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Departments of 1 Leukemia and 2 Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and 3 Vitamins and Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
Requests for reprints: Jean-Pierre J. Issa, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 428, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030. Phone: 713-745-2260; Fax: 713-745-1683; E-mail: jpissa{at}mdanderson.org.
5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (decitabine) is postulated to have clinical activity in myeloid leukemias via its ability to inhibit DNA methylation. To study this, we examined DNA methylation in patients with leukemia treated with decitabine. Five days after the treatment, total genomic 5-methylcytosine/cytosine decreased on average by 14% (from 4.3% to 3.7%), whereas methylation of repetitive DNA elements showed a mean decrease of 9% and 16% for Alu and long interspersed nucleotide elements, respectively. Methylation decreased linearly with increasing doses between 5 and 20 mg/m2/d (r = 0.88; P = 0.05) but showed a plateau above that. Hypomethylation correlated with response in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia treated with low doses (5-20 mg/m2/d), but patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia treated with high doses (100-180 mg/m2/d) showed no such correlation. Aberrant methylation of p15 (>10%) was found in 27% of patients, and 80% of these showed a decrease by at least one third, but this did not correlate with response. The imprinted gene H19 showed little change in methylation after decitabine. In conclusion, we show dose-dependent hypomethylation after decitabine at low doses. Increasing the dose, which has been shown previously to result in a reduced response rate, was not accompanied by further hypomethylation. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(10): 5495-503)
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