High frequency of PTEN, PI3K, and AKT abnormalities in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
To more comprehensively assess the pathogenic contribution of the PTEN-PI3K-AKT pathway to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), we examined diagnostic DNA samples from children with T-ALL using array comparative genomic hybridization and sequence analysis. Alterations of PTEN, PI3K, or AKT were identified in 47.7% of 44 cases. There was a striking clustering of PTEN mutations in exon 7 in 12 cases, all of which were predicted to truncate the C2 domain without disrupting the phosphatase domain of PTEN. Induction chemotherapy failed to induce remission in 3 of the 4 patients whose lymphoblasts harbored PTEN deletions at the time of diagnosis, compared with none of the 12 patients with mutations of PTEN exon 7 (P = .007), suggesting that PTEN deletion has more adverse therapeutic consequences than mutational disruptions that preserve the phosphatase domain. These findings add significant support to the rationale for the development of therapies targeting the PTEN-PI3K-AKT pathway in T-ALL.
Gutierrez
Alejandro
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Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Sanda
Takaomi
T
Grebliunaite
Ruta
R
Carracedo
Arkaitz
A
Salmena
Leonardo
L
Ahn
Yebin
Y
Dahlberg
Suzanne
S
Neuberg
Donna
D
Moreau
Lisa A
LA
Winter
Stuart S
SS
Larson
Richard
R
Zhang
Jianhua
J
Protopopov
Alexei
A
Chin
Lynda
L
Pandolfi
Pier Paolo
PP
Silverman
Lewis B
LB
Hunger
Stephen P
SP
Sallan
Stephen E
SE
Look
A Thomas
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D002648:Child; D055028:Comparative Genomic Hybridization; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase / Q000235:genetics*; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D054218:Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000235:genetics*; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000235:genetics*; D015398:Signal Transduction
D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D051059:PTEN Phosphohydrolase; C494929:PTEN protein, human