Characterization of the menin-MLL interaction as therapeutic cancer target in solid tumor models
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Project description:Background: Inhibition of the interaction of the scaffold protein menin with the histone methyltransferase MLL1 (KMT2A) has recently emerged as a novel therapeutic strategy in different cancers. Purpose: Here we validate the proposed pathogenic function of the menin-MLL interaction in cancer with a novel probe inhibitor BAY-155. Methods: RNA-seq was used to investigate transcriptional effects of novel BAY-155 probe in thirteen cell lines from a range of solid tumor types. Results: Menin-MLL inhibition by BAY-155 in colorectal (SW1463, LoVo, DLD-1), prostate (22RV1, LNCaP, VCaP), pancreas (PANC-1, MiaPaCa2), breast (BT-474, ZR-75-1, MCF7), bladder (JMSU-1) and kidney (G401) tissue derived cancer cell lines resulted in moderate gene expression changes. Surprisingly, for the reported role of MLL1 as a co-activator of gene expression, inhibition by BAY-155 led predominantly to up-regulation of genes. We could not observe any evidences of an overarching, menin driven expression program, which is in contrast to previous reports for e.g. the Hox gene cluster. Conclusions: Our study adds important critical validation data to the menin-MLL interaction as therapeutic target in solid cancers. By using a more selective and potent inhibitor we propose that the potential therapeutic benefit of disrupting the menin-MLL interaction may be more restricted to specific cancers than previously predicted.
2020-02-27 | GSE136272 | GEO
Project description:Chromosomal translocations affecting Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL) gene result in acute leukemias resistant to therapy. The leukemogenic activity of MLL fusion proteins is dependent on their interaction with menin, providing basis for therapeutic intervention. Here we report development of novel, highly potent and orally bioavailable small molecule inhibitors of the menin-MLL interaction, MI-463 and MI-503, show their profound effects in MLL leukemia cells and substantial survival benefit in mice models of MLL leukemia. Finally, we demonstrate efficacy of these compounds in primary samples derived from MLL leukemia patients. Overall, we demonstrate for the first time that pharmacologic inhibition of the menin-MLL interaction represents an effective treatment for MLL leukemias in vivo and provide advanced molecular scaffold for clinical lead identification.
2017-08-21 | GSE60673 | GEO
Project description:Inhibition of the Menin (encoded by MEN1) and MLL1 (KMT2A) protein-protein interaction has been proposed as a potential targeted therapeutic strategy for MLL-rearranged (MLL-r) leukemia. We sought to develop more potent and selective Menin-MLL1 interaction inhibitors that are effective in vitro and in vivo to directly assess potential therapeutic opportunities. Structure-based design yielded the potent, highly selective and orally-bioavailable small molecule inhibitor VTP-50469. Human cell lines carrying MLL-rearrangements were highly sensitive and selectively responsive to treatment with VTP-50469. VTP-50469 displaced Menin from high molecular weight protein complexes and inhibited chromatin occupancy of MLL1 at select target genes. Loss of MLL1 binding led to specific changes in gene expression, cellular differentiation, and apoptosis. Mice engrafted with leukemia cells isolated from patients with either MLL-r AML or MLL-r ALL showed dramatic reductions of leukemia burden and prolonged survival when treated with VTP-50469. Remarkably, multiple mice engrafted with MLL-r ALL remained disease free greater than 1 year following cessation of treatment. Therefore, inhibition of the Menin-MLL1 interaction with VTP-50469 is highly effective in patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of human MLL-r AML and MLL-r ALL which supports rapid translation of this approach to clinical trials. This submission represents the scRNAseq component of the study.
