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Romo BA, Karakyriakou B, Cressey L, Brauer BL, Yang H, Warren A, Johnson AL, Kettenbach AN, Miller TW. TRIM33 Is a Co-Regulator of Estrogen Receptor Alpha. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:845. [PMID: 38473207 PMCID: PMC10930732 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16050845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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Estrogen receptor alpha (ER)-positive breast cancer is responsible for over 60% of breast cancer cases in the U.S. Among patients diagnosed with early-stage ER+ disease, 1/3 will experience recurrence despite treatment with adjuvant endocrine therapy. ER is a nuclear hormone receptor responsible for estrogen-driven tumor growth. ER transcriptional activity is modulated by interactions with coregulators. Dysregulation of the levels of these coregulators is involved in the development of endocrine resistance. To identify ER interactors that modulate transcriptional activity in breast cancer, we utilized biotin ligase proximity profiling of ER interactomes. Mass spectrometry analysis revealed tripartite motif containing 33 (TRIM33) as an estrogen-dependent interactor of ER. shRNA knockdown showed that TRIM33 promoted ER transcriptional activity and estrogen-induced cell growth. Despite its known role as an E3 ubiquitin ligase, TRIM33 increased the stability of endogenous ER in breast cancer cells. TRIM33 offers a novel target for inhibiting estrogen-induced cancer cell growth, particularly in cases of endocrine resistance driven by ER (ESR1) gene amplification or overexpression.
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- Bianca A. Romo
- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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Stossi F, Rivera Tostado A, Johnson HL, Mistry RM, Mancini MG, Mancini MA. Gene transcription regulation by ER at the single cell and allele level. Steroids 2023; 200:109313. [PMID: 37758052 PMCID: PMC10842394 DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2023.109313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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In this short review we discuss the current view of how the estrogen receptor (ER), a pivotal member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors, regulates gene transcription at the single cell and allele level, focusing on in vitro cell line models. We discuss central topics and new trends in molecular biology including phenotypic heterogeneity, single cell sequencing, nuclear phase separated condensates, single cell imaging, and image analysis methods, with particular focus on the methodologies and results that have been reported in the last few years using microscopy-based techniques. These observations augment the results from biochemical assays that lead to a much more complex and dynamic view of how ER, and arguably most transcription factors, act to regulate gene transcription.
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- Fabio Stossi
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; GCC Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics, Houston, TX, United States.
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; GCC Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; GCC Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; GCC Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States; GCC Center for Advanced Microscopy and Image Informatics, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
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Kiliti AJ, Sharif GM, Martin MB, Wellstein A, Riegel AT. AIB1/SRC-3/NCOA3 function in estrogen receptor alpha positive breast cancer. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2023; 14:1250218. [PMID: 37711895 PMCID: PMC10498919 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1250218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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The estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is a steroid receptor that is pivotal in the initiation and progression of most breast cancers. ERα regulates gene transcription through recruitment of essential coregulators, including the steroid receptor coactivator AIB1 (Amplified in Breast Cancer 1). AIB1 itself is an oncogene that is overexpressed in a subset of breast cancers and is known to play a role in tumor progression and resistance to endocrine therapy through multiple mechanisms. Here we review the normal and pathological functions of AIB1 in regard to its ERα-dependent and ERα-independent actions, as well as its genomic conservation and protein evolution. We also outline the efforts to target AIB1 in the treatment of breast cancer.
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- Amber J. Kiliti
- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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McClendon LK, Garcia RL, Lazaro T, Robledo A, Vasandani V, Luna ZAE, Rao AS, Srivatsan A, Lonard DM, Dacso CC, Kan P, O’Malley BW. A steroid receptor coactivator small molecule "stimulator" attenuates post-stroke ischemic brain injury. Front Mol Neurosci 2022; 15:1055295. [PMID: 36533127 PMCID: PMC9751323 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1055295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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Introduction: Pathologic remodeling of the brain following ischemic stroke results in neuronal loss, increased inflammation, oxidative stress, astrogliosis, and a progressive decrease in brain function. We recently demonstrated that stimulation of steroid receptor coactivator 3 with the small-molecule stimulator MCB-613 improves cardiac function in a mouse model of myocardial ischemia. Since steroid receptor coactivators are ubiquitously expressed in the brain, we reasoned that an MCB-613 derivative (MCB-10-1), could protect the brain following ischemic injury. To test this, we administered MCB-10-1 to rats following middle cerebral artery occlusion and reperfusion. Methods: Neurologic impairment and tissue damage responses were evaluated on day 1 and day 4 following injury in rats treated with control or 10-1. Results: We show that 10-1 attenuates injury post-stroke. 10-1 decreases infarct size and mitigates neurologic impairment. When given within 30 min post middle cerebral artery occlusion and reperfusion, 10-1 induces lasting protection from tissue damage in the ischemic penumbra concomitant with: (1) promotion of reparative microglia; (2) an increase in astrocyte NRF2 and GLT-1 expression; (3) early microglia activation; and (4) attenuation of astrogliosis. Discussion: Steroid receptor coactivator stimulation with MCB-10-1 is a potential therapeutic strategy for reducing inflammation and oxidative damage that cause neurologic impairment following an acute ischemic stroke.
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- Lisa K. McClendon
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
- CoRegen, Inc., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
- CoRegen, Inc., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
- CoRegen, Inc., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
- CoRegen, Inc., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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Hypoxia induces chemoresistance to proteasome inhibitors through orchestrating deSUMOylation and ubiquitination of SRC-3 in multiple myeloma. Oncogene 2022; 41:4971-4979. [PMID: 36209257 DOI: 10.1038/s41388-022-02494-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Revised: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The bone marrow microenvironment in multiple myeloma (MM) is hypoxic and provides multi-advantages for the initiation of chemoresistance, but the underlying mechanisms and key regulators are still indistinct. In the current study, we found that hypoxia stimulus easily induced chemoresistance to proteasome inhibitors (PIs), and the steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3) expression was remarkably augmented at posttranslational level. Protein interactome analysis identified SENP1 as a key modifier of SRC-3 stability, as SENP1-mediated deSUMOylation attenuated the K11-linked polyubiquitination of SRC-3. SENP1 depletion in the SENP1fl/flCD19Cre/+ B cells showed impaired SRC3 stability, and knockdown of SENP1 in MM cells by CRISPR/cas9 sgRNA accelerated the degradation of SRC-3 and remarkably overcame the resistance to PIs. In the Vk*Myc and 5TGM1 mouse models as well as patient-derived xenograft (PDX) of myeloma, SENP1 inhibitor Momordin Ιc (Mc) increased the sensitivity to PIs in MM cells. Importantly, SENP1 level was positively correlated with SRC-3 level in the tissues from refractory/relapsed MM, as well as in xenograft tissues from mice treated with bortezomib and Mc. Taken together, our findings suggest that hypoxia-induced SENP1 is a crucial regulator of chemoresistance to PIs, and shed light on developing therapeutic strategies to overcome chemoresistance by using small molecules targeting SENP1 or SRC-3.
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Meng H, Gonzales NM, Jung SY, Lu Y, Putluri N, Zhu B, Dacso CC, Lonard DM, O'Malley BW. Defining the mammalian coactivation of hepatic 12-h clock and lipid metabolism. Cell Rep 2022; 38:110491. [PMID: 35263593 PMCID: PMC8958721 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The 12-h clock coordinates lipid homeostasis, energy metabolism, and stress rhythms via the transcriptional regulator XBP1. However, the biochemical and physiological bases for integrated control of the 12-h clock and diverse metabolic pathways remain unclear. Here, we show that steroid receptor coactivator SRC-3 coactivates XBP1 transcription and regulates hepatic 12-h cistrome and gene rhythmicity. Mice lacking SRC-3 show abnormal 12-h rhythms in hepatic transcription, metabolic functions, systemic energetics, and rate-limiting lipid metabolic processes, including triglyceride, phospholipid, and cardiolipin pathways. Notably, 12-h clock coactivation is not only preserved, with its cistromic activation priming ahead of the zeitgeber cue of light, but concomitant with rhythmic remodeling in the absence of food. These findings reveal that SRC-3 integrates the mammalian 12-h clock, energy metabolism, and membrane and lipid homeostasis and demonstrates a role for the 12-h clock machinery as an active transcriptional mechanism in anticipating physiological and metabolic energy needs and stresses.
