Restoring Ikaros's wings to solve a leukemia maze

Blood. 2015 Oct 8;126(15):1735-6. doi: 10.1182/blood-2015-08-662544.

Abstract

In this issue of Blood, Song et al show that tumor suppressor activity of Ikaros is achieved though repression of cell cycle and phosphatidylinositol-3 (PI3) kinase pathway genes and can be reactivated through pharmacologic inhibition of casein kinase 2 (CK2) to eradicate disease in high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL).

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Casein Kinase II / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Female
  • Genes, Tumor Suppressor*
  • Humans
  • Ikaros Transcription Factor / metabolism*
  • Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / metabolism*
  • Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / pathology*

Substances

  • Ikaros Transcription Factor
  • Casein Kinase II