Organelle proteomics reveals novel metabolic vulnerabilities in FLT3-ITD cells. (PubMed, Leukemia)
Importantly, by integrating subcellular proteomic dataset with functional metabolic assays, we uncovered a lipid-dependent vulnerability of FLT3-ITD cells: lipid restriction enhances FLT3 trafficking to the plasma membrane, and markedly reduces cell viability, restoring midostaurin sensitivity of resistant FLT3-ITD cells. Together, our findings reveal that the FLT3-ITD insertion site orchestrates a coordinated remodeling of subcellular protein organization, autophagy, and metabolism, and identify lipid-mediated control of FLT3 compartmentalization as a therapeutically actionable mechanism to overcome TKI resistance in FLT3-ITD AML.