Polymerase theta is a synthetic lethal target for killing Epstein-Barr virus lymphomas

生物 溶解循环 DNA聚合酶 爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒 DNA修复 癌症研究 病毒学 病毒 淋巴瘤 聚合酶 DNA复制 DNA 免疫学 遗传学
作者
Griffin H. Willman,Huanzhou Xu,Travis M. Zeigler,Michael T. McIntosh,Sumita Bhaduri‐McIntosh
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期刊:Journal of Virology [American Society for Microbiology]
卷期号:98 (7)
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DOI:10.1128/jvi.00572-24
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ABSTRACT Treatment options for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-cancers are limited, underscoring the need for new therapeutic approaches. We have previously shown that EBV-transformed cells and cancers lack homologous recombination (HR) repair, a prominent error-free pathway that repairs double-stranded DNA breaks; instead, EBV-transformed cells demonstrate genome-wide scars of the error-prone microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) repair pathway. This suggests that EBV-cancers are vulnerable to synthetic lethal therapeutic approaches that target MMEJ repair. Indeed, we have previously found that targeting PARP, an enzyme that contributes to MMEJ, results in the death of EBV-lymphoma cells. With the emergence of clinical resistance to PARP inhibitors and the recent discovery of inhibitors of Polymerase theta (POLθ), the polymerase essential for MMEJ, we investigated the role of POLθ in EBV-lymphoma cells. We report that EBV-transformed cell lines, EBV-lymphoma cell lines, and EBV-lymphomas in AIDS patients demonstrate greater abundance of POLθ, driven by the EBV protein EBNA1, compared to EBV-uninfected primary lymphocytes and EBV-negative lymphomas from AIDS patients (a group that also abundantly expresses POLθ). We also find POLθ enriched at cellular DNA replication forks and exposure to the POLθ inhibitor Novobiocin impedes replication fork progress, impairs MMEJ-mediated repair of DNA double-stranded breaks, and kills EBV-lymphoma cells. Notably, cell killing is not due to Novobiocin-induced activation of the lytic/replicative phase of EBV. These findings support a role for POLθ not just in DNA repair but also DNA replication and as a therapeutic target in EBV-lymphomas and potentially other EBV-cancers as EBNA1 is expressed in all EBV-cancers. IMPORTANCE Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) contributes to ~2% of the global cancer burden. With a recent estimate of >200,000 deaths a year, identifying molecular vulnerabilities will be key to the management of these frequently aggressive and treatment-resistant cancers. Building on our earlier work demonstrating reliance of EBV-cancers on microhomology-mediated end-joining repair, we now report that EBV lymphomas and transformed B cell lines abundantly express the MMEJ enzyme POLθ that likely protects cellular replication forks and repairs replication-related cellular DNA breaks. Importantly also, we show that a newly identified POLθ inhibitor kills EBV-cancer cells, revealing a novel strategy to block DNA replication and repair of these aggressive cancers.
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