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Annual Review of Cancer Biology

Volume 1, 2017

Targeted Differentiation Therapy with Mutant IDH Inhibitors: Early Experiences and Parallels with Other Differentiation Agents

Abstract

Somatic mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenase () 1 and 2 genes have been described in multiple hematologic and solid tumors, and confer a gain of function, permitting the production of the oncometabolite (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG). 2-HG accumulation induces DNA and histone hypermethylation and altered gene expression, ultimately resulting in a block in cellular differentiation. Proof-of-concept preclinical work demonstrated that targeted inhibition of the mutant IDH (mIDH) enzyme is a feasible therapeutic strategy, based on the hypothesis that inhibition of the mIDH enzyme blocks 2-HG production, resulting in an appropriate methylation state and the onset of cellular differentiation. Clinical development programs for targeted inhibitors are underway, and preliminary data in patients with mIDH acute myeloid leukemia suggest that these inhibitors act as differentiation agents. Here we review the use of differentiation agents for the treatment of hematologic and solid tumors and discuss the preclinical and early clinical evidence that mIDH inhibitors mediate antitumor effects through the induction of differentiation.

Keyword(s): acute myeloid leukemia, clinical trials, differentiation therapy, epigenetic, isocitrate dehydrogenase mutations, solid tumors
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Targeted Differentiation Therapy with Mutant IDH Inhibitors: Early Experiences and Parallels with Other Differentiation Agents
Annual Review of Cancer Biology 1, 379 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cancerbio-050216-122051
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