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The APC/C E3 Ligase Complex Activator FZR1 Restricts BRAF Oncogenic Function Published OnlineFirst February 7, 2017; DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0647 RESEARCH ARTICLE The APC/C E3 Ligase Complex Activator FZR1 Restricts BRAF Oncogenic Function Lixin Wan1,2, Ming Chen3, Juxiang Cao4, Xiangpeng Dai1, Qing Yin2, Jinfang Zhang1, Su-Jung Song3, Ying Lu5, Jing Liu1,6, Hiroyuki Inuzuka1, Jesse M. Katon3, Kelsey Berry3, Jacqueline Fung3, Christopher Ng3, Pengda Liu1, Min Sup Song7, Lian Xue2, Roderick T. Bronson8, Marc W. Kirschner5, Rutao Cui4, Pier Paolo Pandolfi3, and Wenyi Wei1 Downloaded from cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org on September 28, 2021. © 2017 American Association for Cancer Research. Published OnlineFirst February 7, 2017; DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0647 ABSTRACT BRAF drives tumorigenesis by coordinating the activation of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK oncogenic signaling cascade. However, upstream pathways governing BRAF kinase activity and protein stability remain undefined. Here, we report that in primary cells with active APCFZR1, APCFZR1 earmarks BRAF for ubiquitination-mediated proteolysis, whereas in cancer cells with APC-free FZR1, FZR1 suppresses BRAF through disrupting BRAF dimerization. Moreover, we identified FZR1 as a direct target of ERK and CYCLIN D1/CDK4 kinases. Phosphorylation of FZR1 inhibits APCFZR1, leading to elevation of a cohort of oncogenic APCFZR1 substrates to facilitate melanomagenesis. Importantly, CDK4 and/or BRAF/MEK inhibitors restore APCFZR1 E3 ligase activity, which might be critical for their clinical effects. Furthermore, FZR1 depletion cooperates with AKT hyperactivation to transform primary mel- anocytes, whereas genetic ablation of Fzr1 synergizes with Pten loss, leading to aberrant coactivation of BRAF/ERK and AKT signaling in mice. Our findings therefore reveal a reciprocal suppression mechanism between FZR1 and BRAF in controlling tumorigenesis. SIGNIFICANCE: FZR1 inhibits BRAF oncogenic functions via both APC-dependent proteolysis and APC- independent disruption of BRAF dimers, whereas hyperactivated ERK and CDK4 reciprocally suppress APCFZR1 E3 ligase activity. Aberrancies in this newly defined signaling network might account for BRAF hyperactivation in human cancers, suggesting that targeting CYCLIN D1/CDK4, alone or in combination with BRAF/MEK inhibition, can be an effective anti-melanoma therapy. Cancer Discov; 7(4); 1–18. ©2017 AACR. See related commentary by Zhang and Bollag, p. 356. INTRODUCTION progression through the M–G1 phases, largely by controlling the proteolytic degradation of key cell-cycle regulators, including The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C, mitotic cyclins and DNA replication factors (1). Notably, unlike also named APC) ubiquitin E3 ligase is essential for cell-cycle CDC20, which has restricted function in M phase, its close homolog, Fizzy-related protein 1 (FZR1, also named CDH1), associates with the APC core complex in late M phase and early 1Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 2Department of Molecular Onco- G1 phase and determines G1 phase cell-cycle fate decisions (2). logy, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. During the remainder of the cell cycle, phosphorylation of FZR1 3Cancer Research Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Depart- by cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) abolishes the interaction ment of Medicine and Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Har- between FZR1 and the APC core complex, therefore inhibiting vard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. 4Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, APC-dependent functions of FZR1 (3–6). Although the APC- Boston, Massachusetts. 5Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical dependent functions of FZR1 have been well documented (7), School, Boston, Massachusetts. 6Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medi- how APC-free FZR1 participates in various cellular processes is cine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry just beginning to be uncovered (8). To this end, we have recently of Education, School of Life Science and Technology and Frontier Institute demonstrated an APC-independent function of FZR1 in posi- of Life Science, FIST, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.R. China. 7Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD tive regulation of the ubiquitin E3 ligase activity of SMURF1 Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 8Department of Microbiology and to influence osteoblast differentiation (9). However, APC-inde- Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. pendent functions of FZR1 in controlling tumorigenesis, as well Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Cancer Discovery as in other cellular or tissue contexts, remain largely elusive. Online (http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/). There is mounting evidence indicating a tumor-suppres- L. Wan, M. Chen, J. Cao, X. Dai, and Q. Yin contributed equally to this article. sive role for FZR1 (8). Consistent with this notion, most Current address for J. Cao: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, FZR1 substrates, including mitotic and S-phase cyclins (10), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. mitotic kinases (11), and DNA replication factors (12), are Corresponding Authors: Wenyi Wei, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, frequently overexpressed in a wide spectrum of human malig- 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Phone: 617-735-2495; Fax: nancies (8). Moreover, FZR1 deletions, reduced expression, and 617-735-2480; E-mail: [email protected]; Lixin Wan, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, mutations are found in various human tumor tissues (13, 14). Tampa, FL 33612. Phone: 813-745-2824; E-mail: [email protected]; Furthermore, whereas Fzr1 homozygous deletion results Juxiang Cao, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard in embryonic lethality, Fzr1 heterozygous mice are more University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Phone: 617-495- susceptible to developing epithelial tumors (15). In addition, 9239; E-mail: [email protected]; Rutao Cui, Boston University School of our recent studies revealed a crucial role of APCFZR1 in con- Medicine, 609 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118. Phone: 617-414-1370; E-mail: [email protected]; and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Beth Israel Deaconess trolling melanocyte differentiation and pigmentation (16). Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Phone: 617- However, the molecular mechanisms underlying how loss 735-2121; E-mail: [email protected] of FZR1 induces tumorigenesis still remain largely unclear. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0647 Hence, it is important to define the major downstream onco- ©2017 American Association for Cancer Research. genic signaling pathways that are negatively regulated by the APRIL 2017 CANCER DISCOVERY | OF2 Downloaded from cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org on September 28, 2021. © 2017 American Association for Cancer Research. Published OnlineFirst February 7, 2017; DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-16-0647 RESEARCH ARTICLE Wan et al. FZR1 tumor suppressor, which will further define the critical melanocytes (Fig. 1E), resulting in an extended half-life of role of FZR1 in tumorigenesis. endogenous BRAF (Fig. 1F and G). The RAF family of protein kinases consists of ARAF, BRAF, Additional depletion of endogenous BRAF in FZR1-knock- and CRAF isoforms, which play a central role in driving tum- down HPM (Fig. 1H) and melan-a cells (Supplementary origenesis through activation of the MEK/ERK oncogenic Fig. S1D) largely suppressed FZR1 depletion–triggered pERK signaling cascade (17). Notably, although cancer-associated elevation, suggesting that FZR1 inhibits ERK activation pri- BRAF mutants were found in over 60% of patients with mela- marily through BRAF. Furthermore, depletion of other APC noma and thyroid cancer (18), in other types of cancers, BRAF complex subunits, such as CDC27 or APC10, also resulted in genetic status is largely wild-type (WT; ref. 19). Therefore, BRAF accumulation and ERK activation (Fig. 1I and J). In it is important to understand mechanistically how BRAF is contrast, depletion of endogenous CDC20 failed to elevate aberrantly upregulated or hyperactivated in human cancers either BRAF or pERK levels (Fig. 1K). Together, these data with WT-BRAF. This valuable information will provide fur- suggest that in primary cells, FZR1, but not CDC20, nega- ther insights to guide targeted therapy strategies to efficiently tively regulates BRAF abundance and subsequent ERK activa- treat patients with cancer carrying WT-BRAF. tion largely in an APC-dependent manner. On the other hand, the BRAFV600E oncogenic mutation has become a major drug target in developing targeted thera- Depletion of FZR1 Triggers Senescence in peutics against BRAFV600E-driven cancers, including mela- Primary Melanocytes noma (20, 21). Although anti-BRAFV600E inhibitors, including As hyperactivation of the RAF/MEK/ERK signaling cascade vemurafenib (PLX4032; ref. 22) and dabrafenib (23), were has been closely linked to nevi formation composed of senes- approved in treating patients with melanoma harboring this cent melanocytes (29), we sought to investigate whether acute mutation, drug resistance is frequently reported (24), sug- depletion of FZR1 could also result in a similar senescent gesting a limitation of single-agent treatment. Recent clini- phenotype in primary melanocytes as it does in human pri- cal
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