C/EBPα Confers Dependence to Fatty Acid Anabolic Pathways and Vulnerability to Lipid Oxidative Stress-Induced Ferroptosis in FLT3-Mutant Leukemia

Although transcription factor CCAAT-enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is critical for normal and leukemic differentiation, its role in cell and metabolic homeostasis is largely unknown in cancer. Here, multiomics analyses uncovered a coordinated activation of C/EBPα and Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3...

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Published in:Cancer discovery 2023-07, Vol.13 (7), p.1720-1747
Main Authors: Sabatier, Marie, Birsen, Rudy, Lauture, Laura, Mouche, Sarah, Angelino, Paolo, Dehairs, Jonas, Goupille, Léa, Boussaid, Ismael, Heiblig, Maël, Boet, Emeline, Sahal, Ambrine, Saland, Estelle, Santos, Juliana C, Armengol, Marc, Fernández-Serrano, Miranda, Farge, Thomas, Cognet, Guillaume, Simonetta, Federico, Pignon, Corentin, Graffeuil, Antoine, Mazzotti, Céline, Avet-Loiseau, Hervé, Delos, Océane, Bertrand-Michel, Justine, Chedru, Amélie, Dembitz, Vilma, Gallipoli, Paolo, Anstee, Natasha S, Loo, Sun, Wei, Andrew H, Carroll, Martin, Goubard, Armelle, Castellano, Rémy, Collette, Yves, Vergez, François, Mansat-De Mas, Véronique, Bertoli, Sarah, Tavitian, Suzanne, Picard, Muriel, Récher, Christian, Bourges-Abella, Nathalie, Granat, Fanny, Kosmider, Olivier, Sujobert, Pierre, Colsch, Benoit, Joffre, Carine, Stuani, Lucille, Swinnen, Johannes V, Guillou, Hervé, Roué, Gael, Hakim, Nawad, Dejean, Anne S, Tsantoulis, Petros, Larrue, Clément, Bouscary, Didier, Tamburini, Jerome, Sarry, Jean-Emmanuel
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Language:English
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CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-alpha - genetics
CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-alpha - metabolism
Cell Line, Tumor
Fatty Acids
Ferroptosis
fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 - genetics
fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 3 - metabolism
Humans
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - drug therapy
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - genetics
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - metabolism
Life Sciences
Mutation
Oxidative Stress
Protein Kinase Inhibitors - therapeutic use
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Summary:Although transcription factor CCAAT-enhancer binding protein α (C/EBPα) is critical for normal and leukemic differentiation, its role in cell and metabolic homeostasis is largely unknown in cancer. Here, multiomics analyses uncovered a coordinated activation of C/EBPα and Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) that increased lipid anabolism in vivo and in patients with FLT3-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Mechanistically, C/EBPα regulated the fatty acid synthase (FASN)-stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) axis to promote fatty acid (FA) biosynthesis and desaturation. We further demonstrated that FLT3 or C/EBPα inactivation decreased monounsaturated FA incorporation to membrane phospholipids through SCD downregulation. Consequently, SCD inhibition enhanced susceptibility to lipid redox stress that was exploited by combining FLT3 and glutathione peroxidase 4 inhibition to trigger lipid oxidative stress, enhancing ferroptotic death of FLT3-mutant AML cells. Altogether, our study reveals a C/EBPα function in lipid homeostasis and adaptation to redox stress, and a previously unreported vulnerability of FLT3-mutant AML to ferroptosis with promising therapeutic application. FLT3 mutations are found in 30% of AML cases and are actionable by tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Here, we discovered that C/EBPα regulates FA biosynthesis and protection from lipid redox stress downstream mutant-FLT3 signaling, which confers a vulnerability to ferroptosis upon FLT3 inhibition with therapeutic potential in AML. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1501.
ISSN:2159-8274
2159-8290
DOI:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-0411