Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Two mouse models reveal an actionable PARP1 dependence in aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia

  • Gero Knittel,
  • Tim Rehkämper,
  • Darya Korovkina,
  • Paul Liedgens,
  • Christian Fritz,
  • Alessandro Torgovnick,
  • Yussor Al-Baldawi,
  • Mona Al-Maarri,
  • Yupeng Cun,
  • Oleg Fedorchenko,
  • Arina Riabinska,
  • Filippo Beleggia,
  • Phuong-Hien Nguyen,
  • F. Thomas Wunderlich,
  • Monika Ortmann,
  • Manuel Montesinos-Rongen,
  • Eugen Tausch,
  • Stephan Stilgenbauer,
  • Lukas P. Frenzel,
  • Marco Herling,
  • Carmen Herling,
  • Jasmin Bahlo,
  • Michael Hallek,
  • Martin Peifer,
  • Reinhard Buettner,
  • Thorsten Persigehl,
  • H. Christian Reinhardt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00210-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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ATM and TP53 mutations are associated with poor prognosis in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Here the authors generate mouse models of Tp53- and Atm-defective CLL mimicking the high-risk form of human disease and show that Atm-deficient CLL is sensitive to PARP1 inhibition.