Cancer Cell 2010-06-15

GSK-3 promotes conditional association of CREB and its coactivators with MEIS1 to facilitate HOX-mediated transcription and oncogenesis.

Zhong Wang, Masayuki Iwasaki, Francesca Ficara, Chenwei Lin, Christina Matheny, Stephen H K Wong, Kevin S Smith, Michael L Cleary

Index: Cancer Cell 17(6) , 597-608, (2010)

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Abstract

Acute leukemias induced by MLL chimeric oncoproteins are among the subset of cancers distinguished by a paradoxical dependence on GSK-3 kinase activity for sustained proliferation. We demonstrate here that GSK-3 maintains the MLL leukemia stem cell transcriptional program by promoting the conditional association of CREB and its coactivators TORC and CBP with homedomain protein MEIS1, a critical component of the MLL-subordinate program, which in turn facilitates HOX-mediated transcription and transformation. This mechanism also applies to hematopoietic cells transformed by other HOX genes, including CDX2, which is highly expressed in a majority of acute myeloid leukemias, thus providing a molecular approach based on GSK-3 inhibitory strategies to target HOX-associated transcription in a broad spectrum of leukemias.Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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