Chromothripsis orchestrates leukemic transformation in blast phase MPN through targetable amplification of DYRK1A

Chromothripsis, the process of catastrophic shattering and haphazard repair of chromosomes, is a common event in cancer. Whether chromothripsis might constitute an actionable molecular event amenable to therapeutic targeting remains an open question. We describe recurrent chromothripsis of chromosome 21 in a subset of patients in blast phase of a myeloproliferative neoplasm (BP-MPN), which alongside other structural variants leads to amplification of a region of chromosome 21 in ∼25% of patients ('chr21amp'). We report that chr21amp BP-MPN has a particularly aggressive and treatment-resistant phenotype. The chr21amp event is highly clonal and present throughout the hematopoietic hierarchy. DYRK1A , a serine threonine kinase and transcription factor, is the only gene in the 2.7Mb minimally amplified region which showed both increased expression and chromatin accessibility compared to non-chr21amp BP-MPN controls. We demonstrate that DYRK1A is a central node at the nexus of multiple cellular functions critical for BP-MPN development, including DNA repair, STAT signalling and BCL2 overexpression. DYRK1A is essential for BP-MPN cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo , and DYRK1A inhibition synergises with BCL2 targeting to induce BP-MPN cell apoptosis. Collectively, these findings define the chr21amp event as a prognostic biomarker in BP-MPN and link chromothripsis to a druggable target.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2023) vom: 10. Dez.

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Englisch

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Brierley, C K [VerfasserIn]
Yip, B H [VerfasserIn]
Orlando, G [VerfasserIn]
Goyal, H [VerfasserIn]
Wen, S [VerfasserIn]
Wen, J [VerfasserIn]
Levine, M F [VerfasserIn]
Jakobsdottir, G M [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Meira, A [VerfasserIn]
Adamo, A [VerfasserIn]
Bashton, M [VerfasserIn]
Hamblin, A [VerfasserIn]
Clark, S A [VerfasserIn]
O'Sullivan, J [VerfasserIn]
Murphy, L [VerfasserIn]
Olijnik, A A [VerfasserIn]
Cotton, A [VerfasserIn]
Narina, S [VerfasserIn]
Pruett-Miller, S M [VerfasserIn]
Enshaei, A [VerfasserIn]
Harrison, C [VerfasserIn]
Drummond, M [VerfasserIn]
Knapper, S [VerfasserIn]
Tefferi, A [VerfasserIn]
Antony-Debré, I [VerfasserIn]
Thongjuea, S [VerfasserIn]
Wedge, D C [VerfasserIn]
Constantinescu, S [VerfasserIn]
Papaemmanuil, E [VerfasserIn]
Psaila, B [VerfasserIn]
Crispino, J D [VerfasserIn]
Mead, A J [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 18.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2023.12.08.570880

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NLM365968927