Role of BAZ2A in MLL-r leukemia and therapeutic response

BAZ2A 在 MLL-r 白血病中的作用和治疗反应

• 批准号: 10593927
• 负责人: Chun-Wei David Chen
• 金额: $ 38.78万
• 依托单位: BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10593927
• 关键词: Achievement; Acute leukemia; Affect; Biochemical; Cell Line; Cell Nucleus; Chromatin; Classification; Clinical; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; Combined Modality Therapy; Elements; Epigenetic Process; Future; Gene Expression; Gene Expression Regulation; Gene Rearrangement; Genetic Screening; HDAC4 gene; Histone Deacetylation; Histone H3; Human; In Vitro; Libraries; Lysine; MLL gene; MLL-rearranged leukemia; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Methyltransferase; Mutagenesis; Oncogenes; PHD Finger; Patients; Pharmacologic Substance; Phase I Clinical Trials; Prognosis; Proteins; Publishing; RNA Interference; Reader; Regimen; Research; Ribosomal DNA; Ribosomal RNA; Role; SIRT1 gene; Scanning; Survival Rate; Techniques; Technology; Tertiary Protein Structure; Therapeutic; Validation; Work; World Health Organization; antileukemic activity; cancer therapy; cancer type; chromatin remodeling; clinically relevant; efficacy evaluation; epigenetic silencing; functional genomics; genetic approach; genome-wide; genomic locus; improved; in vivo; inhibitor; innovation; insight; knock-down; leukemia; leukemogenesis; novel; novel therapeutic intervention; novel therapeutics; patient derived xenograft model; pharmacologic; pre-clinical; programs; response; small hairpin RNA; targeted treatment; therapeutic gene; treatment response

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT MLL-rearranged (MLL-r) leukemias account for 5-10% of human acute leukemia and is associated with poor prognosis. The unmet clinical needs and the lack of an effective targeted therapy to the MLL-r leukemias emphasize the need for novel regimens. Recent cancer epigenetics studies discovered a central role for the histone H3 lysine 79 (H3K79) methyltransferase DOT1L in MLL-r leukemogenesis. Important clinical responses have been noted with DOT1L inhibitor treatment as a single agent, however, it is expected that combination treatments will be necessary. Our preliminary studies based on a DOT1L-inhibitor sensitization screen in MLL-r leukemia have identified suppression of BAZ2A significantly increases the anti-leukemic activity of the DOT1L inhibitor. The objective of this application is to determine the critical epigenetic mechanisms that mediate the availability of SIRT1 to suppress oncogene expression in MLL-r leukemia. Our central hypothesis is that BAZ2A, a chromatin remodeling protein of rDNA loci, mediates redistribution of SIRT1 for histone deacetylation and silencing of MLL-r/DOT1L-driven oncogene. We will dissect the BAZ2A/SIRT1 chromatin targeting mechanisms (Aim 1), investigate the efficacy of DOT1L and BAZ2A combination therapies (Aim 2), and validate a novel saturation CRISPR protein scan technology for de novo discovery of the functional elements in DOT1L and BAZ2A (Aim 3). This study is innovative because (1) it introduces a novel concept of simultaneously targeting multiple components of an epigenetic network to efficiently suppress the cancer programs, and (2) it establishes a brand new genetic screen approach for a sub-protein level functional domain discovery. The impact of this research will be of significance because (1) it immediately provides novel therapeutic opportunities against the difficult-to-treat MLL-r leukemias, and (2) it will help identify novel functional elements in epigenetic regulators for future pharmaceutical targeting.

项目总结/文摘

项目成果

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• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adc8911
• 发表时间: 2022-12-23
• 期刊: Science advances
• 影响因子: 13.6