Galectin-3 (Gal-3) induced by leukemia microenvironment promotes drug resistance and bone marrow lodgment in chronic myelogenous leukemia

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Bone marrow (BM) microenvironment (BMME) constitutes the sanctuary for leukemic cells. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms for BMME-mediated drug resistance and BM lodgment in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Gene-expression profile as well as signal pathway and protein analyses revealed that galectin-3 (Gal-3), a member of the β-gal-binding galectin family of proteins, was specifically induced by coculture with HS-5 cells, a BM stroma cell-derived cell line, in all five CML cell lines examined. It was also found that primaryCML cells expressed high levels of Gal-3 in BM. Enforced expression of Gal-3 activated Akt and Erk, induced accumulation of Mcl-1, and promoted in vitro cell proliferation, multidrug resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors for Bcr-Abl and genotoxic agents as a result of impaired apoptosis induction, and chemotactic cell migration to HS-5-derived soluble factors in CML cell lines independently of Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase. The conditioned medium from Gal-3-overexpressing CML cells promoted in vitro cell proliferation of CML cells and HS-5 cells more than did the conditioned medium from parental cells. Moreover, the in vivo study in a mice transplantation model showed that Gal-3 overexpression promoted the long-term BM lodgment of CML cells. These results demonstrate that leukemia microenvironment-specific Gal-3 expression supports molecular signaling pathways for disease maintenance in BM and resistance to therapy in CML. They also suggest that Gal-3 may be a candidate therapeutic target to help overcome BMME-mediated therapeutic resistance.

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Yamamoto-Sugitani, M., Kuroda, J., Ashihara, E., Nagoshi, H., Kobayashi, T., Matsumoto, Y., … Taniwaki, M. (2011). Galectin-3 (Gal-3) induced by leukemia microenvironment promotes drug resistance and bone marrow lodgment in chronic myelogenous leukemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(42), 17468–17473. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1111138108

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