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Efficacy of the polo-like kinase inhibitor rigosertib, alone or in combination with abelson tyrosine kinase inhibitors, against break point cluster region-c-Abelson-positive leukemia cells

Seiichi Okabe _, Tetsuzo Tauchi, Yuko Tanaka, Juri Sakuta and Kazuma Ohyashiki

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Oncotarget. 2015; 6:20231-20240. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.4047

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Abstract

Seiichi Okabe1, Tetsuzo Tauchi1, Yuko Tanaka1, Juri Sakuta1 and Kazuma Ohyashiki1

1 Department of Hematology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

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Seiichi Okabe, email:

Keywords: chronic myeloid leukemia, ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor, resistant cell, polo-like kinase

Received: January 21, 2015 Accepted: April 22, 2015 Published: May 08, 2015

Abstract

The potency of Abelson (ABL) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) against chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has been demonstrated. However, ABL TKI resistance can develop. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of a combination therapy including rigosertib (ON 01910.Na), a polo-like kinase (PLK) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, and ABL TKIs. A 72-h rigosertib treatment was found to inhibit cell growth, induce apoptosis, reduce phosphorylation of the breakpoint cluster region-c (BCR)-ABL and its substrate Crk-L, and increase the activities of caspase 3 and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). This combination therapy also exerted a synergistic inhibitory effect on Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive cell proliferation and reduced the phosphorylation of BCR-ABL and Crk-L while increasing that of cleaved PARP and the H2A.X histone. Rigosertib also potently inhibited the growth of ABL TKI-resistant cells, and cotreatment with ABL TKIs and rigosertib induced higher cytotoxicity. These results indicate that rigosertib treatment may be a powerful strategy against ABL TKI-resistant cells and could enhance the cytotoxic effects of ABL TKIs.


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