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Acetylated DNMT1 Downregulation and Related Regulatory Factors Influence Metastatic Melanoma Patients Survival. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13184691. [PMID: 34572918 PMCID: PMC8471314 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13184691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Simple Summary DNA methyltransferase-1 (DNMT1) is a key epigenetic regulatory protein of gene expression in cutaneous melanoma. DNMT1 is acetylated by TIP60 promoting its degradation. This study demonstrated that DNMT1 and ac-DNMT1 protein levels were inversely correlated in stage III (n = 17) and stage IV (n = 164) metastatic melanoma tumors, and both influenced melanoma progression. Reduced TIP60 and USP7 protein expression levels were correlated with decreased ac-DNMT1 levels. Of clinical translational relevance, patients with high ac-DNMT1 protein levels, or high-acDNMT1 with concurrent low DNMT1, high TIP60, or high USP7 protein levels showed significantly better prognosis for 4-year melanoma-specific survival. These results suggested that ac-DNMT1 is a significant post-translational modification influencing advanced melanoma patient disease outcomes. Abstract The role of post-translational modifications (PTM) of the key epigenetic factor DNMT1 protein has not been well explored in cutaneous metastatic melanoma progression. The acetylated DNMT1 (ac-DNMT1) protein level was assessed using an anti-acetylated lysine antibody in a clinically annotated melanoma patient tumor specimen cohort. In this study, we showed that surgically resected tumors have significantly higher DNMT1 protein expression in metastatic melanoma (stage III metastasis n = 17, p = 0.0009; stage IV metastasis n = 164, p = 0.003) compared to normal organ tissues (n = 19). Additionally, reduced ac-DNMT1 protein levels were associated with melanoma progression. There was a significant inverse correlation between ac-DNMT1 and DNMT1 protein levels in stage IV metastatic melanoma (r = −0.18, p = 0.02, n = 164). Additionally, ac-DNMT1 protein levels were also significantly positively correlated with TIP60 (r = 0.6, p < 0.0001) and USP7 (r = 0.74, p < 0.0001) protein levels in stage IV metastatic melanoma (n = 164). Protein analysis in metastatic melanoma tumor tissues showed that with high ac-DNMT1 (p = 0.006, n = 59), or concurrent high ac-DNMT1 with low DNMT1 (p = 0.05, n = 27), or high TIP60 (p = 0.007, n = 41), or high USP7 (p = 0.01, n = 48) consistently showed better 4-year melanoma-specific survival (MSS). Multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis showed that ac-DNMT1 level is a significant independent factor associated with MSS (HR, 0.994; 95% confidential interval (CI), 0.990–0.998; p = 0.002). These results demonstrated that low ac-DNMT1 levels may represent an important regulatory factor in controlling metastatic melanoma progression and a promising factor for stratifying aggressive stage IV metastasis.
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Dobre EG, Constantin C, Costache M, Neagu M. Interrogating Epigenome toward Personalized Approach in Cutaneous Melanoma. J Pers Med 2021; 11:901. [PMID: 34575678 PMCID: PMC8467841 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11090901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Epigenetic alterations have emerged as essential contributors in the pathogenesis of various human diseases, including cutaneous melanoma (CM). Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic modifications are highly dynamic and reversible and thus easy to regulate. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on the role of genetic and epigenetic alterations in CM initiation and development. We believe that a better understanding of how aberrant DNA methylation and histone modifications, along with other molecular processes, affect the genesis and clinical behavior of CM can provide the clinical management of this disease a wide range of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, as well as potential therapeutic targets that can be used to prevent or abrogate drug resistance. We will also approach the modalities by which these epigenetic alterations can be used to customize the therapeutic algorithms in CM, the current status of epi-therapies, and the preliminary results of epigenetic and traditional combinatorial pharmacological approaches in this fatal disease.
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- Elena-Georgiana Dobre
- Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 91–95, 050095 Bucharest, Romania; (M.C.); (M.N.)
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- Immunology Department, “Victor Babes” National Institute of Pathology, 050096 Bucharest, Romania;
- Pathology Department, Colentina Clinical Hospital, 020125 Bucharest, Romania
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 91–95, 050095 Bucharest, Romania; (M.C.); (M.N.)
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 91–95, 050095 Bucharest, Romania; (M.C.); (M.N.)
- Immunology Department, “Victor Babes” National Institute of Pathology, 050096 Bucharest, Romania;
- Pathology Department, Colentina Clinical Hospital, 020125 Bucharest, Romania
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Epigenetic Regulation in Melanoma: Facts and Hopes. Cells 2021; 10:cells10082048. [PMID: 34440824 PMCID: PMC8392422 DOI: 10.3390/cells10082048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2021] [Revised: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Cutaneous melanoma is a lethal disease, even when diagnosed in advanced stages. Although recent progress in biology and treatment has dramatically improved survival rates, new therapeutic approaches are still needed. Deregulation of epigenetics, which mainly controls DNA methylation status and chromatin remodeling, is implied not only in cancer initiation and progression, but also in resistance to antitumor drugs. Epigenetics in melanoma has been studied recently in both melanoma preclinical models and patient samples, highlighting its potential role in different phases of melanomagenesis, as well as in resistance to approved drugs such as immune checkpoint inhibitors and MAPK inhibitors. This review summarizes what is currently known about epigenetics in melanoma and dwells on the recognized and potential new targets for testing epigenetic drugs, alone or together with other agents, in advanced melanoma patients.
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Wu TT, Liu T, Li X, Chen YJ, Chen TJ, Zhu XY, Chen JL, Li Q, Liu Y, Feng Y, Wu YC. TET2-mediated Cdkn2A DNA hydroxymethylation in midbrain dopaminergic neuron injury of Parkinson's disease. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 29:1239-1252. [PMID: 32037456 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Revised: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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It has been reported that abnormal epigenetic modification is associated with the occurrence of Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we found that a ten-eleven translocation 2 (TET2), a staff of the DNA hydroxylases family, was increased in dopaminergic neurons in vitro and in vivo. Genome-wide mapping of DNA 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC)-sequencing has revealed an aberrant epigenome 5-hmC landscape in 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium iodide (MPP+)-induced SH-SY5Y cells. The TET family of DNA hydroxylases could reverse DNA methylation by oxidization of 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) to 5-hmC. However, the relationship between modification of DNA hydroxymethylation and the pathogenesis of PD is not clear. According to the results of 5-hmC-sequencing studies, 5-hmC was associated with gene-rich regions in the genomes related to cell cycle, especially gene-cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (Cdkn2A). Downregulation of TET2 expression could significantly rescue MPP+-stimulated SH-SY5Y cell damage and cell cycle arrest. Meanwhile, knockdown of Tet2 expression in the substantia nigra pars compacta of MPTP-induced PD mice resulted in attenuated MPTP-induced motor deficits and dopaminergic neuronal injury via p16 suppression. In this study, we demonstrated a critical function of TET2 in PD development via the CDKN2A activity-dependent epigenetic pathway, suggesting a potential new strategy for epigenetic therapy.
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- Ting-Ting Wu
- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Shanghai Geriatric Institute of Chinese Medicine, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Shanghai Geriatric Institute of Chinese Medicine, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, The Institutes of Brain Science and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200080, P.R. China
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Cutaneous Melanomas Arising during Childhood: An Overview of the Main Entities. Dermatopathology (Basel) 2021; 8:301-314. [PMID: 34449585 PMCID: PMC8395919 DOI: 10.3390/dermatopathology8030036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Cutaneous melanomas are exceptional in children and represent a variety of clinical situations, each with a different prognosis. In congenital nevi, the risk of transformation is correlated with the size of the nevus. The most frequent type is lateral transformation, extremely rare before puberty, reminiscent of a superficial spreading melanoma (SSM) ex-nevus. Deep nodular transformation is much rarer, can occur before puberty, and must be distinguished from benign proliferative nodules. Superficial spreading melanoma can also arise within small nevi, which were not visible at birth, usually after puberty, and can reveal a cancer predisposition syndrome (CDKN2A or CDK4 germline mutations). Prognosis is correlated with classical histoprognostic features (mainly Breslow thickness). Spitz tumors are frequent in adolescents and encompass benign (Spitz nevus), intermediate (atypical Spitz tumor), and malignant forms (malignant Spitz tumor). The whole spectrum is characterized by specific morphology with spindled and epithelioid cells, genetic features, and an overall favorable outcome even if a regional lymph node is involved. Nevoid melanomas are rare and difficult to diagnose clinically and histologically. They can arise in late adolescence. Their prognosis is currently not very well ascertained. A small group of melanomas remains unclassified after histological and molecular assessment.
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Tissue-specific 5-hydroxymethylcytosine landscape of the human genome. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4249. [PMID: 34253716 PMCID: PMC8275684 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24425-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an important epigenetic mark that regulates gene expression. Charting the landscape of 5hmC in human tissues is fundamental to understanding its regulatory functions. Here, we systematically profiled the whole-genome 5hmC landscape at single-base resolution for 19 types of human tissues. We found that 5hmC preferentially decorates gene bodies and outperforms gene body 5mC in reflecting gene expression. Approximately one-third of 5hmC peaks are tissue-specific differentially-hydroxymethylated regions (tsDhMRs), which are deposited in regions that potentially regulate the expression of nearby tissue-specific functional genes. In addition, tsDhMRs are enriched with tissue-specific transcription factors and may rewire tissue-specific gene expression networks. Moreover, tsDhMRs are associated with single-nucleotide polymorphisms identified by genome-wide association studies and are linked to tissue-specific phenotypes and diseases. Collectively, our results show the tissue-specific 5hmC landscape of the human genome and demonstrate that 5hmC serves as a fundamental regulatory element affecting tissue-specific gene expression programs and functions.
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Bray JK, Dawlaty MM, Verma A, Maitra A. Roles and Regulations of TET Enzymes in Solid Tumors. Trends Cancer 2021; 7:635-646. [PMID: 33468438 DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2020.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 12/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The mechanisms governing the methylome profile of tumor suppressors and oncogenes have expanded with the discovery of oxidized states of 5-methylcytosine (5mC). Ten-eleven translocation (TET) enzymes are a family of dioxygenases that iteratively catalyze 5mC oxidation and promote cytosine demethylation, thereby creating a dynamic global and local methylation landscape. While the catalytic function of TET enzymes during stem cell differentiation and development have been well studied, less is known about the multifaceted roles of TET enzymes during carcinogenesis. This review outlines several tiers of TET regulation and overviews how TET deregulation promotes a cancer phenotype. Defining the tissue-specific and context-dependent roles of TET enzymes will deepen our understanding of the epigenetic perturbations that promote or inhibit carcinogenesis.
