Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

THZ1 targeting CDK7 suppresses STAT transcriptional activity and sensitizes T-cell lymphomas to BCL2 inhibitors

  • Florencia Cayrol,
  • Pannee Praditsuktavorn,
  • Tharu M. Fernando,
  • Nicholas Kwiatkowski,
  • Rosella Marullo,
  • M. Nieves Calvo-Vidal,
  • Jude Phillip,
  • Benet Pera,
  • Shao Ning Yang,
  • Kaipol Takpradit,
  • Lidia Roman,
  • Marcello Gaudiano,
  • Ramona Crescenzo,
  • Jia Ruan,
  • Giorgio Inghirami,
  • Tinghu Zhang,
  • Graciela Cremaschi,
  • Nathanael S. Gray,
  • Leandro Cerchietti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14290
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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T-cell lymphomas are aggressive diseases associated with poor outcome. Here, the authors show that the THZ1, a CDK7 inhibitor, suppresses STAT transcriptional activity leading to apoptosis and sensitization to BCL2 inhibitors in T-cell lymphomas.