Targeting MUC1-C suppresses polycomb repressive complex 1 in multiple myeloma
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Markert, Tahireh
Rajabi, Hasan
Hiraki, Masayuki
Alam, Maroof
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Tagde, Ashujit, Tahireh Markert, Hasan Rajabi, Masayuki Hiraki, Maroof Alam, Audrey Bouillez, David Avigan, Kenneth Anderson, and Donald Kufe. 2017. “Targeting MUC1-C suppresses polycomb repressive complex 1 in multiple myeloma.” Oncotarget 8 (41): 69237-69249. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.20144. http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.20144.Abstract
The polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) includes the BMI1, RING1 and RING2 proteins. BMI1 is required for survival of multiple myeloma (MM) cells. The MUC1-C oncoprotein is aberrantly expressed by MM cells, activates MYC and is also necessary for MM cell survival. The present studies show that targeting MUC1-C with (i) stable and inducible silencing and CRISPR/Cas9 editing and (ii) the pharmacologic inhibitor GO-203, which blocks MUC1-C function, downregulates BMI1, RING1 and RING2 expression. The results demonstrate that MUC1-C drives BMI1 transcription by a MYC-dependent mechanism. MUC1-C thus promotes MYC occupancy on the BMI1 promoter and thereby activates BMI1 expression. We also show that the MUC1-C→MYC pathway induces RING2 expression. Moreover, in contrast to BMI1 and RING2, we found that MUC1-C drives RING1 by an NF-κB p65-dependent mechanism. Targeting MUC1-C and thereby the suppression of these key PRC1 proteins was associated with downregulation of the PRC1 E3 ligase activity as evidenced by decreases in ubiquitylation of histone H2A. Targeting MUC1-C also resulted in activation of the PRC1-repressed tumor suppressor genes, PTEN, CDNK2A and BIM. These findings identify a heretofore unrecognized role for MUC1-C in the epigenetic regulation of MM cells.Other Sources
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