The common feature of leukemia-associated IDH1 and IDH2 mutations is a neomorphic enzyme activity converting alpha-ketoglutarate to 2-hydroxyglutarate. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The somatic mutations in cytosolic isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) observed in gliomas can lead to the production of 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG). Here, we report that tumor 2HG is elevated in a high percentage of patients with cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Surprisingly, less than half of cases with elevated 2HG possessed IDH1 mutations. The remaining cases with elevated 2HG had mutations in IDH2, the mitochondrial homolog of IDH1. These data demonstrate that a shared feature of all cancer-associated IDH mutations is production of the oncometabolite 2HG. Furthermore, AML patients with IDH mutations display a significantly reduced number of other well characterized AML-associated mutations and/or associated chromosomal abnormalities, potentially implicating IDH mutation in a distinct mechanism of AML pathogenesis.

publication date

  • February 18, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Glutarates
  • Isocitrate Dehydrogenase
  • Ketoglutaric Acids
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2849316

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77649305610

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.01.020

PubMed ID

  • 20171147

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 3