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- Huan Meng
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park, Smithville, TX 78957, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Panigrahi A, O'Malley BW. Mechanisms of enhancer action: the known and the unknown. Genome Biol 2021; 22:108. [PMID: 33858480 PMCID: PMC8051032 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02322-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Differential gene expression mechanisms ensure cellular differentiation and plasticity to shape ontogenetic and phylogenetic diversity of cell types. A key regulator of differential gene expression programs are the enhancers, the gene-distal cis-regulatory sequences that govern spatiotemporal and quantitative expression dynamics of target genes. Enhancers are widely believed to physically contact the target promoters to effect transcriptional activation. However, our understanding of the full complement of regulatory proteins and the definitive mechanics of enhancer action is incomplete. Here, we review recent findings to present some emerging concepts on enhancer action and also outline a set of outstanding questions.
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- Anil Panigrahi
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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Mullany LK, Lonard DM, O’Malley BW. Wound Healing-related Functions of the p160 Steroid Receptor Coactivator Family. Endocrinology 2021; 162:6042238. [PMID: 33340403 PMCID: PMC7814297 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqaa232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Multicellular organisms have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to recover and maintain original tissue functions following injury. Injury responses require a robust transcriptomic response associated with cellular reprogramming involving complex gene expression programs critical for effective tissue repair following injury. Steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) are master transcriptional regulators of cell-cell signaling that is integral for embryogenesis, reproduction, normal physiological function, and tissue repair following injury. Effective therapeutic approaches for facilitating improved tissue regeneration and repair will likely involve temporal and combinatorial manipulation of cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic factors. Pleiotropic actions of SRCs that are critical for wound healing range from immune regulation and angiogenesis to maintenance of metabolic regulation in diverse organ systems. Recent evidence derived from studies of model organisms during different developmental stages indicates the importance of the interplay of immune cells and stromal cells to wound healing. With SRCs being the master regulators of cell-cell signaling integral to physiologic changes necessary for wound repair, it is becoming clear that therapeutic targeting of SRCs provides a unique opportunity for drug development in wound healing. This review will provide an overview of wound healing-related functions of SRCs with a special focus on cellular and molecular interactions important for limiting tissue damage after injury. Finally, we review recent findings showing stimulation of SRCs following cardiac injury with the SRC small molecule stimulator MCB-613 can promote cardiac protection and inhibit pathologic remodeling after myocardial infarction.
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- Lisa K Mullany
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Correspondence: Bert W. O’Malley, MD, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston TX 77030, USA.
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Farcas AM, Nagarajan S, Cosulich S, Carroll JS. Genome-Wide Estrogen Receptor Activity in Breast Cancer. Endocrinology 2021; 162:bqaa224. [PMID: 33284960 PMCID: PMC7787425 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqaa224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
The largest subtype of breast cancer is characterized by the expression and activity of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha/ER). Although several effective therapies have significantly improved survival, the adaptability of cancer cells means that patients frequently stop responding or develop resistance to endocrine treatment. ER does not function in isolation and multiple associating factors have been reported to play a role in regulating the estrogen-driven transcriptional program. This review focuses on the dynamic interplay between some of these factors which co-occupy ER-bound regulatory elements, their contribution to estrogen signaling, and their possible therapeutic applications. Furthermore, the review illustrates how some ER association partners can influence and reprogram the genomic distribution of the estrogen receptor. As this dynamic ER activity enables cancer cell adaptability and impacts the clinical outcome, defining how this plasticity is determined is fundamental to our understanding of the mechanisms of disease progression.
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- Anca M Farcas
- Bioscience, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
- CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Function, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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A steroid receptor coactivator stimulator (MCB-613) attenuates adverse remodeling after myocardial infarction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:31353-31364. [PMID: 33229578 PMCID: PMC7733826 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011614117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
We are at an exciting era of identification of the cell and molecular processes necessary for tissue remodeling and repair. Unlike current systemic therapeutics, our studies reveal pharmacologic stimulation of SRCs modulates macrophage and fibrotic reparative cell responses to promote more effective repair and lasting beneficial remodeling after myocardial infarction. Progressive remodeling of the heart, resulting in cardiomyocyte (CM) loss and increased inflammation, fibrosis, and a progressive decrease in cardiac function, are hallmarks of myocardial infarction (MI)-induced heart failure. We show that MCB-613, a potent small molecule stimulator of steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) attenuates pathological remodeling post-MI. MCB-613 decreases infarct size, apoptosis, hypertrophy, and fibrosis while maintaining significant cardiac function. MCB-613, when given within hours post MI, induces lasting protection from adverse remodeling concomitant with: 1) inhibition of macrophage inflammatory signaling and interleukin 1 (IL-1) signaling, which attenuates the acute inflammatory response, 2) attenuation of fibroblast differentiation, and 3) promotion of Tsc22d3-expressing macrophages—all of which may limit inflammatory damage. SRC stimulation with MCB-613 (and derivatives) is a potential therapeutic approach for inhibiting cardiac dysfunction after MI.
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Zheng ZY, Anurag M, Lei JT, Cao J, Singh P, Peng J, Kennedy H, Nguyen NC, Chen Y, Lavere P, Li J, Du XH, Cakar B, Song W, Kim BJ, Shi J, Seker S, Chan DW, Zhao GQ, Chen X, Banks KC, Lanman RB, Shafaee MN, Zhang XHF, Vasaikar S, Zhang B, Hilsenbeck SG, Li W, Foulds CE, Ellis MJ, Chang EC. Neurofibromin Is an Estrogen Receptor-α Transcriptional Co-repressor in Breast Cancer. Cancer Cell 2020; 37:387-402.e7. [PMID: 32142667 PMCID: PMC7286719 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
We report that neurofibromin, a tumor suppressor and Ras-GAP (GTPase-activating protein), is also an estrogen receptor-α (ER) transcriptional co-repressor through leucine/isoleucine-rich motifs that are functionally independent of GAP activity. GAP activity, in turn, does not affect ER binding. Consequently, neurofibromin depletion causes estradiol hypersensitivity and tamoxifen agonism, explaining the poor prognosis associated with neurofibromin loss in endocrine therapy-treated ER+ breast cancer. Neurofibromin-deficient ER+ breast cancer cells initially retain sensitivity to selective ER degraders (SERDs). However, Ras activation does play a role in acquired SERD resistance, which can be reversed upon MEK inhibitor addition, and SERD/MEK inhibitor combinations induce tumor regression. Thus, neurofibromin is a dual repressor for both Ras and ER signaling, and co-targeting may treat neurofibromin-deficient ER+ breast tumors.
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- Ze-Yi Zheng
- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Physical Examination, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, P.R. China
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Bone and Soft Tissue, Zhengzhou University Affiliated Henan Cancer Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Bone and Soft Tissue, Zhengzhou University Affiliated Henan Cancer Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Agbo L, Lambert JP. Proteomics contribution to the elucidation of the steroid hormone receptors functions. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2019; 192:105387. [PMID: 31173874 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2019.105387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Steroid hormones have far-ranging biological impacts and more are continuously being uncovered. Over the last decades, proteomics approaches have become key to better understand biological processes. Due to multiple technical breakthroughs allowing for the concurrent identification and/or quantification of thousands of analytes using mass spectrometers, researchers employing proteomics tools today can now obtain truly holistic views of multiple facets of the human proteome. Here, we review how the field of proteomics has contributed to discoveries about steroid hormones, their receptors and their impact on human pathologies. In particular, the involvement of steroid receptors in cancer initiation, development, metastasis and treatment will be highlighted. Techniques at the forefront of the proteomics field will also be discussed to present how they can contribute to a better understanding of steroid hormone receptors.
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- Lynda Agbo
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research Centre, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; Research Center CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research Centre, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada; Research Center CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 4G2, Canada.
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Blundon MA, Dasgupta S. Metabolic Dysregulation Controls Endocrine Therapy-Resistant Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis. Endocrinology 2019; 160:1811-1820. [PMID: 31157867 PMCID: PMC6620757 DOI: 10.1210/en.2019-00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Cancer recurrence and metastasis involves many biological interactions, such as genetic, transcription, environmental, endocrine signaling, and metabolism. These interactions add a complex understanding of cancer recurrence and metastatic progression, delaying the advancement in therapeutic opportunities. We highlight the recent advances on the molecular complexities of endocrine-related cancers, focusing on breast and prostate cancer, and briefly review how endocrine signaling and metabolic programs can influence transcriptional complexes for metastasis competence. Nuclear receptors and transcriptional coregulators function as molecular nodes for the crosstalk between endocrine signaling and metabolism that alter downstream gene expression important for tumor progression and metastasis. This exciting regulatory axis may provide insights to the development of cancer therapeutics important for these desensitized endocrine-dependent cancers.
