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    MCL-1 is required throughout B-cell development and its loss sensitizes specific B-cell subsets to inhibition of BCL-2 or BCL-XL

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    Vikstrom, IB; Slomp, A; Carrington, EM; Moesbergen, LM; Chang, C; Kelly, GL; Glaser, SP; Jansen, JHM; Leusen, JHW; Strasser, A; ...
    Date
    2016-08-01
    Source Title
    Cell Death and Disease
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    NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
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    Carrington, Emma; Kelly, Gemma; Glaser, Stephan; Strasser, Andreas; Huang, David; Lew, Andrew; Tarlinton, David; Vikstrom, Ingela; PEPERZAK, VICTOR
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    Microbiology and Immunology
    Medical Biology (W.E.H.I.)
    Bio21
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    Vikstrom, I. B., Slomp, A., Carrington, E. M., Moesbergen, L. M., Chang, C., Kelly, G. L., Glaser, S. P., Jansen, J. H. M., Leusen, J. H. W., Strasser, A., Huang, D. C. S., Lew, A. M., Peperzak, V. & Tarlinton, D. M. (2016). MCL-1 is required throughout B-cell development and its loss sensitizes specific B-cell subsets to inhibition of BCL-2 or BCL-XL. CELL DEATH & DISEASE, 7 (8), https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2016.237.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/256426
    DOI
    10.1038/cddis.2016.237
    Abstract
    Pro-survival BCL-2 family members protect cells from programmed cell death that can be induced by multiple internal or external cues. Within the haematopoietic lineages, the BCL-2 family members BCL-2, BCL-XL and MCL-1 are known to support cell survival but the individual and overlapping roles of these pro-survival BCL-2 proteins for the persistence of individual leukocyte subsets in vivo has not yet been determined. By combining inducible knockout mouse models with the BH3-mimetic compound ABT-737, which inhibits BCL-2, BCL-XL and BCL-W, we found that dependency on MCL-1, BCL-XL or BCL-2 expression changes during B-cell development. We show that BCL-XL expression promotes survival of immature B cells, expression of BCL-2 is important for survival of mature B cells and long-lived plasma cells (PC), and expression of MCL-1 is important for survival throughout B-cell development. These data were confirmed with novel highly specific BH3-mimetic compounds that target either BCL-2, BCL-XL or MCL-1. In addition, we observed that combined inhibition of these pro-survival proteins acts in concert to delete specific B-cell subsets. Reduced expression of MCL-1 further sensitized immature as well as transitional B cells and splenic PC to loss of BCL-XL expression. More markedly, loss of MCL-1 greatly sensitizes PC populations to BCL-2 inhibition using ABT-737, even though the total wild-type PC pool in the spleen is not significantly affected by this drug and the bone marrow (BM) PC population only slightly. Combined loss or inhibition of MCL-1 and BCL-2 reduced the numbers of established PC >100-fold within days. Our data suggest that combination treatment targeting these pro-survival proteins could be advantageous for treatment of antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases and B-cell malignancies.

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