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Advanced systemic mastocytosis (AdvSM) is a rare myeloid neoplasm associated with poor overall survival (OS). This study (NCT04695431) compared clinical outcomes between patients with AdvSM treated with avapritinib in the Phase 1 EXPLORER (NCT0256198) and Phase 2 PATHFINDER (NCT03580655) trials (N = 176) and patients treated with best available therapy (BAT; N = 141). A multi-center, observational, retrospective chart review study was conducted at six study sites (four European, two American) to collect data from patients with AdvSM who received BAT; these data were pooled with data from EXPLORER and PATHFINDER. Comparisons between outcomes of OS, duration of treatment (DOT), and maximum reduction in serum tryptase were conducted between the treatment cohorts, with adjustment for key covariates. The results indicated that the avapritinib cohort had significantly better survival (adjusted hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval (CI)): 0.48 (0.29, 0.79); p = 0.004) and significantly longer DOT (HR: 0.36 (0.26, 0.51); p < 0.001) compared to the BAT cohort. Additionally, the mean difference in percentage maximum reduction in serum tryptase levels was 60.3% greater in the avapritinib cohort (95% CI: -72.8, -47.9; p < 0.001). With no randomized controlled trials comparing avapritinib to BAT, these data offer crucial insights into the improved efficacy of avapritinib for the treatment of AdvSM.
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Mastocytose généralisée , Humains , Mastocytose généralisée/traitement médicamenteux , Pyrazoles/usage thérapeutique , Pyrroles , Études rétrospectives , Triazines , Tryptases/usage thérapeutiqueRÉSUMÉ
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are a new and powerful class of cancer immunotherapeutics that have shown potential for the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies. The tremendous promise of this approach is tempered by safety concerns, including potentially fatal neurotoxicity, sometimes but not universally associated with cytokine release syndrome. We describe the postmortem examination of a brain from a 21-year-old patient with relapsed pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who died from fulminant cerebral edema following CAR T-cell infusion. We found a range of changes that included activation of microglia, expansion of perivascular spaces by proteinaceous exudate, and clasmatodendrosis-a beading of glial fibrillary acidic protein consistent with astrocyte injury. Notably, within the brain parenchyma, we identified only infrequent T cells and did not identify ALL cells or CAR T cells. The overall findings are nonspecific but raise the possibility of astrocyte and blood-brain barrier dysfunction as a potential etiology of fatal CAR T-cell neurotoxicity in this patient.
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Oedème cérébral/induit chimiquement , Oedème cérébral/imagerie diagnostique , Immunothérapie/effets indésirables , Récepteurs chimériques pour l'antigène/administration et posologie , Lymphocytes T , Oedème cérébral/métabolisme , Issue fatale , Humains , Mâle , Récepteurs chimériques pour l'antigène/métabolisme , Lymphocytes T/métabolisme , Jeune adulteRÉSUMÉ
PI3Kδ has been found to be over-expressed in B-Cell-related malignancies. Despite the clinical success of the first selective PI3Kδ inhibitor, CAL-101, inhibition of PI3Kδ itself did not show too much cytotoxic efficacy against cancer cells. One possible reason is that PI3Kδ inhibition induced autophagy that protects the cells from death. Since class III PI3K isoform PIK3C3/Vps34 participates in autophagy initiation and progression, we predicted that a PI3Kδ and Vps34 dual inhibitor might improve the anti-proliferative activity observed for PI3Kδ-targeted inhibitors. We discovered a highly potent ATP-competitive PI3Kδ/Vps34 dual inhibitor, PI3KD/V-IN-01, which displayed 10-1500 fold selectivity over other PI3K isoforms and did not inhibit any other kinases in the kinome. In cells, PI3KD/V-IN-01 showed 30-300 fold selectivity between PI3Kδ and other class I PI3K isoforms. PI3KD/V-IN-01 exhibited better anti-proliferative activity against AML, CLL and Burkitt lymphoma cell lines than known selective PI3Kδ and Vps34 inhibitors. Interestingly, we observed FLT3-ITD AML cells are more sensitive to PI3KD/V-IN-01 than the FLT3 wt expressing cells. In AML cell inoculated xenograft mouse model, PI3KD/V-IN-01 exhibited dose-dependent anti-tumor growth efficacies. These results suggest that dual inhibition of PI3Kδ and Vps34 might be a useful approach to improve the PI3Kδ inhibitor's anti-tumor efficacy.
