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MITF and c-Jun antagonism interconnects melanoma dedifferentiation with pro-inflammatory cytokine responsiveness and myeloid cell recruitment

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Riesenberg, Stefanie, Groetchen, Angela, Siddaway, Robert, Bald, Tobias, Reinhardt, Julia, Smorra, Denise, Kohlmeyer, Judith, Renn, Marcel, Phung, Bengt, Aymans, Pia, Schmidt, Tobias, Hornung, Veit, Davidson, Irwin, Goding, Colin R., Jönsson, Göran, Landsberg, Jennifer, Tüting, Thomas, Hölzel, Michael·2015·Nature Communications

Abstract

Inflammation promotes phenotypic plasticity in melanoma, a source of non-genetic heterogeneity, but the molecular framework is poorly understood. Here we use functional genomic approaches and identify a reciprocal antagonism between the melanocyte lineage transcription factor MITF and c-Jun, which interconnects inflammation-induced dedifferentiation with pro-inflammatory cytokine responsiveness of melanoma cells favouring myeloid cell recruitment. We show that pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α instigate gradual suppression of MITF expression through c-Jun. MITF itself binds to the c-Jun regulatory genomic region and its reduction increases c-Jun expression that in turn amplifies TNF-stimulated cytokine expression with further MITF suppression. This feed-forward mechanism turns poor peak-like transcriptional responses to TNF-α into progressive and persistent cytokine and chemokine induction. Consistently, inflammatory MITF low/c-Jun high syngeneic mouse melanomas recruit myeloid immune cells into the tumour microenvironment as recapitulated by their human counterparts. Our study suggests myeloid cell-directed therapies may be useful for MITF low/c-Jun high melanomas to counteract their growth-promoting and immunosuppressive functions.

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Riesenberg, S., Groetchen, A., Siddaway, R., Bald, T., Reinhardt, J., Smorra, D., Kohlmeyer, J., Renn, M., Phung, B., Aymans, P., Schmidt, T., Hornung, V., Davidson, I., Goding, C. R., Jönsson, G., Landsberg, J., Tüting, T., & Hölzel, M.
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Nature Communications
Published
2015-11-04
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
8755-8755
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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W2186855780
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227
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24
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7.20
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journal article
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en
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Riesenberg, S., Groetchen, A., Siddaway, R., Bald, T., Reinhardt, J., Smorra, D., Kohlmeyer, J., Renn, M., Phung, B., Aymans, P., Schmidt, T., Hornung, V., Davidson, I., Goding, C. R., Jönsson, G., Landsberg, J., Tüting, T., & Hölzel, M. (2015). MITF and c-Jun antagonism interconnects melanoma dedifferentiation with pro-inflammatory cytokine responsiveness and myeloid cell recruitment. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9755

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