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- Malachi A Blundon
- Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
- Correspondence: Subhamoy Dasgupta, PhD, Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, New York 14263. E-mail:
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Panigrahi AK, Foulds CE, Lanz RB, Hamilton RA, Yi P, Lonard DM, Tsai MJ, Tsai SY, O'Malley BW. SRC-3 Coactivator Governs Dynamic Estrogen-Induced Chromatin Looping Interactions during Transcription. Mol Cell 2019; 70:679-694.e7. [PMID: 29775582 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 02/15/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Enhancers are thought to activate transcription by physically contacting promoters via looping. However, direct assays demonstrating these contacts are required to mechanistically verify such cellular determinants of enhancer function. Here, we present versatile cell-free assays to further determine the role of enhancer-promoter contacts (EPCs). We demonstrate that EPC is linked to mutually stimulatory transcription at the enhancer and promoter in vitro. SRC-3 was identified as a critical looping determinant for the estradiol-(E2)-regulated GREB1 locus. Surprisingly, the GREB1 enhancer and promoter contact two internal gene body SRC-3 binding sites, GBS1 and GBS2, which stimulate their transcription. Utilizing time-course 3C assays, we uncovered SRC-3-dependent dynamic chromatin interactions involving the enhancer, promoter, GBS1, and GBS2. Collectively, these data suggest that the enhancer and promoter remain "poised" for transcription via their contacts with GBS1 and GBS2. Upon E2 induction, GBS1 and GBS2 disengage from the enhancer, allowing direct EPC for active transcription.
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- Anil K Panigrahi
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Finelli MJ, Oliver PL. TLDc proteins: new players in the oxidative stress response and neurological disease. Mamm Genome 2017; 28:395-406. [PMID: 28707022 PMCID: PMC5614904 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-017-9706-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Oxidative stress (OS) arises from an imbalance in the cellular redox state, which can lead to intracellular damage and ultimately cell death. OS occurs as a result of normal ageing, but it is also implicated as a common etiological factor in neurological disease; thus identifying novel proteins that modulate the OS response may facilitate the design of new therapeutic approaches applicable to many disorders. In this review, we describe the recent progress that has been made using a range of genetic approaches to understand a family of proteins that share the highly conserved TLDc domain. We highlight their shared ability to prevent OS-related cell death and their unique functional characteristics, as well as discussing their potential application as new neuroprotective factors. Furthermore, with an increasing number of pathogenic mutations leading to epilepsy and hearing loss being discovered in the TLDc protein TBC1D24, understanding the function of this family has important implications for a range of inherited neurological diseases.
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- Mattéa J Finelli
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK.
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Varešlija D, McBryan J, Fagan A, Redmond AM, Hao Y, Sims AH, Turnbull A, Dixon JM, Ó Gaora P, Hudson L, Purcell S, Hill ADK, Young LS. Adaptation to AI Therapy in Breast Cancer Can Induce Dynamic Alterations in ER Activity Resulting in Estrogen-Independent Metastatic Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2016; 22:2765-77. [PMID: 26763249 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-15-1583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Accepted: 12/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Acquired resistance to aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy is a major clinical problem in the treatment of breast cancer. The detailed mechanisms of how tumor cells develop this resistance remain unclear. Here, the adapted function of estrogen receptor (ER) to an estrogen-depleted environment following AI treatment is reported. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Global ER chromatin immuno-precipitation (ChIP)-seq analysis of AI-resistant cells identified steroid-independent ER target genes. Matched patient tumor samples, collected before and after AI treatment, were used to assess ER activity. RESULTS Maintained ER activity was observed in patient tumors following neoadjuvant AI therapy. Genome-wide ER-DNA-binding analysis in AI-resistant cell lines identified a subset of classic ligand-dependent ER target genes that develop steroid independence. The Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed a significant association between tumors, which fail to decrease this steroid-independent ER target gene set in response to neoadjuvant AI therapy, and poor disease-free survival and overall survival (n = 72 matched patient tumor samples, P = 0.00339 and 0.00155, respectively). The adaptive ER response to AI treatment was highlighted by the ER/AIB1 target gene, early growth response 3 (EGR3). Elevated levels of EGR3 were detected in endocrine-resistant local disease recurrent patient tumors in comparison with matched primary tissue. However, evidence from distant metastatic tumors demonstrates that the ER signaling network may undergo further adaptations with disease progression as estrogen-independent ER target gene expression is routinely lost in established metastatic tumors. CONCLUSIONS Overall, these data provide evidence of a dynamic ER response to endocrine treatment that may provide vital clues for overcoming the clinical issue of therapy resistance. Clin Cancer Res; 22(11); 2765-77. ©2016 AACR.
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- Damir Varešlija
- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Carrington Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Carrington Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- University of Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Carrington Crescent, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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Nuclear receptors (NR) act as an integrated conduit for environmental and hormonal signals to govern genomic responses, which relate to cell fate decisions. We review how their integrated actions with each other, shared co-factors and other transcription factors are disrupted in cancer. Steroid hormone nuclear receptors are oncogenic drivers in breast and prostate cancer and blockade of signaling is a major therapeutic goal. By contrast to blockade of receptors, in other cancers enhanced receptor function is attractive, as illustrated initially with targeting of retinoic acid receptors in leukemia. In the post-genomic era large consortia, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas, have developed a remarkable volume of genomic data with which to examine multiple aspects of nuclear receptor status in a pan-cancer manner. Therefore to extend the review of NR function we have also undertaken bioinformatics analyses of NR expression in over 3000 tumors, spread across six different tumor types (bladder, breast, colon, head and neck, liver and prostate). Specifically, to ask how the NR expression was distorted (altered expression, mutation and CNV) we have applied bootstrapping approaches to simulate data for comparison, and also compared these NR findings to 12 other transcription factor families. Nuclear receptors were uniquely and uniformly downregulated across all six tumor types, more than predicted by chance. These approaches also revealed that each tumor type had a specific NR expression profile but these were most similar between breast and prostate cancer. Some NRs were down-regulated in at least five tumor types (e.g. NR3C2/MR and NR5A2/LRH-1)) whereas others were uniquely down-regulated in one tumor (e.g. NR1B3/RARG). The downregulation was not driven by copy number variation or mutation and epigenetic mechanisms maybe responsible for the altered nuclear receptor expression.
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- Mark D Long
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Eedunuri VK, Rajapakshe K, Fiskus W, Geng C, Chew SA, Foley C, Shah SS, Shou J, Mohamed JS, Coarfa C, O'Malley BW, Mitsiades N. miR-137 Targets p160 Steroid Receptor Coactivators SRC1, SRC2, and SRC3 and Inhibits Cell Proliferation. Mol Endocrinol 2015; 29:1170-83. [PMID: 26066330 DOI: 10.1210/me.2015-1080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The p160 family of steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) are pleiotropic transcription factor coactivators and "master regulators" of gene expression that promote cancer cell proliferation, survival, metabolism, migration, invasion, and metastasis. Cancers with high p160 SRC expression exhibit poor clinical outcomes and resistance to therapy, highlighting the SRCs as critical oncogenic drivers and, thus, therapeutic targets. microRNAs are important epigenetic regulators of protein expression. To examine the regulation of p160 SRCs by microRNAs, we used and combined 4 prediction algorithms to identify microRNAs that could target SRC1, SRC2, and SRC3 expression. For validation of these predictions, we assessed p160 SRC protein expression and cell viability after transfection of corresponding microRNA mimetics in breast cancer, uveal melanoma, and prostate cancer (PC) cell lines. Transfection of selected microRNA mimetics into breast cancer, uveal melanoma, and PC cells depleted SRC protein expression levels and exerted potent antiproliferative activity in these cell types. In particular, microRNA-137 (miR-137) depleted expression of SRC1, SRC2, and very potently, SRC3. The latter effect can be attributed to the presence of 3 miR-137 recognition sequences within the SRC3 3'-untranslated region. Using reverse phase protein array analysis, we identified a network of proteins, in addition to SRC3, that were modulated by miR-137 in PC cells. We also found that miR-137 and its host gene are epigenetically silenced in human cancer specimens and cell lines. These results support the development and testing of microRNA-based therapies (in particular based on restoring miR-137 levels) for targeting the oncogenic family of p160 SRCs in cancer.
