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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 526-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-0497-9
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- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada
- Terry Fox Research Institute New Frontiers Program Project grant
- Canadian Institute of Health Research
- Genome BC
- BC Cancer Foundation through the Leukemia and Myeloma Program
- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul 248 Cancro (AIRC, Milan, Italy) [20125, 21267]
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Interstitial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 5 (del(5q)) is the most common structural genomic variant in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)(1). Lenalidomide (LEN) is the treatment of choice for patients with del(5q) MDS, but half of the responding patients become resistant(2) within 2 years. TP53 mutations are detected in similar to 20% of LEN-resistant patients(3). Here we show that patients who become resistant to LEN harbour recurrent variants of TP53 or RUNX1. LEN upregulated RUNX1 protein and function in a CRBN- and TP53-dependent manner in del(5q) cells, and mutation or downregulation of RUNX1 rendered cells resistant to LEN. LEN induced megakaryocytic differentiation of del(5q) cells followed by cell death that was dependent on calpain activation and CSNK1A1 degradation(4,5). We also identified GATA2 as a LEN-responsive gene that is required for LEN-induced megakaryocyte differentiation. Megakaryocytic gene-promoter analyses suggested that LEN-induced degradation of IKZF1 enables a RUNX1-GATA2 complex to drive megakaryocytic differentiation. Overexpression of GATA2 restored LEN sensitivity in the context of RUNX1 or TP53 mutations by enhancing LEN-induced megakaryocytic differentiation. Screening for mutations that block LEN-induced megakaryocytic differentiation should identify patients who are resistant to LEN.
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