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Query: UNIPROT:P04637 (
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ALK+ anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). frequently carries the t(2;5).(p23;q35). resulting in expression of
NPM
-ALK oncogenic kinase, which is capable of activating multiple oncogenic pathways. ALK+ ALCL is also characterized by overexpression of CD30 receptor, a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF). receptor superfamily, which has been targeted for therapy using conjugated anti-CD30 antibodies with clinical success. Also, the
tumor suppressor p53
is frequently non-mutated in ALK+ ALCL allowing for therapeutic modulation of
p53
reactivation in this lymphoma type. Therefore, this review is focused on the role of CD30 receptor and
p53
as novel targets for therapy in ALK+ ALCL, and also provides an update on their potential involvement in ALK+ ALCL pathogenesis.
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PMID:The emerging role of CD30 and p53 as novel targets for therapy in anaplastic large cell lymphoma. 2670 46
GFG-3a is a novel glycoprotein previously purified from the fermented mycelia of Grifola frondosa with novel sugar compositions and protein sequencing. The present study aims to investigate its effects on the cell cycle, differential proteins expression, and apoptosis of human gastric cancer SGC-7901 cells. Our findings revealed that GFG-3a induced the cell apoptosis and arrested cell cycle at S phase. GFG-3a treatment resulted in the differential expression of 21 proteins in SGC-7901 cells by upregulating 10 proteins including RBBP4 associated with cell cycle arrest and downregulating 11 proteins including RUVBL1,
NPM
, HSP90AB1, and GRP78 involved in apoptosis and stress response. qRT-PCR and Western blot analysis also suggested that GFG-3a could increase the expressions of Caspase-8/-3,
p53
, Bax, and Bad while decrease the expressions of Bcl2, Bcl-xl, PI3K, and Akt1. These results indicated that the stress response,
p53
-dependent mitochondrial-mediated, Caspase-8/-3-dependent, and PI3k/Akt pathways were involved in the GFG-3a-induced apoptosis process in SGC-7901 cells. These findings might provide a basis to prevent or treat human gastric cancer with GFG-3a and understand the tumor-inhibitory molecular mechanisms of mushroom glycoproteins.
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PMID:Grifola frondosa Glycoprotein GFG-3a Arrests S phase, Alters Proteome, and Induces Apoptosis in Human Gastric Cancer Cells. 2704 Apr 46
An increase of nucleolar number and size has made nucleoli essential markers for cytology and tumour development. However, the underlying basis for their structural integrity and abundance remains unclear. Protein phosphatase PPM1D was found to be up-regulated in different carcinomas including breast cancers. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that PPM1D regulates nucleolar formation via inducing an increased phosphorylation of the nucleolar protein
NPM
. We show that PPM1D overexpression induces an increase in the nucleolar number regardless of
p53
status. We also demonstrated that specific sequential phosphorylation of
NPM
is important for nucleolar formation and that PPM1D is a novel upstream regulator of this phosphorylation pathway. These results enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that govern nucleoli formation by demonstrating that PPM1D regulates nucleolar formation by regulating
NPM
phosphorylation status through a novel signalling pathway, PPM1D-CDC25C-CDK1-PLK1.
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PMID:PPM1D controls nucleolar formation by up-regulating phosphorylation of nucleophosmin. 2761 10
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) and nucleophosmin (NPM1) are critical regulators of multiple biological and pathological processes. Although a reciprocal regulatory relationship was established between STAT5A and a
NPM
-ALK fusion protein in T-cell lymphoma, no direct connection between STAT5 and wild-type NPM1 has been documented. Here we demonstrate a mutually regulatory relationship between STAT5 and NPM1. Induction of STAT5 phosphorylation at Y694 (P-STAT5) diminished NPM1 expression, whereas inhibition of STAT5 phosphorylation enhanced NPM1 expression. Conversely, NPM1 not only negatively regulated STAT5 phosphorylation but also preserved unphosphorylated STAT5 level. Mechanistically, we show that NPM1 downregulation by P-STAT5 is mediated by impairing the BRCA1-BARD1 ubiquitin ligase, which controls the stability of NPM1. In turn, decreased NPM1 levels led to suppression of
p53
expression, resulting in enhanced cell survival. This study reveals a new STAT5 signaling pathway regulating
p53
expression via NPM1 and uncovers new therapeutic targets for anticancer treatment in tumors driven by STAT5 signaling.
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PMID:Phosphorylated STAT5 regulates p53 expression via BRCA1/BARD1-NPM1 and MDM2. 2800 77
The mouse p19
Arf
(human p14
ARF
) tumor suppressor protein, encoded in part from an alternative reading frame of the
Ink4a
(
Cdkn2a
) gene, inhibits the Mdm2 E3 ubiquitin ligase to activate
p53
.
