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BLOOD
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages 1860-1862Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V99.5.1860
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The tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 is a promising agent for the treatment of advanced Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but resistance develops rapidly in most patients after an initial response. To Identify mechanisms of resistance to STI571, 30 complementary DNAs (including 9 matched samples) obtained from the bone marrow of individuals with Ph+ ALL were analyzed by direct sequencing of a 714-base pair region of ABL encoding for the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)binding site and the kinase activation loop. A single point mutation was found at nucleotide 1127 (G[6382056) resulting in Glu255Lys. This mutation occurred in 6 of 9 patients (67%) following their treatment with STI571 but not in the samples from patients before beginning treatment with STI571. Glu255Lys is within the motif important for forming the pocket of the ATP-binding site in ABL and It is highly conserved across species. In conclusion, Ph+ ALL samples resistant to STI571 have a unique mutation Glu255Lys of BCR-ABL. (C) 2002 by The American Society of Hematology.
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