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Learn MoreFLT3ITD are common mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and carry a particularly bad prognosis. Although new generation FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have shown promising results, the outcome of FLT3-mutated AML patients remains poor and demands the identification of novel, specific and validated therapeutic targets for this highly aggressive AML subtype. Utilizing an unbiased genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen, we identify GLS, the first enzyme in glutamine metabolism, as synthetically lethal with FLT3 TKI treatment. Using complementary metabolomic and gene-expression analysis, we demonstrate that glutamine metabolism, through its ability to support both mitochondrial function and cellular redox metabolism, becomes a metabolic dependency of FLT3ITD AML, specifically unmasked by FLT3-TKI treatment. We extend these findings to AML subtypes driven by other tyrosine kinase activating mutations, and validate the role of GLS as a clinically actionable therapeutic target in both primary AML and in vivo models. Our work highlights the role of metabolic adaptations as a resistance mechanism to several TKI inhibitors, and suggests glutaminolysis as a therapeutically targetable vulnerability when combined with specific TKI in FLT3ITD and other TK activating mutation driven leukemias. SOURCE: Shabana Vohra (sv380@cam.ac.uk) - Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
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