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- Vijay Kumar Eedunuri
- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Adrienne Helis Malvin Medical Research Foundation (V.K.E.), New Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology (K.R., W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., C.C., B.W.O., N.M.) and Department of Medicine (W.F., C.G., S.A.C., C.F., S.S.S., J.S., J.S.M., N.M.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Yi P, Wang Z, Feng Q, Pintilie GD, Foulds CE, Lanz RB, Ludtke SJ, Schmid MF, Chiu W, O'Malley BW. Structure of a biologically active estrogen receptor-coactivator complex on DNA. Mol Cell 2015; 57:1047-1058. [PMID: 25728767 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Estrogen receptor (ER/ESR1) is a transcription factor critical for development, reproduction, metabolism, and cancer. ER function hinges on its ability to recruit primary and secondary coactivators, yet structural information on the full-length receptor-coactivator complex to complement preexisting and sometimes controversial biochemical information is lacking. Here, we use cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the quaternary structure of an active complex of DNA-bound ERα, steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3/NCOA3), and a secondary coactivator (p300/EP300). Our structural model suggests the following assembly mechanism for the complex: each of the two ligand-bound ERα monomers independently recruits one SRC-3 protein via the transactivation domain of ERα; the two SRC-3s in turn bind to different regions of one p300 protein through multiple contacts. We also present structural evidence for the location of activation function 1 (AF-1) in a full-length nuclear receptor, which supports a role for AF-1 in SRC-3 recruitment.
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- Ping Yi
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Clayton Foundation for Research, Houston, TX 77056, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Toropainen S, Malinen M, Kaikkonen S, Rytinki M, Jääskeläinen T, Sahu B, Jänne OA, Palvimo JJ. SUMO ligase PIAS1 functions as a target gene selective androgen receptor coregulator on prostate cancer cell chromatin. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 43:848-61. [PMID: 25552417 PMCID: PMC4333416 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that plays a central role in the development and growth of prostate carcinoma. PIAS1 is an AR- and SUMO-interacting protein and a putative transcriptional coregulator overexpressed in prostate cancer. To study the importance of PIAS1 for the androgen-regulated transcriptome of VCaP prostate cancer cells, we silenced its expression by RNAi. Transcriptome analyses revealed that a subset of the AR-regulated genes is significantly influenced, either activated or repressed, by PIAS1 depletion. Interestingly, PIAS1 depletion also exposed a new set of genes to androgen regulation, suggesting that PIAS1 can mask distinct genomic loci from AR access. In keeping with gene expression data, silencing of PIAS1 attenuated VCaP cell proliferation. ChIP-seq analyses showed that PIAS1 interacts with AR at chromatin sites harboring also SUMO2/3 and surrounded by H3K4me2; androgen exposure increased the number of PIAS1-occupying sites, resulting in nearly complete overlap with AR chromatin binding events. PIAS1 interacted also with the pioneer factor FOXA1. Of note, PIAS1 depletion affected AR chromatin occupancy at binding sites enriched for HOXD13 and GATA motifs. Taken together, PIAS1 is a genuine chromatin-bound AR coregulator that functions in a target gene selective fashion to regulate prostate cancer cell growth.
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- Sari Toropainen
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland Institute of Dentistry, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Physiology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland Research Programs Unit, Genome-Scale Biology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Physiology, Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland, FI-70211 Kuopio, Finland
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wa Maina C, Honkela A, Matarese F, Grote K, Stunnenberg HG, Reid G, Lawrence ND, Rattray M. Inference of RNA polymerase II transcription dynamics from chromatin immunoprecipitation time course data. PLoS Comput Biol 2014; 10:e1003598. [PMID: 24830797 PMCID: PMC4022483 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Gene transcription mediated by RNA polymerase II (pol-II) is a key step in gene expression. The dynamics of pol-II moving along the transcribed region influence the rate and timing of gene expression. In this work, we present a probabilistic model of transcription dynamics which is fitted to pol-II occupancy time course data measured using ChIP-Seq. The model can be used to estimate transcription speed and to infer the temporal pol-II activity profile at the gene promoter. Model parameters are estimated using either maximum likelihood estimation or via Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. The Bayesian approach provides confidence intervals for parameter estimates and allows the use of priors that capture domain knowledge, e.g. the expected range of transcription speeds, based on previous experiments. The model describes the movement of pol-II down the gene body and can be used to identify the time of induction for transcriptionally engaged genes. By clustering the inferred promoter activity time profiles, we are able to determine which genes respond quickly to stimuli and group genes that share activity profiles and may therefore be co-regulated. We apply our methodology to biological data obtained using ChIP-seq to measure pol-II occupancy genome-wide when MCF-7 human breast cancer cells are treated with estradiol (E2). The transcription speeds we obtain agree with those obtained previously for smaller numbers of genes with the advantage that our approach can be applied genome-wide. We validate the biological significance of the pol-II promoter activity clusters by investigating cluster-specific transcription factor binding patterns and determining canonical pathway enrichment. We find that rapidly induced genes are enriched for both estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and FOXA1 binding in their proximal promoter regions.
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- Ciira wa Maina
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya
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- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Zhao W, Chang C, Cui Y, Zhao X, Yang J, Shen L, Zhou J, Hou Z, Zhang Z, Ye C, Hasenmayer D, Perkins R, Huang X, Yao X, Yu L, Huang R, Zhang D, Guo H, Yan J. Steroid receptor coactivator-3 regulates glucose metabolism in bladder cancer cells through coactivation of hypoxia inducible factor 1α. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:11219-11229. [PMID: 24584933 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.535989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Cancer cell proliferation is a metabolically demanding process, requiring high glycolysis, which is known as "Warburg effect," to support anabolic growth. Steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC-3), a steroid receptor coactivator, is overexpressed and/or amplified in multiple cancer types, including non-steroid targeted cancers, such as urinary bladder cancer (UBC). However, whether SRC-3 regulates the metabolic reprogramming for cancer cell growth is unknown. Here, we reported that overexpression of SRC-3 accelerated UBC cell growth, accompanied by the increased expression of genes involved in glycolysis. Knockdown of SRC-3 reduced the UBC cell glycolytic rate under hypoxia, decreased tumor growth in nude mice, with reduction of proliferating cell nuclear antigen and lactate dehydrogenase expression levels. We further revealed that SRC-3 could interact with hypoxia inducible factor 1α (HIF1α), which is a key transcription factor required for glycolysis, and coactivate its transcriptional activity. SRC-3 was recruited to the promoters of HIF1α-target genes, such as glut1 and pgk1. The positive correlation of expression levels between SRC-3 and Glut1 proteins was demonstrated in human UBC patient samples. Inhibition of glycolysis through targeting HK2 or LDHA decelerated SRC-3 overexpression-induced cell growth. In summary, overexpression of SRC-3 promoted glycolysis in bladder cancer cells through HIF1α to facilitate tumorigenesis, which may be an intriguing drug target for bladder cancer therapy.
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- Wei Zhao
- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China
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- Departments of Urology and Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China; Nanjing Urology Research Center, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China
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- Pathology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing Chest Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- the Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Technology and Application of Model Organisms, School of Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China
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- Departments of Urology and Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China
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- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131, and
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- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131, and
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nanjing Chest Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
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- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131, and
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- Departments of Urology and Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China; Nanjing Urology Research Center, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China,.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing Biomedical Research Institute, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210061, China,; the Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Technology and Application of Model Organisms, School of Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China,.
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Zhang Y, Wang JH, Liu B, Qu PB. Steroid Receptor Coactivator-3 Promotes Bladder Cancer Through Upregulation of CXCR4. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2013; 14:3847-50. [DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2013.14.6.3847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Madak-Erdogan Z, Charn TH, Jiang Y, Liu ET, Katzenellenbogen JA, Katzenellenbogen BS. Integrative genomics of gene and metabolic regulation by estrogen receptors α and β, and their coregulators. Mol Syst Biol 2013; 9:676. [PMID: 23774759 PMCID: PMC3964312 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2013.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The closely related transcription factors (TFs), estrogen receptors ERα and ERβ, regulate divergent gene expression programs and proliferative outcomes in breast cancer. Utilizing breast cancer cells with ERα, ERβ, or both receptors as a model system to define the basis for differing response specification by related TFs, we show that these TFs and their key coregulators, SRC3 and RIP140, generate overlapping as well as unique chromatin-binding and transcription-regulating modules. Cistrome and transcriptome analyses and the use of clustering algorithms delineated 11 clusters representing different chromatin-bound receptor and coregulator assemblies that could be functionally associated through enrichment analysis with distinct patterns of gene regulation and preferential coregulator usage, RIP140 with ERβ and SRC3 with ERα. The receptors modified each other's transcriptional effect, and ERβ countered the proliferative drive of ERα through several novel mechanisms associated with specific binding-site clusters. Our findings delineate distinct TF-coregulator assemblies that function as control nodes, specifying precise patterns of gene regulation, proliferation, and metabolism, as exemplified by two of the most important nuclear hormone receptors in human breast cancer.
