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HAEMATOLOGICA
Volume 106, Issue 5, Pages 1244-1253Publisher
FERRATA STORTI FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2020.262691
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- Medical Research Future Fund
- Hospital Research Foundation
- National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1113577, APP1121755, APP1122999, APP1182564]
- CSL Centenary Fellowship
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Activation of JAK-STAT signaling is a hallmark of myelofibrosis, with JAK2 inhibitor treatment leading to a phenomenon called "persistence" that does not significantly impact the abnormal hematopoietic clone compared to usual resistance patterns.
Activation of JAK-STAT signaling is one of the hallmarks of myelofibrosis, a myeloproliferative neoplasm that leads to inflammation, progressive bone marrow failure, and a risk of leukemic transformation. Around 90% of patients with myelofibrosis have a mutation in JAK2, MPL, or CALR: so-called ` driver' mutations that lead to activation of JAK2. Ruxolitinib, and other JAK2 inhibitors in clinical use, provide clinical benefit but do not have a major impact on the abnormal hematopoietic clone. This phenomenon is termed `persistence', in contrast to usual patterns of resistance. Multiple groups have shown that type 1 inhibitors of JAK2, which bind the active conformation of the enzyme, lead to JAK2 becoming resistant to degradation with consequent accumulation of phospho-JAK2. In turn, this can lead to exacerbation of inflammatory manifestations when the JAK inhibitor is discontinued, and it may also contribute to disease persistence. The ways in which JAK2 V617F and CALR mutations lead to activation of JAK-STAT signaling are incompletely understood. We summarize what is known about pathological JAK-STAT activation in myelofibrosis and how this might lead to future novel therapies for myelofibrosis with greater disease-modifying potential.
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