Arf
is not expressed in most normal tissues of young mice but is induced by high thresholds of aberrant hyperproliferative signals, thereby activating
p53
in incipient tumor cells that have experienced oncogene activation. The single
Arf
mRNA encodes two distinct polypeptides, including full-length p19
Arf
and N-terminally truncated and unstable p15
smArf
("small mitochondrial Arf") initiated from an internal in-frame AUG codon specifying methionine-45. Interactions of p19
Arf
with Mdm2, or separately with nucleophosmin (
NPM
,
B23
) that localizes and stabilizes p19
Arf
within the nucleolus, require p19
Arf
N-terminal amino acids that are not present within p15
smArf
We have generated mice that produce either smARF alone or M45A-mutated (smArf-deficient) full-length p19
Arf
proteins. BCR-ABL-expressing pro/pre-B cells producing smArf alone are as oncogenic as their
Arf
-null counterparts in generating acute lymphoblastic leukemia when infused into unconditioned syngeneic mice. In contrast, smArf-deficient cells from mice of the
Arf
M45A
strain are as resistant as wild-type
Arf
+/+
cells to comparable oncogenic challenge and do not produce tumors. Apart from being prone to tumor development,
Arf
-null mice are blind, and their male germ cells exhibit defects in meiotic maturation and sperm production. Although
Arf
M45A
mice manifest the latter defects,
smArf
alone remarkably rescues both of these
p53
-independent developmental phenotypes.
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PMID:Small mitochondrial Arf (smArf) protein corrects p53-independent developmental defects of
Arf
tumor suppressor-deficient mice. 2865 70
The nucleolus is a distinct compartment of the nucleus responsible for ribosome biogenesis. Mis-regulation of nucleolar functions and of the cellular translation machinery has been associated with disease, in particular with many types of cancer. Indeed, many tumor suppressors (
p53
, Rb, PTEN, PICT1, BRCA1) and proto-oncogenes (MYC,
NPM
) play a direct role in the nucleolus, and interact with the RNA polymerase I transcription machinery and the nucleolar stress response. We have identified Dicer and the RNA interference pathway as having an essential role in the nucleolus of quiescent Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells, distinct from pericentromeric silencing, by controlling RNA polymerase I release. We propose that this novel function is evolutionarily conserved and may contribute to the tumorigenic pre-disposition of DICER1 mutations in mammals.
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PMID:New roles for Dicer in the nucleolus and its relevance to cancer. 2884 78
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by t(15;17)(q22;q21), resulting in a PML-RARA fusion that is the master driver of APL. A few cases that cannot be identified with PML-RARA by using conventional methods (karyotype analysis, FISH, and RT-PCR) involve abnormal promyelocytes that are fully in accordance with APL in morphology, cytochemistry, and immunophenotype. To explore the mechanisms involved in pathogenesis and recurrence of morphologically diagnosed APL, we performed comprehensive variant analysis by next-generation sequencing in 111 pediatric patients morphologically diagnosed as APL. Structural variant (SV) analysis in 120 DNA samples from both diagnosis and relapse stage identified 95 samples with RARA rearrangement (including 94 with PML-RARA and one with
NPM
-RARA) and two samples with KMT2A rearrangement. In the eligible 13 RNA samples without any RARA rearrangement at diagnosis, one case each with CPSF6-RARG, NPM1-CCDC28A, and TBC1D15-RAB21 and two cases with a TBL1XR1-RARB fusion were discovered. These uncovered fusion genes strongly suggested their contributions to leukemogenesis as driver alternations and APL phenotype may arise by abnormalities of other members of the nuclear receptor superfamily involved in retinoid signaling (RARB or RARG) or even by mechanisms distinct from the formation of aberrant retinoid receptors. Single-nucleotide variant (SNV) analysis in 77 children (80 samples) with RARA rearrangement showed recurrent alternations of primary APL in FLT3, WT1, USP9X, NRAS, and ARID1A, with a strong potential for involvement in pathogenesis, and WT1 as the only recurrently mutated gene in relapsed APL. WT1, NPM1, NRAS, FLT3, and NSD1 were identified as recurrently mutated in 17 primary samples without RARA rearrangement and WT1, NPM1,
TP53
, and RARA as recurrently mutated in 9 relapsed samples. The survival of APL with RARA rearrangement is much better than without RARA rearrangement. Thus, patients morphologically diagnosed as APL that cannot be identified as having a RARA rearrangement are more reasonably classified as a subclass of AML other than APL, and individualized treatment should be considered according to the genetic abnormalities.
