Pharmacologic activation of p53-dependent and p53-independent apoptotic pathways in Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Pharmacologic activation of p53-dependent and p53-independent apoptotic pathways in Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells
Creators Name:	Janz, M. and Stuehmer, T. and Vassilev, L.T. and Bargou, R.C.
Abstract:	The status of the p53 pathway in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) remains unclear, and a lack of proven TP53 mutations contrasts with often high expression levels of p53 protein. In this study, we demonstrate that pharmacologic activation of the p53 pathway with the murine double minute 2 (MDM2) antagonist nutlin-3 in Hodgkin lymphoma-derived cell lines leads to effective apoptosis induction and sensitizes the cells to other anticancer drugs. Cells with mutant p53 are resistant to nutlin-3, but sensitive to geldanamycin, a pharmacologic inhibitor of heat shock 90 kDa protein (HSP90), indicating that HSP90 inhibition can induce apoptosis in a p53-independent manner. Conversely, cells with defects in the HSP90/nuclear factor-kappa B pathway expressing wild-type p53 are more resistant to geldanamycin, but still sensitive to nutlin-3. Our results suggest that selective activation of p53 by MDM2 antagonists as a single agent or in combination with conventional chemotherapeutics and/or inhibitors of p53-independent survival pathways may offer effective treatment options for patients with cHL. Importantly, because nutlins and HSP90 inhibitors are non-genotoxic agents, their use might offer a means to reduce the genotoxic burden of current chemotherapeutic regimens.
Keywords:	Hodgkin Lymphoma, p53, Nutlin-3, Apoptosis, Animals, Mice
Source:	Leukemia
ISSN:	0887-6924
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Volume:	21
Number:	4
Page Range:	772-779
Date:	April 2007
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2404565
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