BCL6 degradation impairs BL growth and potentiates MYC inhibition. (A) Western blot analyses for BCL6 expression on the indicated BL cell lines. Cells were treated for 60 minutes with BI-3802 (1 or 5 μM), BI-3812 (1 μM), or vehicle (-) before collection. Data are representative of 2 experiments. β-actin was used as loading control. (B) Western blot analysis for BCL6 on immortalized lymphoma cell lines obtained from FBXO11-WT (Eμ-myc) or -KO (Eμ-myc/FBXO11fl/fl;CD19-Cretg/+) mice. Cells were treated for 1 hour with BI-3802 (1 or 5 μM), BI-3812 (1 μM), or vehicle (-) before collection. Data are representative of 2 experiments with similar results. β-actin was used as loading control. (C) Effects of BCL6 degradation on WT and FBXO11-KO RAJI (clones #1 and #2) cell growth. Cells were kept at constant concentrations of the degrader BI-3802 as indicated (1 μM or 5 μM) and split to 100 000 cells per milliliter every 3 days. Split rates were multiplied to derive growth curves. Data are mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) and are representative of ≥3 independent experiments. *P < .05, **P < .01, unpaired 2-tailed Student t test. (D) Growth of tumor xenografts in NSG mice of WT and FBXO11-KO RAJI (clones #1 and #2) cells treated with BI-3802 (5 μM) for 24 hours before injection. Data (n = 5 mice per group) are shown as mean ± SEM. **P < .01, paired 2-tailed Student t test. (E) Growth curves of WT and FBXO11-KO RAJI (clones #1 and #2) cells treated with Omomyc mini-protein (2 or 5 μM), alone or in combination with BI-3802 (5 μM). Total cell number was quantified at the indicated time points. Data are mean ± SEM of triplicates from a single experiment representative of 2 repeats. **P < .01, ***P < .001, unpaired 2-tailed Student t test. (F) Growth curves of WT and FBXO11-KO RAJI (clones #1 and #2) cells infected with a doxycycline-inducible lentiviral vector expressing Omomyc. Cells were treated only with doxycycline to induce Omomyc expression (Omomyc), or BI-3802 (5 μM) or a combination of doxycycline and BI-3802 (Omomyc + BI-3802). Total cell number was quantified at the indicated time points. Data are mean ± SEM of triplicates from a single experiment representative of two repeats. **P < .01, ***P < .001, unpaired 2-tailed Student t test.