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Blood, 1 August 2005, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 1063-1066. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 19, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-08-3225.
NEOPLASIA
Essential role for the p110
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, p110
, p110
, and p110
) that are responsible for Akt activation. It is not known which PI3K isoform is critical in AML. Here we show that the p110
isoform of PI3K is consistently expressed at a high level in blast cells from AML, in contrast to the other class I isoforms, the expression of which was very variable among patients. IC87114, a p110
-selective inhibitor, suppressed both constitutive and Flt-3stimulated Akt activation in blasts to the same extent as Ly294002, an inhibitor of all PI3K isoforms. Moreover, IC87114 inhibited AML cell proliferation without affecting the proliferation of normal hematopoietic progenitor cells. These observations identify p110
as a potential therapeutic target in AML. | Introduction |
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, p110
, and p110
) associate with Src homology domain 2 (SH2)containing regulatory subunits and signal downstream of cytokine and tyrosine kinase receptors. p110
is the only class IB PI3K, and functions in the context of heterotrimeric G-proteincoupled receptor signaling. p110
and -
are widely distributed in mammalian tissues, whereas p110
and -
show a more restricted distribution and are mainly but not exclusively expressed in blood cells and their precursors.7 In this study, we examined which of the class I PI3K isoforms is responsible for PI3K activation in AML blasts. | Study design |
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All patients were included in the AML2001 trial of chemotherapy initiated by the French Multicenter Group, Groupe Ouest-Est des Leucémies et des Autres Maladies du Sang (GOELAMS). All biologic studies performed in this report were approved by the GOELAMS institutional review board, and signed informed consent was provided according to the Declaration of Helsinki. Classification of AML was based on the French-American-British (FAB) criteria.8 Patients who presented with acute promyelocytic leukemia (AML3) or AML6 and AML7 FAB subtypes were excluded from the study. Blasts from 64 patients with AML were tested for constitutive activation of PI3K by analysis of Akt phosphorylation on Ser473, and constitutive activation of PI3K was detected in 37 patients (58%). The expression of the 4 class I isoforms of the PI3K p110 subunit was tested in 21 patients with primary AML that presented a constitutive activation of PI3K. Due to limitations on the available amount of material, the full set of experiments depicted in Figure 1 and Figure 2 was performed in only 10 of these patients. Their characteristics are presented in Table 1.
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Bone marrow cells from newly diagnosed patients with AML were obtained before induction of chemotherapy. Bone marrow samples were subjected to Ficoll-Hypaque density gradient separation to isolate mononuclear cells (BMMCs). CD34+ cells from cord blood were isolated as previously reported.9 The OPM2 cell line was established from the peripheral blood of a patient with multiple myeloma.10
Reagents
The p110
inhibitor IC87114 was from ICOS Corporation, Bothell, WA.11
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BMMCs of patients with AML were starved in serum-free medium for 4 hours. Cells were incubated with or without inhibitor for 30 minutes at 37°C. Cells were then boiled in Laemmli sample buffer and proteins were analyzed by Western blot. Enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) or SuperSignal West Femto (Pierce, Rockford, IL) chemoluminescence kits were used for detection. Western blots were quantified using the ImageJ 1.32 software (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD) after densitometric scanning of the films.
Cell proliferation assays
BMMCs were cultured in
-medium with 5% fetal calf serum (FCS) with or without FLT-3 ligand (10 ng/mL) for 48 hours and with or without 10 µM IC87114. [3H]-thymidine (1 µCi [37 kBq]) was added for a final 6 hours and the amount of radioactivity incorporated was determined by trichloracetic acid precipitation. CD34+ cells from cord blood were cultured in stem cell factor (SCF; 20 ng/mL), FLT-3 ligand (10 ng/mL), and Tpo (20 nM) for 48 hours with or without 10 µM IC87114 and pulsed for 12 hours with [3H]-thymidine.
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is the only class I PI3K isoform consistently present in AML blasts
Expression of the 4 catalytic subunits of class I PI3K was tested by Western blot of AML blast extracts in 21 patients with constitutive activation of PI3K. Expression of p110
, -
, and -
was highly variable between patients and did not correlate with the FAB subtype. In contrast, p110
expression was consistently detected at comparable levels in all samples. Representative expression patterns are presented in Figure 1 for the 10 patients listed in Table 1. We used the OPM2 cell line as a negative control in our experiments. These cells only express p110
and p110
but no detectable p110
or p110
(Figure 1).
