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Stress from Nucleotide Depletion Activates the Transcriptional Regulator HEXIM1 to Suppress Melanoma

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Tan, Justin L.; Fogley, Rachel D.; Flynn, Ryan A.; Ablain, Julien; Yang, Song; Do, Brian T.; Laga, Alvaro C.; Fujinaga, Koh; Santoriello, Cristina; Greer, Celeste B.; Kim, Yoon Jung; Clohessy, John G.; Bothmer, Anne; Pandell, Nicole; Avagyan, Serine; Brogie, John E.; van Rooijen, Ellen; Hagedorn, Elliott J.; Shyh-Chang, Ng; White, Richard M.; Price, David H.; Pandolfi, Pier Paolo; Peterlin, B. Matija; Zhou, Yi; Kim, Tae Hoon; Asara, John M.; Chang, Howard Y.; Zon, Leonard I.; Saint-André, Violaine; Fan, Zi Peng; Young, Richard A.; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
Studying cancer metabolism gives insight into tumorigenic survival mechanisms and susceptibilities. In melanoma, we identify HEXIM1, a transcription elongation regulator, as a melanoma tumor suppressor that responds to nucleotide stress. HEXIM1 expression is low in melanoma. Its overexpression in a zebrafish melanoma model suppresses cancer formation, while its inactivation accelerates tumor onset in vivo. Knockdown of HEXIM1 rescues zebrafish neural crest defects and human melanoma proliferation defects that arise from nucleotide depletion. Under nucleotide stress, HEXIM1 is induced to form an inhibitory complex with P-TEFb, the kinase that initiates transcription elongation, to inhibit elongation at tumorigenic genes. The resulting alteration in gene expression also causes anti-tumorigenic RNAs to bind to and be stabilized by HEXIM1. HEXIM1 plays an important role in inhibiting cancer cell-specific gene transcription while also facilitating anti-cancer gene expression. Our study reveals an important role for HEXIM1 in coupling nucleotide metabolism with transcriptional regulation in melanoma.
Date issued
2016-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116990
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Journal
Molecular Cell
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
Tan, Justin L. et al. “Stress from Nucleotide Depletion Activates the Transcriptional Regulator HEXIM1 to Suppress Melanoma.” Molecular Cell 62, 1 (April 2016): 34–46 © 2016 Elsevier Inc
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1097-2765
1097-4164

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