Crizotinib acts as ABL1 inhibitor combining ATP-binding with allosteric inhibition and is active against native BCR-ABL1 and its resistance and compound mutants BCR-$ ABL1^{T315I} $ and BCR-$ ABL1^{T315I-E255K} $

Abstract Resistance remains the major clinical challenge for the therapy of Philadelphia chromosome–positive (Ph+) leukemia. With the exception of ponatinib, all approved tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are unable to inhibit the common “gatekeeper” mutation T315I. Here we investigated the therapeutic potential of crizotinib, a TKI approved for targeting ALK and ROS1 in non-small cell lung cancer patients, which inhibited also the ABL1 kinase in cell-free systems, for the treatment of advanced and therapy-resistant Ph+ leukemia. By inhibiting the BCR-ABL1 kinase, crizotinib efficiently suppressed growth of Ph+ cells without affecting growth of Ph− cells. It was also active in Ph+ patient-derived long-term cultures (PD-LTCs) independently of the responsiveness/resistance to other TKIs. The efficacy of crizotinib was confirmed in vivo in syngeneic mouse models of BCR-ABL1- or BCR-$ ABL1^{T315I} $-driven chronic myeloid leukemia–like disease and in BCR-ABL1-driven acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Although crizotinib binds to the ATP-binding site, it also allosterically affected the myristol binding pocket, the binding site of GNF2 and asciminib (former ABL001). Therefore, crizotinib has a seemingly unique double mechanism of action, on the ATP-binding site and on the myristoylation binding pocket. These findings strongly suggest the clinical evaluation of crizotinib for the treatment of advanced and therapy-resistant Ph+ leukemia..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:100

Enthalten in:

Annals of hematology - 100(2021), 8 vom: 10. Juni, Seite 2023-2029

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mian, Afsar Ali [VerfasserIn]
Haberbosch, Isabella [VerfasserIn]
Khamaisie, Hazem [VerfasserIn]
Agbarya, Abed [VerfasserIn]
Pietsch, Larissa [VerfasserIn]
Eshel, Elizabeh [VerfasserIn]
Najib, Dally [VerfasserIn]
Chiriches, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Ottmann, Oliver Gerhard [VerfasserIn]
Hantschel, Oliver [VerfasserIn]
Biondi, Ricardo M. [VerfasserIn]
Ruthardt, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Mahajna, Jamal [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Allosteric inhibition
BCR-ABL1
Compound mutations
Crizotinib
Philadelphia chromosome–positive leukemia
TKI resistance

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© The Author(s) 2020

doi:

10.1007/s00277-020-04357-z

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OLC2126668207