期刊
CANCERS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers12010095
关键词
acute promyelocytic leukemia; PML; RARa; NRF2; HMOX1; ascorbate; ROS
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资金
- AIRC 5x1000 call Metastatic disease: the key unmet need in oncology [21267]
- PRIN [2017WXR7ZT_004]
- AIRC [21406]
- Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti-Call 2018
- MYNERVA project [21267]
NRF2 (NF-E2 p45-related factor 2) orchestrates cellular adaptive responses to stress. Its quantity and subcellular location is controlled through a complex network and its activity increases during redox perturbation, inflammation, growth factor stimulation, and energy fluxes. Even before all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment era it was a common experience that acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells are highly sensitive to first line chemotherapy. Since we demonstrated how high doses of ascorbate (ASC) preferentially kill leukemic blast cells from APL patients, we aimed to define the underlying mechanism and found that promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML/RARa) inhibits NRF2 function, impedes its transfer to the nucleus and enhances its degradation in the cytoplasm. Such loss of NRF2 function alters cell metabolism, demarcating APL tissue from both normal promyelocytes and other acute myeloide leukemia (AML) blast cells. Resistance to ATRA/arsenic trioxide (ATO) treatment is rare but grave and the metabolically-oriented treatment with high doses of ASC, which is highly effective on APL cells and harmless on normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), could be of use in preventing clonal evolution and in rescuing APL-resistant patients.
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