ISSN: 1837-9664Journal of Cancer
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J Cancer 2023; 14(7):1182-1194. doi:10.7150/jca.83219 This issue Cite
Research Paper
Differentiation of imatinib -resistant chronic myeloid leukemia cells with BCR-ABL-T315I mutation induced by Jiyuan Oridonin A
1. School of Pharmacy, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China;
2. School of Pharmacy, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450052, China;
3. Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261042, China;
4. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY, 11439, USA.
† These authors contributed equally to this work.
Abstract
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) results from BCR-ABL oncogene, which blocks CML cells differentiation and protects these cells from apoptosis. T315I mutated BCR-ABL is the main cause of the resistance mediated by imatinib and second generation BCR-ABL inhibitor. CML with the T315I mutation has been considered to have poor prognosis. Here, we determined the effect of Jiyuan oridonin A (JOA), an ent-kaurene diterpenoid compound, on the differentiation blockade in imatinib-sensitive, particularly, imatinib-resistant CML cells with BCR-ABL-T315I mutation by cell proliferation assay, apoptosis analysis, cell differentiation analysis, cell cycle analysis and colony formation assay. We also investigated the possible molecular mechanism by mRNA sequencing, qRT-PCR and Western blotting. We found that JOA at lower concentration significantly inhibited the proliferation of CML cells expressing mutant BCR-ABL (T315I mutation included) and wild-type BCR-ABL, which was due to that JOA induced the cell differentiation and the cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 phase. Interestingly, JOA possessed stronger anti-leukemia activity than its analogues such as OGP46 and Oridonin, which has been investigated extensively. Mechanistically, the cell differentiation mediated by JOA may be originated from the inhibition of BCR-ABL/c-MYC signaling in CML cells expressing wild-type BCR-ABL and BCR-ABL-T315I. JOA displayed the activity of inhibiting the BCR-ABL and promoted differentiation of not only imatinib -sensitive but also imatinib -resistant cells with BCR-ABL mutation, which could become a potent lead compound to overcome the imatinib -resistant induced by inhibitors of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase in CML therapy.
Keywords: Chronic myeloid leukemia, BCR-ABL oncogene, T315I mutation, imatinib-resistant BCR-ABL mutations, cell differentiation
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