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ArticleNature medicine2009

A purine scaffold Hsp90 inhibitor destabilizes BCL-6 and has specific antitumor activity in BCL-6-dependent B cell lymphomas.

Leandro C Cerchietti, Eloisi C Lopes, Shao Ning Yang, Katerina Hatzi, Karen L Bunting, Lucas A Tsikitas, Alka Mallik, Ana I Robles, Jennifer Walling, Lyuba Varticovski and 4 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 93 papers.

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93citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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93 citing papers in PubMed, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Leandro C CerchiettiDivision of Hematology and Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
Eloisi C Lopes
Shao Ning Yang
Katerina Hatzi
Karen L Bunting
Lucas A Tsikitas
Alka Mallik
Ana I Robles
Jennifer Walling
Lyuba Varticovski
Rita Shaknovich
Kapil N Bhalla
Gabriela Chiosis
Ari Melnick
Cornell University · USKettering University · USNational Cancer Institute · USAugusta University · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Transcriptional silencing by the BCL6 oncoproteinR01CA104348 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI MELNICK, ARI M. · 2004 to 2014
$2.6M
Trancriptional silencing by the Bcl-6 OncoproteinR56CA104348 · NCI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI MELNICK, ARI M. · 2009 to 2009
$267k
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 CA999999NCI NIH HHS R01-CA10434NCI NIH HHS R01 CA104348NCI NIH HHS R56 CA104348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report that heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors selectively kill diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) that depend on the BCL-6 transcriptional repressor. We found that endogenous Hsp90 interacts with BCL-6 in DLBCL cells and can stabilize BCL-6 mRNA and protein. Hsp90 formed a complex with BCL-6 at its target promoters, and Hsp90 inhibitors derepressed BCL-6 target genes. A stable mutant of BCL-6 rescued DLBCL cells from Hsp90 inhibitor-induced apoptosis. BCL-6 and Hsp90 were almost invariantly coexpressed in the nuclei of primary DLBCL cells, suggesting that their interaction is relevant in this disease. We examined the pharmacokinetics, toxicity and efficacy of PU-H71, a recently developed purine-derived Hsp90 inhibitor. PU-H71 preferentially accumulated in lymphomas compared to normal tissues and selectively suppressed BCL-6-dependent DLBCLs in vivo, inducing reactivation of key BCL-6 target genes and apoptosis. PU-H71 also induced cell death in primary human DLBCL specimens.

Indexed as

DNA-Binding ProteinsHSP90 Heat-Shock ProteinsHumansLymphoma, B-CellProtein BindingProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6BCL6 protein, humanDNA-Binding ProteinsHSP90 Heat-Shock ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6

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PMID19966776
PMCPMC2805915
OpenAlexW2054861724

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