Induction of a timed metabolic collapse to overcome cancer chemoresistance

We identified a transient increase in metabolites involved in glutamine metabolism in chemoresistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. To further investigate this, we evaluated the transcriptome of AML cells from bone marrow of vehicle-treated mice and mice treated with induction chemotherapy (doxorubicin+cytarabine) at 3 days (iCT group) and 10 days (relapse group) after completion of the chemotherapy. Overall design: We isolated GFP+ acute myeloid leukemia cells (MLL-AF9 transgenic) from bone marrow of vehicle-treated mice and mice treated with induction chemotherapy (doxorubicin+cytarabine) at 3 days (iCT group) and 10 days (relapse group) after completion of the chemotherapy by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, collected RNA, and ran RNA-seq.