Project description:Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an aggressive and incurable childhood brain tumor for which new treatments are needed. A high throughput drug screen of 3600 pharmaceutical compounds found that anti-malarials, including quinacrine had potent activity against DIPG neurospheres. CBL0137 is a novel anti-cancer compound developed from quinacrine, which targets Facilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT), a chromatin remodelling complex involved in transcription, replication, and DNA repair. We have found that CBL0137 displays profound cytotoxic activity against a panel of patient derived DIPG cultures, inhibiting cell proliferation and clonogenic potential, restoring tumor suppressor TP53 and Rb activity and inducing cell death through induction of apoptosis. Moreover, in an orthotopic model of DIPG, treatment with CBL0137 significantly extended animal survival. Histone mutations leading to the loss of histone trimethylation result in epigenetic dysregulation driving DIPG tumorigenesis. Treatment with CBL0137 targets this epigenetic defect, restoring both histone H3.3 acetylation and trimethylation and leading to tumor cell death. Combined epigenetic treatment with the histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor panobinostat led to inhibition of the Rb/E2F1 pathway, and increased the enzymatic activity of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), leading to the restoration of H3K27 trimethylation. This combination therapy had synergistic activity against DIPG neurospheres with induction of apoptosis. Consistent with the in vitro results, the combination of CBL0137 and panobinostat significantly prolonged the survival of mice bearing DIPG orthografts suggesting a potential treatment strategy for DIPG.
Project description:Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an aggressive and incurable childhood brain tumor for which new treatments are needed. A high throughput drug screen of 3600 pharmaceutical compounds found that anti-malarials, including quinacrine had potent activity against DIPG neurospheres. CBL0137 is a novel anti-cancer compound developed from quinacrine, which targets Facilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT), a chromatin remodelling complex involved in transcription, replication, and DNA repair. We have found that CBL0137 displays profound cytotoxic activity against a panel of patient derived DIPG cultures, inhibiting cell proliferation and clonogenic potential, restoring tumor suppressor TP53 and Rb activity and inducing cell death through induction of apoptosis. Moreover, in an orthotopic model of DIPG, treatment with CBL0137 significantly extended animal survival. Histone mutations leading to the loss of histone trimethylation result in epigenetic dysregulation driving DIPG tumorigenesis. Treatment with CBL0137 targets this epigenetic defect, restoring both histone H3.3 acetylation and trimethylation and leading to tumor cell death. Combined epigenetic treatment with the histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor panobinostat led to inhibition of the Rb/E2F1 pathway, and increased the enzymatic activity of enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), leading to the restoration of H3K27 trimethylation. This combination therapy had synergistic activity against DIPG neurospheres with induction of apoptosis. Consistent with the in vitro results, the combination of CBL0137 and panobinostat significantly prolonged the survival of mice bearing DIPG orthografts suggesting a potential treatment strategy for DIPG.
Project description:CBL0137 id non-genotoxic DNA binding compounds which directly destabilizes nucleosomes in cells. Effect of different doses of CBL0137 on the abundance of mRNA was studied in two cell types, multiple myeloma MM1.S and cervical carcinoma HeLa cell.
Project description:We analyzed changes in abundance of RNAs in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) from wild type and p53 knockout mice and in lungs of NIH Swiss mice upon treatment with 1microM (cells) or 60mg/kg IV (mice) of curaxin CBL0137 for 24 hours. CBL0137 is chromatin destabilizing agent.
Project description:CBL0137 is chromatin destabilizing agent, which causing trapping of FACT histone chaperone in chromatin (Gasparian et all, Science TM, 2011, Safina et all, NAR, 2017). We compared effect of CBL0137 on gene expression in mouse organs, expressing FACT (testes, spleen ) or not (lung, liver) to figure out what effects of CBL0137 is due to the inhibition of FACT and which are independent of FACT.
Project description:We studied the effect of BMI1 inhibition in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cells (DIPG). We reported the application of chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing for high-thoughput profiling of BMI1 and H2AK119ub in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cells (DIPG) in response to BMI1 inhibition. We also performed bulk RNA sequencing of DIPG cells in response to pharmacological inhibition or knockdown of BMI1.
Project description:To study the effect of ONC201 treatment on DIPG-VII, DIPG-IV, and DIPG-XIII cell lines, we treated cell lines and performed RNA-Seq analysis.
Project description:Histone H3 lysine 27 to methionine mutations (H3K27M) resulting in aberrant chromatin regulation are frequently observed in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a pediatric brain tumor with no cure. We conducted a CRISPR screen to determine if various chromatin regulators might be targeted to treat DIPG. Excitingly, this genetic screen reveals that co-targeting lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) results in an enhanced growth suppressive effect in patient DIPG cells. Consistent with the genetic screen, a bifunctional inhibitor of HDACs and LSD1, Corin, inhibits DIPG growth in vitro and in xenografts. Mechanistically, Corin rescues H3K27me3 levels typically suppressed by the dominant effects of H3K27M mutations in DIPG and simultaneously increases HDAC-targeted H3K27ac and LSD1-targeted H3K4me1 at enhancers. Further studies reveal that Corin de-regulates DIPG transcription resulting in cell death, cell cycle arrest, and the induction of neuronal differentiation. These data suggest that co-targeting LSD1 and HDACs may represent a novel strategy for treating DIPG.