Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Aggressive natural killer-cell leukemia mutational landscape and drug profiling highlight JAK-STAT signaling as therapeutic target

  • Olli Dufva,
  • Matti Kankainen,
  • Tiina Kelkka,
  • Nodoka Sekiguchi,
  • Shady Adnan Awad,
  • Samuli Eldfors,
  • Bhagwan Yadav,
  • Heikki Kuusanmäki,
  • Disha Malani,
  • Emma I Andersson,
  • Paavo Pietarinen,
  • Leena Saikko,
  • Panu E. Kovanen,
  • Teija Ojala,
  • Dean A. Lee,
  • Thomas P. Loughran,
  • Hideyuki Nakazawa,
  • Junji Suzumiya,
  • Ritsuro Suzuki,
  • Young Hyeh Ko,
  • Won Seog Kim,
  • Shih-Sung Chuang,
  • Tero Aittokallio,
  • Wing C. Chan,
  • Koichi Ohshima,
  • Fumihiro Ishida,
  • Satu Mustjoki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03987-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Aggressive natural killer-cell leukemia (ANKL) has few targeted therapies. Here ANKL patients are reported to harbor STAT3, RAS-MAPK pathway, DDX3X and epigenetic modifier mutations; and drug sensitivity profiling uncovers the importance of the JAK-STAT pathway, revealing potential ANKL therapeutic targets.