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Cells. 2021 Oct 22;10(11). doi: 10.3390/cells10112853.

High Immunoproteasome Activity and sXBP1 in Pediatric Precursor B-ALL Predicts Sensitivity towards Proteasome Inhibitors.

Cells

Lenka Besse, Andrej Besse, Marianne Kraus, Elmer Maurits, Herman S Overkleeft, Beat Bornhauser, Jean-Pierre Bourquin, Christoph Driessen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Oncology and Hematology, Experimental Oncology and Hematology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  2. Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2333 CD Leiden, The Netherlands.
  3. Department of Oncology and Children's Research Centre, University Children's Hospital Zurich, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland.

PMID: 34831075 PMCID: PMC8616377 DOI: 10.3390/cells10112853

Abstract

Proteasome inhibitors (PIs) are approved backbone treatments in multiple myeloma. More recently, inhibition of proteasome activity with the PI bortezomib has been clinically evaluated as a novel treatment strategy in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). However, we lack a marker that could identify ALL patients responding to PI-based therapy. By using a set of activity-based proteasome probes in conjunction with cytotoxicity assays, we show that B-cell precursor ALL (BCP-ALL), in contrast to T-ALL, demonstrates an increased activity of immunoproteasome over constitutive proteasome, which correlates with high ex vivo sensitivity to the PIs bortezomib and ixazomib. The novel selective PI LU015i-targeting immunoproteasome β5i induces cytotoxicity in BCP-ALL containing high β5i activity, confirming immunoproteasome activity as a novel therapeutic target in BCP-ALL. At the same time, cotreatment with β2-selective proteasome inhibitors can sensitize T-ALL to currently available PIs, as well as to β5i selective PI. In addition, levels of total and spliced forms of XBP1 differ between BCP-ALL and T-ALL, and only in BCP-ALL does high-spliced XBP1 correlate with sensitivity to bortezomib. Thus, in BCP-ALL, high immunoproteasome activity may serve as a predictive marker for PI-based treatment options, potentially combined with XBP1 analyses.

Keywords: BCP-ALL; LU015i; T-ALL; activity-based probes; immunoproteasome; pediatric leukemia; proteasome activity; proteasome inhibitors

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