Selective inactivation of hypomethylating agents by SAMHD1 provides a rationale for therapeutic stratification in AML

  • Hypomethylating agents decitabine and azacytidine are regarded as interchangeable in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, their mechanisms of action remain incompletely understood, and predictive biomarkers for HMA efficacy are lacking. Here, we show that the bioactive metabolite decitabine triphosphate, but not azacytidine triphosphate, functions as activator and substrate of the triphosphohydrolase SAMHD1 and is subject to SAMHD1-mediated inactivation. Retrospective immunohistochemical analysis of bone marrow specimens from AML patients at diagnosis revealed that SAMHD1 expression in leukemic cells inversely correlates with clinical response to decitabine, but not to azacytidine. SAMHD1 ablation increases the antileukemic activity of decitabine in AML cell lines, primary leukemic blasts, and xenograft models. AML cells acquire resistance to decitabine partly by SAMHD1 up-regulation. Together, our data suggest that SAMHD1 is a biomarker for the stratified use of hypomethylating agents in AML patients and a potential target for the treatment of decitabine-resistant leukemia.
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Author:Thomas OellerichORCiD, Constanze SchneiderGND, Dominique Jeanette ThomasORCiDGND, Kirsten M. KnechtORCiD, Olga Buzovetsky, Lars Kaderali, Christoph Schliemann, Hanibal BohnenbergerORCiD, Linus AngenendtORCiDGND, Wolfgang HartmannORCiDGND, Eva WardelmannORCiDGND, Tamara RothenburgerORCiD, Sebastian Mohr, Sebastian ScheichORCiD, Federico ComoglioORCiDGND, Anne Wilke, Philipp Ströbel, Hubert ServeORCiDGND, Martin MichaelisORCiDGND, Nerea Ferreirós BouzasORCiDGND, Gerd GeisslingerORCiDGND, Yong XiongORCiD, Oliver Till KepplerORCiDGND, Jindrich CinatlORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-507543
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11413-4
ISSN:2041-1723
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31375673
Parent Title (English):Nature Communications
Publisher:Nature Publishing Group UK
Place of publication:[London]
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2019
Date of first Publication:2019/08/02
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2019/08/19
Tag:Biomarkers; Cancer; Oncology
Volume:10
Issue:1, Art. 3475
Page Number:14
First Page:1
Last Page:14
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HeBIS-PPN:453739636
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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