Distinct Metabolic features differentiating FLT3-ITD AML from FLT3-WT childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

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Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Published: April 2018

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease with dismal response warranting the need for enhancing our understanding of AML biology. One prognostic feature associated with inferior response is the presence of activating mutations in FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) especially occurrence of internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD). Although poorly understood, differential metabolic and signaling pathways associated with FLT3-ITD might contribute towards the observed poor prognosis. We performed a non-targeted global metabolic profiling of matched cell and plasma samples obtained at diagnosis to establish metabolic differences within FLT3-ITD and FLT3-WT pediatric AML. Metabolomic profiling by Ultra-High Performance-Liquid-Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry identified differential abundance of 21 known metabolites in plasma and 33 known metabolites in leukemic cells by FLT3 status. These metabolic features mapped to pathways of significant biological importance. Of interest were metabolites with roles in cancer, cell progression and involvement in purine metabolism and biosynthesis, cysteine/methionine metabolism, tryptophan metabolism, carnitine mediated fatty acid oxidation, and lysophospholipid metabolism. Although validation in a larger cohort is required, our results for the first time investigated global metabolic profile in FLT3-ITD AML.

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