TY - JOUR
T1 - Epichaperome inhibition targets TP53-mutant AML and AML stem/progenitor cells
AU - Carter, Bing Z.
AU - Mak, Po Yee
AU - Muftuoglu, Muharrem
AU - Tao, Wenjing
AU - Ke, Baozhen
AU - Pei, Jingqi
AU - Bedoy, Andrea D.
AU - Ostermann, Lauren B.
AU - Nishida, Yuki
AU - Isgandarova, Sevinj
AU - Sobieski, Mary
AU - Nguyen, Nghi
AU - Powell, Reid T.
AU - Martinez-Moczygemba, Margarita
AU - Stephan, Clifford
AU - Basyal, Mahesh
AU - Pemmaraju, Naveen
AU - Boettcher, Steffen
AU - Ebert, Benjamin L.
AU - Shpall, Elizabeth J.
AU - Wallner, Barbara
AU - Morgan, Robert A.
AU - Karras, Georgios I.
AU - Moll, Ute M.
AU - Andreeff, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The American Society of Hematology
PY - 2023/9/21
Y1 - 2023/9/21
N2 - TP53-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains the ultimate therapeutic challenge. Epichaperomes, formed in malignant cells, consist of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) and associated proteins that support the maturation, activity, and stability of oncogenic kinases and transcription factors including mutant p53. High-throughput drug screening identified HSP90 inhibitors as top hits in isogenic TP53–wild-type (WT) and -mutant AML cells. We detected epichaperomes in AML cells and stem/progenitor cells with TP53 mutations but not in healthy bone marrow (BM) cells. Hence, we investigated the therapeutic potential of specifically targeting epichaperomes with PU-H71 in TP53-mutant AML based on its preferred binding to HSP90 within epichaperomes. PU-H71 effectively suppressed cell intrinsic stress responses and killed AML cells, primarily by inducing apoptosis; targeted TP53-mutant stem/progenitor cells; and prolonged survival of TP53-mutant AML xenograft and patient-derived xenograft models, but it had minimal effects on healthy human BM CD34+ cells or on murine hematopoiesis. PU-H71 decreased MCL-1 and multiple signal proteins, increased proapoptotic Bcl-2-like protein 11 levels, and synergized with BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax in TP53-mutant AML. Notably, PU-H71 effectively killed TP53-WT and -mutant cells in isogenic TP53-WT/TP53-R248W Molm13 cell mixtures, whereas MDM2 or BCL-2 inhibition only reduced TP53-WT but favored the outgrowth of TP53-mutant cells. Venetoclax enhanced the killing of both TP53-WT and -mutant cells by PU-H71 in a xenograft model. Our data suggest that epichaperome function is essential for TP53-mutant AML growth and survival and that its inhibition targets mutant AML and stem/progenitor cells, enhances venetoclax activity, and prevents the outgrowth of venetoclax-resistant TP53-mutant AML clones. These concepts warrant clinical evaluation.
AB - TP53-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains the ultimate therapeutic challenge. Epichaperomes, formed in malignant cells, consist of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) and associated proteins that support the maturation, activity, and stability of oncogenic kinases and transcription factors including mutant p53. High-throughput drug screening identified HSP90 inhibitors as top hits in isogenic TP53–wild-type (WT) and -mutant AML cells. We detected epichaperomes in AML cells and stem/progenitor cells with TP53 mutations but not in healthy bone marrow (BM) cells. Hence, we investigated the therapeutic potential of specifically targeting epichaperomes with PU-H71 in TP53-mutant AML based on its preferred binding to HSP90 within epichaperomes. PU-H71 effectively suppressed cell intrinsic stress responses and killed AML cells, primarily by inducing apoptosis; targeted TP53-mutant stem/progenitor cells; and prolonged survival of TP53-mutant AML xenograft and patient-derived xenograft models, but it had minimal effects on healthy human BM CD34+ cells or on murine hematopoiesis. PU-H71 decreased MCL-1 and multiple signal proteins, increased proapoptotic Bcl-2-like protein 11 levels, and synergized with BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax in TP53-mutant AML. Notably, PU-H71 effectively killed TP53-WT and -mutant cells in isogenic TP53-WT/TP53-R248W Molm13 cell mixtures, whereas MDM2 or BCL-2 inhibition only reduced TP53-WT but favored the outgrowth of TP53-mutant cells. Venetoclax enhanced the killing of both TP53-WT and -mutant cells by PU-H71 in a xenograft model. Our data suggest that epichaperome function is essential for TP53-mutant AML growth and survival and that its inhibition targets mutant AML and stem/progenitor cells, enhances venetoclax activity, and prevents the outgrowth of venetoclax-resistant TP53-mutant AML clones. These concepts warrant clinical evaluation.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood.2022019047
DO - 10.1182/blood.2022019047
M3 - Article
C2 - 37339579
AN - SCOPUS:85167796215
SN - 0006-4971
VL - 142
SP - 1056
EP - 1070
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
IS - 12
ER -