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- Julie K Bray
- Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA
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- Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
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Martinez-Useros J, Martin-Galan M, Florez-Cespedes M, Garcia-Foncillas J. Epigenetics of Most Aggressive Solid Tumors: Pathways, Targets and Treatments. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:3209. [PMID: 34198989 PMCID: PMC8267921 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13133209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Highly aggressive tumors are characterized by a highly invasive phenotype, and they display chemoresistance. Furthermore, some of the tumors lack expression of biomarkers for target therapies. This is the case of small-cell lung cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma, metastatic melanoma, and advanced ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, these patients show a low survival rate and most of the available drugs are ineffective. In this context, epigenetic modifications have emerged to provide the causes and potential treatments for such types of tumors. Methylation and hydroxymethylation of DNA, and histone modifications, are the most common targets of epigenetic therapy, to influence gene expression without altering the DNA sequence. These modifications could impact both oncogenes and tumor suppressor factors, which influence several molecular pathways such as epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, WNT/β-catenin, PI3K-mTOR, MAPK, or mismatch repair machinery. However, epigenetic changes are inducible and reversible events that could be influenced by some environmental conditions, such as UV exposure, smoking habit, or diet. Changes in DNA methylation status and/or histone modification, such as acetylation, methylation or phosphorylation, among others, are the most important targets for epigenetic cancer therapy. Therefore, the present review aims to compile the basic information of epigenetic modifications, pathways and factors, and provide a rationale for the research and treatment of highly aggressive tumors with epigenetic drugs.
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- Javier Martinez-Useros
- Translational Oncology Division, OncoHealth Institute, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital, Avenida Reyes Catolicos 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
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- Translational Oncology Division, OncoHealth Institute, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital, Avenida Reyes Catolicos 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
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- Translational Oncology Division, OncoHealth Institute, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz University Hospital, Avenida Reyes Catolicos 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
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Li CM, Chen Z. Autoimmunity as an Etiological Factor of Cancer: The Transformative Potential of Chronic Type 2 Inflammation. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:664305. [PMID: 34235145 PMCID: PMC8255631 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.664305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Recent epidemiological studies have found an alarming trend of increased cancer incidence in adults younger than 50 years of age and projected a substantial rise in cancer incidence over the next 10 years in this age group. This trend was exemplified in the incidence of non-cardia gastric cancer and its disproportionate impact on non-Hispanic white females under the age of 50. The trend is concurrent with the increasing incidence of autoimmune diseases in industrialized countries, suggesting a causal link between the two. While autoimmunity has been suspected to be a risk factor for some cancers, the exact mechanisms underlying the connection between autoimmunity and cancer remain unclear and are often controversial. The link has been attributed to several mediators such as immune suppression, infection, diet, environment, or, perhaps most plausibly, chronic inflammation because of its well-recognized role in tumorigenesis. In that regard, autoimmune conditions are common causes of chronic inflammation and may trigger repetitive cycles of antigen-specific cell damage, tissue regeneration, and wound healing. Illustrating the connection between autoimmune diseases and cancer are patients who have an increased risk of cancer development associated with genetically predisposed insufficiency of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4), a prototypical immune checkpoint against autoimmunity and one of the main targets of cancer immune therapy. The tumorigenic process triggered by CTLA4 insufficiency has been shown in a mouse model to be dependent on the type 2 cytokines interleukin-4 (IL4) and interleukin-13 (IL13). In this type 2 inflammatory milieu, crosstalk with type 2 immune cells may initiate epigenetic reprogramming of epithelial cells, leading to a metaplastic differentiation and eventually malignant transformation even in the absence of classical oncogenic mutations. Those findings complement a large body of evidence for type 1, type 3, or other inflammatory mediators in inflammatory tumorigenesis. This review addresses the potential of autoimmunity as a causal factor for tumorigenesis, the underlying inflammatory mechanisms that may vary depending on host-environment variations, and implications to cancer prevention and immunotherapy.
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- Chris M Li
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States
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Nishiyama A, Nakanishi M. Navigating the DNA methylation landscape of cancer. Trends Genet 2021; 37:1012-1027. [PMID: 34120771 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2021.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 94.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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DNA methylation is a chemical modification that defines cell type and lineage through the control of gene expression and genome stability. Disruption of DNA methylation control mechanisms causes a variety of diseases, including cancer. Cancer cells are characterized by aberrant DNA methylation (i.e., genome-wide hypomethylation and site-specific hypermethylation), mainly targeting CpG islands in gene expression regulatory elements. In particular, the early findings that a variety of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) are targets of DNA hypermethylation in cancer led to the proposal of a model in which aberrant DNA methylation promotes cellular oncogenesis through TSGs silencing. However, recent genome-wide analyses have revealed that this classical model needs to be reconsidered. In this review, we will discuss the molecular mechanisms of DNA methylation abnormalities in cancer as well as their therapeutic potential.
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- Atsuya Nishiyama
- Division of Cancer Cell Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
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- Division of Cancer Cell Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
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Stahl A, Riggi N, Nardou K, Nicolas M, Kaya G, Moulin A. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Loss in Conjunctival Melanoma. Dermatopathology (Basel) 2021; 8:176-184. [PMID: 34198758 PMCID: PMC8293194 DOI: 10.3390/dermatopathology8020023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Aims: Conjunctival and cutaneous melanoma partially share similar clinical and molecular backgrounds. As 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) loss has been demonstrated in cutaneous melanoma, we decided to assess if similar changes were occurring in conjunctival melanoma. Methods: 5-methylcytosine (5-mC), 5-hmC and TET2 were respectively identified by immunohistochemistry and RNA ISH in 40 conjunctival nevi and 37 conjunctival melanomas. Clinicopathological correlations were established. Results: 5-mC, TET2 and 5-hmC were respectively identified in 67.5%, 95% and 100% of conjunctival nevi and in 81.1%, 35.1% and 54% of conjunctival melanomas. A significant 5-hmC and TET2 loss was identified in conjunctival melanoma comparing to nevus, as well as a significant correlation between TET2 and 5-hmC expression. In the melanomas, 5-hmC expression was only significantly associated with local lymphatic invasion, but not with other clinicopathological parameters. There was a correlation between TET2 expression and the localization of the tumors. 5-mC expression was not associated with any clinicopathological parameters. Conclusions: We identified a significant 5-hmC loss in conjunctival melanoma similar to cutaneous melanoma. This loss may possibly be attributed to TET2 loss or IDH1 mutations. 5-hmC loss in conjunctival melanoma may help in the differential diagnosis between atypical conjunctival nevus and conjunctival melanoma.
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- Alexandre Stahl
- Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Lausanne University, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland; (A.S.); (K.N.); (M.N.)
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- Experimental Pathology, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland;
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- Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Lausanne University, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland; (A.S.); (K.N.); (M.N.)
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- Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Lausanne University, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland; (A.S.); (K.N.); (M.N.)
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- Dermatopathology Unit, Dermatology and Clinical Pathology Departments, University Hospitals of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland;
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- Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Lausanne University, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland; (A.S.); (K.N.); (M.N.)
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Vandyck HHLD, Hillen LM, Bosisio FM, van den Oord J, zur Hausen A, Winnepenninckx V. Rethinking the biology of metastatic melanoma: a holistic approach. Cancer Metastasis Rev 2021; 40:603-624. [PMID: 33870460 PMCID: PMC8213587 DOI: 10.1007/s10555-021-09960-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Over the past decades, melanoma-related mortality has remained nearly stable. The main reason is treatment failure of metastatic disease and the inherently linked knowledge gap regarding metastasis formation. In order to elicit invasion, melanoma cells manipulate the tumor microenvironment, gain motility, and adhere to the extracellular matrix and cancer-associated fibroblasts. Melanoma cells thereby express different cell adhesion molecules like laminins, integrins, N-cadherin, and others. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is physiological during embryologic development, but reactivated during malignancy. Despite not being truly epithelial, neural crest-derived malignancies like melanoma share similar biological programs that enable tumorigenesis, invasion, and metastasis. This complex phenomenon is termed phenotype switching and is intertwined with oncometabolism as well as dormancy escape. Additionally, it has been shown that primary melanoma shed exosomes that create a favorable premetastatic niche in the microenvironment of secondary organs and lymph nodes. Although the growing body of literature describes the aforementioned concepts separately, an integrative holistic approach is missing. Using melanoma as a tumor model, this review will shed light on these complex biological principles in an attempt to clarify the mechanistic metastatic pathways that dictate tumor and patient fate.
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- Hendrik HLD Vandyck
- Department of Pathology, GROW-School for Oncology & Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, MUMC+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, GROW-School for Oncology & Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, MUMC+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Translational Cell and Tissue Research (TCTR), Department of Pathology, KU Leuven and UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Translational Cell and Tissue Research (TCTR), Department of Pathology, KU Leuven and UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Pathology, GROW-School for Oncology & Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, MUMC+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, GROW-School for Oncology & Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, MUMC+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Shirai K, Nagae G, Seki M, Kudo Y, Kamio A, Hayashi A, Okabe A, Ota S, Tsutsumi S, Fujita T, Yamamoto S, Nakaki R, Kanki Y, Osawa T, Midorikawa Y, Tateishi K, Ichinose M, Aburatani H. TET1 upregulation drives cancer cell growth through aberrant enhancer hydroxymethylation of HMGA2 in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Sci 2021; 112:2855-2869. [PMID: 33970549 PMCID: PMC8253281 DOI: 10.1111/cas.14897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Ten‐eleven translocation 1 (TET1) is an essential methylcytosine dioxygenase of the DNA demethylation pathway. Despite its dysregulation being known to occur in human cancer, the role of TET1 remains poorly understood. In this study, we report that TET1 promotes cell growth in human liver cancer. The transcriptome analysis of 68 clinical liver samples revealed a subgroup of TET1‐upregulated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), demonstrating hepatoblast‐like gene expression signatures. We performed comprehensive cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation (5‐hmC) profiling and found that 5‐hmC was aberrantly deposited preferentially in active enhancers. TET1 knockdown in hepatoma cell lines decreased hmC deposition with cell growth suppression. HMGA2 was highly expressed in a TET1high subgroup of HCC, associated with the hyperhydroxymethylation of its intronic region, marked as histone H3K4–monomethylated, where the H3K27‐acetylated active enhancer chromatin state induced interactions with its promoter. Collectively, our findings point to a novel type of epigenetic dysregulation, methylcytosine dioxygenase TET1, which promotes cell proliferation via the ectopic enhancer of its oncogenic targets, HMGA2, in hepatoblast‐like HCC.
