1. Supplemental Materials: Anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family proteins as 5-Azacytidine sensitizing targets and determinants of response in myeloid malignancies

2. Supplementary Figure 1A
BCL-XL siRNA Drug Dose Response Curves

3. B C BCL-XL -Tubulin BCL-XL -Tubulin Supplementary Figure 1B,C
TF-1
time (h)
siRNA
NS XL NS XL NS XL NS XL
BCL-XL
-Tubulin C
THP-1
time (h)
siRNA
NS XL NS XL NS XL NS XL
BCL-XL
-Tubulin
Supplementary Figure 1. BCL-XL siRNA treatment of AML-derived cell lines. (A) BCL-XL siRNA drug dose response assays with 5-Azacytidine in vitro. Cell lines are listed at the top of each response curve plotting % viability (relative cell number) against the log of the 5-Azacytidine molar dose. Buffer treated wells received diluted transfection reagent but no siRNA, non-silencing wells received a siRNA with no known mRNA targets. Leftward curve shifts indicate 5-Azacytidine sensitization. (B, C) siRNA knock-down time course. Extracts from TF-1 (B) and THP-1 (C) treated with non-silencing (NS) and BCL-XL (XL) siRNA were prepared at 9, 25, 48 and 78 hours post-transfection and probed by western blotting.

4. Supplementary Figure 2A
5-Aza + ABT Aza + ABT-199
Figure 1B: THP-1, ML-2, HL-60 and MDS-L received 10, 19, 39, 78, 156 & 313 nM ABT-737 doses simultaneously with 5-Aza for 96 hours. M07e, SET-2, TF-1, UKE-1 and OCI-AML3 received 9, 16, 33, 65, 130 and 261 nM ABT-737 doses simultaneously with 5-Aza for 96 hours.

5. Supplementary Figure 2A continued
5-Aza + ABT Aza + ABT-199

6. Supplementary Figure 2A continued
5-Aza + ABT Aza + ABT-199

7. Supplementary Figure 2B ABT-737 MDS- L ABT-199
ABT-1737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
Supplementary Figure 2B
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT MDS- L ABT-199
1.0
3.1
9.3 20
EC3 4 8 12 39
EC16 3 7 11 78
EC46 2 6 10
156
EC85 1 5 9
1.0
3.1
9.3
2.0
EC5 4 8 12
4.0
EC28 3 7 11
8.0
EC76 2 6 10
16.0
EC99 1 5 9
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-199 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT HL ABT-199
1.0
3.1
9.3 39
EC33 4 8 12 78
EC59 3 7 11
156
EC74 2 6 10
313
EC90 1 5 9
1.0
3.1
9.3 40
EC43 4 8 12 80
EC61 3 7 11
170
EC73 2 6 10
330
EC79 1 5 9
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT ML ABT-199
1.0
3.1
9.3 20
EC30 4 8 12 39
EC59 3 7 11 78
EC72 2 6 10
156
EC82 1 5 9
1.0
3.1
9.3
2.0
EC15 4 8 12
4.0
EC26 3 7 11
8.0
EC69 2 6 10
16.0
EC99 1 5 9

8. Supplementary Figure 2B continued
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT THP ABT-199
3.1
9.3
27.8 10
EC5 5 15 20
EC15 4 9 14 39
EC50 3 8 13 78
EC61 2 7 12
156
EC76 1 6 11
3.1
9.3
27.8
0.13
EC17 5 10 15
0.25
EC26 4 9 14
0.50
EC31 3 8 13
1.00
EC43 2 7 12
2.00
EC56 1 6 11
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT TF ABT-199
3.1
9.3
27.8 10
EC16 5 15 20
EC43 4 9 14 39
EC86 3 8 13 78
EC98 2 7 12
3.1
9.3
27.8
2.0
EC6 4 8 12
4.0
EC32 3 7 11
8.0
EC80 2 6 10
16.0
EC99 1 5 9

9. Supplementary Figure 2B continued
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT M07e ABT-199
3.1
9.3
27.8
0.13
EC49 6 12 18
0.25
EC54 5 11 17
0.50
EC61 4 10 16
1.00
EC66 3 9 15
2.00
EC65 2 8 14
4.00
EC74 1 7 13
3.1
9.3
27.8 10
EC81 4 8 12 20
EC92 3 7 11 39
EC97 2 6 78
EC99 1 5 9
ABT-737 [nM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT-199 [µM]
5-Aza [µM]
ABT SET ABT-199
3.1
9.3
27.8 65
EC15 3 6 9
130
EC30 2 5 8
261
EC78 1 4 7
3.1
9.3
27.8
4.0
EC18 3 7 11
8.0
EC58 2 6 10
16.0
EC99 1 5 9

