Hematopoiesis News Volume 12.22 | June 8 2021

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    Vol. 12.22 – 8 June, 2021
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    Base Editing of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Rescues Sickle Cell Disease in Mice

    The ex vivo delivery of mRNA encoding the base editor with a targeting guide RNA into hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) resulted in 80% conversion of the SCD allele to into Makassar β-globin, a non-pathogenic variant.
    [Nature]

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    Quantify Cytokines with Confidence with High-Performance ELISA Kits
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    ATF3 Coordinates Serine and Nucleotide Metabolism to Drive Cell Cycle Progression in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    The transcription factor ATF3 coordinated serine and nucleotide metabolism to maintain cell cycling, survival, and the differentiation blockade in acute myeloid leukemia.
    [Molecular Cell]

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    ERK Signaling Mediates Resistance to Immunomodulatory Drugs in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment

    Scientists identified that tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 2 knockdown/knockout in multiple myeloma cells mediated immunomodulatory drug resistance via activation of noncanonical nuclear factor κB and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling.
    [Science Advances]

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    MLKL Promotes Cellular Differentiation in Myeloid Leukemia by Facilitating the Release of G-CSF

    Investigators reported that mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) contributed to the cellular differentiation of transformed hematopoietic progenitor cells in acute myeloid leukemia by controlling the release of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) from leukemic progenitor cells.
    [Cell Death & Differentiation]

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    Iron Robbery by Intracellular Pathogen via Bacterial Effector–Induced Ferritinophagy

    Researchers investigated the mechanism by which Ehrlichia chaffeensis acquires iron in the host cells, causing human monocytic ehrlichiosis.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    MK2 Is a Therapeutic Target for High-Risk Multiple Myeloma

    Scientists identified a serial of genes including NEK2, RARα2, which induced multiple myeloma (MM) proliferation and drug-resistance resulting in MM relapse and poor outcome.
    [Haematologica]

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    Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Directly Acts on Mouse Lymphoid-Biased but Not Myeloid-Biased Hematopoietic Stem Cells

    With the hypothesis that granulocyte colony-stimulating factor has different effects on different types of hematopoietic stem cells, researchers performed serum-free single-cell culture and competitive repopulation with cultured cells.
    [Haematologica]

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    Miniaturized 3D Bone Marrow Tissue Model to Assess Response to Thrombopoietin-Receptor Agonists in Patients

    The authors presented a miniaturized bone marrow tissue model that provided a screening bioreactor for personalized, pre-treatment response prediction to Eltrombopag for patients with thrombocytopenic disorders.
    [eLife]

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    Gata2-L359V Impairs Primitive and Definitive Hematopoiesis and Blocks Cell Differentiation in Murine Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Model

    Investigators found that Gata2-L359V mutation impeded hematopoietic differentiation in murine embryonic and adult hematopoiesis and blocked murine chronic myeloid leukemia cell differentiation.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    A KDM4A-PAF1-Mediated Epigenomic Network Is Essential for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cell Self-Renewal and Survival

    Researchers delineated and functionally validated the epigenomic network regulated by KDM4A, and showed that selective loss of KDM4A was sufficient to induce apoptosis in a broad spectrum of human acute myeloid leukemia cells.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Identification of Potential Chemical Compounds Enhancing Generation of Enucleated Cells from Immortalized Human Erythroid Cell Lines

    Scientists utilized an imaging-based high-throughput system to identify chemical compounds that triggered enucleation of human erythroid cell lines and identified multiple histone deacetylase inhibitors inducing enucleated cells from the cell line.
    [Communications Biology]

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    COVID-19 and Stem Cell Transplantation; Results from an EBMT and GETH Multicenter Prospective Survey

    The authors reported on 382 COVID-19 patients having undergone allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation reported to the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) or to the Spanish Group of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (GETH).
    [Leukemia]

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    Prognostic Value of Measurable Residual Disease Monitoring by Next-Generation Sequencing before and after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Investigators collected samples before and after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from two independent prospective cohorts and investigated the prognostic impact of amplicon-based next-generation sequencing-based assessment.
    [Blood Cancer Journal]

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    REVIEWS

    Acute Myeloid Leukemia with IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations: 2021 Treatment Algorithm

    Scientists evaluate the investigation of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) inhibitors in combination with standard therapies such as azacytidine, with intensive chemotherapy, and with other small molecule targeted therapies in rational combinations to further improve clinical efficacy as therapies for acute myeloid leukemia.
    [Blood Cancer Journal]

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    Role of CXCR4 in the Progression and Therapy of Acute Leukemia

    The authors summarize the role of CXCR4 in progression and treatment of acute leukemia, and discuss the potential value of using CXCR4 antagonists as immunosensitizer for graft-vs-leukemia effects of allogeneic HSC transplantation.
    [Cell Proliferation]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    MorphoSys to Acquire Constellation Pharmaceuticals

    MorphoSys AG and Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby MorphoSys will acquire Constellation, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for myelofibrosis and hematological tumors.
    [MorphoSys AG]

    Press Release

    Johnson & Johnson Culls $1.6B Argenx Blood Cancer Drug Collab

    Johnson & Johnson is walking away from a $1.6 billion blood cancer medicine deal with Belgium’s argenx for the CD70-targeting cusatuzumab.
    [Johnson & Johnson (Questex, Inc.)]

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