Etude de la stabilité et des mécanismes d'action de la protéine kinase oncogénique Pim-2 dans la Leucémie Aigüe Myéloïde

摘要

The kinases of Pim family are implicated in many haematological cancers, whose Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and multiple myeloma. Contrary of the most others proteins kinases which needs activation by the preliminary phosphorylation of catalytic domain, the activity of Pim kinases is constitutive. The regulation of Pim2 expression and its mechanisms of action are not well-known. One part of my project consisted in the study of the expression and stability of Pim2 in AML and myeloma cells. I have shown that the expression of Pim2 is regulated at transcriptional level by STAT5. The three isoforms of Pim2 have very short half-lives. Theirs fast degradations seem to be constitutive and independent of intracellular pathway. It involves the proteasome machinery but not seems to need the preliminary ubiquitination of the protein. Forms of Pim2 accumulated in the cells when the proteasome is inhibited are actives. These firsts data drove me to think about the interest of Pim inhibitor in multiple myeloma, where the using of proteasome inhibitor as treatment increase the accumulation of this oncogenic kinase. The second part of my project was to identify the potentials substrates and partners of Pim2 in AML. In this aim, I developed a method of metabolic labelling coupled with a global quantitative phosphoproteomic approach, as well as a specific antibody targeted against this protein to realize an interactome analysis of Pim2. The informations obtained allowed me to show the activation of mTORC1 pathway by Pim2 and to identify the Polo-Like Kinase (PLK1) as a new substrate and partner of Pim2. My results show that Pim2 and PLK1 are colocalized during the differents mitotic phases, particularly at the midbody level during the separation of cell.