-2 protein family members. Evasion of apoptosis is a …

Targeting apoptosis in cancer therapy

BA Carneiro, WS El-Deiry - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
For over three decades, a mainstay and goal of clinical oncology has been the development
of therapies promoting the effective elimination of cancer cells by apoptosis. This …

MDM2 inhibition: an important step forward in cancer therapy

M Konopleva, G Martinelli, N Daver, C Papayannidis… - Leukemia, 2020 - nature.com
Targeting the interaction between tumor suppressor p53 and the E3 ligase MDM2
represents an attractive treatment approach for cancers with wild-type or functional TP53 …

Acquisition of the recurrent Gly101Val mutation in BCL2 confers resistance to venetoclax in patients with progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia

P Blombery, MA Anderson, J Gong, R Thijssen… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
The BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax induces high rates of durable remission in patients with
previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). However, despite continuous daily …

Ibrutinib, obinutuzumab, and venetoclax in relapsed and untreated patients with mantle cell lymphoma: a phase 1/2 trial

S Le Gouill, F Morschhauser, D Chiron… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Ibrutinib, obinutuzumab, and venetoclax demonstrate synergy in preclinical models of
mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). OAsIs (NCT02558816), a single-arm multicenter prospective …

Targeting the Bcl-2 family in B cell lymphoma

CM Adams, S Clark-Garvey, P Porcu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Although lymphoma is a very heterogeneous group of biologically complex malignancies,
tumor cells across all B cell lymphoma subtypes share a set of underlying traits that promote …

Changes in Bcl-2 members after ibrutinib or venetoclax uncover functional hierarchy in determining resistance to venetoclax in CLL

MV Haselager, K Kielbassa, J Ter Burg… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells cycle between lymph node (LN) and peripheral
blood (PB) and display major shifts in Bcl-2 family members between those compartments …

BET protein proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) exerts potent lethal activity against mantle cell lymphoma cells

B Sun, W Fiskus, Y Qian, K Rajapakshe, K Raina… - Leukemia, 2018 - nature.com
Bromodomain extraterminal protein (BETP) inhibitors transcriptionally repress oncoproteins
and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) target genes that undermines the growth and survival of …

BCL-2 proteins in pathogenesis and therapy of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas

M Klanova, P Klener - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The ability to inhibit mitochondrial apoptosis is a hallmark of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas
(B-NHL). Activation of mitochondrial apoptosis is tightly controlled by members of B-cell …

Adapted to survive: targeting cancer cells with BH3 mimetics

J Montero, R Haq - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
A hallmark of cancer is cell death evasion, underlying suboptimal responses to
chemotherapy, targeted agents, and immunotherapies. The approval of the antiapoptotic …