USP7 Cooperates with NOTCH1 to Drive the Oncogenic Transcriptional Program in T-Cell Leukemia

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive disease, affecting children and adults. Chemotherapy treatments show high response rates but have debilitating effects and carry risk of relapse. Previous work implicated NOTCH1 and other oncogenes. However, direct inhibition of these path...

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Published in:Clinical cancer research 2019-01, Vol.25 (1), p.222-239
Main Authors: Jin, Qi, Martinez, Carlos A, Arcipowski, Kelly M, Zhu, Yixing, Gutierrez-Diaz, Blanca T, Wang, Kenneth K, Johnson, Megan R, Volk, Andrew G, Wang, Feng, Wu, Jian, Grove, Charles, Wang, Hui, Sokirniy, Ivan, Thomas, Paul M, Goo, Young Ah, Abshiru, Nebiyu A, Hijiya, Nobuko, Peirs, Sofie, Vandamme, Niels, Berx, Geert, Goosens, Steven, Marshall, Stacy A, Rendleman, Emily J, Takahashi, Yoh-Hei, Wang, Lu, Rawat, Radhika, Bartom, Elizabeth T, Collings, Clayton K, Van Vlierberghe, Pieter, Strikoudis, Alexandros, Kelly, Stephen, Ueberheide, Beatrix, Mantis, Christine, Kandela, Irawati, Bourquin, Jean-Pierre, Bornhauser, Beat, Serafin, Valentina, Bresolin, Silvia, Paganin, Maddalena, Accordi, Benedetta, Basso, Giuseppe, Kelleher, Neil L, Weinstock, Joseph, Kumar, Suresh, Crispino, John D, Shilatifard, Ali, Ntziachristos, Panagiotis
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Carcinogenesis - genetics
Cell Proliferation - genetics
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic - genetics
Genetic Therapy
Humans
Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases - genetics
Jurkat Cells
Leukemia, T-Cell - genetics
Leukemia, T-Cell - pathology
Leukemia, T-Cell - therapy
Mice
Receptor, Notch1 - genetics
Signal Transduction - genetics
Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 7 - genetics
Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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Summary:T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive disease, affecting children and adults. Chemotherapy treatments show high response rates but have debilitating effects and carry risk of relapse. Previous work implicated NOTCH1 and other oncogenes. However, direct inhibition of these pathways affects healthy tissues and cancer alike. Our goal in this work has been to identify enzymes active in T-ALL whose activity could be targeted for therapeutic purposes. To identify and characterize new NOTCH1 druggable partners in T-ALL, we coupled studies of the NOTCH1 interactome to expression analysis and a series of functional analyses in cell lines, patient samples, and xenograft models. We demonstrate that ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) interacts with NOTCH1 and controls leukemia growth by stabilizing the levels of NOTCH1 and JMJD3 histone demethylase. is highly expressed in T-ALL and is transcriptionally regulated by NOTCH1. In turn, USP7 controls NOTCH1 levels through deubiquitination. USP7 binds oncogenic targets and controls gene expression through stabilization of NOTCH1 and JMJD3 and ultimately H3K27me3 changes. We also show that USP7 and NOTCH1 bind T-ALL superenhancers, and inhibition of USP7 leads to a decrease of the transcriptional levels of NOTCH1 targets and significantly blocks T-ALL cell growth and . These results provide a new model for USP7 deubiquitinase activity through recruitment to oncogenic chromatin loci and regulation of both oncogenic transcription factors and chromatin marks to promote leukemia. Our studies also show that targeting USP7 inhibition could be a therapeutic strategy in aggressive leukemia.
ISSN:1078-0432
1557-3265
1557-3265
DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1740