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Abstract

It is generally believed that shutting down the kinase activity of BCR-ABL by imatinib will completely inhibit its functions, leading to inactivation of its downstream signaling pathways and cure of the disease. Imatinib is highly effective at treating human Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph + ) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase but not Ph + B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and CML blast crisis. We find that SRC kinases activated by BCR-ABL remain fully active in imatinib-treated mouse leukemic cells, suggesting that imatinib does not inactivate all BCR-ABL-activated signaling pathways. This SRC pathway is essential for leukemic cells to survive imatinib treatment and for CML transition to lymphoid blast crisis. Inhibition of both SRC and BCR-ABL kinase activities by dasatinib affords complete B-ALL remission. However, curing B-ALL and CML mice requires killing leukemic stem cells insensitive to both imatinib and dasatinib. Besides BCR-ABL and SRC kinases, stem cell pathways must be targeted for curative therapy of Ph + leukemia.

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Hu, Y., Swerdlow, S., Duffy, T. M., Weinmann, R., Lee, F. Y., & Li, S. (2006). Targeting multiple kinase pathways in leukemic progenitors and stem cells is essential for improved treatment of Ph + leukemia in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(45), 16870–16875.

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Created 18 years, 10 months ago (Nov. 2, 2006, 8:25 a.m.)
Deposited 3 years, 4 months ago (April 12, 2022, 3:50 p.m.)
Indexed 8 months ago (Dec. 30, 2024, 1:14 p.m.)
Issued 18 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 7, 2006)
Published 18 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 7, 2006)
Published Online 18 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 7, 2006)
Published Print 18 years, 9 months ago (Nov. 7, 2006)
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@article{Hu_2006, title={Targeting multiple kinase pathways in leukemic progenitors and stem cells is essential for improved treatment of Ph + leukemia in mice}, volume={103}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606509103}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.0606509103}, number={45}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Hu, Yiguo and Swerdlow, Sarah and Duffy, Theodore M. and Weinmann, Roberto and Lee, Francis Y. and Li, Shaoguang}, year={2006}, month=nov, pages={16870–16875} }