TY - JOUR
T1 - Inhibition of sphingosine kinase 2 downregulates the expression of c-Myc and Mcl-1 and induces apoptosis in multiple myeloma
AU - Venkata, Jagadish Kummetha
AU - An, Ningfei
AU - Stuart, Robert
AU - Costa, Luciano J.
AU - Cai, Houjian
AU - Coker, Woodrow
AU - Song, Jin H.
AU - Gibbs, Kiwana
AU - Matson, Terri
AU - Garrett-Mayer, Elizabeth
AU - Wan, Zhuang
AU - Ogretmen, Besim
AU - Smith, Charles
AU - Kang, Yubin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by The American Society of Hematology.
PY - 2014/9/18
Y1 - 2014/9/18
N2 - Sphingolipid metabolismisbeing increasingly recognized as a key path way in regulating cancer cell survival and proliferation. However, very little is known about its role in multiple myeloma (MM). We investigated the potential of targeting sphingosine kinase 2 (SK2) for the treatment of MM. We found that SK2 was overexpressed in MM cell lines and in primary human bone marrow (BM) CD138+myeloma cells. Inhibition of SK2 by SK2-specific short hairpin RNA or ABC294640 (a SK2 specific inhibitor) effectively inhibited myeloma cell proliferation and induced caspase 3-mediated apoptosis. ABC294640 inhibited primary human CD138+myeloma cells with the same efficacy as with MM cell lines. ABC294640 effectively induced apoptosis of myeloma cells, eveninthe presence of BM stromal cells. Furthermore, we found that ABC294640 downregulated the expression of pS6 and directed c-Myc and myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) for proteasome degradation. In addition, ABC294640 increased Noxa gene transcription and protein expression. ABC294640, per se, did not affect the expression of B-cell lymphoma2(Bcl-2), but acted synergistically with ABT-737 (a Bcl-2 inhibitor) in inducing myeloma cell death. ABC294640 suppressed myeloma tumor growth in vivo in mouse myeloma xenograft models. Our data demonstrated that SK2 provides a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of MM. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT01410981.
AB - Sphingolipid metabolismisbeing increasingly recognized as a key path way in regulating cancer cell survival and proliferation. However, very little is known about its role in multiple myeloma (MM). We investigated the potential of targeting sphingosine kinase 2 (SK2) for the treatment of MM. We found that SK2 was overexpressed in MM cell lines and in primary human bone marrow (BM) CD138+myeloma cells. Inhibition of SK2 by SK2-specific short hairpin RNA or ABC294640 (a SK2 specific inhibitor) effectively inhibited myeloma cell proliferation and induced caspase 3-mediated apoptosis. ABC294640 inhibited primary human CD138+myeloma cells with the same efficacy as with MM cell lines. ABC294640 effectively induced apoptosis of myeloma cells, eveninthe presence of BM stromal cells. Furthermore, we found that ABC294640 downregulated the expression of pS6 and directed c-Myc and myeloid cell leukemia 1 (Mcl-1) for proteasome degradation. In addition, ABC294640 increased Noxa gene transcription and protein expression. ABC294640, per se, did not affect the expression of B-cell lymphoma2(Bcl-2), but acted synergistically with ABT-737 (a Bcl-2 inhibitor) in inducing myeloma cell death. ABC294640 suppressed myeloma tumor growth in vivo in mouse myeloma xenograft models. Our data demonstrated that SK2 provides a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of MM. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT01410981.
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U2 - 10.1182/blood-2014-03-559385
DO - 10.1182/blood-2014-03-559385
M3 - Article
C2 - 25122609
AN - SCOPUS:84907189574
SN - 0006-4971
VL - 124
SP - 1915
EP - 1925
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
IS - 12
ER -