LIN28B promotes neuroblastoma metastasis and regulates PDZ binding kinase

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Neuroblastoma is an aggressive pediatric malignancy of the neural crest with suboptimal cure rates and a striking predilection for widespread metastases, underscoring the need to identify novel therapeutic vulnerabilities. We recently identified the RNA binding protein LIN28B as a driver in high-risk neuroblastoma and demonstrated it promotes oncogenic cell proliferation by coordinating a RAN-Aurora kinase A network. Here, we demonstrate that LIN28B influences another key hallmark of cancer, metastatic dissemination. Using a murine xenograft model of neuroblastoma dissemination, we show that LIN28B promotes metastasis. We demonstrate that this is in part due to the effects of LIN28B on self-renewal and migration, providing an understanding of how LIN28B shapes the metastatic phenotype. Our studies reveal that the let-7 family, which LIN28B inhibits, decreases self-renewal and migration. Next, we identify PDZ Binding Kinase (PBK) as a novel LIN28B target. PBK is a serine/threonine kinase that promotes the proliferation and self-renewal of neural stem cells and serves as an oncogenic driver in multiple aggressive malignancies. We demonstrate that PBK is both a novel direct target of let-7i and that MYCN regulates PBK expression, thus elucidating two oncogenic drivers that converge on PBK. Functionally, PBK promotes self-renewal and migration, phenocopying LIN28B. Taken together, our findings define a role for LIN28B in neuroblastoma metastasis and define the targetable kinase PBK as a potential novel vulnerability in metastatic neuroblastoma.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) - 22(2020), 6 vom: 24. Apr., Seite 231-241

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Dongdong [VerfasserIn]
Cox, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Annam, Jayabhargav [VerfasserIn]
Weingart, Melanie [VerfasserIn]
Essien, Grace [VerfasserIn]
Rathi, Komal S [VerfasserIn]
Rokita, Jo Lynne [VerfasserIn]
Khurana, Priya [VerfasserIn]
Cuya, Selma M [VerfasserIn]
Bosse, Kristopher R [VerfasserIn]
Pilgrim, Adeiye [VerfasserIn]
Li, Daisy [VerfasserIn]
Shields, Cara [VerfasserIn]
Laur, Oskar [VerfasserIn]
Maris, John M [VerfasserIn]
Schnepp, Robert W [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
LIN28B
Let-7
Metastasis
Neuroblastoma
PDZ binding kinase

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Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.neo.2020.04.001

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NLM309240034