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Targeting Processive Transcription Elongation via SEC Disruption for MYC-Induced Cancer Therapy.

Cell | 2018

The super elongation complex (SEC) is required for robust and productive transcription through release of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) with its P-TEFb module and promoting transcriptional processivity with its ELL2 subunit. Malfunction of SEC contributes to multiple human diseases including cancer. Here, we identify peptidomimetic lead compounds, KL-1 and its structural homolog KL-2, which disrupt the interaction between the SEC scaffolding protein AFF4 and P-TEFb, resulting in impaired release of Pol II from promoter-proximal pause sites and a reduced average rate of processive transcription elongation. SEC is required for induction of heat-shock genes and treating cells with KL-1 and KL-2 attenuates the heat-shock response from Drosophila to human. SEC inhibition downregulates MYC and MYC-dependent transcriptional programs in mammalian cells and delays tumor progression in a mouse xenograft model of MYC-driven cancer, indicating that small-molecule disruptors of SEC could be used for targeted therapy of MYC-induced cancer.

Pubmed ID: 30340042 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R50 CA211428
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS093079
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 CA060553
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 CA070085
  • Agency: NINDS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 NS126513
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA214035

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