Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39361741›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2024

Relocalizing transcriptional kinases to activate apoptosis.

Roman C Sarott, Sai Gourisankar, Basel Karim, Sabin Nettles, Haopeng Yang, Brendan G Dwyer, Juste M Simanauskaite, Jason Tse, Hind Abuzaid, Andrey Krokhotin and 5 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Targeting CDKs in the RNAPII transcription cycle.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  8. Proteomics-Driven Strategies for Proximity-Inducing Drug Discovery.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  13. Activating p53Nature communications · 2026
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  18. CDK12 and CDK13 in oncology: from RNA regulation to therapeutic targeting.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026
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  20. Reporter Gene Assay for Monitoring BCL6 Reactivation.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Roman C Sarott *Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8789-6150
Sai Gourisankar *Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0132-8086
Basel Karim *Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7928-0433
Sabin NettlesDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1913-9016
Haopeng YangDepartment of Lymphoma & Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3870-2679
Brendan G DwyerDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8593-4184
Juste M SimanauskaiteDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-1385-2599
Jason TseDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6958-0256
Hind AbuzaidDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5454-7672
Andrey KrokhotinDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Tinghu ZhangDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Stephen M HinshawDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4215-5206
Michael R GreenDepartment of Lymphoma & Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6309-9472
Gerald R CrabtreeDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9685-7911
Nathanael S GrayDepartment of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5354-7403

Funding

ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling in Human MalignancyR01CA163915 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Gerald R. Crabtree · 2012 to 2026
$5.4M
HIJACKING CANCER DRIVERS TO ACTIVATE PROAPOPTOTIC GENES IN DLBCLR01CA276167 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Gerald R. Crabtree, NATHANAEL Schiander GRAY · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Small molecule regulation of endogenous transcription factors for circuit-specific neuromodulationRF1MH126720 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CRABTREE, GERALD R. · 2021 to 2021
$1.3M
500 MHz NMR Spectrometer System with High Sensitivity Cryoprobe and Automated Sample Changer for Biochemical ResearchS10OD028697 · OD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BURNS, NOAH ZACHARY · 2020 to 2020
$709k
Sciex 6500+ QTrap Mass SpectrometerS10OD030332 · OD · SCRIPPS FLORIDA · PI CAMERON, MICHAEL DARIN · 2021 to 2021
$486k
Chemical-inducible Epigenome Editors for Allele-specific Gene Regulation in Developmental DisordersF31HD103339 · NICHD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GOURISANKAR, SAI · 2020 to 2022
$124k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA163915NCI NIH HHS R01 CA276167NICHD NIH HHS F31 HD103339NIH HHS S10 OD028697NIH HHS S10 OD030332NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH126720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kinases are critical regulators of cellular function that are commonly implicated in the mechanisms underlying disease. Most drugs that target kinases are molecules that inhibit their catalytic activity, but here we used chemically induced proximity to convert kinase inhibitors into activators of therapeutic genes. We synthesized bivalent molecules that link ligands of the transcription factor B cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) to inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). These molecules relocalized CDK9 to BCL6-bound DNA and directed phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II. The resulting expression of pro-apoptotic, BCL6-target genes caused killing of diffuse large B cell lymphoma cells and specific ablation of the BCL6-regulated germinal center response. Genomics and proteomics corroborated a gain-of-function mechanism in which global kinase activity was not inhibited but rather redirected. Thus, kinase inhibitors can be used to context-specifically activate transcription.

Indexed as

ApoptosisCyclin-Dependent Kinase 9Protein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6RNA Polymerase IIAnimalsCell Line, TumorDNAHumansLymphoma, Large B-Cell, DiffuseMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPhosphorylationTranscription, GeneticBCL6 protein, humanCDK9 protein, humanCyclin-Dependent Kinase 9DNAProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6RNA Polymerase II

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PMID39361741
PMCPMC11629774

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