UTX inactivation in germinal center B cells promotes the development of multiple myeloma with extramedullary disease

Autor: Ola Rizq, Naoya Mimura, Motohiko Oshima, Shuji Momose, Naoya Takayama, Naoki Itokawa, Shuhei Koide, Asuka Shibamiya, Yurie Miyamoto-Nagai, Mohamed Rizk, Yaeko Nakajima-Takagi, Kazumasa Aoyama, Changshan Wang, Atsunori Saraya, Masanori Seimiya, Mariko Watanabe, Satoshi Yamasaki, Tatsuhiro Shibata, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Yoichi Furukawa, Tetsuhiro Chiba, Emiko Sakaida, Chiaki Nakaseko, Jun-ichi Tamaru, Yu-Tzu Tai, Kenneth C. Anderson, Hiroaki Honda, Atsushi Iwama
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Leukemia.
ISSN: 1476-5551
0887-6924
DOI: 10.1038/s41375-023-01928-7
Popis: UTX/KDM6A, a histone H3K27 demethylase and a key component of the COMPASS complex, is frequently lost or mutated in cancer; however, its tumor suppressor function remains largely uncharacterized in multiple myeloma (MM). Here, we show that the conditional deletion of the X-linked Utx in germinal center (GC) derived cells collaborates with the activating BrafV600E mutation and promotes induction of lethal GC/post-GC B cell malignancies with MM-like plasma cell neoplasms being the most frequent. Mice that developed MM-like neoplasms showed expansion of clonal plasma cells in the bone marrow and extramedullary organs, serum M proteins, and anemia. Add-back of either wild-type UTX or a series of mutants revealed that cIDR domain, that forms phase-separated liquid condensates, is largely responsible for the catalytic activity-independent tumor suppressor function of UTX in MM cells. Utx loss in concert with BrafV600E only slightly induced MM-like profiles of transcriptome, chromatin accessibility, and H3K27 acetylation, however, it allowed plasma cells to gradually undergo full transformation through activation of transcriptional networks specific to MM that induce high levels of Myc expression. Our results reveal a tumor suppressor function of UTX in MM and implicate its insufficiency in the transcriptional reprogramming of plasma cells in the pathogenesis of MM.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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