Direct Phosphorylation and Stabilization of MYC by Aurora B Kinase Promote T Cell Leukemogenesis
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Project description:Deregulation of MYC plays an essential role in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), yet the mechanisms underlying its deregulation remain elusive. Herein, we identify a molecular mechanism responsible for reciprocal activation between Aurora B kinase (AURKB) and MYC. AURKB directly phosphorylates MYC at serine 67, counteracting GSK3?-directed threonine 58 phosphorylation and subsequent FBXW7-mediated proteasomal degradation. Stabilized MYC, in concert with T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia 1 (TAL1), directly activates AURKB transcription, constituting a positive feedforward loop that reinforces MYC-regulated oncogenic programs. Therefore, inhibitors of AURKB induce prominent MYC degradation concomitant with robust leukemia cell death. These findings reveal an AURKB-MYC regulatory circuit that underlies T cell leukemogenesis, and provide a rationale for therapeutic targeting of oncogenic MYC via AURKB inhibition.
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Project description:FOXA1 serves as a crucial pioneer transcription factor in developmental processes, and plays a pivotal role as a mitotic bookmarking factor to perpetuate gene expression profiles and maintain cellular identity. During mitosis, the majority of FOXA1 dissociates from specific DNA binding sites and redistributes to non-specific binding sites, however, the regulatory mechanisms governing FOXA1's molecular dynamics in mitosis remain elusive. Here we show that mitotic kinase Aurora B regulates FOXA1's different DNA binding modes and the formation of the biomolecular condensate. Mechanistically, Aurora B kinase phosphorylates FOXA1 at Serine 221 (S221) to disrupt the specific, but not the non-specific, DNA binding. The phosphorylation of S221 also negatively regulates the FOXA1 condensates that require specific DNA binding. Importantly, perturbation of the dynamic phosphorylation impairs accurate gene reactivations and cell proliferation, suggesting that reversible mitotic protein phosphorylation emerges as a fundamental mechanism for the spatiotemporal control of mitotic bookmarking.
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Project description:Genome-wide distribution of proteins and histone marks in CD43 negative mouse resting B cells ChIP-seq analyses of Aurora B, Ring1B, Bcx7, USP16, H3K27me3, and Ezh2 were carried out on wild-typeCD43 negative resting B cells. ChIP-seq datasets obtained from Aurora B knockout and RingiB knockout cells were used as negative controls to validate the signals for Aurora B and Ring1B from wild-type cells. 8WG16 ChIP-seq datasets were generated from WT (Cre-ERt2 homozygous) and Ring1B KO (Cre-ERt2/Rnf2 flox homozygous). RNAP-S5ph ChIP-seq datasets were generated from WT (Cre-ERt2 homozygous) and Aurkb KO (Cre-ERt2/Aurkb flox homozygous). ChIP-seq analyses of H3S28 phosphorylation (H3S28ph) and H2AK119 monoubiquitination (H2Aub1) in wild-type (Cre-ERt2 homozygous) and Aurora B KO (Cre-ERt2/Aurkb flox homozygous) CD43 negative resting B cells treated with 250nM tamoxifen (4-hydroxytamoxifen) for 48 hours. ChIP-seq analyses of the levels of unphosphorylated RNA Pol II (8WG16) and serine 5-phosphorylated RNA Pol II (RNAP-S5ph) were conducted in Aurkb KO (Cre-ERt2/Aurkb flox homozygous) and Ring1B KO (Cre-ERt2/Rnf2 flox homozygous) CD43 negative resting B cells treated with 250nM tamoxifen (4-hydroxytamoxifen) for 48 hours respectively). All libraries were prepared from sonicated, formaldehyde-crossilinked chromatin. For H2Aub1, ChIP was performed using micrococcal nuclease-digested, unfixed chromatin, instead.
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Project description:Mitotic catastrophe (MC) is an important mechanism to remove cells that become polyploid or aneuploid, as an oncosuppressive mechanism. Previous studies have demonstrated that the activation and catalytic function of caspase-2 is a key step in MC, to trigger apoptosis and/or cell cycle arrest of such defective cells. However, the molecular mechanisms that regulate caspase-2 activation and its function are unclear. Here we show that Aurora kinase B (AURKB), a key mitotic kinase, phosphorylates caspase-2 at a highly conserved residue S384 and inhibits its catalytic activity and function. We identified six new phosphorylation sites in caspase-2 and further demonstrated that phosphorylation at S384 blocks caspase-2 catalytic activity and apoptosis function in response to mitotic insults, without affecting caspase-2 dimerisation. Moreover, molecular modelling suggests that phosphorylation at S384 may affect substrate binding by caspase-2. We propose that caspase-2 S384 phosphorylation by AURKB is a key mechanism that controls caspase-2 activation during mitosis.
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2017-11-28 | PXD006892 | Pride