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Blood, 15 March 2006, Vol. 107, No. 6, pp. 2354-2363.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on October 11, 2005; DOI 10.1182/blood-2005-06-2536.
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Submitted June 27, 2005
Accepted September 25, 2005
Down-regulating Constitutive Activation of the NF- B Canonical Pathway Overcomes the Resistance of Cutaneous T cell Lymphoma to Apoptosis
Aurore Sors, Francette Jean-Louis, Claire Pellet, Liliane Laroche, Louis Dubertret, Gilles Courtois, Herve Bachelez, and Laurence Michel*
Skin Research Institute and Department of Dermatology 1, INSERM U697. Hopital Saint-Louis, PARIS, France
Department of Immuno-Dermatologie, Hopital Avicenne, Bobigny, France
* Corresponding author; email: laurence.michel{at}stlouis.inserm.fr.
Constitutive activation of the NF- B pathway has been shown to be involved in the resistance of tumor cells to apoptosis in several human malignancies of the hematopoietic lineage. By using EMSA and confocal microscopic analysis, we demonstrate that NF- B is constitutively activated in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) cell lines HuT-78, MyLa and SeAx and in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) from patients with Sezary syndrome (SS) presenting a high ratio of tumor cells, with evidence of p50 and RelA/p65 in DNA-linked complexes. Transfection of SeAx line with a B/luciferase reporter plasmid showed that translocated NF- B complexes were functional. Selective inhibition of NF- B, by transfecting CTCL cell lines with a super-repressor form of I B , lead to apoptosis. We evidenced down regulation of NF- B activation and induction of CTCL cell apoptosis in the presence of proteasome 26S inhibitors ALLN, MG132 and bortezomib. Bortezomib at nanomolar concentrations inhibited constitutive activation of NF- B and induced apoptosis of CTCL cells, with evidence of an up-regulation of Bax expression. These results demonstrate the key role played by NF- B in the resistance of CTCL to apoptosis and suggest that bortezomib might be useful for the treatment of patients with advanced stages of CTCL refractory to standard antineoplastic chemotherapy.

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