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Title: Overcoming imatinib resistance conferred by the BIM deletion polymorphism in chronic myeloid leukemia with splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides
Authors: Liu, Jun
Tan, Cheryl Weiqi
Rigo, Frank
Ong, S. Tiong
Bhadra, Malini
Sinnakannu, Joanna Rajeswary
Yue, Wan Lin
Roca, Xavier
Keywords: Alternative Splicing
BIM
DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Liu, J., Bhadra, M., Sinnakannu, J. R., Yue, W. L., Tan, C. W., Rigo, F., . . . Roca, X. (2017). Overcoming imatinib resistance conferred by the BIM deletion polymorphism in chronic myeloid leukemia with splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides. Oncotarget, 8(44), 77567-77585. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.20658
Series/Report no.: Oncotarget
Abstract: Many tyrosine kinase-driven cancers, including chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), are characterized by high response rates to specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) like imatinib. In East Asians, primary imatinib resistance is caused by a deletion polymorphism in Intron 2 of the BIM gene, whose product is required for TKI-induced apoptosis. The deletion biases BIM splicing from exon 4 to exon 3, generating splice isoforms lacking the exon 4-encoded pro-apoptotic BH3 domain, which impairs the ability of TKIs to induce apoptosis. We sought to identify splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that block exon 3 but enhance exon 4 splicing, and thereby resensitize BIM deletion-containing cancers to imatinib. First, we mapped multiple cis-acting splicing elements around BIM exon 3 by minigene mutations, and found an exonic splicing enhancer acting via SRSF1. Second, by a systematic ASO walk, we isolated ASOs that corrected the aberrant BIM splicing. Eight of 67 ASOs increased exon 4 levels in BIM deletion-containing cells, and restored imatinib-induced apoptosis and TKI sensitivity. This proof-of-principle study proves that resistant CML cells by BIM deletion polymorphism can be resensitized to imatinib via splice-switching BIM ASOs. Future optimizations might yield a therapeutic ASO as precision-medicine adjuvant treatment for BIM-polymorphism-associated TKI-resistant CML and other cancers.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87795
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46816
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.20658
Schools: School of Biological Sciences 
Research Centres: CN Yang Scholars Programme 
Rights: © 2017 Liu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Fulltext Permission: open
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