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- Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- The Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Li JV, Chien CD, Garee JP, Xu J, Wellstein A, Riegel AT. Transcriptional repression of AIB1 by FoxG1 leads to apoptosis in breast cancer cells. Mol Endocrinol 2013; 27:1113-27. [PMID: 23660594 DOI: 10.1210/me.2012-1353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The oncogene nuclear receptor coactivator amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1) is a transcriptional coactivator that is overexpressed in various types of human cancers. However, the molecular mechanisms controlling AIB1 expression in the majority of cancers remain unclear. In this study, we identified a novel interacting protein of AIB1, forkhead-box protein G1 (FoxG1), which is an evolutionarily conserved forkhead-box transcriptional corepressor. We show that FoxG1 expression is low in breast cancer cell lines and that low levels of FoxG1 are correlated with a worse prognosis in breast cancer. We also demonstrate that transient overexpression of FoxG1 can suppress endogenous levels of AIB1 mRNA and protein in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Exogenously expressed FoxG1 in MCF-7 cells also leads to apoptosis that can be rescued in part by AIB1 overexpression. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we determined that FoxG1 is recruited to a region of the AIB1 gene promoter previously characterized to be responsible for AIB1-induced, positive autoregulation of transcription through the recruitment of an activating, multiprotein complex, involving AIB1, E2F transcription factor 1, and specificity protein 1. Increased FoxG1 expression significantly reduces the recruitment of AIB1, E2F transcription factor 1 and E1A-binding protein p300 to this region of the endogenous AIB1 gene promoter. Our data imply that FoxG1 can function as a pro-apoptotic factor in part through suppression of AIB1 coactivator transcription complex formation, thereby reducing the expression of the AIB1 oncogene.
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- Jordan V Li
- Department of Pharmacology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Research Building E307, 3970 Reservoir Road Northwest, Washington, DC 20007-2197, USA
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Coughlan N, Thillainadesan G, Andrews J, Isovic M, Torchia J. β-Estradiol-dependent activation of the JAK/STAT pathway requires p/CIP and CARM1. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2013; 1833:1463-75. [PMID: 23434684 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2013.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2012] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The steroid receptor coactivator p/CIP, also known as SRC-3, is an oncogene commonly amplified in breast and ovarian cancers. p/CIP is known to associate with coactivator arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1) on select estrogen responsive genes. We have shown, using a ChIP-on-chip approach, that in response to stimulation with 17β-estradiol (E2), the p/CIP/CARM1 complex is recruited to 204 proximal promoters in MCF-7 cells. Many of the complex target genes have been previously implicated in signaling pathways related to oncogenesis. Jak2, a member of the Jak/Stat signaling cascade, is one of the direct E2-dependent targets of the p/CIP/CARM1 complex. Following E2-treatment, histone modifications at the Jak2 promoter are reflective of a transcriptionally permissive gene, and modest changes in RNA and protein expression lead us to suggest that an additional factor(s) may be required for a more notable transcriptional and functional response. Bioinformatic examination of the 204 proximal promoter sequences of p/CIP/CARM1 targets supports the idea that transcription factor crosstalk is likely the favored mechanism of E2-dependent p/CIP/CARM1 complex recruitment. This data may have implications towards understanding the oncogenic role of p/CIP in breast cancer and ultimately allow for the identification of new prognostic indicators and/or viable therapeutic targets.
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- N Coughlan
- Dept. of Oncology, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
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Meyer CA, Tang Q, Liu XS. Minireview: applications of next-generation sequencing on studies of nuclear receptor regulation and function. Mol Endocrinol 2012; 26:1651-9. [PMID: 22930692 DOI: 10.1210/me.2012-1150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Next-generation sequencing technologies have expanded the experimental possibilities for studying the genome-wide regulation of transcription by nuclear receptors, their collaborating transcription factors, and coregulators. These technologies allow investigators to obtain abundance and DNA sequence information in a single experiment. In this review, we highlight proven and potential uses of next-generation sequencing in the study of gene regulation by nuclear receptors. We also provide suggestions on how to effectively leverage this technology in a collaborative environment.
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- Clifford A Meyer
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, 450 Brookline Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Chang AK, Wu H. The role of AIB1 in breast cancer. Oncol Lett 2012; 4:588-594. [PMID: 23226788 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2012] [Accepted: 07/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1) is a member of the p160 steroid receptor coactivator family that mediates the transcriptional activities of nuclear receptors including estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR), as well as certain other transcription factors, including E2F1 and p53. AIB1 is widely implicated in nuclear receptor-mediated diseases, particularly malignant diseases, including breast, prostate, gastric and pancreatic cancers. AIB1 was initially implicated in hormone-dependent breast cancer, where increasing levels of AIB1 mRNA and protein were detected in some of these specimens and the overexpression of AIB1 in mice led to an increased incidence of tumors. More recent studies revealed that AIB1 also affects the growth of hormone-independent breast cancer via signaling pathways such as those of E2F1, IGF-I, EGF and PI3K/Akt/mTOR. The pleiotropic effect of AIB1 and the roles it plays in both normal development and cancer have presented a great challenge to formulating an effective therapeutic strategy for breast cancer. In this review, we highlight the significant progress made with the recent findings and present an overview of the current understanding of the influence of AIB1 on breast cancer via hormone-dependent and -independent signaling pathways.
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- Alan K Chang
- College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, P.R. China
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Rubel CA, Lanz RB, Kommagani R, Franco HL, Lydon JP, DeMayo FJ. Research resource: Genome-wide profiling of progesterone receptor binding in the mouse uterus. Mol Endocrinol 2012; 26:1428-42. [PMID: 22638070 DOI: 10.1210/me.2011-1355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Progesterone (P4) signaling through its nuclear transcription factor, the progesterone receptor (PR), is essential for normal uterine function. Although deregulation of PR-mediated signaling is known to underscore uterine dysfunction and a number of endometrial pathologies, the early molecular mechanisms of this deregulation are unclear. To address this issue, we have defined the genome-wide PR cistrome in the murine uterus using chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by massively parallel sequencing (ChIP-seq). In uteri of ovariectomized mice, we identified 6367 PR-binding sites in the absence of P4 ligand; however, this number increased at nearly 3-fold (18,432) after acute P4 exposure. Sequence analysis revealed that approximately 73% of these binding sites contain a progesterone response element or a half-site motif recognized by the PR. Many previously identified P4 target genes known to regulate uterine function were found to contain PR-binding sites, confirming the validity of our methodology. Interestingly, when the ChIP-seq data were coupled with our microarray expression data, we identified a novel regulatory role for uterine P4 in circadian rhythm gene expression, thereby uncovering a hitherto unexpected new circadian biology for P4 in this tissue. Further mining of the ChIP-seq data revealed Sox17 as a direct transcriptional PR target gene in the uterus. As a member of the Sox transcription factor family, Sox17 represents a potentially novel mediator of PR action in the murine uterus. Collectively, our first line of analysis of the uterine PR cistrome provides the first insights into the early molecular mechanisms that underpin normal uterine responsiveness to acute P4 exposure. Future analysis promises to reveal the PR interactome and, in turn, potential therapeutic targets for the diagnosis and/or treatment of endometrial dysfunction.
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- Cory A Rubel
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
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O'Hara J, Vareslija D, McBryan J, Bane F, Tibbitts P, Byrne C, Conroy RM, Hao Y, Gaora PÓ, Hill ADK, McIlroy M, Young LS. AIB1:ERα transcriptional activity is selectively enhanced in aromatase inhibitor-resistant breast cancer cells. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:3305-15. [PMID: 22550166 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-11-3300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The use of aromatase inhibitors (AI) in the treatment of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, postmenopausal breast cancer has proven efficacy. However, inappropriate activation of ER target genes has been implicated in the development of resistant tumors. The ER coactivator protein AIB1 has previously been associated with initiation of breast cancer and resistance to endocrine therapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Here, we investigated the role of AIB1 in the deregulation of ER target genes occurring as a consequence of AI resistance using tissue microarrays of patients with breast cancer and cell line models of resistance to the AI letrozole. RESULTS Expression of AIB1 associated with disease recurrence (P = 0.025) and reduced disease-free survival time (P = 0.0471) in patients treated with an AI as first-line therapy. In a cell line model of resistance to letrozole (LetR), we found ERα/AIB1 promoter recruitment and subsequent expression of the classic ER target genes pS2 and Myc to be constitutively upregulated in the presence of both androstenedione and letrozole. In contrast, the recruitment of the ERα/AIB1 transcriptional complex to the nonclassic ER target cyclin D1 and its subsequent expression remained sensitive to steroid treatment and could be inhibited by treatment with letrozole. Molecular studies revealed that this may be due in part to direct steroid regulation of c-jun-NH(2)-kinase (JNK), signaling to Jun and Fos at the cyclin D1 promoter. CONCLUSION This study establishes a role for AIB1 in AI-resistant breast cancer and describes a new mechanism of ERα/AIB1 gene regulation which could contribute to the development of an aggressive tumor phenotype.
