hiPSC-derived bone marrow milieu identifies a clinically actionable driver of niche-mediated treatment resistance in leukemia

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Leukemia cells re-program their microenvironment to augment blast proliferation and enhance treatment resistance. Means of clinically targeting such niche-driven treatment resistance remain ambiguous. We develop human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-engineered niches to reveal druggable cancer-niche dependencies. We reveal that mesenchymal (iMSC) and vascular niche-like (iANG) hiPSC-derived cells support ex vivo proliferation of patient-derived leukemia cells, affect dormancy, and mediate treatment resistance. iMSCs protect dormant and cycling blasts against dexamethasone, while iANGs protect only dormant blasts. Leukemia proliferation and protection from dexamethasone-induced apoptosis is dependent on cancer-niche interactions mediated by CDH2. Consequently, we test CDH2 antagonist ADH-1 (previously in Phase I/II trials for solid tumors) in a very aggressive patient-derived xenograft leukemia mouse model. ADH-1 shows high in vivo efficacy; ADH-1/dexamethasone combination is superior to dexamethasone alone, with no ADH-1-conferred additional toxicity. These findings provide a proof-of-concept starting point to develop improved, potentially safer therapeutics targeting niche-mediated cancer dependencies in blood cancers.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3

Enthalten in:

Cell reports. Medicine - 3(2022), 8 vom: 16. Aug., Seite 100717

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pal, Deepali [VerfasserIn]
Blair, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Parker, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Hockney, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Beckett, Melanie [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Mankaran [VerfasserIn]
Tirtakusuma, Ricky [VerfasserIn]
Nelson, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
McNeill, Hesta [VerfasserIn]
Angel, Sharon H [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Aaron [VerfasserIn]
Nizami, Salem [VerfasserIn]
Nakjang, Sirintra [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Peixun [VerfasserIn]
Schwab, Claire [VerfasserIn]
Sinclair, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Russell, Lisa J [VerfasserIn]
Coxhead, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Halsey, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Allan, James M [VerfasserIn]
Harrison, Christine J [VerfasserIn]
Moorman, Anthony V [VerfasserIn]
Heidenreich, Olaf [VerfasserIn]
Vormoor, Josef [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7S5I7G3JQL
Cancer microenvironment
Dexamethasone
Dormancy
Drugging cancer niche
IPSC-niche
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Treatment resistance

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Date Completed 19.08.2022

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100717

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344960889