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Antinéoplasiques/pharmacologie , Lymphome de Burkitt , Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases de classe III/antagonistes et inhibiteurs , Leucémie myéloïde , Inhibiteurs des phosphoinositide-3 kinases , Inhibiteurs de protéines kinases/pharmacologie , Animaux , Tests de criblage d'agents antitumoraux , Humains , Souris , Tests d'activité antitumorale sur modèle de xénogreffeRÉSUMÉ
More than 90% of drugs with preclinical activity fail in human trials, largely due to insufficient efficacy. We hypothesized that adequately powered trials of patient-derived xenografts (PDX) in mice could efficiently define therapeutic activity across heterogeneous tumors. To address this hypothesis, we established a large, publicly available repository of well-characterized leukemia and lymphoma PDXs that undergo orthotopic engraftment, called the Public Repository of Xenografts (PRoXe). PRoXe includes all de-identified information relevant to the primary specimens and the PDXs derived from them. Using this repository, we demonstrate that large studies of acute leukemia PDXs that mimic human randomized clinical trials can characterize drug efficacy and generate transcriptional, functional, and proteomic biomarkers in both treatment-naive and relapsed/refractory disease.
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Hétérogreffes , Leucémies/anatomopathologie , Lymphomes/anatomopathologie , Banques de tissus , Tests d'activité antitumorale sur modèle de xénogreffe , Animaux , Antinéoplasiques/pharmacologie , Antinéoplasiques/usage thérapeutique , Marqueurs biologiques tumoraux , Lignage cellulaire , Femelle , Analyse de profil d'expression de gènes , Gènes p53 , Humains , Internet , Isoquinoléines/pharmacologie , Isoquinoléines/usage thérapeutique , Leucémies/métabolisme , Leucémie expérimentale/traitement médicamenteux , Lymphomes/métabolisme , Mâle , Souris , Souris de lignée NOD , Thérapie moléculaire ciblée , Protéines tumorales/antagonistes et inhibiteurs , Transplantation tumorale , Phénotype , Pipérazines/pharmacologie , Pipérazines/usage thérapeutique , Leucémie-lymphome lymphoblastique à précurseurs B/traitement médicamenteux , Leucémie-lymphome lymphoblastique à précurseurs B/génétique , Leucémie-lymphome lymphoblastique à précurseurs B/anatomopathologie , Protéome , Protéines proto-oncogènes c-mdm2/antagonistes et inhibiteurs , Répartition aléatoire , Essais contrôlés randomisés comme sujet/méthodes , Plan de recherche , TranscriptomeRÉSUMÉ
PI3Kδ is predominately expressed in leukocytes and has been found overexpressed in B-cell related malignances such as CLL and AML. We have discovered a highly selective ATP competitive PI3Kd inhibitor PI3KD-IN-015, which exhibits a high selectivity among other PI3K isoforms in both biochemical assays and cellular assay, meanwhile did not inhibit most of other protein kinases in the kinome. PI3KD-IN-015 demonstrates moderately anti-proliferation efficacies against a variety of B-cell related cancer cell lines through down-regulate the PI3K signaling significantly. It induced both apoptosis and autophagy in B-cell malignant cell lines. In addition, combination of autophagy inhibitor Bafilomycin could potentiate the moderate anti-proliferation effect of PI3KD-IN-015. PI3KD-IN-015 shows anti-proliferation efficacy against CLL and AML patient primary cells. Collectively, these results indicate that PI3KD-IN-015 may be useful drug candidate for further development of anti-B-cell related malignances therapies.
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Antienzymes/pharmacologie , Leucémie B/traitement médicamenteux , Inhibiteurs des phosphoinositide-3 kinases , Inhibiteurs de protéines kinases/pharmacologie , Séquence d'acides aminés , Apoptose/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Autophagie/effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques , Lignée cellulaire tumorale , Humains , Leucémie B/enzymologie , Leucémie B/anatomopathologie , Modèles moléculaires , Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases/composition chimiqueRÉSUMÉ
Interstitial loss of all or part of the long arm of chromosome 5, or del(5q), is a frequent clonal chromosomal abnormality in human myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS, a preleukemic disorder) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and is thought to contribute to the pathogenesis of these diseases by deleting one or more tumor-suppressor genes. Although a major commonly deleted region (CDR) has been delineated on chromosome band 5q31.1 (refs. 3-7), attempts to identify tumor suppressors within this band have been unsuccessful. We focused our analysis of gene expression on RNA from primitive leukemia-initiating cells, which harbor 5q deletions, and analyzed 12 genes within the CDR that are expressed by normal hematopoietic stem cells. Here we show that the gene encoding alpha-catenin (CTNNA1) is expressed at a much lower level in leukemia-initiating stem cells from individuals with AML or MDS with a 5q deletion than in individuals with MDS or AML lacking a 5q deletion or in normal hematopoietic stem cells. Analysis of HL-60 cells, a myeloid leukemia line with deletion of the 5q31 region, showed that the CTNNA1 promoter of the retained allele is suppressed by both methylation and histone deacetylation. Restoration of CTNNA1 expression in HL-60 cells resulted in reduced proliferation and apoptotic cell death. Thus, loss of expression of the alpha-catenin tumor suppressor in hematopoietic stem cells may provide a growth advantage that contributes to human MDS or AML with del(5q).