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- Kiyokazu Shirai
- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Gastroenterology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Pathology, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Molecular Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Nutriomics and Oncology, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Digestive Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.,Faculty of Medicine, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Genome Science Division, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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TET2 Inhibits PD-L1 Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells through Histone Deacetylation. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13092207. [PMID: 34064441 PMCID: PMC8125390 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13092207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) is an essential immune checkpoint molecule that helps tumor cells to escape the immune surveillance. The aim of the current study was to investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying the aberrant expression of PD-L1 in breast cancer cells. Here, we identified TET2 as a negative regulator of PD-L1 gene transcription in breast cancer cells. Mechanistically, TET2 recruits HDAC1/2 to the PD-L1 promoter and facilitates the deacetylation of H3K27ac, resulting to the suppression of PD-L1 gene transcription. Our work reveals an unanticipated role of TET2-HDAC1/2 complex in the regulation of PD-L1 gene expression, providing new insights into the epigenetic mechanisms that drive immune evasion during breast cancer pathogenesis. Abstract Activation of PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint is a critical step for the immune evasion of malignant tumors including breast cancer. However, the epigenetic mechanism underlying the aberrant expression of PD-L1 in breast cancer cells remains poorly understood. To investigate the role of TET2 in the regulation of PD-L1 gene expression, quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR), Western blotting, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay and MeDIP/hMeDIP-qPCR were performed on MCF7 and MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells. Here, we reported that TET2 depletion upregulated PD-L1 gene expression in MCF7 cells. Conversely, ectopic expression of TET2 inhibited PD-L1 gene expression in MDA-MB-231 cells. Mechanistically, TET2 protein recruits histone deacetylases (HDACs) to PD-L1 gene promoter and orchestrates a repressive chromatin structure to suppress PD-L1 gene transcription, which is likely independent of DNA demethylation. Consistently, treatment with HDAC inhibitors upregulated PD-L1 gene expression in wild-type (WT) but not TET2 KO MCF7 cells. Furthermore, analysis of the CCLE and TCGA data showed a negative correlation between TET2 and PD-L1 expression in breast cancer. Taken together, our results identify a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism of PD-L1 gene transcription, linking the catalytic activity-independent role of TET2 to the anti-tumor immunity in breast cancer.
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Zu T, Wang D, Xu S, Lee CAA, Zhen E, Yoon CH, Abarzua P, Wang S, Frank NY, Wu X, Lian CG, Murphy GF. ATF-3 expression inhibits melanoma growth by downregulating ERK and AKT pathways. J Transl Med 2021; 101:636-647. [PMID: 33299127 PMCID: PMC8091967 DOI: 10.1038/s41374-020-00516-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF-3), a cyclic AMP-dependent transcription factor, has been shown to play a regulatory role in melanoma, although its function during tumor progression remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that ATF-3 exhibits tumor suppressive function in melanoma. Specifically, ATF-3 nuclear expression was significantly diminished with melanoma progression from nevi to primary to metastatic patient melanomas, correlating low expression with poor prognosis. Significantly low expression of ATF-3 was also found in cultured human metastatic melanoma cell lines. Importantly, overexpression of ATF-3 in metastatic melanoma cell lines significantly inhibited cell growth, migration, and invasion in vitro; as well as abrogated tumor growth in a human melanoma xenograft mouse model in vivo. RNA sequencing analysis revealed downregulation of ERK and AKT pathways and upregulation in apoptotic-related genes in ATF-3 overexpressed melanoma cell lines, which was further validated by Western-blot analysis. In summary, this study demonstrated that diminished ATF-3 expression is associated with melanoma virulence and thus provides a potential target for novel therapies and prognostic biomarker applications.
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- Tingjian Zu
- Department of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University & Shandong Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration & Shandong Engineering Laboratory for Dental Materials and Oral Tissue Regeneration, Jinan, Shangdong, China
- School of Stomatology, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Tai'an, Shangdong, China
- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University & Shandong Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration & Shandong Engineering Laboratory for Dental Materials and Oral Tissue Regeneration, Jinan, Shangdong, China
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- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University & Shandong Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration & Shandong Engineering Laboratory for Dental Materials and Oral Tissue Regeneration, Jinan, Shangdong, China.
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Program in Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Kim H, Kang Y, Li Y, Chen L, Lin L, Johnson ND, Zhu D, Robinson MH, McSwain L, Barwick BG, Yuan X, Liao X, Zhao J, Zhang Z, Shu Q, Chen J, Allen EG, Kenney AM, Castellino RC, Van Meir EG, Conneely KN, Vertino PM, Jin P, Li J. Ten-eleven translocation protein 1 modulates medulloblastoma progression. Genome Biol 2021; 22:125. [PMID: 33926529 PMCID: PMC8082834 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02352-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor that originates in the cerebellum and brainstem. Frequent somatic mutations and deregulated expression of epigenetic regulators in MB highlight the substantial role of epigenetic alterations. 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is a highly abundant cytosine modification in the developing cerebellum and is regulated by ten-eleven translocation (TET) enzymes. RESULTS We investigate the alterations of 5hmC and TET enzymes in MB and their significance to cerebellar cancer formation. We show total abundance of 5hmC is reduced in MB, but identify significant enrichment of MB-specific 5hmC marks at regulatory regions of genes implicated in stem-like properties and Nanog-binding motifs. While TET1 and TET2 levels are high in MBs, only knockout of Tet1 in the smoothened (SmoA1) mouse model attenuates uncontrolled proliferation, leading to a favorable prognosis. The pharmacological Tet1 inhibition reduces cell viability and platelet-derived growth factor signaling pathway-associated genes. CONCLUSIONS These results together suggest a potential key role of 5hmC and indicate an oncogenic nature for TET1 in MB tumorigenesis, suggesting it as a potential therapeutic target for MBs.
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- Hyerim Kim
- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
- Hydrocephalus Center, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
- Hydrocephalus Center, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
- Hydrocephalus Center, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China
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- The Children's Hospital and Institute of Translational Medicine, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Systems Biology and Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
- Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China.
- Hydrocephalus Center, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, Hunan, China.
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Shekhawat J, Gauba K, Gupta S, Choudhury B, Purohit P, Sharma P, Banerjee M. Ten-eleven translocase: key regulator of the methylation landscape in cancer. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2021; 147:1869-1879. [PMID: 33913031 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-021-03641-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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PURPOSE Methylation of 5th residue of cytosine in CpG island forms 5-methylcytosine which is stable, heritable epigenetic mark. Methylation levels are broadly governed by methyltransferases and demethylases. An aberration in the demethylation process contributes to the silencing of gene expression. Ten eleven translocation (TET) dioxygenase (1-3) the de novo demethylase is responsible for conversion of 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC), 5-formylcytosisne (5-fC) and 5-carboxycytosine (5-caC) during demethylation process. Mutations and abnormal expression of TET proteins contribute to carcinogenesis. Discovery of TET proteins has offered various pathways for the reversal of methylation levels thus, enhancing our knowledge as to how methylation effects cancer progression. METHODS We searched "PubMed" and "Google scholar" databases and selected studies with the following keywords "TET enzyme", "cancer", "5-hmC", and "DNA demethylation". In this review, we have discussed combinatorial use of vitamin C in inhibiting tumour growth by enhancing the catalytic activity of TET enzymes and consequently, increasing the 5-hmC levels. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine holds promise as a prognostic biomarker in solid cancers. The contribution of induction and suppression of TET enzymes and 5-hmC carcinogenesis are discussed in haematological and solid cancers. RESULTS We found that TET enzymes play central role in maintaining the methylation balance. Any anomaly in their expression may dip the balance towards cancer progression. Low levels of TET enzymes and 5-hmC correlate with tumour invasion, progression and metastasis. Also, use of vitamin C enhances TET activity. CONCLUSION TET enzymes play vital role in shaping the methylation landscape in body. 5-hmC can be used as prognostic marker in solid cancers.
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- Jyoti Shekhawat
- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of E.N.T.-Otorhinolaryngology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India.
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Loss of Thymine DNA Glycosylase Causes Dysregulation of Bile Acid Homeostasis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cell Rep 2021; 31:107475. [PMID: 32268085 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a nuclear receptor coactivator that plays an essential role in the maintenance of epigenetic stability in cells. Here, we demonstrate that the conditional deletion of TDG in adult mice results in a male-predominant onset of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). TDG loss leads to a prediabetic state, as well as bile acid (BA) accumulation in the liver and serum of male mice. Consistent with these data, TDG deletion led to dysregulation of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) and small heterodimer partner (SHP) regulatory cascade in the liver. FXR and SHP are tumor suppressors of HCC and play an essential role in BA and glucose homeostasis. These results indicate that TDG functions as a tumor suppressor of HCC by regulating a transcriptional program that protects against the development of glucose intolerance and BA accumulation in the liver.
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Genomic Uracil and Aberrant Profile of Demethylation Intermediates in Epigenetics and Hematologic Malignancies. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22084212. [PMID: 33921666 PMCID: PMC8073381 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22084212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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DNA of all living cells undergoes continuous structural and chemical alterations resulting from fundamental cellular metabolic processes and reactivity of normal cellular metabolites and constituents. Examples include enzymatically oxidized bases, aberrantly methylated bases, and deaminated bases, the latter largely uracil from deaminated cytosine. In addition, the non-canonical DNA base uracil may result from misincorporated dUMP. Furthermore, uracil generated by deamination of cytosine in DNA is not always damage as it is also an intermediate in normal somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class shift recombination (CSR) at the Ig locus of B-cells in adaptive immunity. Many of the modifications alter base-pairing properties and may thus cause replicative and transcriptional mutagenesis. The best known and most studied epigenetic mark in DNA is 5-methylcytosine (5mC), generated by a methyltransferase that uses SAM as methyl donor, usually in CpG contexts. Oxidation products of 5mC are now thought to be intermediates in active demethylation as well as epigenetic marks in their own rights. The aim of this review is to describe the endogenous processes that surround the generation and removal of the most common types of DNA nucleobase modifications, namely, uracil and certain epigenetic modifications, together with their role in the development of hematological malignances. We also discuss what dictates whether the presence of an altered nucleobase is defined as damage or a natural modification.
