Dissecting innate immune signaling in pre-leukemia evolution

剖析白血病前期进化中的先天免疫信号

• 批准号: 10462192
• 负责人: Iannis Aifantis
• 金额: $ 65.3万
• 依托单位: CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-04 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10462192
• 关键词: Acetylation; Acute Myelocytic Leukemia; Affect; Aging; Agonist; Applications Grants; Binding; Biological Assay; Cell physiology; Cells; Clinical; Data; Development; Disease; Dysmyelopoietic Syndromes; Evolution; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Profiling; Genetic; Genetic Models; Goals; Hematopoiesis; Hematopoietic; Hematopoietic Neoplasms; Hematopoietic stem cells; Human; Hypermethylation; Immune signaling; Individual; Link; Lysine; Malignant - descriptor; Mediating; Messenger RNA; Modeling; Modification; Molecular; Mus; Mutate; Mutation; Myeloid Leukemia; Myeloproliferative disease; Oncogenic; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Patients; Phenotype; Post-Translational Protein Processing; Preleukemia; Proteins; Proteomics; RNA Splicing; RNA interference screen; Regulation; Risk; Role; Signal Transduction; TRAF6 gene; Therapeutic; Toll-like receptors; Tumor Suppressor Proteins; Ubiquitin; Ubiquitination; acute myeloid leukemia cell; base; disorder subtype; human disease; human stem cells; improved; in vivo; innate immune pathways; insight; leukemia; loss of function; mouse model; novel; promoter; protein expression; self-renewal; small hairpin RNA; stem cell function; stem cells; transcriptome; tumor; ubiquitin-protein ligase

Abstract Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) is an aging associated condition characterized by the clonal outgrowth of mutated pre-leukemic cells. Although individuals with CH are healthy, they are at an increased risk of developing hematopoietic malignancies. To identify cooperating molecular alterations required for malignant transformation of clonal pre-leukemic HSPC, we performed an in vivo shRNA screen and found that shRNAs targeting Traf6 were overwhelmingly enriched in following transformation to overt myeloid leukemias. TRAF6 is an ubiquitin E3 ligase that synthesizes Lysine (K) 63-linked ubiquitin chains on substrates leading to Toll-like receptor (TLR) superfamily pathway activation. In support of our in vivo shRNA screen, promoter hypermethylation and reduced expression of TRAF6 is observed in subsets of myeloid malignancy patients, including ~40-50% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Moreover, our preliminary data shows that deletion of Traf6 in pre-leukemic Tet2-deficient HSPC results in an aggressive myeloid neoplasm in part through a novel MYC-dependent mechanism. Based on our findings, we hypothesize that loss of TRAF6 drives subsets of genetically-defined myeloid malignancies, specifically via a novel post-translational modification of MYC resulting in its activation. The objectives of the proposal are to uncover the molecular and cellular basis of TRAF6 deletion on pre-leukemic HSPC function with the long-term goal of uncovering improved therapeutic approaches by investigating the consequences of TRAF6 deletion in models of CH and on leukemia development (Aim 1), identifying the molecular basis of the tumor suppressor-like function of TRAF6 in AML (Aim 2), and evaluating the oncogenic potential of a novel TRAF6-dependent MYC post-translational modification (Aim 3). These studies are highly significant as they will provide critical insight into the progression of pre-leukemic states to overt leukemia as a result of subverting select innate immune pathways, describe a novel disease-modifying role of TLR-TRAF6, and reveal an unreported mechanism of MYC regulation. These studies have direct translational implications and fill an unmet clinical need for genetically- and phenotypically-defined subtypes of AML/MPN.

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