TY - JOUR
T1 - Recurrent activating ACVR1 mutations in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma
AU - Taylor, Kathryn R.
AU - Mackay, Alan
AU - Truffaux, Nathalène
AU - Butterfield, Yaron S.
AU - Morozova, Olena
AU - Philippe, Cathy
AU - Castel, David
AU - Grasso, Catherine S.
AU - Vinci, Maria
AU - Carvalho, Diana
AU - Carcaboso, Angel M.
AU - De Torres, Carmen
AU - Cruz, Ofelia
AU - Mora, Jaume
AU - Entz-Werle, Natacha
AU - Ingram, Wendy J.
AU - Monje, Michelle
AU - Hargrave, Darren
AU - Bullock, Alex N.
AU - Puget, Stéphanie
AU - Yip, Stephen
AU - Jones, Chris
AU - Grill, Jacques
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Cancer Research UK Genomics Initiative (A14078) and makes use of data generated by the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital–Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. We are grateful to the DIPG Preclinical Consortium funded by The Cure Starts Now and the Lyla Nsouli Foundation for RNA-seq data. This work is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Abbie’s Army, the Lyla Nsouli Foundation, the Royal Marsden Hospital Children’s Department Fund and Fondo Alicia Pueyo. M.M. gratefully acknowledges funding by the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS; grant K08NS070926), Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, the McKenna Claire Foundation and the Dylan Jewett, Elizabeth Stein, Connor Johnson and Zoey Ganesh Memorial Funds. C.P. acknowledges funding from the Agence National de la Recherche. N.T., C.P. and J.G. acknowledge funding from the charity l’Etoile de Martin, and N.E.-W. acknowledges support from Enfants et Santé. A.M.C. acknowledges funding from the Fundación Científica de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer. W.J.I. acknowledges funding from the Children’s Health Foundation Queensland and the Brainchild Foundation. The Structural Genomics Consortium is a registered charity (1097737) that receives funds from AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, the Canada
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) are highly infiltrative malignant glial neoplasms of the ventral pons that, due to their location within the brain, are unsuitable for surgical resection and consequently have a universally dismal clinical outcome. The median survival time is 9-12 months, with neither chemotherapeutic nor targeted agents showing substantial survival benefit in clinical trials in children with these tumors. We report the identification of recurrent activating mutations in the ACVR1 gene, which encodes a type I activin receptor serine/threonine kinase, in 21% of DIPG samples. Strikingly, these somatic mutations (encoding p.Arg206His, p.Arg258Gly, p.Gly328Glu, p.Gly328Val, p.Gly328Trp and p.Gly356Asp substitutions) have not been reported previously in cancer but are identical to mutations found in the germ line of individuals with the congenital childhood developmental disorder fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and have been shown to constitutively activate the BMP-TGF-Î 2 signaling pathway. These mutations represent new targets for therapeutic intervention in this otherwise incurable disease.
AB - Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) are highly infiltrative malignant glial neoplasms of the ventral pons that, due to their location within the brain, are unsuitable for surgical resection and consequently have a universally dismal clinical outcome. The median survival time is 9-12 months, with neither chemotherapeutic nor targeted agents showing substantial survival benefit in clinical trials in children with these tumors. We report the identification of recurrent activating mutations in the ACVR1 gene, which encodes a type I activin receptor serine/threonine kinase, in 21% of DIPG samples. Strikingly, these somatic mutations (encoding p.Arg206His, p.Arg258Gly, p.Gly328Glu, p.Gly328Val, p.Gly328Trp and p.Gly356Asp substitutions) have not been reported previously in cancer but are identical to mutations found in the germ line of individuals with the congenital childhood developmental disorder fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and have been shown to constitutively activate the BMP-TGF-Î 2 signaling pathway. These mutations represent new targets for therapeutic intervention in this otherwise incurable disease.
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U2 - 10.1038/ng.2925
DO - 10.1038/ng.2925
M3 - Article
C2 - 24705252
AN - SCOPUS:84899559895
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 46
SP - 457
EP - 461
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 5
ER -