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DNMT3A mutations promote anthracycline resistance in acute myeloid leukemia via impaired nucleosome remodeling

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Guryanova, Olga A, Shank, Kaitlyn, Spitzer, Barbara, Luciani, Luisa, Koche, Richard P, Garrett-Bakelman, Francine E, Ganzel, Chezi, Durham, Benjamin H +31 more·2016·Nature Medicine

Abstract

Although the majority of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) initially respond to chemotherapy, many of them subsequently relapse, and the mechanistic basis for AML persistence following chemotherapy has not been determined. Recurrent somatic mutations in DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A), most frequently at arginine 882 (DNMT3A R882), have been observed in AML and in individuals with clonal hematopoiesis in the absence of leukemic transformation. Patients with DNMT3A R882 AML have an inferior outcome when treated with standard-dose daunorubicin-based induction chemotherapy, suggesting that DNMT3A R882 cells persist and drive relapse. We found that Dnmt3a mutations induced hematopoietic stem cell expansion, cooperated with mutations in the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 gene (Flt3 ITD) and the nucleophosmin gene (Npm1 c) to induce AML in vivo, and promoted resistance to anthracycline chemotherapy. In patients with AML, the presence of DNMT3A R882 mutations predicts minimal residual disease, underscoring their role in AML chemoresistance. DNMT3A R882 cells showed impaired nucleosome eviction and chromatin remodeling in response to anthracycline treatment, which resulted from attenuated recruitment of histone chaperone SPT-16 following anthracycline exposure. This defect led to an inability to sense and repair DNA torsional stress, which resulted in increased mutagenesis. Our findings identify a crucial role for DNMT3A R882 mutations in driving AML chemoresistance and highlight the importance of chromatin remodeling in response to cytotoxic chemotherapy.

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  • Mouse models carrying loss-of-function mutations in either TET2 or DNMT3A show an HSC competitive advantage in vivo as well as a propensity for leukemia when cooperating mutations are present.

    “Mouse models carrying loss-of-function mutations in either of these genes clearly show an HSC competitive advantage in vivo as well as a propensity for leukemia when cooperating mutations are present 50–53.”

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Guryanova, O. A., Shank, K., Spitzer, B., Luciani, L., Koche, R. P., Garrett-Bakelman, F. E., Ganzel, C., Durham, B. H., Mohanty, A., Hoermann, G., Rivera, S. A., Chramiec, A. G., Pronier, E., Bastian, L., Keller, M. D., Tovbin, D., Loizou, E., Weinstein, A. R., Gonzalez, A. R., Lieu, Y. K., Rowe, J. M., Pastore, F., McKenney, A. S., Krivtsov, A. V., Sperr, W. R., Cross, J. R., Mason, C. E., Tallman, M. S., Arcila, M. E., Abdel-Wahab, O., Armstrong, S. A., Kubicek, S., Staber, P. B., Gönen, M., Paietta, E. M., Melnick, A. M., Nimer, S. D., Mukherjee, S., & Levine, R. L.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • University of Miami (US)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
  • Shaare Zedek Medical Center (IL)
  • Medical University of Vienna (AT)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (AT)
  • Cornell University (US)
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)
  • Montefiore Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
  • Mukherjee, Siddhartha
  • Levine, Ross L
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2016-11-14
Volume
22
Issue
12
Pages
1488-1495
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W2551286426
Cited by
256
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 1
FWCI
25.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • European Hematology Association (TRTH89)
  • National Cancer Institute (U10CA180820, U10CA180791, UG1CA189859, R00CA178191, K08CA169055, K99CA178191, U10CA180794, R01CA169784, U10CA180827, P30CA008748, U24CA196172, K12CA184746)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007739)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes
Keywords
acute myeloid leukemia, anthracycline resistance, nucleosome remodeling, chromatin remodeling, DNA repair, DNA torsional stress, histone chaperone, hematopoietic stem cell expansion, FLT3-ITD, NPM1, minimal residual disease, relapse
MeSH terms
DNA Methyltransferase 3A, Nucleophosmin, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Cell Survival, Daunorubicin, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Humans, Mutation, Nuclear Proteins, Nucleosomes, Mass Spectrometry, Immunoblotting, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Anthracyclines, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Cell Line, Tumor, Immunoprecipitation, Cell Proliferation, Mice, fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3

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