Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22084011
Keywords
glioblastoma; cancer stem cells; DYRK1A; CDK5; SOX2; bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4)
Funding
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [APP1106145]
- Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellowship [15/CDF/1-07]
- University of Sydney Professor Tony Basten Fellowship
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The study demonstrates the important role of DYRK1A kinase in regulating the differentiation commitment of glioblastoma stem cells. Inhibiting DYRK1A insulates GSCs from differentiation-inducing signals, promoting differentiation and limiting stemness acquisition through deactivation of CDK5. This novel DYRK1A-CDK5-SOX2 pathway sheds further light on the mechanisms underlying the maintenance of glioblastoma stem cells.
Glioblastoma display vast cellular heterogeneity, with glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) at the apex. The critical role of GSCs in tumour growth and resistance to therapy highlights the need to delineate mechanisms that control stemness and differentiation potential of GSC. Dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1A (DYRK1A) regulates neural progenitor cell differentiation, but its role in cancer stem cell differentiation is largely unknown. Herein, we demonstrate that DYRK1A kinase is crucial for the differentiation commitment of glioblastoma stem cells. DYRK1A inhibition insulates the self-renewing population of GSCs from potent differentiation-inducing signals. Mechanistically, we show that DYRK1A promotes differentiation and limits stemness acquisition via deactivation of CDK5, an unconventional kinase recently described as an oncogene. DYRK1A-dependent inactivation of CDK5 results in decreased expression of the stemness gene SOX2 and promotes the commitment of GSC to differentiate. Our investigations of the novel DYRK1A-CDK5-SOX2 pathway provide further insights into the mechanisms underlying glioblastoma stem cell maintenance.
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