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High-Dose Vitamin C: Preclinical Evidence for Tailoring Treatment in Cancer Patients. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13061428. [PMID: 33804775 PMCID: PMC8003833 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13061428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Vitamin C is an indispensable micronutrient in the human diet due to the multiple functions it carries out in the body. Reports of clinical studies have indicated that, when administered at high dosage by the intravenous route, vitamin C may exert beneficial antitumor effects in patients with advanced stage cancers, including those refractory to previous treatment with chemotherapy. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the current scientific evidence concerning the different mechanisms of action by which high-dose vitamin C may kill tumor cells. A special focus will be given to those mechanisms that provide the rationale basis for tailoring vitamin C treatment according to specific molecular alterations present in the tumor and for the selection of the most appropriate companion drugs. Abstract High-dose vitamin C has been proposed as a potential therapeutic approach for patients with advanced tumors who failed previous treatment with chemotherapy. Due to vitamin C complex pharmacokinetics, only intravenous administration allows reaching sufficiently high plasma concentrations required for most of the antitumor effects observed in preclinical studies (>0.250 mM). Moreover, vitamin C entry into cells is tightly regulated by SVCT and GLUT transporters, and is cell type-dependent. Importantly, besides its well-recognized pro-oxidant effects, vitamin C modulates TET enzymes promoting DNA demethylation and acts as cofactor of HIF hydroxylases, whose activity is required for HIF-1α proteasomal degradation. Furthermore, at pharmacological concentrations lower than those required for its pro-oxidant activity (<1 mM), vitamin C in specific genetic contexts may alter the DNA damage response by increasing 5-hydroxymethylcytosine levels. These more recently described vitamin C mechanisms offer new treatment opportunities for tumors with specific molecular defects (e.g., HIF-1α over-expression or TET2, IDH1/2, and WT1 alterations). Moreover, vitamin C action at DNA levels may provide the rationale basis for combination therapies with PARP inhibitors and hypomethylating agents. This review outlines the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of vitamin C to be taken into account in designing clinical studies that evaluate its potential use as anticancer agent.
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Wu SL, Zhang X, Chang M, Huang C, Qian J, Li Q, Yuan F, Sun L, Yu X, Cui X, Jiang J, Cui M, Liu Y, Wu HW, Liang ZY, Wang X, Niu Y, Tong WM, Jin F. Genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosine Profiling Analysis Identifies MAP7D1 as A Novel Regulator of Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer. GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2021; 19:64-79. [PMID: 33716151 PMCID: PMC8498923 DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2019.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although DNA 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is recognized as an important epigenetic mark in cancer, its precise role in lymph node metastasis remains elusive. In this study, we investigated how 5hmC associates with lymph node metastasis in breast cancer. Accompanying with high expression of TET1 and TET2 proteins, large numbers of genes in the metastasis-positive primary tumors exhibit higher 5hmC levels than those in the metastasis-negative primary tumors. In contrast, the TET protein expression and DNA 5hmC decrease significantly within the metastatic lesions in the lymph nodes compared to those in their matched primary tumors. Through genome-wide analysis of 8 sets of primary tumors, we identified 100 high-confidence metastasis-associated 5hmC signatures, and it is found that increased levels of DNA 5hmC and gene expression of MAP7D1 associate with high risk of lymph node metastasis. Furthermore, we demonstrate that MAP7D1, regulated by TET1, promotes tumor growth and metastasis. In conclusion, the dynamic 5hmC profiles during lymph node metastasis suggest a link between DNA 5hmC and lymph node metastasis. Meanwhile, the role of MAP7D1 in breast cancer progression suggests that the metastasis-associated 5hmC signatures are potential biomarkers to predict the risk for lymph node metastasis, which may serve as diagnostic and therapeutic targets for metastatic breast cancer.
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- Shuang-Ling Wu
- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China; Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Center for Experimental Animal Research, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College. Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Beijing 100005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China.
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Molecular Pathology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100005, China; Center for Experimental Animal Research, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College. Beijing 100005, China.
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- Department of Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China.
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Zhao F, Zhang ZW, Zhang J, Zhang S, Zhang H, Zhao C, Chen Y, Luo L, Tong WM, Li C, Niu Y, Liu P. Loss of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine as an Epigenetic Signature That Correlates With Poor Outcomes in Patients With Medulloblastoma. Front Oncol 2021; 11:603686. [PMID: 33718152 PMCID: PMC7945595 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.603686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Medulloblastoma, as the most common malignant brain tumor in children, exhibits highly dysregulated DNA methylation. The novel epigenetic marker—5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) plays essential role in gene regulation during brain development and in brain tumors. However, the biological and clinical implications of 5hmC in medulloblastoma are still unclear. Here, we detected global 5hmC levels in two independent medulloblastoma patient cohorts (discovery cohort: n = 81; validation cohort: n = 171) using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis. Immunohistochemistry was used to identify the cell proliferation and expression of Ten-eleven translocation 1 and 2 (TET1/2). The prognostic impacts of covariates on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were evaluated using multivariate Cox hazards regression models. We observed that global 5hmC levels were decreased in medulloblastomas compared to normal cerebellums (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis showed that low global 5hmC levels correlated with poor PFS and OS rates (discovery cohort: PFS: P = 0.003, OS: P = 0.002; validation cohort: PFS: P = 0.0002, OS: P = 0.001). Immunohistochemistry showed an inverse correlation between 5hmC score and Ki-67 index (r = -0.747, P < 0.0001). Moreover, 5hmC score in MB samples was associated with nuclear expression of TET1 (r = -0.419, P = 0.003) and TET2 (r = -0.399, P = 0.005) proteins. Our study demonstrates that loss of 5hmC is an epigenetic biomarker in medulloblastomas. Our results indicate that 5hmC could be a candidate prognostic indicator for improving survival prediction of risk stratification in patients with medulloblastoma.
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- Fu Zhao
- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neural Reconstruction, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Neuroscience Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neural Reconstruction, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neural Reconstruction, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neuro-Oncology, Sanbo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Neuroscience Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neural Reconstruction, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.,Neuroscience Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Department of Neural Reconstruction, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Gramann AK, Frantz WT, Dresser K, Gomes CBF, Lian CG, Deng A, Ceol CJ. BMP Signaling Promotes Neural Crest Identity and Accelerates Melanoma Onset. J Invest Dermatol 2021; 141:2067-2070.e1. [PMID: 33610560 DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2021.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Alec K Gramann
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Dermatopathology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Program in Dermatopathology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
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Sharapova T, Talaty N, Buck WR, Fossey S, Liguori MJ, Van Vleet TR. Reduced hepatic global hydroxymethylation in mice treated with non-genotoxic carcinogens is transiently reversible with a methyl supplemented diet. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2021; 415:115439. [PMID: 33549593 DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2021.115439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Non-genotoxic carcinogens (NGCs) are known to cause perturbations in DNA methylation, which can be an early event leading to changes in gene expression and the onset of carcinogenicity. Phenobarbital (PB) has been shown to alter liver DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation patterns in mice in a time dependent manner. The goals of this study were to assess if clofibrate (CFB), a well-studied rodent NGC, would produce epigenetic changes in mice similar to PB, and if a methyl donor supplementation (MDS) would modulate epigenetic and gene expression changes induced by phenobarbital. CByB6F1 mice were treated with 0.5% clofibrate or 0.14% phenobarbital for 7 and 28 days. A subgroup of PB treated and control mice were also fed MDS diet. Liquid Chromatography-Ionization Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) was used to quantify global liver 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) levels. Gene expression analysis was conducted using Affymetrix microarrays. A decrease in liver 5hmC but not 5mC levels was observed upon treatment with both CFB and PB with varying time of onset. We observed moderate increases in 5hmC levels in PB-treated mice when exposed to MDS diet and lower expression levels of several phenobarbital induced genes involved in cell proliferation, growth, and invasion, suggesting an early modulating effect of methyl donor supplementation. Overall, epigenetic profiling can aid in identifying early mechanism-based biomarkers of non-genotoxic carcinogenicity and increases the quality of cancer risk assessment for candidate drugs. Global DNA methylation assessment by LC-MS is an informative first step toward understanding the risk of carcinogenicity.
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- Investigative Toxicology and Pathology, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States.
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- Discovery Platform Technologies, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Investigative Toxicology and Pathology, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Investigative Toxicology and Pathology, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Investigative Toxicology and Pathology, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Investigative Toxicology and Pathology, AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, United States
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Pomerleau J, Weidmann C, Coutant K, Lowry CM, Veilleux MP, Bérubé J, Wagner JR, Landreville S. Experimental eye research / short communication format characterization of DNA hydroxymethylation in the ocular choroid. Exp Eye Res 2021; 205:108473. [PMID: 33524365 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2021.108473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation represent important epigenetic modifications involved in cell differentiation. DNA hydroxymethylation can be used to classify independent biological samples by tissue type. Relatively little is known regarding the genomic abundance and function of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in ocular tissues. The choroid supplies oxygen and nutrients to the outer retina through its dense network of blood vessels. This connective tissue is mainly composed of pigmented melanocytes, and stromal fibroblasts. Since DNA hydroxymethylation level is relatively high in cutaneous melanocytes, we investigated the presence of 5-hmC in choroidal melanocytes, as well as the expression of ten-eleven translocation methylcytosine dioxygenases (TETs) and isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) implicated in this DNA demethylation pathway. Immunofluorescence, DNA slot blots and liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry performed with choroidal tissues and melanocytes within these tissues revealed that they have a relatively high level of 5-hmC. We also examined the expression of TET1/2 and IDH1/2 in choroidal melanocytes by gene expression profiling, qPCR and Western blotting. In addition, we detected decreased levels of 5-hmC when choroidal melanocytes were exposed to a lower concentration of oxygen. Our study therefore demonstrates that DNA hydroxymethylation is present in choroidal melanocytes, and that the abundance of this epigenetic mark is impacted by hypoxia.