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- Jane O'Hara
- Endocrine Oncology Research Group, Department of Surgery and Epidemiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Won Jeong K, Chodankar R, Purcell DJ, Bittencourt D, Stallcup MR. Gene-specific patterns of coregulator requirements by estrogen receptor-α in breast cancer cells. Mol Endocrinol 2012; 26:955-66. [PMID: 22543272 DOI: 10.1210/me.2012-1066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Progesterone receptor (PgR) controls the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, embryonic development, and homeostasis, and it plays important roles in breast cancer development and progression. However, the requirement of coregulators for estrogen-induced expression of the PgR gene has not been fully explored. Here we used RNA interference to demonstrate dramatic differences in requirements of 10 different coregulators for estrogen-regulated expression of six different genes, including PgR and the well-studied TFF1 (or pS2) gene in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Full estrogen-induced expression of TFF1 required all ten coregulators, but PgR induction required only four of the 10 coregulators. Chromatin immunoprecipitation studies demonstrated several mechanisms responsible for the differential coregulator requirements. Actin-binding coregulator Flightless-I, required for TFF1 expression and recruited to that gene by estrogen receptor-α (ERα), is not required for PgR expression and not recruited to that gene. Protein acetyltransferase tat-interactive protein 60 and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler Brahma Related Gene 1 are recruited to both genes but are required only for TFF1 expression. Histone methyltransferase G9a is recruited to both genes and required for estrogen-induced expression of TFF1 but negatively regulates estrogen-induced expression of PgR. In contrast, histone methyltransferase myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1), pioneer factor Forkhead box A1, and p160 coregulator steroid receptor coactivator-3 are required for expression of and are recruited to both genes. Depletion of MLL1 decreased ERα binding to the PgR and TFF1 genes. In contrast, depletion of G9a enhanced ERα binding to the PgR gene but had no effect on ERα binding to the TFF1 gene. These studies suggest that differential promoter architecture is responsible for promoter-specific mechanisms of gene regulation.
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- Kwang Won Jeong
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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He HH, Meyer CA, Chen MW, Jordan VC, Brown M, Liu XS. Differential DNase I hypersensitivity reveals factor-dependent chromatin dynamics. Genome Res 2012; 22:1015-25. [PMID: 22508765 PMCID: PMC3371710 DOI: 10.1101/gr.133280.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Transcription factor cistromes are highly cell-type specific. Chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, and nucleosome occupancy have all been found to play a role in defining these binding locations. Here, we show that hormone-induced DNase I hypersensitivity changes (ΔDHS) are highly predictive of androgen receptor (AR) and estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) binding in prostate cancer and breast cancer cells, respectively. While chromatin structure prior to receptor binding and nucleosome occupancy after binding are strikingly different for ESR1 and AR, ΔDHS is highly predictive for both. AR binding is associated with changes in both local nucleosome occupancy and DNase I hypersensitivity. In contrast, while global ESR1 binding is unrelated to changes in nucleosome occupancy, DNase I hypersensitivity dynamics are also predictive of the ESR1 cistrome. These findings suggest that AR and ESR1 have distinct modes of interaction with chromatin and that DNase I hypersensitivity dynamics provides a general approach for predicting cell-type specific cistromes.
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- Housheng Hansen He
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kumar R, McEwan IJ. Allosteric modulators of steroid hormone receptors: structural dynamics and gene regulation. Endocr Rev 2012; 33:271-99. [PMID: 22433123 PMCID: PMC3596562 DOI: 10.1210/er.2011-1033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Steroid hormones are synthesized from cholesterol primarily in the adrenal gland and the gonads and play vital roles in normal physiology, the control of development, differentiation, metabolic homeostasis, and reproduction. The actions of these small lipophilic molecules are mediated by intracellular receptor proteins. It is just over 25 yr since the first cDNA for steroid receptors were cloned, a development that led to the birth of a superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors: the nuclear receptors. The receptor proteins share structurally and functionally related ligand binding and DNA-binding domains but possess distinct N-terminal domains and hinge regions that are intrinsically disordered. Since the original cloning experiments, considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the structure, mechanisms of action, and biology of this important class of ligand-activated transcription factors. In recent years, there has been interest in the structural plasticity and function of the N-terminal domain of steroid hormone receptors and in the allosteric regulation of protein folding and function in response to hormone, DNA response element architecture, and coregulatory protein binding partners. The N-terminal domain can exist as an ensemble of conformers, having more or less structure, which prime this region of the receptor to rapidly respond to changes in the intracellular environment through hormone binding and posttranslation modifications. In this review, we address the question of receptor structure and function dynamics with particular emphasis on the structurally flexible N-terminal domain, intra- and interdomain communications, and the allosteric regulation of receptor action.
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- Raj Kumar
- Department of Basic Sciences, The Commonwealth Medical College, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18510, USA
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Wu MY, Fu J, Xu J, O'Malley BW, Wu RC. Steroid receptor coactivator 3 regulates autophagy in breast cancer cells through macrophage migration inhibitory factor. Cell Res 2012; 22:1003-21. [PMID: 22430150 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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SRC-3/AIB1 (steroid receptor coactivator 3/amplified in breast cancer 1) is an authentic oncogene that contributes to the development of drug resistance and poor disease-free survival in cancer patients. Autophagy is also an important cell death mechanism that has tumor suppressor function. In this study, we identified macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) as a novel target gene of SRC-3 and demonstrated its importance in cell survival. Specifically, we showed that MIF is a strong suppressor of autophagic cell death. We further showed that suppression of MIF, in turn, induced autophagic cell death, enhanced chemosensitivity and inhibited tumorigenesis in a xenograft mouse tumorigenesis model. Our study demonstrated that regulation of MIF expression and suppression of autophagic cell death is a potent mechanism by which SRC-3 contributes to increased chemoresistance and tumorigenicity.
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- Mei-Yi Wu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
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Johnson AB, O'Malley BW. Steroid receptor coactivators 1, 2, and 3: critical regulators of nuclear receptor activity and steroid receptor modulator (SRM)-based cancer therapy. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2012; 348:430-9. [PMID: 21664237 PMCID: PMC3202666 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2011] [Revised: 04/04/2011] [Accepted: 04/22/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Coactivators are a diverse group of non-DNA binding proteins that induce structural changes in agonist-bound nuclear receptors (NRs) that are essential for NR-mediated transcriptional activation. Once bound, coactivators function to bridge enhancer binding proteins to the general transcription machinery, as well as to recruit secondary coactivators that modify promoter and enhancer chromatin in a manner permissive for transcriptional activation. In the following review article, we focus on one of the most in-depth studied families of coactivators, the steroid receptor coactivators (SRC) 1, 2, and 3. SRCs are widely implicated in NR-mediated diseases, especially in cancers, with the majority of studies focused on their roles in breast cancer. We highlight the relevant literature supporting the oncogenic activity of SRCs and their future as diagnostic and prognostic indicators. With much interest in the development of selective receptor modulators (SRMs), we focus on how these coactivators regulate the interactions between SRMs and their respective NRs; and, importantly, the influence that coactivators have on the functional output of SRMs. Furthermore, we speculate that coactivator-specific inhibitors could provide powerful, all-encompassing treatments that target multiple modes of oncogenic regulation in cancers resistant to typical anti-endocrine treatments.
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- Amber B Johnson
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, United States
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Osmanbeyoglu HU, Hartmaier RJ, Oesterreich S, Lu X. Improving ChIP-seq peak-calling for functional co-regulator binding by integrating multiple sources of biological information. BMC Genomics 2012; 13 Suppl 1:S1. [PMID: 22369349 PMCID: PMC3439677 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-s1-s1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with massively parallel sequencing (ChIP-seq) is increasingly being applied to study genome-wide binding sites of transcription factors. There is an increasing interest in understanding the mechanism of action of co-regulator proteins, which do not bind DNA directly, but exert their effects by binding to transcription factors such as the estrogen receptor (ER). However, due to the nature of detecting indirect protein-DNA interaction, ChIP-seq signals from co-regulators can be relatively weak and thus biologically meaningful interactions remain difficult to identify. RESULTS In this study, we investigated and compared different statistical and machine learning approaches including unsupervised, supervised, and semi-supervised classification (self-training) approaches to integrate multiple types of genomic and transcriptomic information derived from our experiments and public database to overcome difficulty of identifying functional DNA binding sites of the co-regulator SRC-1 in the context of estrogen response. Our results indicate that supervised learning with naïve Bayes algorithm significantly enhances peak calling of weak ChIP-seq signals and outperforms other machine learning algorithms. Our integrative approach revealed many potential ERα/SRC-1 DNA binding sites that would otherwise be missed by conventional peak calling algorithms with default settings. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that a supervised classification approach enables one to utilize limited amounts of prior knowledge together with multiple types of biological data to enhance the sensitivity and specificity of the identification of DNA binding sites from co-regulator proteins.
