Title
Inhibitory effects of omacetaxine on leukemic stem cells and BCR-ABL-induced chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in mice.
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Publication Date
2009-03-26
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Omacetaxine mepesuccinate (formerly homoharringtonine) is a molecule with a mechanism of action that is different from tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and its activity in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) seems to be independent of the BCR-ABL mutation status. Using BCR-ABL-expressing myelogenous and lymphoid cell lines and mouse models of CML and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) induced by wild-type BCR-ABL or T315I mutant-BCR-ABL, we evaluated the inhibitory effects of omacetaxine on CML and B-ALL. We showed that more than 90% of the leukemic stem cells were killed after treatment with omacetaxine in vitro. In contrast, less than 9 or 25% of the leukemic stem cells were killed after treating with imatinib or dasatinib, respectively. After 4 days of treatment of CML mice with omacetaxine, Gr-1(+)myeloid leukemia cells decreased in the peripheral blood of the treated CML mice. In the omacetaxine-treated B-ALL mice, only 0.8% of the B220(+)leukemia cells were found in peripheral blood, compared with 34% of the B220(+)leukemia cells in the placebo group. Treatment with omacetaxine decreased the number of leukemia stem cells and prolonged the survival of mice with BCR-ABL-induced CML or B-ALL.
Keywords
omacetaxine, leukemic stem cells, CML, B-ALL, BCR-ABL
DOI of Published Version
10.1038/leu.2009.52
Source
Leukemia advance online publication 26 March 2009, DOI 10.1038/leu.2009.52.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Leukemia : official journal of the Leukemia Society of America, Leukemia Research Fund, U.K
Related Resources
PubMed ID
19322212
Repository Citation
Chen Y, Hu Y, Michaels S, Segal D, Brown D, Li S. (2009). Inhibitory effects of omacetaxine on leukemic stem cells and BCR-ABL-induced chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia in mice.. Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Student Publications. https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.52. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/1598