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- Jade Pomerleau
- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département d'Ophtalmologie et ORL-CCF, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département d'Ophtalmologie et ORL-CCF, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département d'Ophtalmologie et ORL-CCF, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département d'Ophtalmologie et ORL-CCF, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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- Axe Médecine Régénératrice and Centre Universitaire d'Ophtalmologie (CUO)-Recherche, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Département d'Ophtalmologie et ORL-CCF, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche en Organogénése Expérimentale de l'Université Laval/LOEX, Quebec City, QC, Canada; Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
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Iancu IV, Botezatu A, Plesa A, Huica I, Fudulu A, Albulescu A, Bostan M, Mihaila M, Grancea C, Manda DA, Dobrescu R, Vladoiu SV, Anton G, Badiu CV. Alterations of regulatory factors and DNA methylation pattern in thyroid cancer. Cancer Biomark 2021; 28:255-268. [PMID: 32390600 DOI: 10.3233/cbm-190871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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PURPOSE DNA methylation plays an important role in thyroid oncogenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the connection between global and local DNA methylation status and to establish the levels of important DNA methylation regulators (TET family and DNMT1) in thyroid tumours: follicular adenoma-FA, papillary thyroid carcinoma-PTC (classic papillary thyroid carcinoma-cPTC and papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant fvPTC). METHODS Global DNA methylation profile in thyroid tumours tissue (41 paired samples) was assessed by 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine levels evaluation (ELISA), along with TETs and DNMT1 genes expression quantification. Also, it was investigated for the first time TET1 and TET2 promoter's methylation in thyroid tumours. BRAF V600E mutation and RET/PTC translocation testing were performed on all investigated samples. In vitro studies upon DNA methylation in K1 thyroid cancer cells were performed with demethylating agents (5-AzaC and vitamin C). RESULTS TET1 and TET2 displayed a significantly reduced gene expression level in PTC, while DNMT1 gene presented a high level of expression. PTC samples presented increased levels of 5-methylcytosine and low levels of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. 5-methylcytosine levels were associated with TET1/TET2 expression levels. TET1 gene expression was significantly lower in patients positive for BRAF mutation and with RET/PTC rearrangement. TET2 gene was found hypermethylated in thyroid carcinoma patients overall, especially in PTC-follicular variant samples (p= 0.0002), where TET2 gene expression levels were significantly reduced (p= 0.0031). Furthermore, the data indicate for all thyroid cancer patients a good sensitivity (81.08%) and specificity (86.49%) regarding the use of TET1 (p< 0.0001), and TET2 (71.79%, 64.10%, p= 0.0001) hypermethylation as biomarkers for thyroid oncogenesis. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that TET1/TET2 gene expression and methylation may serve as potential diagnostic tools for thyroid neoplasia. Our study showed that the methylation of TET1 increases in malignant thyroid tumours. fvPTC patients presented lower methylation levels compared to cPTC and could be a discriminatory factor between two cancer types and benign lesions. TET2 is a poorer discriminator between FA and fvPTC, but it can be useful for cPTC identification. K1-cells treated with demethylating agents showed a demethylation effect, especially upon TET2 gene. The cumulative effect of L-AA and 5-AzaC proved to have a potent combined demethylating effect on genes promoter's activation and could open new perspectives for thyroid cancer therapy.
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- Iulia V Iancu
- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,National Institute for Chemical Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "CI Parhon" National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "CI Parhon" National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "CI Parhon" National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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- "CI Parhon" National Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.,"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,"Stefan S. Nicolau" Institute of Virology, Bucharest, Romania
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Matuleviciute R, Cunha PP, Johnson RS, Foskolou IP. Oxygen regulation of TET enzymes. FEBS J 2021; 288:7143-7161. [PMID: 33410283 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Hypoxia has a significant impact on many physiological and pathological processes. Over the recent years, its role in modulation of epigenetic remodelling has also become clearer. In cancer, low oxygen environments and aberrant epigenomes often go hand in hand, and changes in DNA methylation are now commonly recognised as potential outcome indicators. TET (ten-eleven translocation) family enzymes are alpha-ketoglutarate-, iron- and oxygen-dependent DNA demethylases and are key players in these processes. Although TETs have historically been considered tumour suppressors, recent studies suggest that their functions in cancer might not be straightforward. Recently, inhibition of TETs has been reported to have positive impact in cancer immunotherapy and vaccination studies. This underlines the current interest in developing targeted pharmaceutical inhibitors of these enzymes. Here, we will survey the complexity of TET roles in cancer, and its hypoxic modulation, as well as highlight the potential of these enzymes as therapeutic targets.
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- Rugile Matuleviciute
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.,Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.,Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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Mohr H, Ballke S, Bechmann N, Gulde S, Malekzadeh-Najafabadi J, Peitzsch M, Ntziachristos V, Steiger K, Wiedemann T, Pellegata NS. Mutation of the Cell Cycle Regulator p27kip1 Drives Pseudohypoxic Pheochromocytoma Development. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13010126. [PMID: 33401758 PMCID: PMC7794757 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13010126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) can be subdivided into at least three different subgroups associated with different clinical manifestations and depending on the risk to metastasize. A shortage in human tumor material, the lack of a functional human cell line and very limited animal models were major drawbacks for PPGL research and consequently for the development of patient-tailored targeted therapies. We have previously reported that the MENX rat model develops pheochromocytoma with a full penetrance at the age of 8–10 months, however, it was unclear which human group the rat tumors modeled best. In order to characterize the rat pheochromocytomas, we analyzed gene expression, the catecholamine profile, TCA-cycle metabolism, methylation, angiogenesis, histology and mitochondrial ultrastructure. In all aspects, rat MENX pheochromocytomas resemble the features of the human pseudohypoxia group, the most aggressive one and in need of effective therapeutic approaches. Abstract Background: Pseudohypoxic tumors activate pro-oncogenic pathways typically associated with severe hypoxia even when sufficient oxygen is present, leading to highly aggressive tumors. Prime examples are pseudohypoxic pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (p-PPGLs), neuroendendocrine tumors currently lacking effective therapy. Previous attempts to generate mouse models for p-PPGLs all failed. Here, we describe that the rat MENX line, carrying a Cdkn1b (p27) frameshift-mutation, spontaneously develops pseudohypoxic pheochromocytoma (p-PCC). Methods: We compared rat p-PCCs with their cognate human tumors at different levels: histology, immunohistochemistry, catecholamine profiling, electron microscopy, transcriptome and metabolome. The vessel architecture and angiogenic potential of pheochromocytomas (PCCs) was analyzed by light-sheet fluorescence microscopy ex vivo and multi-spectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) in vivo. Results: The analysis of tissues at various stages, from hyperplasia to advanced grades, allowed us to correlate tumor characteristics with progression. Pathological changes affecting the mitochrondrial ultrastructure where present already in hyperplasias. Rat PCCs secreted high levels of norepinephrine and dopamine. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis revealed changes in oxidative phosphorylation that aggravated over time, leading to an accumulation of the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate, and to hypermethylation, evident by the loss of the epigenetic mark 5-hmC. While rat PCC xenografts showed high oxygenation, induced by massive neoangiogenesis, rat primary PCC transcriptomes possessed a pseudohypoxic signature of high Hif2a, Vegfa, and low Pnmt expression, thereby clustering with human p-PPGL. Conclusion: Endogenous rat PCCs recapitulate key phenotypic features of human p-PPGLs. Thus, MENX rats emerge as the best available animal model of these aggressive tumors. Our study provides evidence of a link between cell cycle dysregulation and pseudohypoxia.
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- Hermine Mohr
- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr.1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; (H.M.); (S.G.); (T.W.)
- Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, School of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Trogerstr. 18, 81675 Munich, Germany; (S.B.); (K.S.)
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany;
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany;
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr.1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; (H.M.); (S.G.); (T.W.)
- Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675 Munich, Germany; (J.M.-N.); (V.N.)
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany;
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- Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675 Munich, Germany; (J.M.-N.); (V.N.)
- Institute for Biomedical Imaging, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr.1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, School of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Trogerstr. 18, 81675 Munich, Germany; (S.B.); (K.S.)
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr.1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; (H.M.); (S.G.); (T.W.)
- Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr.1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; (H.M.); (S.G.); (T.W.)
- Joint Heidelberg-IDC Translational Diabetes Program, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-(0)89-3187-2633
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Han Q, Kono TJY, Knutson CG, Parry NM, Seiler CL, Fox JG, Tannenbaum SR, Tretyakova NY. Multi-Omics Characterization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Induced Hyperplasia/Dysplasia in the Rag2-/-/ Il10-/- Mouse Model. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 22:ijms22010364. [PMID: 33396408 PMCID: PMC7795000 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22010364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Epigenetic dysregulation is hypothesized to play a role in the observed association between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon tumor development. In the present work, DNA methylome, hydroxymethylome, and transcriptome analyses were conducted in proximal colon tissues harvested from the Helicobacter hepaticus (H. hepaticus)-infected murine model of IBD. Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) and oxidative RRBS (oxRRBS) analyses identified 1606 differentially methylated regions (DMR) and 3011 differentially hydroxymethylated regions (DhMR). These DMR/DhMR overlapped with genes that are associated with gastrointestinal disease, inflammatory disease, and cancer. RNA-seq revealed pronounced expression changes of a number of genes associated with inflammation and cancer. Several genes including Duox2, Tgm2, Cdhr5, and Hk2 exhibited changes in both DNA methylation/hydroxymethylation and gene expression levels. Overall, our results suggest that chronic inflammation triggers changes in methylation and hydroxymethylation patterns in the genome, altering the expression of key tumorigenesis genes and potentially contributing to the initiation of colorectal cancer.
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- Qiyuan Han
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
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- Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; (C.G.K.); (J.G.F.); (S.R.T.)
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- Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; (C.G.K.); (J.G.F.); (S.R.T.)
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; (C.G.K.); (J.G.F.); (S.R.T.)
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-612-626-3432
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Petralia F, Tignor N, Reva B, Koptyra M, Chowdhury S, Rykunov D, Krek A, Ma W, Zhu Y, Ji J, Calinawan A, Whiteaker JR, Colaprico A, Stathias V, Omelchenko T, Song X, Raman P, Guo Y, Brown MA, Ivey RG, Szpyt J, Guha Thakurta S, Gritsenko MA, Weitz KK, Lopez G, Kalayci S, Gümüş ZH, Yoo S, da Veiga Leprevost F, Chang HY, Krug K, Katsnelson L, Wang Y, Kennedy JJ, Voytovich UJ, Zhao L, Gaonkar KS, Ennis BM, Zhang B, Baubet V, Tauhid L, Lilly JV, Mason JL, Farrow B, Young N, Leary S, Moon J, Petyuk VA, Nazarian J, Adappa ND, Palmer JN, Lober RM, Rivero-Hinojosa S, Wang LB, Wang JM, Broberg M, Chu RK, Moore RJ, Monroe ME, Zhao R, Smith RD, Zhu J, Robles AI, Mesri M, Boja E, Hiltke T, Rodriguez H, Zhang B, Schadt EE, Mani DR, Ding L, Iavarone A, Wiznerowicz M, Schürer S, Chen XS, Heath AP, Rokita JL, Nesvizhskii AI, Fenyö D, Rodland KD, Liu T, Gygi SP, Paulovich AG, Resnick AC, Storm PB, Rood BR, Wang P. Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer. Cell 2020; 183:1962-1985.e31. [PMID: 33242424 PMCID: PMC8143193 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
We report a comprehensive proteogenomics analysis, including whole-genome sequencing, RNA sequencing, and proteomics and phosphoproteomics profiling, of 218 tumors across 7 histological types of childhood brain cancer: low-grade glioma (n = 93), ependymoma (32), high-grade glioma (25), medulloblastoma (22), ganglioglioma (18), craniopharyngioma (16), and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (12). Proteomics data identify common biological themes that span histological boundaries, suggesting that treatments used for one histological type may be applied effectively to other tumors sharing similar proteomics features. Immune landscape characterization reveals diverse tumor microenvironments across and within diagnoses. Proteomics data further reveal functional effects of somatic mutations and copy number variations (CNVs) not evident in transcriptomics data. Kinase-substrate association and co-expression network analysis identify important biological mechanisms of tumorigenesis. This is the first large-scale proteogenomics analysis across traditional histological boundaries to uncover foundational pediatric brain tumor biology and inform rational treatment selection.
