Chen Zhenhua, Zeng Chengwu, Yang Lu, Che Yuan, Chen Meiling, Sau Lillian, Wang Bintao, Zhou Keren, Chen Yu, Qing Ying, Shen Chao, Zhang Tingjian, Wunderlich Mark, Wu Dong, Li Wei, Wang Kitty, Leung Keith, Sun Miao, Tang Tingting, He Xin, Zhang Lianjun, Swaminathan Srividya, Mulloy James C, Müschen Markus, Huang Huilin, Weng Hengyou, Xiao Gang, Deng Xiaolan, Chen Jianjun
Department of Systems Biology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA; Center for RNA Biology and Therapeutics, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
Department of Systems Biology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA; Center for RNA Biology and Therapeutics, City of Hope Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, CA 91010, USA; Jinan University Institute of Hematology, and Department of Hematology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510700, China.
Cell. 2025 Jan 23;188(2):331-351.e30. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.11.007. Epub 2024 Dec 17.
Long-term durable remission in patients with B cell malignancies following chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell immunotherapy remains unsatisfactory, often due to antigen escape. Malignant B cell transformation and oncogenic growth relies on efficient ATP synthesis, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we report that YTHDF2 facilitates energy supply and antigen escape in B cell malignancies, and its overexpression alone is sufficient to cause B cell transformation and tumorigenesis. Mechanistically, YTHDF2 functions as a dual reader where it stabilizes mRNAs as a 5-methylcytosine (mC) reader via recruiting PABPC1, thereby enhancing their expression and ATP synthesis. Concomitantly, YTHDF2 also promotes immune evasion by destabilizing other mRNAs as an N-methyladenosine (mA) reader. Small-molecule-mediated targeting of YTHDF2 suppresses aggressive B cell malignancies and sensitizes them to CAR-T cell therapy.
嵌合抗原受体(CAR)-T细胞免疫疗法后,B细胞恶性肿瘤患者的长期持久缓解仍不尽人意,这通常是由于抗原逃逸所致。恶性B细胞转化和致癌生长依赖于高效的ATP合成,尽管其潜在机制尚不清楚。在此,我们报告YTHDF2促进B细胞恶性肿瘤中的能量供应和抗原逃逸,仅其过表达就足以导致B细胞转化和肿瘤发生。从机制上讲,YTHDF2作为一种双重阅读蛋白发挥作用,它作为5-甲基胞嘧啶(mC)阅读蛋白通过招募PABPC1来稳定mRNA,从而增强其表达和ATP合成。与此同时,YTHDF2作为N-甲基腺苷(mA)阅读蛋白通过使其他mRNA不稳定来促进免疫逃逸。小分子介导的YTHDF2靶向抑制侵袭性B细胞恶性肿瘤,并使其对CAR-T细胞疗法敏感。
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