Restoration of TET2 Function Blocks Aberrant Self-Renewal and Leukemia Progression. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Loss-of-function mutations in TET2 occur frequently in patients with clonal hematopoiesis, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and are associated with a DNA hypermethylation phenotype. To determine the role of TET2 deficiency in leukemia stem cell maintenance, we generated a reversible transgenic RNAi mouse to model restoration of endogenous Tet2 expression. Tet2 restoration reverses aberrant hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) self-renewal in vitro and in vivo. Treatment with vitamin C, a co-factor of Fe2+ and α-KG-dependent dioxygenases, mimics TET2 restoration by enhancing 5-hydroxymethylcytosine formation in Tet2-deficient mouse HSPCs and suppresses human leukemic colony formation and leukemia progression of primary human leukemia PDXs. Vitamin C also drives DNA hypomethylation and expression of a TET2-dependent gene signature in human leukemia cell lines. Furthermore, TET-mediated DNA oxidation induced by vitamin C treatment in leukemia cells enhances their sensitivity to PARP inhibition and could provide a safe and effective combination strategy to selectively target TET deficiency in cancer. PAPERCLIP.

publication date

  • August 17, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Ascorbic Acid
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins
  • Vitamins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC5755977

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85027458667

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1101/cshperspect.a012559

PubMed ID

  • 28823558

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 170

issue

  • 6