Yang, Zhaolin, Wu, Xiaoli S, Wei, Yiliang, Polyanskaya, Sofya A, Iyer, Shruti V, Jung, Moonjung, Lach, Francis P, Adelman, Emmalee R, Klingbeil, Olaf, Milazzo, Joseph P, Kramer, Melissa, Demerdash, Osama E, Chang, Kenneth, Goodwin, Sara, Hodges, Emily, McCombie, W Richard, Figueroa, Maria E, Smogorzewska, Agata, Vakoc, Christopher R (April 2021) Transcriptional silencing of ALDH2 confers a dependency on Fanconi anemia proteins in acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer Discovery. ISSN 2159-8274
Abstract
Hundreds of genes become aberrantly silenced in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), with most of these epigenetic changes being of unknown functional consequence. Here, we demonstrate how gene silencing can lead to an acquired dependency on the DNA repair machinery in AML. We make this observation by profiling the essentiality of the ubiquitination machinery in cancer cell lines using domain-focused CRISPR screening, which revealed Fanconi anemia (FA) proteins UBE2T and FANCL as unique dependencies in AML. We demonstrate that these dependencies are due to a synthetic lethal interaction between FA proteins and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which function in parallel pathways to counteract the genotoxicity of endogenous aldehydes. We show that DNA hypermethylation and silencing of ALDH2 occur in a recurrent manner in human AML, which is sufficient to confer FA pathway dependency. Our study suggests that targeting of the ubiquitination reaction catalyzed by FA proteins can eliminate ALDH2-deficient AML.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | diseases & disorders > cancer bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA methylation bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene silencing diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > leukemia |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Chang lab CSHL labs > McCombie lab CSHL labs > Vakoc lab School of Biological Sciences > Publications |
| SWORD Depositor: | CSHL Elements |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Elements |
| Date: | 23 April 2021 |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2021 14:21 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2022 17:28 |
| PMCID: | PMC8419016 |
| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/39939 |
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