UBR5 Mediates Menin Inhibitor Dependent Menin/KMT2A Complex Stability [RNA-seq]
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Project description:The chromatin adaptor protein Menin (MEN1) is required by acute leukemias driven by mixed lineage leukemia 1 gene rearrangements (KMT2A-r) for sustained leukemogenesis. Menin inhibitors (MIs), which disrupt the Menin-KMT2A interface leading to downregulation of Menin-KMT2A oncogenic transcriptional programs, have shown promising results in recent clinical trials treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Decreased Menin protein stability has been observed following treatment with several MIs though proteasomal degradation, though the biological mechanisms that control Menin stability are not well understood. Here we interrogate and compare five clinical MIs and two pre-clinical compounds to characterize the mechanism by which MIs induce Menin degradation and demonstrate that the loss of the Menin-KMT2A interaction results in decreased protein stability of Menin and KMT2A. We have identified the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase UBR5 as a regulator of Menin protein stability and demonstrate that UBR5 binds to similar sites as the Menin/KMT2A complex on chromatin. Loss of UBR5 leads to transcriptional rescue of Menin-KMT2A target genes leading to decreased sensitivity to all MIs. Thus, we present UBR5 as an important regulator of Menin/KMT2A complex stability and Menin destabilization/subcellular localization as a designable feature of Menin inhibition targeting KMT2A-r leukemias.
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Project description:Menin inhibitors that disrupt Menin-MLL interaction hold promise for treating specific acute myeloid leukemia subtypes, including KMT2A rearrangements (KMT2A-r), yet resistance remains a challenge. Here, through systematic chromatin-focused CRISPR screens, along with genetic, epigenetic, and pharmacologic studies in a variety of human and mouse KMT2A-r AML models, we uncover a potential resistance mechanism independent of canonical Menin-MLL targets. We show that a group of non-canonical Menin targets, which are bivalently co-occupied by active Menin and repressive H2AK119ub marks, are typically downregulated following Menin inhibition. The loss of Polycomb Repressive Complex 1.1 (PRC1.1) subunits, such as PCGF1 or BCOR, leads to Menin inhibitor resistance by epigenetic reactivation of these non-canonical targets, including MYC. Genetic and pharmacological inhibition of MYC can resensitize PRC1.1-deficent leukemia cells to Menin inhibition. Moreover, we demonstrate that leukemia cells with the loss of PRC1.1 subunits exhibit reduced monocytic gene signatures and are susceptible to the BCL2 inhibition, and combinational treatment of venetoclax overcomes the resistance to Menin inhibition in PRC1.1-deficient leukemia cells. These findings highlight the important roles of PRC1.1 and its regulated non-canonical Menin targets in modulating Menin inhibitor response and provide potential strategies to treat leukemias with compromised PRC1.1 function.
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