Genome-scale clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats screen identifies nucleotide metabolism as an actionable therapeutic vulnerability in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Autor: Nicholas Davies, Tegan Francis, Ceri Oldreive, Maria Azam, Jordan Wilson, Philip J. Byrd, Megan Burley, Archana Sharma-Oates, Peter Keane, Sael Alatawi, Martin R. Higgs, Zbigniew Rudzki, Maha Ibrahim, Tracey Perry, Angelo Agathaggelou, Anne-Marie Hewitt, Edward Smith, Constanze Bonifer, Mark O’Connor, Josep V. Forment, Paul G. Murray, Eanna Fennell, Gemma Kelly, Catherine Chang, Grant S. Stewart, Tatjana Stankovic, Marwan Kwok, Alexander Malcolm Taylor
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Haematologica, Vol 999, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0390-6078
1592-8721
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2023.284404
Popis: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common malignancy that develops in patients with ataxia-telangiectasia, a cancer-predisposing inherited syndrome characterized by inactivating germline ATM mutations. ATM is also frequently mutated in sporadic DLBCL. To investigate lymphomagenic mechanisms and lymphoma-specific dependencies underlying defective ATM, we applied ribonucleic acid (RNA)-seq and genome-scale loss-offunction clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 screens to systematically interrogate B-cell lymphomas arising in a novel murine model (Atm-/-nu-/-) with constitutional Atm loss, thymic aplasia but residual T-cell populations. Atm-/-nu-/-lymphomas, which phenotypically resemble either activated B-cell-like or germinal center Bcell-like DLBCL, harbor a complex karyotype, and are characterized by MYC pathway activation. In Atm-/-nu-/-lymphomas, we discovered nucleotide biosynthesis as a MYCdependent cellular vulnerability that can be targeted through the synergistic nucleotidedepleting actions of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and the WEE1 inhibitor, adavosertib (AZD1775). The latter is mediated through a synthetically lethal interaction between RRM2 suppression and MYC dysregulation that results in replication stress overload in Atm-/-nu-/-lymphoma cells. Validation in cell line models of human DLBCL confirmed the broad applicability of nucleotide depletion as a therapeutic strategy for MYC-driven DLBCL independent of ATM mutation status. Our findings extend current understanding of lymphomagenic mechanisms underpinning ATM loss and highlight nucleotide metabolism as a targetable therapeutic vulnerability in MYC-driven DLBCL.
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