PMID- 30806567 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200507 LR - 20210301 IS - 1554-8635 (Electronic) IS - 1554-8627 (Print) IS - 1554-8627 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 5 DP - 2019 May TI - Azacitidine resistance caused by LAMP2 deficiency: a therapeutic window for the use of autophagy inhibitors in MDS/AML patients? PG - 927-929 LID - 10.1080/15548627.2019.1586259 [doi] AB - Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective form of autophagy that allows the elimination and recycling of cytosolic proteins endowed with a KFERQ-like motif into the lysosome. During this process, the proteins to be degraded are recognized by cellular chaperones such as HSC70 and presented to the CMA receptor LAMP2A, which then translocate them into lysosomes for degradation. In this punctum, we discuss the mechanisms underlying the response and resistance to Azacitidine (Aza) in MDS/AML cell lines and bone marrow CD34+ blasts from MDS/AML patients. We show that treatment of MDS/AML cell lines and bone marrow samples from MDS/AML patients with Aza triggers loss of LAMP2 expression leading to CMA defects. LAMP2 deficiency is responsible for CMA defects, Aza resistance and hypersensitivity to lysosome and autophagy inhibitors. Low levels of LAMP2 expression in CD34+ blasts from MDS/AML patients correlate with an absence of response to Aza and are associated to a pejorative overall survival. We propose that CD34+/LAMP2Low patients at diagnosis or who become CD34+/LAMP2Low during the course of treatment with Aza could receive an autophagy inhibitor available in the clinic. FAU - Robert, Guillaume AU - Robert G AD - a Team "Myeloid Malignancies and Multiple Myeloma" , Universite Cote d'Azur, Inserm U1065/C3M , Nice , France. FAU - Auberger, Patrick AU - Auberger P AD - a Team "Myeloid Malignancies and Multiple Myeloma" , Universite Cote d'Azur, Inserm U1065/C3M , Nice , France. LA - eng PT - Comment PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190301 PL - United States TA - Autophagy JT - Autophagy JID - 101265188 RN - 0 (LAMP2 protein, human) RN - 0 (Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2) RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) RN - M801H13NRU (Azacitidine) SB - IM CON - Leukemia. 2019 Jun;33(6):1501-1513. PMID: 30607021 EIN - Autophagy. 2021 Nov;17(11):3893. PMID: 33645437 MH - *Autophagy MH - Azacitidine MH - Humans MH - *Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute MH - Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2 MH - Lysosomes MH - Molecular Chaperones PMC - PMC6526876 OTO - NOTNLM OT - AML OT - CMA OT - MDS OT - azacytidine OT - lysosome inhibitors EDAT- 2019/02/27 06:00 MHDA- 2020/05/08 06:00 PMCR- 2020/03/01 CRDT- 2019/02/27 06:00 PHST- 2019/02/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/05/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1586259 [pii] AID - 10.1080/15548627.2019.1586259 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Autophagy. 2019 May;15(5):927-929. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1586259. Epub 2019 Mar 1.