Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Super-enhancer-based identification of a BATF3/IL-2R−module reveals vulnerabilities in anaplastic large cell lymphoma

  • Huan-Chang Liang,
  • Mariantonia Costanza,
  • Nicole Prutsch,
  • Mark W. Zimmerman,
  • Elisabeth Gurnhofer,
  • Ivonne A. Montes-Mojarro,
  • Brian J. Abraham,
  • Nina Prokoph,
  • Stefan Stoiber,
  • Simone Tangermann,
  • Cosimo Lobello,
  • Jan Oppelt,
  • Ioannis Anagnostopoulos,
  • Thomas Hielscher,
  • Shahid Pervez,
  • Wolfram Klapper,
  • Francesca Zammarchi,
  • Daniel-Adriano Silva,
  • K. Christopher Garcia,
  • David Baker,
  • Martin Janz,
  • Nikolai Schleussner,
  • Falko Fend,
  • Šárka Pospíšilová,
  • Andrea Janiková,
  • Jacqueline Wallwitz,
  • Dagmar Stoiber,
  • Ingrid Simonitsch-Klupp,
  • Lorenzo Cerroni,
  • Stefano Pileri,
  • Laurence de Leval,
  • David Sibon,
  • Virginie Fataccioli,
  • Philippe Gaulard,
  • Chalid Assaf,
  • Fabian Knörr,
  • Christine Damm-Welk,
  • Wilhelm Woessmann,
  • Suzanne D. Turner,
  • A. Thomas Look,
  • Stephan Mathas,
  • Lukas Kenner,
  • Olaf Merkel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25379-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is an aggressive T-cell lymphoma often with poor prognosis. To identify genes defining ALCL cell state and dependencies, the authors here characterize ALCL-specific super-enhancers and describe the BATF3/IL-2R−module as a therapeutic opportunity for ALCL.