2019-02-28 | GSE127298 | GEO
Project description:Treatment of cells carrying MLL-rearrangements with VTP-50469 (specific Menin-MLL1 inhibitor) displaces Menin from high molecular weight complexes and chromatin genome-wide. Since VTP-50469 block Menin interaction with MLL1 we tested using chip-seq if treatment with VTP-50469 also displaces MLL1 or MLL-fusions from chromatin. We found that the VTP-50469 treatment displaced MLL-fusions from only a subset of MLL-fusion binding sites. Since DOT1L is associated with MLL-AF9 we then tested if displacement of MLL1 also leads to loss of DOT1L association with chromatin on MLL-AF9 binding sites. We found that DOT1L binds to thousands of genes, treatment with VTP-50469 leads to genome wide loss of DOT1L binding including the same subset of MLL-fusion binding sites.
2019-11-06 | GSE127507 | GEO
Project description:The interaction of Menin (MEN1) and MLL (MLL1, KMT2A) is a dependency and potential therapeutic opportunity against NPM1 mutant (NPM1mut) and MLL-rearranged (MLL-r) leukemias. Concomitant activating driver mutations in the gene encoding the tyrosine kinase FLT3 occur in both leukemias and are particularly common in the NPM1mut subtype. Transcriptional profiling upon pharmacological inhibition of the Menin-MLL complex revealed specific changes in gene expression with downregulation of the MEIS1 transcription factor and its transcriptional target gene FLT3 being most pronounced. Combining Menin-MLL inhibition with specific small molecule kinase inhibitors of FLT3 phosphorylation resulted in a significantly superior reduction of phosphorylated FLT3 and transcriptional suppression of genes downstream to FLT3 signaling. The drug combination induced synergistic inhibition of proliferation as well as enhanced apoptosis and differentiation compared to single-drug treatment in models of human and murine NPM1mut and MLL-r leukemias harboring an FLT3 mutation. Primary AML cells harvested from patients with NPM1mut FLT3mut AML showed significantly better responses to combined Menin and FLT3 inhibition than to single-drug or vehicle control treatment, while AML cells with wildtype NPM1, MLL, and FLT3 were not affected by any of the two drugs. In vivo treatment of leukemic animals with MLL-r FLT3mut leukemia reduced leukemia burden significantly and prolonged survival compared to the single-drug and vehicle control groups. Our data suggest that combined Menin-MLL and FLT3 inhibition represents a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for patients with NPM1mut or MLL-r leukemia and concurrent FLT3 mutation.
2020-07-01 | GSE144759 | GEO
Project description:To investigate the effect of Menin inhibitor on patient-derived NUP98-r AML. We treated primary AML cells with Menin inhibitor in a Mesenchymal stem cell co-Culture platform. Then we charachterized global gene expression in treated AML cells upon treatment in two different time points, day7 and day12.
2023-05-14 | GSE232091 | GEO
Project description:Chromosomal rearrangements of the Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL) gene result in fusion proteins which retain the N-terminal portion of MLL fused with one of more than 70 different fusion partners. The high diversity of MLL fusion partners raises a question whether it is possible to develop a general therapeutic strategy to block the oncogenic activity of MLL fusion proteins in a fusion partner independent manner. We have demonstrated that blocking the menin-MLL interaction using small molecule inhibitor inhibits oncogenic activity of different MLL fusion proteins according to a mechanism that is independent on the fusion partner.
2018-06-09 | GSE69740 | GEO
Project description:We determined the effect of conditional deletion of Menin in MLL-AF9 transformed leukemia cells
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Project description:Using mouse and human models of NUP98-rearrranged leukemia, we demonstrate that inhibition of MLL-Menin impairs leukemogenic gene expression and disrupts chromatin binding of MLL1 and NUP98 fusion proteins at a critical subset of genes that is essential for sustaining the undifferentiated leukemia phenotype.
2022-06-01 | GSE175596 | GEO
Project description:Using mouse and human models of NUP98-rearrranged leukemia, we demonstrate that inhibition of MLL-Menin impairs leukemogenic gene expression and disrupts chromatin binding of MLL1 and NUP98 fusion proteins at a critical subset of genes that is essential for sustaining the undifferentiated leukemia phenotype.
2022-06-01 | GSE175595 | GEO