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- Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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McCartan D, Bolger JC, Fagan A, Byrne C, Hao Y, Qin L, McIlroy M, Xu J, Hill AD, Gaora PÓ, Young LS. Global characterization of the SRC-1 transcriptome identifies ADAM22 as an ER-independent mediator of endocrine-resistant breast cancer. Cancer Res 2011; 72:220-9. [PMID: 22072566 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-11-1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The development of breast cancer resistance to endocrine therapy results from an increase in cellular plasticity that permits the emergence of a hormone-independent tumor. The steroid coactivator protein SRC-1, through interactions with developmental proteins and other nonsteroidal transcription factors, drives this tumor adaptability. In this discovery study, we identified ADAM22, a non-protease member of the ADAM family of disintegrins, as a direct estrogen receptor (ER)-independent target of SRC-1. We confirmed SRC-1 as a regulator of ADAM22 by molecular, cellular, and in vivo studies. ADAM22 functioned in cellular migration and differentiation, and its levels were increased in endocrine resistant-tumors compared with endocrine-sensitive tumors in mouse xenograft models of human breast cancer. Clinically, ADAM22 was found to serve as an independent predictor of poor disease-free survival. Taken together, our findings suggest that SRC-1 switches steroid-responsive tumors to a steroid-resistant state in which the SRC-1 target gene ADAM22 has a critical role, suggesting this molecule as a prognostic and therapeutic drug target that could help improve the treatment of endocrine-resistant breast cancer.
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- Damian McCartan
- Endocrine Oncology Research, Department of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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Wang Y, Lonard DM, Yu Y, Chow DC, Palzkill TG, O'Malley BW. Small molecule inhibition of the steroid receptor coactivators, SRC-3 and SRC-1. Mol Endocrinol 2011; 25:2041-53. [PMID: 22053001 DOI: 10.1210/me.2011-1222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Overexpression of steroid receptor coactivator (SRC)-1 and SRC-3 is associated with cancer initiation, metastasis, advanced disease, and resistance to chemotherapy. In most of these cases, SRC-1 and SRC-3 have been shown to promote tumor cell growth by activating nuclear receptor and multiple growth factor signaling cascades that lead to uncontrolled tumor cell growth. Up until now, most targeted chemotherapeutic drugs have been designed largely to block a single pathway at a time, but cancers frequently acquire resistance by switching to alternative growth factor pathways. We reason that the development of chemotherapeutic agents against SRC coactivators that sit at the nexus of multiple cell growth signaling networks and transcriptional factors should be particularly effective therapeutics. To substantiate this hypothesis, we report the discovery of 2,2'-bis-(Formyl-1,6,7-trihydroxy-5-isopropyl-3-methylnaphthalene (gossypol) as a small molecule inhibitor of coactivator SRC-1 and SRC-3. Our data indicate that gossypol binds directly to SRC-3 in its receptor interacting domain. In MCF-7 breast cancer cells, gossypol selectively reduces the cellular protein concentrations of SRC-1 and SRC-3 without generally altering overall protein expression patterns, SRC-2, or other coactivators, such as p300 and coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1. Gossypol reduces the concentration of SRC-3 in prostate, lung, and liver cancer cell lines. Gossypol inhibits cell viability in the same cancer cell lines where it promotes SRC-3 down-regulation. Additionally, gossypol sensitizes lung and breast cancer cell lines to the inhibitory effects of other chemotherapeutic agents. Importantly, gossypol is selectively cytotoxic to cancer cells, whereas normal cell viability is not affected. This data establish the proof-of-principle that, as a class, SRC-1 and SRC-3 coactivators are accessible chemotherapeutic targets. Given their function as integrators of multiple cell growth signaling systems, SRC-1/SRC-3 small molecule inhibitors comprise a new class of drugs that have potential as novel chemotherapeutics able to defeat aspects of acquired cancer cell resistance mechanisms.
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- Ying Wang
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Zwart W, Theodorou V, Kok M, Canisius S, Linn S, Carroll JS. Oestrogen receptor-co-factor-chromatin specificity in the transcriptional regulation of breast cancer. EMBO J 2011; 30:4764-76. [PMID: 22002538 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2011] [Accepted: 09/19/2011] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The complexity of oestrogen receptor α (ERα)-mediated transcription is becoming apparent, but global insight into the co-regulatory proteins that assist ERα transcription is incomplete. Here, we present the most comprehensive chromatin-binding landscape of ERα co-regulatory proteins to date. We map by ChIP-seq the essential p160 co-regulators (SRC1, SRC2 and SRC3), and the histone acetyl transferases p300 and CBP in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. We find a complex network of co-regulator binding, with preferential binding sites for each co-regulator. Unlike previous suggestions, we find SRC recruitment almost exclusively following ligand treatment. Interestingly, we find specific subsets of genes regulated by ligand-dependent and -independent co-regulator recruitment. Co-factor-binding profiles were integrated with expression data from cell lines and primary tumour cohorts, to reveal specific transcriptional networks that influence clinical outcome. Genes that are bound by SRC3, but not other p160 proteins, have predictive value in cohorts of breast cancer patients. By generating a robust and global view of co-factor-binding properties, we discover new levels of co-regulator complexity, but also reveal specific gene networks that may influence endocrine response.
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- Wilbert Zwart
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Malovannaya A, Lanz RB, Jung SY, Bulynko Y, Le NT, Chan DW, Ding C, Shi Y, Yucer N, Krenciute G, Kim BJ, Li C, Chen R, Li W, Wang Y, O'Malley BW, Qin J. Analysis of the human endogenous coregulator complexome. Cell 2011; 145:787-99. [PMID: 21620140 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 333] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 05/05/2011] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Elucidation of endogenous cellular protein-protein interactions and their networks is most desirable for biological studies. Here we report our study of endogenous human coregulator protein complex networks obtained from integrative mass spectrometry-based analysis of 3290 affinity purifications. By preserving weak protein interactions during complex isolation and utilizing high levels of reciprocity in the large dataset, we identified many unreported protein associations, such as a transcriptional network formed by ZMYND8, ZNF687, and ZNF592. Furthermore, our work revealed a tiered interplay within networks that share common proteins, providing a conceptual organization of a cellular proteome composed of minimal endogenous modules (MEMOs), complex isoforms (uniCOREs), and regulatory complex-complex interaction networks (CCIs). This resource will effectively fill a void in linking correlative genomic studies with an understanding of transcriptional regulatory protein functions within the proteome for formulation and testing of future hypotheses.
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- Anna Malovannaya
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Stine ZE, McGaughey DM, Bessling SL, Li S, McCallion AS. Steroid hormone modulation of RET through two estrogen responsive enhancers in breast cancer. Hum Mol Genet 2011; 20:3746-56. [PMID: 21737465 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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RET, a gene causatively mutated in Hirschsprung disease and cancer, has recently been implicated in breast cancer estrogen (E2) independence and tamoxifen resistance. RET displays both E2 and retinoic acid (RA)-dependent transcriptional modulation in E2-responsive breast cancers. However, the regulatory elements through which the steroid hormone transcriptional regulation of RET is mediated are poorly defined. Recent genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation-based studies have identified 10 putative E2 receptor-alpha (ESR1) and RA receptor alpha-binding sites at the RET locus, of which we demonstrate only two (RET -49.8 and RET +32.8) display significant E2 regulatory response when assayed independently in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. We demonstrate that endogenous RET expression and RET -49.8 regulatory activity are cooperatively regulated by E2 and RA in breast cancer cells. We identify key sequences that are required for RET -49.8 and RET +32.8 E2 responsiveness, including motifs known to be bound by ESR1, FOXA1 and TFAP2C. We also report that both RET -49.8 regulatory activity and endogenous RET expression are completely dependent on ESR1 for their (E2)-induction and that ESR1 is sufficient to mediate the E2-induced enhancer activity of RET -49.8 and RET +32.8. Finally, using zebrafish transgenesis, we also demonstrate that RET -49.8 directs reporter expression in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system consistent with the endogenous ret expression. Taken collectively, these data suggest that RET transcription in breast cancer cells is modulated by E2 via ESR1 acting on multiple elements collectively.
