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  • Stella Pearson
  • Baoqiang Guo
  • Andrew Pierce
    University of Manchester
  • Narges Azadbakht
  • Julie A. Brazzatti
  • Stefano Patassini
  • Sonia Mulero-navarro
  • Stefan Meyer
  • Christian Flotho
  • Bruce D. Gelb
  • Anthony D. Whetton
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is an aggressive myeloproliferative neoplasm of early childhood with a poor survival rate thus there is a requirement for improved treatment strategies. Induced pluripotent stem cells offer the ability to model disease and develop new treatment strategies. JMML is frequently associated with mutations in PTPN11. Children with Noonan syndrome, a development disorder, have an increased incidence of JMML associated with specific germline mutations in PTPN11. We undertook a proteomic assessment of myeloid cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells obtained from Noonan syndrome patients with PTPN11 mutations, either associated or not associated with increased incidence of JMML. We report that the proteomic perturbations induced by the leukaemia associated PTPN11 mutations are associated with TP53 and NF-ĸb signalling. We have previously shown that MYC is involved in the differential gene expression observed in Noonan syndrome patients associated with increased incidence of JMML. Thus, we employed drugs to target these pathways and demonstrate differentential effects on clonogenic hematopoietic cells derived from Noonan syndrome patients whom develop JMML and those who do not. Further, we demonstrated these small molecular inhibitors, JQ1 and CBL0137, preferentially extinguish primitive haematopoietic cells from sporadic JMML patients as opposed to cells from healthy individuals.

Keywords

  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, curaxin, Induced pluripotent stem cells, PTPN11, CBL0137
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Proteome Research
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
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