10. Supplementary Figure 2C,D

11. Supplementary Figure 2. ABT-737 versus ABT-199 combination with 5-Azacytidine in vitro. (A) Seven to nine doses of 5-Azacytidine spanning a broad range from 0 to 100% reduction in viability are shown in combination with six doses of ABT-737 (left panel), compared to nine doses of 5-Azacytidine spanning a broad range from 0 to 100% reduction in viability with six doses of ABT-199 (right panel). A leftward shift of the 5-Azacytidine dose response curve with the addition of the corresponding ABT-737 or ABT-199 dose indicates 5-Azacytidine sensitization. (B) Combination Index values (CI) versus fractional effect (FE) plots are shown side-by-side for ABT-737 (left panel) and ABT-199 combination with 5-Azacytidine (right panel). CI values < 0.8 indicate synergy. The numbers in the tables correspond to the specific dose combinations shown on the CI versus FE plots. (C, D) Combination treatment with 5-Azacytidine + ABT-737 resulted in increased levels of cleaved caspase 3 (CC3), compared to either treatment alone. The y-axis shows the percentage of the cell population positive for CC3 signal by flow cytometry for the given treatment on the x-axis. (C) TF-1 cells were pre-treated with ABT-737 for 24h followed by 5-Azacytidine treatment for an additional 48h prior to fixation for CC3 analysis by flow cytometry. (D) HL-60 cells were treated with ABT-737 and 5-Azacytidine simultaneously for 8, 24 and 48h prior to fixation for CC3 measurement.

12. Supplementary Figure 3
Supplementary Figure 3. MCL-1 siRNA + ABT-737 drug dose response in vitro. Cell lines are listed at the top of each response curve plotting % viability (relative cell number) against the log of the ABT-737 molar dose. Buffer treated wells received diluted transfection reagent but no siRNA, non-silencing wells received a siRNA with no known mRNA targets. The most effective MCL-1 siRNA sequence (s6) was selected from previous siDDR experiments shown in Table 1A, B. Leftward curve shifts indicate ABT-737 sensitization by MCL-1 siRNA.

13. Supplementary Figure 4A
BCL-XL
MCL-1
BCL-2
P-values?

14. BCL-XL mRNA Expression in AML
Supplementary Figure 4B,C
BCL-XL mRNA Expression in AML B C
Valk, Oncomine
Metzeler2, Oncomine
0. No value (19)
1. FAB Subtype M0 (6)
2. FAB Subtype M1 (63)
3. FAB Subtype M2 (66)
4. FAB Subtype M3 (19)
5. FAB Subtype M4 (53)
6. FAB Subtype M5 (64)
7. FAB Subtype M6 (3)
0. No value (1)
1. FAB Subtype M0 (1)
2. FAB Subtype M1 (23)
3. FAB Subtype M2 (34)
4. FAB Subtype M4 (11)
5. FAB Subtype M5 (6)
6. FAB Subtype M6 (3)
Supplementary Figure 4. Oncomine BCL-XL mRNA expression in primary AML samples by FAB classification. (A) mRNA expression by AML FAB classification of public datasets GEO accession numbers: GSE19429, GSE6891, GSE (B) Oncomine, Valk mRNA expression. (C) Oncomine, Metzeler2 mRNA expression. For B and C, the number of primary specimens for each AML FAB classification is shown in parentheses.

15. Supplementary Figure 5 p=0.0011 p=0.0011 p=0.022
no response
response
no response
response
no response
response
Supplementary Figure 5. BH3 profiling discriminates 5-Azacytidine response in vitro. Response to 5-Azacytidine (N=13 AML-derived cell lines) is plotted against % priming as determined by BH3 profiling for the BH3 peptides indicated above each plot.

16. Clinicopathologic variables (5-Azacytidine treated patients)
Supplementary Table 1
Clinicopathologic variables (5-Azacytidine treated patients)
Variable
Resistant (N=17)
Sensitive (N=5)
All (N=22)
p.value
Source
0.309
Bone Marrow
7 (41.2%)
4 (80%)
11 (50%)
PBMC
10 (58.8%)
1 (20%)
Age
71.7±5.5
73.2±3.3
72.1±5
0.47
Gender
0.324
Female
6 (35.3%)
0 (0%)
6 (27.3%)
Male
11 (64.7%)
5 (100%)
16 (72.7%)
FAB
N/A M0
1 (5.9%)
1 (4.5%) M1 M2 M4
8 (47.1%)
8 (36.4%) M7
Cyto
0.076
Intermediate
9 (52.9%)
10 (45.5%)
Favorable
2 (40%)
3 (13.6%)
Unfavorable
Performance
0.004
2 (9.1%) 1
9 (40.9%) 2+
Supplementary Table 1. Clinicopathologic variables of clinical specimens used for BH3 profiling.