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- Zachary E Stine
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Hu ZZ, Kagan BL, Ariazi EA, Rosenthal DS, Zhang L, Li JV, Huang H, Wu C, Jordan VC, Riegel AT, Wellstein A. Proteomic analysis of pathways involved in estrogen-induced growth and apoptosis of breast cancer cells. PLoS One 2011; 6:e20410. [PMID: 21738574 PMCID: PMC3124472 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2011] [Accepted: 04/23/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Estrogen is a known growth promoter for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer cells. Paradoxically, in breast cancer cells that have been chronically deprived of estrogen stimulation, re-introduction of the hormone can induce apoptosis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here, we sought to identify signaling networks that are triggered by estradiol (E2) in isogenic MCF-7 breast cancer cells that undergo apoptosis (MCF-7:5C) versus cells that proliferate upon exposure to E2 (MCF-7). The nuclear receptor co-activator AIB1 (Amplified in Breast Cancer-1) is known to be rate-limiting for E2-induced cell survival responses in MCF-7 cells and was found here to also be required for the induction of apoptosis by E2 in the MCF-7:5C cells. Proteins that interact with AIB1 as well as complexes that contain tyrosine phosphorylated proteins were isolated by immunoprecipitation and identified by mass spectrometry (MS) at baseline and after a brief exposure to E2 for two hours. Bioinformatic network analyses of the identified protein interactions were then used to analyze E2 signaling pathways that trigger apoptosis versus survival. Comparison of MS data with a computationally-predicted AIB1 interaction network showed that 26 proteins identified in this study are within this network, and are involved in signal transduction, transcription, cell cycle regulation and protein degradation. CONCLUSIONS G-protein-coupled receptors, PI3 kinase, Wnt and Notch signaling pathways were most strongly associated with E2-induced proliferation or apoptosis and are integrated here into a global AIB1 signaling network that controls qualitatively distinct responses to estrogen.
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- Zhang-Zhi Hu
- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
- Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Protein Information Resource, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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He B, Kim TH, Kommagani R, Feng Q, Lanz RB, Jeong JW, DeMayo FJ, Katzenellenbogen BS, Lydon JP, O'Malley BW. Estrogen-regulated prohibitin is required for mouse uterine development and adult function. Endocrinology 2011; 152:1047-56. [PMID: 21209023 PMCID: PMC3040048 DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Estrogen signaling is pivotal for maintenance of female reproductive function in mammals. The physiological role of estrogen is mediated by estrogen receptors (ERs) and the steroid receptor coactivator family of transcriptional coregulators. Ablation of steroid receptor coactivator and ER coactivators in mice causes impaired female reproductive function. Recently we reported that prohibitin (PHB) can function as a corepressor for ERs in cultured cells. In this study, we demonstrate that PHB is an estrogen-regulated gene in vitro and in vivo, and its expression is induced by estrogen in the uterus, suggesting the existence of feedback regulatory loops. A conditional PHB knockout mouse model was generated by gene targeting to assess its in vivo function. Female mice with selective ablation of the PHB allele in the uterus were sterile, and their uteri were severely hypoplastic, indicating PHB is required for uterine development. Moreover, expression of ER and progesterone receptor target genes was selectively altered in response to hormone treatment. In summary, this study demonstrates that PHB is an estrogen-regulated gene and that PHB is essential for mouse uterine development and adult function and selectively required for estrogen-regulated gene expression.
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- Bin He
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Nuclear receptors (NRs) represent a vital class of ligand-activated transcription factors responsible for coordinately regulating the expression of genes involved in numerous biological processes. Transcriptional regulation by NRs is conducted through interactions with multiple coactivator or corepressor complexes that modify the chromatin environment to facilitate or inhibit RNA polymerase II binding and transcription initiation. In recent years, studies have identified specific biological roles for cofactors mediating NR signaling through epigenetic modifications such as acetylation and methylation of histones. Intriguingly, genome-wide analysis of NR and cofactor localization has both confirmed findings from single-gene studies and revealed new insights into the relationships between NRs, cofactors and target genes in determining gene expression. Here, we review recent developments in the understanding of epigenetic regulation by NRs across the genome within the context of the well-established background of cofactor complexes and their roles in histone modification.
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- Christopher D Green
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Center for Molecular Systems Biology, Institute of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Beijing, 100101, China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences–MaxPlanck Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China
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Bulynko YA, O'Malley BW. Nuclear receptor coactivators: structural and functional biochemistry. Biochemistry 2010; 50:313-28. [PMID: 21141906 DOI: 10.1021/bi101762x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Transcription of eukaryotic cell is a multistep process tightly controlled by concerted action of macromolecules. Nuclear receptors are ligand-activated sequence-specific transcription factors that bind DNA and activate (or repress) transcription of specific sets of nuclear target genes. Successful activation of transcription by nuclear receptors and most other transcription factors requires "coregulators" of transcription. Coregulators make up a diverse family of proteins that physically interact with and modulate the activity of transcription factors and other components of the gene expression machinery via multiple biochemical mechanisms. The coregulators include coactivators that accomplish reactions required for activation of transcription and corepressors that suppress transcription. This review summarizes our current knowledge of nuclear receptor coactivators with an emphasis on their biochemical mechanisms of action and means of regulation.
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- Yaroslava A Bulynko
- Molecular and Cellular Biology, BCM130 Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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McKenna NJ. Discovery-driven research and bioinformatics in nuclear receptor and coregulator signaling. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2010; 1812:808-17. [PMID: 21029773 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2010.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2010] [Revised: 10/18/2010] [Accepted: 10/19/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nuclear receptors (NRs) are a superfamily of ligand-regulated transcription factors that interact with coregulators and other transcription factors to direct tissue-specific programs of gene expression. Recent years have witnessed a rapid acceleration of the output of high-content data platforms in this field, generating discovery-driven datasets that have collectively described: the organization of the NR superfamily (phylogenomics); the expression patterns of NRs, coregulators and their target genes (transcriptomics); ligand- and tissue-specific functional NR and coregulator sites in DNA (cistromics); the organization of nuclear receptors and coregulators into higher order complexes (proteomics); and their downstream effects on homeostasis and metabolism (metabolomics). Significant bioinformatics challenges lie ahead both in the integration of this information into meaningful models of NR and coregulator biology, as well as in the archiving and communication of datasets to the global nuclear receptor signaling community. While holding great promise for the field, the ascendancy of discovery-driven research in this field brings with it a collective responsibility for researchers, publishers and funding agencies alike to ensure the effective archiving and management of these data. This review will discuss factors lying behind the increasing impact of discovery-driven research, examples of high-content datasets and their bioinformatic analysis, as well as a summary of currently curated web resources in this field. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Translating nuclear receptors from health to disease.
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- Neil J McKenna
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Wyce A, Bai Y, Nagpal S, Thompson CC. Research Resource: The androgen receptor modulates expression of genes with critical roles in muscle development and function. Mol Endocrinol 2010; 24:1665-74. [PMID: 20610535 DOI: 10.1210/me.2010-0138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Androgen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR), a ligand-dependent transcription factor within the steroid receptor superfamily, plays an important role in the development and maintenance of many tissues. In muscle, androgens act as anabolic agents that increase both muscle mass and strength; however, a key unanswered question is the mechanism through which AR-mediated gene expression leads to these effects. To gain further insight into the mechanism of AR action in muscle, we identified AR-binding sites in primary human muscle cells using ChIP-on-Chip (chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with tiling microarray detection of genomic fragments). Through this analysis, we identified 32,518 potential AR-binding sites throughout the genome that were enriched upon androgen treatment. Sequence analysis of these regions indicated that approximately 90% possess a consensus androgen response element or half-site. Among the identified AR-binding sites are genes known to be directly regulated by AR, confirming the validity of our methodology. Additionally, we identified a number of novel AR targets, including genes and micro-RNAs implicated in muscle differentiation and function, suggesting a direct role for AR-mediated transcription in muscle development. Intriguingly, binding sequences for the Mef2 family of transcription factors were enriched in the AR-bound regions, and we show that several Mef2c-dependent genes are direct targets of AR, suggesting a functional interaction between Mef2c and AR in skeletal muscle. Our results provide new insights into the mechanisms by which androgens promote muscle growth and validate AR as a potential therapeutic target for sarcopenia, muscle wasting, and other androgen-related muscle disorders.
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- Anastasia Wyce
- Transcriptional Targets, Tissue Repair, Pfizer Biotherapeutics, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, USA
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