Tcf-1 promotes genomic instability and T cell transformation in response to aberrant β-catenin activation

Understanding the mechanisms promoting chromosomal translocations of the rearranging receptor loci in leukemia and lymphoma remains incomplete. Here we show that leukemias induced by aberrant activation of β-catenin in thymocytes, which bear recurrent Tcra/Myc-Pvt1 translocations, depend on Tcf-1. The DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) in the Tcra site of the translocation are Rag-generated, whereas the Myc-Pvt1 DSBs are not. Aberrantly activated β-catenin redirects Tcf-1 binding to novel DNA sites to alter chromatin accessibility and down-regulate genome-stability pathways. Impaired homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair and replication checkpoints lead to retention of DSBs that promote translocations and transformation of double-positive (DP) thymocytes. The resulting lymphomas, which resemble human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), are sensitive to PARP inhibitors (PARPis). Our findings indicate that aberrant β-catenin signaling contributes to translocations in thymocytes by guiding Tcf-1 to promote the generation and retention of replication-induced DSBs allowing their coexistence with Rag-generated DSBs. Thus, PARPis could offer therapeutic options in hematologic malignancies with active Wnt/β-catenin signaling.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:119

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 119(2022), 32 vom: 09. Aug., Seite e2201493119

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Arnovitz, Stephen [VerfasserIn]
Mathur, Priya [VerfasserIn]
Tracy, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Mohsin, Azam [VerfasserIn]
Mondal, Soumi [VerfasserIn]
Quandt, Jasmin [VerfasserIn]
Hernandez, Kyle M [VerfasserIn]
Khazaie, Khashayarsha [VerfasserIn]
Dose, Marei [VerfasserIn]
Emmanuel, Akinola Olumide [VerfasserIn]
Gounari, Fotini [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

β-catenin
Beta Catenin
Genomic instability
Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha
Hnf1a protein, mouse
Journal Article
Myc protein, mouse
PVT1 long-non-coding RNA, mouse
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
RNA, Long Noncoding
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
T-ALL
Tcf-1

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Date Completed 05.08.2022

Date Revised 01.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2201493119

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344410196