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PMID:The genetics and clinical characteristics of children morphologically diagnosed as acute promyelocytic leukemia. 3057 21
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is associated with a characteristic chromosomal translocation that generates the oncogenic fusion protein, nucleophosmin-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (NPM-ALK). Methotrexate is a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug in the treatment of multiple cancers due to its inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), which suppresses the synthesis of DNA. In the present study, we found that low-dose methotrexate significantly induced apoptosis in transformed Ba/F3 cells expressing
NPM
-ALK by inhibiting the activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription factor 3 (STAT3), a critical downstream molecule of
NPM
-ALK. Although methotrexate prevented the phosphorylation of STAT3, it did not affect the activity of
NPM
-ALK. A co-treatment with folinic acid prevented the methotrexate-induced inhibition of STAT3 activation and induction of apoptosis, suggesting that methotrexate exerts its cytotoxic effects by depleting tetrahydrofolate (THF) in transformed cells by
NPM
-ALK. Furthermore, methotrexate induced the down-regulation of the anti-apoptotic protein, MCL-1, DNA damage, and the activation of a
p53 tumor suppressor
, leading to apoptosis through the inhibition of STAT3. Methotrexate significantly induced apoptosis in ALK inhibitor-resistant cells expressing the
NPM
-ALK mutant harboring the point mutation, G262R, and in ALCL patient-derived
NPM
-ALK-positive Ki-JK cells. Collectively, these results demonstrate the potential therapeutic application of methotrexate, which inhibits the activation of STAT3, to
NPM
-ALK-positive ALCL.
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PMID:Methotrexate significantly induces apoptosis by inhibiting STAT3 activation in NPM-ALK-positive ALCL cells. 3165 27
The oncogenic fusion protein nucleophosmin-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (NPM-ALK), found in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL), localizes to the cytosol, nucleoplasm, and nucleolus. However, the relationship between its localization and transforming activity remains unclear. We herein demonstrated that
NPM
-ALK localized to the nucleolus by binding to nucleophosmin 1 (NPM1), a nucleolar protein that exhibits shuttling activity between the nucleolus and cytoplasm, in a manner that was dependent on its kinase activity. In the nucleolus,
NPM
-ALK interacted with Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1-binding protein 2 (EBP2), which is involved in rRNA biosynthesis. Moreover, enforced expression of
NPM
-ALK induced tyrosine phosphorylation of EBP2. Knockdown of EBP2 promoted the activation of the
tumor suppressor p53
, leading to G
0
/G
1
-phase cell cycle arrest in Ba/F3 cells transformed by
NPM
-ALK and ALCL patient-derived Ki-JK cells, but not ALCL patient-derived SUDH-L1 cells harboring
p53
gene mutation. In Ba/F3 cells transformed by
NPM
-ALK and Ki-JK cells,
p53
activation induced by knockdown of EBP2 was significantly inhibited by Akt inhibitor GDC-0068, mTORC1 inhibitor rapamycin, and knockdown of Raptor, an essential component of mTORC1. These results suggest that the knockdown of EBP2 triggered
p53
activation through the Akt-mTORC1 pathway in
NPM
-ALK-positive cells. Collectively, the present results revealed the critical repressive mechanism of
p53
activity by EBP2 and provide a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of ALCL.
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PMID:EBP2, a novel NPM-ALK-interacting protein in the nucleolus, contributes to the proliferation of ALCL cells by regulating tumor suppressor p53. 3304 Apr 59
Combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV-1 dramatically slows disease progression among HIV
+
individuals. Currently, lymphoma represents the main cause of death among HIV-1-infected patients. Detection of p17 variants (vp17s) endowed with B-cell clonogenic activity in HIV-1-seropositive patients with lymphoma suggests their possible role in lymphomagenesis. Here, we demonstrate that the clonogenic activity of vp17s is mediated by their binding to PAR1 and to PAR1-mediated EGFR transactivation through Gq protein. The entire vp17s-triggered clonogenic process is MMPs dependent. Moreover, phosphoproteomic and bioinformatic analysis highlighted the crucial role of EGFR/PI3K/Akt pathway in modulating several molecules promoting cancer progression, including RAC1, ABL1,
p53
, CDK1,
NPM
, Rb, PTP-1B, and STAT1. Finally, we show that a peptide (F1) corresponding to the vp17s functional epitope is sufficient to trigger the PAR1/EGFR/PI3K/Akt pathway and bind PAR1. Our findings suggest novel potential therapeutic targets to counteract vp17-driven lymphomagenesis in HIV
+
patients.
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PMID:B-cell clonogenic activity of HIV-1 p17 variants is driven by PAR1-mediated EGF transactivation. 3309 43
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