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] MCL-1 inhibitors, fast-lane development of a new class of anti-cancer agents

A Bolomsky, M Vogler, MC Köse, CA Heckman… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Cell death escape is one of the most prominent features of tumor cells and closely linked to
the dysregulation of members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Among those, the anti-apoptotic …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of drug response and clinical outcome in acute myeloid leukemia

D Bottomly, N Long, AR Schultz, SE Kurtz, CE Tognon… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of myeloid-lineage cells with limited therapeutic
options. We previously combined ex vivo drug sensitivity with genomic, transcriptomic, and …

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 …

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 …

Venetoclax and azacitidine compared with induction chemotherapy for newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia

EM Cherry, D Abbott, M Amaya, C McMahon… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Venetoclax (ven) plus azacitidine (aza) is the standard of care for patients with newly
diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are not candidates for intensive …

Implementing a functional precision medicine tumor board for acute myeloid leukemia

D Malani, A Kumar, O Brück, M Kontro, B Yadav… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
We generated ex vivo drug-response and multiomics profiling data for a prospective series
of 252 samples from 186 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A functional precision …

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 …

Combinatorial BCL2 family expression in acute myeloid leukemia stem cells predicts clinical response to azacitidine/venetoclax

A Waclawiczek, AM Leppä, S Renders, K Stumpf… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
The BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax (VEN) in combination with azacitidine (5-AZA) is currently
transforming acute myeloid leukemia (AML) therapy. However, there is a lack of clinically …

[HTML][HTML] Venetoclax resistance: mechanistic insights and future strategies

F Ong, K Kim, MY Konopleva - Cancer Drug Resistance, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is historically associated with poor prognosis, especially in
older AML patients unfit for intensive chemotherapy. The development of Venetoclax, a …