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- Francesca Petralia
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Public Health Science, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute for Data Science and Computing, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02412, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Children's National Research Institute, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA; Department of Oncology, Children's Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zürich, Zürich 8032, Switzerland
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Dayton Children's Hospital, Dayton, OH 45404, USA
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- Children's National Research Institute, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02412, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-701 Poznań, Poland; International Institute for Molecular Oncology, 61-203 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute for Data Science and Computing, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- Department of Public Health Science, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Bioinformatics and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA; Department of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97221, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Children's National Research Institute, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Liu M, Li CC, Luo X, Ma F, Zhang CY. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Glucosylation-Triggered Helicase-Dependent Amplification-Based Fluorescent Biosensor for Sensitive Detection of β-Glucosyltransferase with Zero Background Signal. Anal Chem 2020; 92:16307-16313. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Meng Liu
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
- Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, MOE; Shandong Key Laboratory of Biochemical Analysis; Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science in Universities of Shandong; and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, MOE; Shandong Key Laboratory of Biochemical Analysis; Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science in Universities of Shandong; and College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Li L, Xu K, Ma Z, Chow HM, Herrup K, Li J. Selective loss of 5hmC promotes neurodegeneration in the mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. FASEB J 2020; 34:16364-16382. [PMID: 33058355 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202001271r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Revised: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) is an intermediate stage of DNA de-methylation. Its location in the genome also serves as an important regulatory signal for many biological processes and its levels change significantly with the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In keeping with this relationship, the TET family of enzymes which convert 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5hmC are responsive to the presence of Aβ. Using hMeDIP-seq, we show that there is a genome-wide reduction of 5hmC that is found in neurons but not in astrocytes from 3xTg mice (an AD mouse model). Decreased TET enzymatic activities in the brains of persons who died with AD suggest that this reduction is the main cause for the loss of 5hmC. Overexpression of human TET catalytic domains (hTETCDs) from the TET family members, especially for hTET3CD, significantly attenuates the neurodegenerative process, including reduced Aβ accumulation as well as tau hyperphosphorylation, and improve synaptic dysfunction in 3xTg mouse brain. Our findings define a crucial role of deregulated 5hmC epigenetics in the events leading to AD neurodegeneration.
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- Ying Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Hong Kong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Neurobiology, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China
- IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Kunming Primate Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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Wang L, Song C, Wang N, Li S, Liu Q, Sun Z, Wang K, Yu SC, Yang Q. NADP modulates RNA m 6A methylation and adipogenesis via enhancing FTO activity. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:1394-1402. [PMID: 32719557 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-0601-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Metabolism is often regulated by the transcription and translation of RNA. In turn, it is likely that some metabolites regulate enzymes controlling reversible RNA modification, such as N6-methyladenosine (m6A), to modulate RNA. This hypothesis is at least partially supported by the findings that multiple metabolic diseases are highly associated with fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO), an m6A demethylase. However, knowledge about whether and which metabolites directly regulate m6A remains elusive. Here, we show that NADP directly binds FTO, independently increases FTO activity, and promotes RNA m6A demethylation and adipogenesis. We screened a set of metabolites using a fluorescence quenching assay and NADP was identified to remarkably bind FTO. In vitro demethylation assays indicated that NADP enhances FTO activity. Furthermore, NADP regulated mRNA m6A via FTO in vivo, and deletion of FTO blocked NADP-enhanced adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. These results build a direct link between metabolism and RNA m6A demethylation.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3-L1 Cells
- Adenosine/analogs & derivatives
- Adenosine/metabolism
- Adipocytes/cytology
- Adipocytes/drug effects
- Adipocytes/enzymology
- Adipogenesis/drug effects
- Adipogenesis/genetics
- AlkB Homolog 5, RNA Demethylase/antagonists & inhibitors
- AlkB Homolog 5, RNA Demethylase/genetics
- AlkB Homolog 5, RNA Demethylase/metabolism
- Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO/genetics
- Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO/metabolism
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Demethylation
- Enzyme Assays
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation
- HEK293 Cells
- High-Throughput Screening Assays
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Methyltransferases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Methyltransferases/genetics
- Methyltransferases/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Models, Molecular
- NADP/metabolism
- NADP/pharmacology
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Small Interfering/genetics
- RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism
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- Lina Wang
- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing, China.
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- Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China.
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Oishi N, Vuong HG, Mochizuki K, Kondo T. Loss of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine is an Epigenetic Hallmark of Thyroid Carcinomas with TERT Promoter Mutations. Endocr Pathol 2020; 31:359-366. [PMID: 33058026 DOI: 10.1007/s12022-020-09652-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Epigenetic dysregulation is a hallmark of cancer, and aberrant methylation of cytosine residues plays a crucial role in abnormal gene expression in cancer cells. Recent studies demonstrate that 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) generated through 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) oxidation is significantly depleted in various cancers. However, whether 5-hmC levels change during the stepwise progression of thyroid carcinoma and the mechanisms underlying this effect remain unknown. The aims of this study were (i) to assess 5-hmC levels in normal and cancerous thyroid tissues, and (ii) identify clinicopathologic and genetic factors associated with the dysregulated hydroxymethylation of cytosine. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) showed that 5-hmC was significantly reduced in TERT promoter-mutated papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) and anaplastic thyroid carcinomas (ATCs), while there was no significant difference in 5-hmC levels between TERT promoter-wild-type PTCs and normal thyroid tissues. Results of semi-quantitative analysis of 5-hmC through immunohistochemistry correlated well with those of ELISA and confirmed the loss of 5-hmC in tumor cells. Immunohistochemistry confirmed lower 5-hmC positivity in TERT promoter-mutated PTCs (n = 10) and ATCs (n = 4) than in normal thyroid tissues (n = 8) and TERT promoter-wild-type PTCs (n = 63). Tumor size (> 1 cm) and advanced stage were associated with decreased global 5-hmC in PTCs, while age, gross extrathyroidal invasion, node metastasis, and BRAF mutation were not. Collectively, these findings demonstrated that loss of 5-hmC is an epigenetic hallmark of thyroid carcinomas with TERT promoter mutation, indicating that TERT promoter-mutated thyroid carcinoma has a distinct molecular profile.
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- Naoki Oishi
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, 1110 Shimokato, 409-3898, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, 1110 Shimokato, 409-3898, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, 1110 Shimokato, 409-3898, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, 1110 Shimokato, 409-3898, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
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Kato M, Onoyama I, Kawakami M, Yoshida S, Kawamura K, Kodama K, Hori E, Cui L, Matsumura Y, Yagi H, Asanoma K, Yahata H, Itakura A, Takeda S, Kato K. Downregulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is associated with the progression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0241482. [PMID: 33141854 PMCID: PMC7608920 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Around the world, cervical cancer is one of the most common neoplastic diseases among women, and the prognosis of patients in an advanced stage remains poor. To reduce the mortality rate of cervical cancer, early diagnosis and treatment are essential. DNA methylation is an important aspect of gene regulation, and aberrant DNA methylation contributes to carcinogenesis and cancer progression in various cancers. Although 5-methylcytosine (5mC) has been analyzed intensively, the function of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) has not been clarified. The purpose of our study was to identify the molecular biomarkers for early diagnosis of cervical tumors due to epigenetic alterations. To assess the clinical relevance of DNA methylation, we used immunohistochemistry (IHC) to characterize the level of 5hmC in 102 archived human cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) samples and cervical cancer specimens. The level of 5hmC was significantly decreased between CIN2 and CIN3. The progression of cervical tumors is caused by a reduction of TP53 and RB1 because of HPV infection. We observed that Tp53 and Rb1 were knocked down in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF), a model of normal cells. The level of 5hmC was reduced in Tp53-knockdown cells, and the expression levels of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) and ten-eleven translocation methylcytosine dioxygenase 1 (TET1) were induced. In contrast, there was no significant change in Rb1-knockdown cells. Mechanistically, we focused on apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like (APOBEC) 3B (A3B) as a cause of 5hmC reduction after TP53 knockdown. In the human cell line HHUA with a wild-type TP53 gene, A3B was induced in TP53-knockdown cells, and A3B knockdown recovered 5hmC levels in TP53-knockdown cells. These data indicate that TP53 suppression leads to 5hmC reduction in part through A3B induction. Moreover, IHC showed that expression levels of A3B in CIN3 were significantly higher than those in both normal epithelium and in CIN2. In conclusion, 5hmC levels are decreased between CIN2 and CIN3 through the TP53-A3B pathway. Since A3B could impair genome stability, 5hmC loss might increase the chances of accumulating mutations and of progressing from CIN3 to cervical cancer. Thus, these epigenetic changes could predict whether CINs are progressing to cancer or disappearing.
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- Masaya Kato
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Stasik S, Juratli TA, Petzold A, Richter S, Zolal A, Schackert G, Dahl A, Krex D, Thiede C. Exome sequencing identifies frequent genomic loss of TET1 in IDH-wild-type glioblastoma. Neoplasia 2020; 22:800-808. [PMID: 33142244 PMCID: PMC7642757 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2020.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and malignant brain tumor in adults. Genomic and epigenomic alterations of multiple cancer-driving genes are frequent in GBM. To identify molecular alterations associated with epigenetic aberrations, we performed whole exome sequencing-based analysis of DNA copy number variations in 55 adult patients with IDH-wild-type GBM. Beside mutations in common GBM driver genes such as TERTp (76%), TP53 (22%) and PTEN (20%), 67% of patients were affected by amplifications of genes associated with RTK/Rb/p53 cell signaling, including EGFR (45%), CDK4 (13%), and MDM2/4 (both 7%). The minimal deleted region at chromosome 10 was detected at the DNA demethylase TET1 (93%), mainly due to a loss-of-heterozygosity of complete chromosome 10 (53%) or by a mono-allelic microdeletion at 10q21.3 (7%). In addition, bi-allelic TET1 deletions, detected in 18 patients (33%), frequently co-occurred with EGFR amplification and were associated with low levels of TET1 mRNA expression, pointing at loss of TET1 activity. Bi-allelic TET1 loss was not associated with global concentrations of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, indicating a site-specific effect of TET1 for DNA (de)methylation. Focal amplification of EGFR positively correlated with overall mutational burden, tumor size, and poor long-term survival. Bi-allelic TET1 loss was not an independent prognostic factor, but significantly associated with poor survival in patients with concomitant EGFR amplification. Rates of genomic TET1 deletion were significantly lower in a cohort of IDH1-mutated patients. Despite the relevance of TET1 for DNA demethylation and as potential therapeutic target, a frequent genomic loss of TET1 has not previously been reported in GBM.
