Regulation of apoptosis in health and disease: the balancing act of BCL-2 family proteins

R Singh, A Letai, K Sarosiek - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The loss of vital cells within healthy tissues contributes to the development, progression and
treatment outcomes of many human disorders, including neurological and infectious …

BCL2 and MCL1 inhibitors for hematologic malignancies

AW Roberts, AH Wei… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
BCL2 and MCL1 are commonly expressed prosurvival (antiapoptotic) proteins in
hematologic cancers and play important roles in their biology either through dysregulation or …

[HTML][HTML] Tagraxofusp in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic-cell neoplasm

N Pemmaraju, AA Lane, KL Sweet… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic-cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is an aggressive
hematologic cancer that is caused by transformed plasmacytoid dendritic cells that …

Acute myeloid leukemia, version 3.2023, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology

DA Pollyea, JK Altman, R Assi, D Bixby… - Journal of the National …, 2023 - jnccn.org
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous hematologic malignancy characterized
by the clonal expansion of myeloid blasts in the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and/or other …

Clinical experience with the BCL 2‐inhibitor venetoclax in combination therapy for relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia and related myeloid malignancies

CD DiNardo, CR Rausch, C Benton… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Venetoclax (VEN), a selective BCL2 inhibitor, has single‐agent activity in
relapsed and refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and efficacy in lower intensity …

BH3-mimetic drugs: blazing the trail for new cancer medicines

D Merino, GL Kelly, G Lessene, AH Wei, AW Roberts… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Defects in apoptotic cell death can promote cancer and impair responses of malignant cells
to anti-cancer therapy. Pro-survival BCL-2 proteins prevent apoptosis by keeping the cell …

Why do BCL-2 inhibitors work and where should we use them in the clinic?

J Montero, A Letai - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2018 - nature.com
Intrinsic apoptosis is controlled by the BCL-2 family of proteins but the complexity of intra-
family interactions makes it challenging to predict cell fate via standard molecular biology …

Therapeutic development and current uses of BCL-2 inhibition

AW Roberts - Hematology 2014, the American Society of …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Abstract B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2) is a key protein regulator of apoptosis. It is variably
highly expressed in many hematological malignancies, providing protection from cell death …

BCL-2 as therapeutic target for hematological malignancies

GF Perini, GN Ribeiro, JV Pinto Neto… - Journal of hematology & …, 2018 - Springer
Disruption of the physiologic balance between cell proliferation and cell death is an
important step of cancer development. Increased resistance to apoptosis is a key oncogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced mitochondrial apoptotic priming drives resistance to BH3 mimetics in acute myeloid leukemia

S Bhatt, MS Pioso, EA Olesinski, B Yilma, JA Ryan… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Acquired resistance to BH3 mimetic antagonists of BCL-2 and MCL-1 is an important clinical
problem. Using acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models …