Inhibition of Akt phosphorylation by IC87114, a p110
-selective inhibitor
Recently, IC87114, an inhibitor with selectivity for p110
over the other class I PI3K isoforms, has been developed.11 In AML blast cells, IC87114 decreased Akt phosphorylation in a dose-dependent manner. In 3 patient samples, maximal PI3K inhibition was observed at 10 µM IC87114 (Figure 2A). Constitutive Akt phosphorylation in p110
-negative OMP2 cells was fully inhibited by 25 µM LY294002 but not by IC87114 (Figure 2A, right panel). We next tested the sensitivity of Akt phosphorylation to 10 µM IC87114 and 25 µM LY294002 in the 10 patient samples shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. The results of a typical experiment are presented in Figure 2C (inset). Blots were analyzed by densitometric scanning for Akt phosphorylation in the presence of either IC87114 or LY294002 and results are presented as a percentage of that seen in control cells treated with vehicle only (Figure 2C, graph). From these data, it is clear that IC87114 was as effective as the pan-PI3K inhibitor LY294002 at inhibiting Akt phosphorylation in AML blasts. This indicates that p110
is the main contributor of PI3K activity in AML blasts.
Akt phosphorylation in AML blasts increases in response to FLT-3 ligand.12 We tested the impact of p110
inhibition on Akt phosphorylation. Figure 2B shows that FLT-3 ligandstimulated Akt phosphorylation was inhibited by IC87114 to the same extent as by LY294002, showing that p110
can be responsible for PI3K activation after FLT-3 ligand stimulation. At present, it is not clear why p110
is also the main contributor of PI3K activity in cells that also express p110
and p110
. One possible explanation would be that the expression level of p110
is significantly higher than that of the other isoforms.
Inhibition of AML cell proliferation by IC87114
Next, we tested the effect of IC87114 on cell proliferation on the blast samples described in the previous paragraph. AML proliferation was found to be almost completely blocked by 10 µM IC87114. IC87114 also strongly reduced the proliferation of cells stimulated with FLT-3 ligand (Figure 2D). We observed that FLT-3 ligand was still able to stimulate both PI3K activity and proliferation of blast cells from patient no. 102, who presented with an activating mutation (ITD) of FLT-3 (Figure 2B,D), confirming the observations previously reported by Bruserud et al.13 In contrast, cell proliferation of OMP2 and cord blood CD34+ cells was not decreased by IC87114 (data not shown).
AML is associated with poor long-term survival. The development of new therapeutic strategies directed against specific targets is an area of intense interest and may prove effective as adjunct treatments in combination with traditional chemotherapy. The PI3K/Akt pathway is often activated in AML blast cells, contributing to their survival4,5 and their proliferation (results described in this manuscript). Blockade of all PI3K isoforms in the organism using nonselective PI3K inhibitors such as LY294002 or wortmannin is very toxic in vivo, possibly due to a general requirement of PI3K for many cellular functions. Mice lacking functional p110
are viable and fertile, in contrast to mice lacking p110
or p110
, which are embryonic lethal.14-17 This finding suggests that specifically blocking p110
might be less toxic than inhibiting all PI3K activities. Our data suggest that in patients with AML, pharmacologic inhibition of p110
may offer clinical benefit.
| Acknowledgements |
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antibody.
| Footnotes |
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Prepublished online as Blood First Edition Paper, April 19, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-08-3225.
Supported by the Comité de Paris of the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (LNCC; laboratoire associé no. 8), the Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC) and the Groupe Ouest-Est des Leucémies et des Autres Maladies du Sang (GOELAMS).
P.S. and V.B. contributed equally to this work.
One of the authors, J.S.H., is employed by the ICOS Corporation company, whose product (IC87114 inhibitor) is used in the present work.
The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. Therefore, and solely to indicate this fact, this article is hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. section 1734.
Reprints: Didier Bouscary, Service d'Hématologie, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014, Paris, France; e-mail: bouscary{at}cochin.inserm.fr.
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