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- Sebastian Stasik
- Department of Medicine I, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- DRESDEN-Concept Genome Center, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Department of Spine Surgery and Neurotraumatology, SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera, Gera, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- DRESDEN-Concept Genome Center, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Medicine I, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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Gupta R, Janostiak R, Wajapeyee N. Transcriptional regulators and alterations that drive melanoma initiation and progression. Oncogene 2020; 39:7093-7105. [PMID: 33024276 PMCID: PMC7695596 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-020-01490-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Although melanoma is the least frequent type of skin cancer, it accounts for the majority of skin cancer-related deaths. Large-scale sequencing efforts have led to the classification of melanoma into four major subtypes (i.e., BRAF-mutant, NRAS-mutant, NF1-deficient, and triple wild-type). These sequencing studies have also revealed that melanoma genomes are some of the most mutated genomes of all cancers and therefore have a high neoantigen load. These findings have resulted in the development and clinical use of targeted therapies against the oncogenic BRAF→MEK→ERK pathway and immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. Although some patients with metastatic melanoma benefit immensely from these transformative therapies, others either become resistant or do not respond at all. These clinical challenges have intensified the search for new drug targets and drugs that can benefit patients who are either intrinsically resistant or have acquired resistance to targeted therapies and immunotherapies. Numerous signaling pathways and oncogenic drivers can cause changes in mRNA transcription that in turn drive melanoma initiation and progression. Transcriptional regulation of mRNA expression is necessary to maintain cell identity and cellular plasticity via the regulation of transcription factor expression and function, promoter/enhancer activities, chromatin regulators, and three-dimensional genome organization. Transcriptional deregulation can arise due to genetic and/or non-genetic alterations in the genome. Specifically, these deregulated transcriptional programs can become liabilities for melanoma cells due to their acquired dependencies on these programs for survival, which can be harnessed to develop new therapies for melanoma. In this article, we present an overview of the mechanisms that result in the transcriptional deregulation of mRNA expression in melanoma cells and assess how these changes facilitate melanoma initiation and progression. We also describe how these deregulated transcriptional pathways represent new opportunities for the development of unconventional and potentially impactful treatments for metastatic melanoma.
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- Romi Gupta
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
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Raj S, Kyono Y, Sifuentes CJ, Arellanes-Licea EDC, Subramani A, Denver RJ. Thyroid Hormone Induces DNA Demethylation in Xenopus Tadpole Brain. Endocrinology 2020; 161:bqaa155. [PMID: 32865566 PMCID: PMC7947600 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqaa155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Thyroid hormone (T3) plays pivotal roles in vertebrate development, acting via nuclear T3 receptors (TRs) that regulate gene transcription by promoting post-translational modifications to histones. Methylation of cytosine residues in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) also modulates gene transcription, and our recent finding of predominant DNA demethylation in the brain of Xenopus tadpoles at metamorphosis, a T3-dependent developmental process, caused us to hypothesize that T3 induces these changes in vivo. Treatment of premetamorphic tadpoles with T3 for 24 or 48 hours increased immunoreactivity in several brain regions for the DNA demethylation intermediates 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) and 5-carboxylcytosine, and the methylcytosine dioxygenase ten-eleven translocation 3 (TET3). Thyroid hormone treatment induced locus-specific DNA demethylation in proximity to known T3 response elements within the DNA methyltransferase 3a and Krüppel-like factor 9 genes, analyzed by 5-hmC immunoprecipitation and methylation sensitive restriction enzyme digest. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay showed that T3 induced TET3 recruitment to these loci. Furthermore, the messenger ribonucleic acid for several genes encoding DNA demethylation enzymes were induced by T3 in a time-dependent manner in tadpole brain. A TR ChIP-sequencing experiment identified putative TR binding sites at several of these genes, and we provide multiple lines of evidence to support that tet2 contains a bona fide T3 response element. Our findings show that T3 can promote DNA demethylation in developing tadpole brain, in part by promoting TET3 recruitment to discrete genomic regions, and by inducing genes that encode DNA demethylation enzymes.
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- Samhitha Raj
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Hypoxia and Oxygen-Sensing Signaling in Gene Regulation and Cancer Progression. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21218162. [PMID: 33142830 PMCID: PMC7663541 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21218162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Oxygen homeostasis regulation is the most fundamental cellular process for adjusting physiological oxygen variations, and its irregularity leads to various human diseases, including cancer. Hypoxia is closely associated with cancer development, and hypoxia/oxygen-sensing signaling plays critical roles in the modulation of cancer progression. The key molecules of the hypoxia/oxygen-sensing signaling include the transcriptional regulator hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) which widely controls oxygen responsive genes, the central members of the 2-oxoglutarate (2-OG)-dependent dioxygenases, such as prolyl hydroxylase (PHD or EglN), and an E3 ubiquitin ligase component for HIF degeneration called von Hippel–Lindau (encoding protein pVHL). In this review, we summarize the current knowledge about the canonical hypoxia signaling, HIF transcription factors, and pVHL. In addition, the role of 2-OG-dependent enzymes, such as DNA/RNA-modifying enzymes, JmjC domain-containing enzymes, and prolyl hydroxylases, in gene regulation of cancer progression, is specifically reviewed. We also discuss the therapeutic advancement of targeting hypoxia and oxygen sensing pathways in cancer.
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Ke Q, Wang K, Fan M, Li M, Luo G, Wang D. Prognostic role of high TET1 expression in patients with solid tumors: A meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 2020; 99:e22863. [PMID: 33126331 PMCID: PMC7598857 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000022863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Recently, increased expression of TET1 has been shown to inhibit tumor development in many studies. Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted to assess the prognostic role of TET1 in solid tumors. METHODS PubMed, Embase, and the Web of Science (last updated on June 13, 2019) were searched and 16 eligible studies involving 3100 patients were eventually taken forward into the meta-analysis. RESULTS Pooled results indicated that higher TET1 expression in cancer tissues was associated with improved overall survival (OS) [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.736, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = 0.542-0.998, P = .049]. In the subgroup analysis, higher TET1 expression in respiratory tumors (HR = 0.778, 95% CI = 0.639-0.946, P = .012) and breast cancer in Asian patients (HR = 0.326, 95% CI = 0.199-0.533, P < .001) were significantly associated with better OS. In addition, the association between high TET1 expression and prolonged OS was also statistically significant in the following subgroups; data source from samples (HR = 0.561, 95% CI = 0.384-0.819, P = .003), reported in text (HR = 0.539, 95% CI = 0.312-0.931, P = .027), TET1 protein (HR = 0.635, 95% CI = 0.409-0.984, P = .042), Asians (HR = 0.563, 95% CI = 0.376-0.844, P = .005). CONCLUSION This meta-analysis displays that high expression levels of TET1 in tissues is significantly associated with better survival in patients with solid tumors. This finding can be used as evidence to the tone that TET1 may be a useful target for the treatment of patients with solid tumors in the future.
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- Qiwei Ke
- Department of Emergency, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 185 Juqian Street, Changzhou 213003
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- Department of Urology, Sir Run Run Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 109 Longmian Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing 211100
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- Department of Emergency, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 185 Juqian Street, Changzhou 213003
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- Comprehensive Laboratory, Changzhou Key Lab of Individualized Diagnosis and Treatment Associated with High Technology Research, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 185 Juqian Street, Changzhou 213003, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Emergency, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 185 Juqian Street, Changzhou 213003
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FGFR3 △7-9 promotes tumor progression via the phosphorylation and destabilization of ten-eleven translocation-2 in human hepatocellular carcinoma. Cell Death Dis 2020; 11:903. [PMID: 33097695 PMCID: PMC7584635 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-03089-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Overexpression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) correlates with more severe clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our previous study has shown that FGFR3∆7–9, a novel splicing mutation of FGFR3, contributes significantly to HCC malignant character, but the epigenetic mechanism is still elusive. In this study, through mass spectrometry and co-immunoprecipitation studies, we discover a close association between FGFR3∆7–9 and the DNA demethylase Ten-Eleven Translocation-2 (TET2). Unlike other certain types of cancer, mutation of TET2 is rare in HCC. However, activation of FGFR3∆7–9 by FGF1 dramatically shortens TET2 half-life. FGFR3∆7–9, but not wild-type FGFR3, directly interacts with TET2 and phosphorylates TET2 at Y1902 site, leading to the ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation of TET2. Overexpression of a phospho-deficient mutant TET2 (Y1902F) significantly reduces the oncogenic potential of FGFR3∆7–9 in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, FGFR3∆7–9 significantly enhances HCC cell proliferation through the TET2-PTEN-AKT pathway. Specifically, TET2 offsets the elevation of p-AKT level induced by FGFR3∆7–9 through directly binding to PTEN promoter and increasing 5-hmC. Therefore, through phosphorylation and inhibition of TET2, FGFR3∆7–9 reduces PTEN expression and substantiates AKT activation to stimulate HCC proliferation. Together, this study identifies TET2 as a key regulator of the oncogenic role of FGFR3∆7–9 in HCC carcinogenesis and sheds light on new therapeutic strategies for HCC treatment.
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Lan J, Rajan N, Bizet M, Penning A, Singh NK, Guallar D, Calonne E, Li Greci A, Bonvin E, Deplus R, Hsu PJ, Nachtergaele S, Ma C, Song R, Fuentes-Iglesias A, Hassabi B, Putmans P, Mies F, Menschaert G, Wong JJL, Wang J, Fidalgo M, Yuan B, Fuks F. Functional role of Tet-mediated RNA hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4956. [PMID: 33009383 PMCID: PMC7532169 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18729-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Tet-enzyme-mediated 5-hydroxymethylation of cytosines in DNA plays a crucial role in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs). In RNA also, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) has recently been evidenced, but its physiological roles are still largely unknown. Here we show the contribution and function of this mark in mouse ESCs and differentiating embryoid bodies. Transcriptome-wide mapping in ESCs reveals hundreds of messenger RNAs marked by 5hmC at sites characterized by a defined unique consensus sequence and particular features. During differentiation a large number of transcripts, including many encoding key pluripotency-related factors (such as Eed and Jarid2), show decreased cytosine hydroxymethylation. Using Tet-knockout ESCs, we find Tet enzymes to be partly responsible for deposition of 5hmC in mRNA. A transcriptome-wide search further reveals mRNA targets to which Tet1 and Tet2 bind, at sites showing a topology similar to that of 5hmC sites. Tet-mediated RNA hydroxymethylation is found to reduce the stability of crucial pluripotency-promoting transcripts. We propose that RNA cytosine 5-hydroxymethylation by Tets is a mark of transcriptome flexibility, inextricably linked to the balance between pluripotency and lineage commitment. TET mediated RNA-hydroxymethylation (5hmC) has been detected in mammals, but its physiological role remains unclear. Here the authors map 5hmC during embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation and find that Tet-mediated RNA hydroxymethylation reduces the stability of crucial pluripotency related transcripts.
