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Blood, 1 July 2007, Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 360-369. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 27, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-12-065615.
NEOPLASIA 143-3 integrates prosurvival signals mediated by the AKT and MAPK pathways in ZNF198-FGFR1transformed hematopoietic cells1 Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; 2 Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA; and 3 Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Human 8p11 stem cell leukemia/lymphoma syndrome usually presents as a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that evolves to acute myeloid leukemia and/or lymphoma. The syndrome associated with t(8;13)(p11;q12) results in expression of the ZNF198-FGFR1 fusion tyrosine kinase that plays a pathogenic role in hematopoietic transformation. We found that ZNF198-FGFR1 activated both the AKT and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) prosurvival signaling pathways, resulting in elevated phosphorylation of the AKT target FOXO3a at T32 and BAD at S112, respectively. These phosphorylated residues subsequently sequestered the proapoptotic FOXO3a and BAD to 143-3 to prevent apoptosis. We used a peptide-based 143-3 competitive antagonist, R18, to disrupt 143-3ligand association. Expression of R18 effectively induced apoptosis in hematopoietic Ba/F3 cells transformed by ZNF198-FGFR1 compared with control cells. Moreover, purified recombinant transactivator of transcription (TAT)-conjugated R18 proteins effectively transduced into human leukemia cells and induced significant apoptosis in KG-1a cells expressing FGFR1OP2-FGFR1 fusion tyrosine kinase but not in control HL-60 and Jurkat T cells. Surprisingly, R18 was only able to dissociate FOXO3a, but not BAD as previously proposed, from 143-3 binding and induced apoptosis partially through liberation and reactivation of FOXO3a. Our findings suggest that 143-3 integrates prosurvival signals in FGFR1 fusion-transformed hematopoietic cells. Disrupting 143-3ligand association may represent an effective therapeutic strategy to treat 8p11 stem cell MPD.
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