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 …

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 …

Venetoclax and navitoclax in combination with chemotherapy in patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma

VA Pullarkat, NJ Lacayo, E Jabbour, JE Rubnitz… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Combining venetoclax, a selective BCL2 inhibitor, with low-dose navitoclax, a BCL-XL/BCL2
inhibitor, may allow targeting of both BCL2 and BCL-XL without dose-limiting …

A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …

[HTML][HTML] An embryonic diapause-like adaptation with suppressed Myc activity enables tumor treatment persistence

E Dhimolea, R de Matos Simoes, D Kansara… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Treatment-persistent residual tumors impede curative cancer therapy. To understand this
cancer cell state we generated models of treatment persistence that simulate the residual …

A novel MCL1 inhibitor combined with venetoclax rescues venetoclax-resistant acute myelogenous leukemia

HE Ramsey, MA Fischer, T Lee, AE Gorska, MP Arrate… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Suppression of apoptosis by expression of antiapoptotic BCL2 family members is a hallmark
of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML). Induced myeloid leukemia cell differentiation protein …

Functional precision cancer medicine—moving beyond pure genomics

A Letai - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The essential job of precision medicine is to match the right drugs to the right patients. In
cancer, precision medicine has been nearly synonymous with genomics. However, sobering …

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 …

PPM1D-truncating mutations confer resistance to chemotherapy and sensitivity to PPM1D inhibition in hematopoietic cells

JD Kahn, PG Miller, AJ Silver, RS Sellar… - Blood, The Journal …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Truncating mutations in the terminal exon of protein phosphatase Mg2+/Mn2+ 1D (PPM1D)
have been identified in clonal hematopoiesis and myeloid neoplasms, with a striking …

[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 …