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- Jie Lan
- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- CiMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Health Research Institute (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Coruña, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Epigenetics and RNA Biology Program Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia
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- CiMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Health Research Institute (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Coruña, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Mathematical Modeling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Lab of Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Epigenetics and RNA Biology Program Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia Center for Human Development (CCHD), Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- CiMUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Health Research Institute (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Coruña, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Faculty of Medicine, ULB Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), Welbio Investigator, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. .,WELBIO (Walloon Excellence in Lifesciences & Biotechnology), Brussels, Belgium.
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Maitituoheti M, Keung EZ, Tang M, Yan L, Alam H, Han G, Singh AK, Raman AT, Terranova C, Sarkar S, Orouji E, Amin SB, Sharma S, Williams M, Samant NS, Dhamdhere M, Zheng N, Shah T, Shah A, Axelrad JB, Anvar NE, Lin YH, Jiang S, Chang EQ, Ingram DR, Wang WL, Lazar A, Lee MG, Muller F, Wang L, Ying H, Rai K. Enhancer Reprogramming Confers Dependence on Glycolysis and IGF Signaling in KMT2D Mutant Melanoma. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108293. [PMID: 33086062 PMCID: PMC7649750 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Revised: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Histone methyltransferase KMT2D harbors frequent loss-of-function somatic point mutations in several tumor types, including melanoma. Here, we identify KMT2D as a potent tumor suppressor in melanoma through an in vivo epigenome-focused pooled RNAi screen and confirm the finding by using a genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM) based on conditional and melanocyte-specific deletion of KMT2D. KMT2D-deficient tumors show substantial reprogramming of key metabolic pathways, including glycolysis. KMT2D deficiency aberrantly upregulates glycolysis enzymes, intermediate metabolites, and glucose consumption rates. Mechanistically, KMT2D loss causes genome-wide reduction of H3K4me1-marked active enhancer chromatin states. Enhancer loss and subsequent repression of IGFBP5 activates IGF1R-AKT to increase glycolysis in KMT2D-deficient cells. Pharmacological inhibition of glycolysis and insulin growth factor (IGF) signaling reduce proliferation and tumorigenesis preferentially in KMT2D-deficient cells. We conclude that KMT2D loss promotes tumorigenesis by facilitating an increased use of the glycolysis pathway for enhanced biomass needs via enhancer reprogramming, thus presenting an opportunity for therapeutic intervention through glycolysis or IGF pathway inhibitors.
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- Mayinuer Maitituoheti
- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Graduate Program in Quantitative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Applied Cancer Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Graduate Program in Quantitative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
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Yagi S, Balzer BL, Frishberg DP, Shon W. Epigenetic marker expression is of limited diagnostic utility in spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms. J Cutan Pathol 2020; 47:1228-1232. [PMID: 32710563 DOI: 10.1111/cup.13820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Stephanie Yagi
- Dermatopathology Division, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Dermatopathology Division, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Dermatopathology Division, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Dermatopathology Division, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Fan S, Wang J, Yu G, Rong F, Zhang D, Xu C, Du J, Li Z, Ouyang G, Xiao W. TET is targeted for proteasomal degradation by the PHD-pVHL pathway to reduce DNA hydroxymethylation. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:16299-16313. [PMID: 32963106 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 09/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Hypoxia-inducible factors are heterodimeric transcription factors that play a crucial role in a cell's ability to adapt to low oxygen. The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor (pVHL) acts as a master regulator of HIF activity, and its targeting of prolyl hydroxylated HIF-α for proteasomal degradation under normoxia is thought to be a major mechanism for pVHL tumor suppression and cellular response to oxygen. Whether pVHL regulates other targets through a similar mechanism is largely unknown. Here, we identify TET2/3 as novel targets of pVHL. pVHL induces proteasomal degradation of TET2/3, resulting in reduced global 5-hydroxymethylcytosine levels. Conserved proline residues within the LAP/LAP-like motifs of these two proteins are hydroxylated by the prolyl hydroxylase enzymes (PHD2/EGLN1 and PHD3/EGLN3), which is prerequisite for pVHL-mediated degradation. Using zebrafish as a model, we determined that global 5-hydroxymethylcytosine levels are enhanced in vhl-null, egln1a/b-double-null, and egln3-null embryos. Therefore, we reveal a novel function for the PHD-pVHL pathway in regulating TET protein stability and activity. These data extend our understanding of how TET proteins are regulated and provide new insight into the mechanisms of pVHL in tumor suppression.
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- Sijia Fan
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, China; Innovation Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, China; Innovation Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, China; Innovation Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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Li S, Feng J, Wu F, Cai J, Zhang X, Wang H, Fetahu IS, Iwanicki I, Ma D, Hu T, Liu H, Wang B, Shi G, Tan L, Shi YG. TET2 promotes anti-tumor immunity by governing G-MDSCs and CD8 + T-cell numbers. EMBO Rep 2020; 21:e49425. [PMID: 32929842 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201949425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
The host immune response is a fundamental mechanism for attenuating cancer progression. Here we report a role for the DNA demethylase and tumor suppressor TET2 in host anti-tumor immunity. Deletion of Tet2 in mice elevates IL-6 levels upon tumor challenge. Elevated IL-6 stimulates immunosuppressive granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells (G-MDSCs), which in turn reduce CD8+ T cells upon tumor challenge. Consequently, systematic knockout of Tet2 in mice leads to accelerated syngeneic tumor growth, which is constrained by anti-PD-1 blockade. Removal of G-MDSCs by the anti-mouse Ly6g antibodies restores CD8+ T-cell numbers in Tet2-/- mice and reboots their anti-tumor activity. Importantly, anti-IL-6 antibody treatment blocks the expansion of G-MDSCs and inhibits syngeneic tumor growth. Collectively, these findings reveal a TET2-mediated IL-6/G-MDSCs/CD8+ T-cell immune response cascade that safeguards host adaptive anti-tumor immunity, offering a cell non-autonomous mechanism of TET2 for tumor suppression.
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- Shuangqi Li
- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Birth Defects, Children's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Pan X, Zheng L. Epigenetics in modulating immune functions of stromal and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. Cell Mol Immunol 2020; 17:940-953. [PMID: 32699350 PMCID: PMC7609272 DOI: 10.1038/s41423-020-0505-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Epigenetic regulation of gene expression in cancer cells has been extensively studied in recent decades, resulting in the FDA approval of multiple epigenetic agents for treating different cancer types. Recent studies have revealed novel roles of epigenetic dysregulation in altering the phenotypes of immune cells and tumor-associated stromal cells, including fibroblasts and endothelial cells. As a result, epigenetic dysregulation of these cells reshapes the tumor microenvironment (TME), changing it from an antitumor environment to an immunosuppressive environment. Here, we review recent studies demonstrating how specific epigenetic mechanisms drive aspects of stromal and immune cell differentiation with implications for the development of solid tumor therapeutics, focusing on the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) TME as a representative of solid tumors. Due to their unique ability to reprogram the TME into a more immunopermissive environment, epigenetic agents have great potential for sensitizing cancer immunotherapy to augment the antitumor response, as an immunopermissive TME is a prerequisite for the success of cancer immunotherapy but is often not developed with solid tumors. The idea of combining epigenetic agents with cancer immunotherapy has been tested both in preclinical settings and in multiple clinical trials. In this review, we highlight the basic biological mechanisms underlying the synergy between epigenetic therapy and immunotherapy and discuss current efforts to translate this knowledge into clinical benefits for patients.
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- Xingyi Pan
- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- The Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Cellular & Molecular Medicine Graduate Training Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- The Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Cellular & Molecular Medicine Graduate Training Program, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Chen LL, Smith MD, Lv L, Nakagawa T, Li Z, Sun SC, Brown NG, Xiong Y, Xu YP. USP15 suppresses tumor immunity via deubiquitylation and inactivation of TET2. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:6/38/eabc9730. [PMID: 32948596 PMCID: PMC7500937 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc9730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
TET2 DNA dioxygenase is frequently mutated in human hematopoietic malignancies and functionally inactivated in many solid tumors through a nonmutational mechanism. We recently found that TET2 mediates the interferon-JAK-STAT pathway to stimulate chemokine expression and tumor infiltration of lymphocytes (TILs). TET2 is monoubiquitylated at K1299, which promotes its activity. Here, we report that USP15 is a TET2 deubiquitinase and inhibitor. USP15 catalyzes the removal of K1299-linked monoubiquitin and negatively regulates TET2 activity. Gene expression profiling demonstrates that TET2 and USP15 oppositely regulate genes involved in multiple inflammatory pathways, and TET2 is a major target of USP15 function. Deletion of Usp15 in melanoma stimulates chemokine expression and TILs in a TET2-dependent manner, leading to increased response to immunotherapy and extended life span of tumor-bearing mice. These results reveal a previously unknown regulator of TET2 activity and suggest USP15 as a potential therapeutic target for immunotherapy of solid tumors.
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- Lei-Lei Chen
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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Madhu B, Uribe-Lewis S, Bachman M, Murrell A, Griffiths JR. Apc Min/+ tumours and normal mouse small intestines show linear metabolite concentration and DNA cytosine hydroxymethylation gradients from pylorus to colon. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13616. [PMID: 32788746 PMCID: PMC7423954 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70579-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Topographical variations of metabolite concentrations have been reported in the duodenum, jejunum and ileum of the small intestine, and in human intestinal tumours from those regions, but there are no published metabolite concentrations measurements correlated with linear position in the mouse small intestine or intestinal tumours. Since DNA methylation dynamics are influenced by metabolite concentrations, they too could show linear anatomical variation. We measured metabolites by HR-MAS 1H NMR spectroscopy and DNA cytosine modifications by LC/MS, in normal small intestines of C57BL/6J wild-type mice, and in normal and tumour samples from ApcMin/+ mice. Wild-type mouse intestines showed approximately linear, negative concentration gradations from the pylorus (i.e. the junction with the stomach) of alanine, choline compounds, creatine, leucine and valine. ApcMin/+ mouse tumours showed negative choline and valine gradients, but a positive glycine gradient. 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine showed a positive gradient in the tumours. The linear gradients we found along the length of the mouse small intestine and in tumours contrast with previous reports of discrete concentration changes in the duodenum, jejunum and ileum. To our knowledge, this is also the first report of a systematic measurement of global levels of DNA cytosine modification in wild-type and ApcMin/+ mouse small intestine.
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- Basetti Madhu
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK.
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK.,Discovery Science and Technology, Medicines Discovery Catapult, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, SK10 4TG, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK.,Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
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