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Li J, Chin CR, Ying HY, Meydan C, Teater MR, Xia M, Farinha P, Takata K, Chu CS, Jiang Y, Eagles J, Passerini V, Tang Z, Rivas MA, Weigert O, Pugh TJ, Chadburn A, Steidl C, Scott DW, Roeder RG, Mason CE, Zappasodi R, Béguelin W, Melnick AM. Loss of CREBBP and KMT2D cooperate to accelerate lymphomagenesis and shape the lymphoma immune microenvironment. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2879. [PMID: 38570506 PMCID: PMC10991284 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47012-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Despite regulating overlapping gene enhancers and pathways, CREBBP and KMT2D mutations recurrently co-occur in germinal center (GC) B cell-derived lymphomas, suggesting potential oncogenic cooperation. Herein, we report that combined haploinsufficiency of Crebbp and Kmt2d induces a more severe mouse lymphoma phenotype (vs either allele alone) and unexpectedly confers an immune evasive microenvironment manifesting as CD8+ T-cell exhaustion and reduced infiltration. This is linked to profound repression of immune synapse genes that mediate crosstalk with T-cells, resulting in aberrant GC B cell fate decisions. From the epigenetic perspective, we observe interaction and mutually dependent binding and function of CREBBP and KMT2D on chromatin. Their combined deficiency preferentially impairs activation of immune synapse-responsive super-enhancers, pointing to a particular dependency for both co-activators at these specialized regulatory elements. Together, our data provide an example where chromatin modifier mutations cooperatively shape and induce an immune-evasive microenvironment to facilitate lymphomagenesis.
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- Jie Li
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- BC Cancer Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, Department of Pathology and Laboratorial Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer, Vancouver, Canada
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- The Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine III, Laboratory for Experimental Leukemia and Lymphoma Research (ELLF), Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Hospital, Munich, Germany
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- The Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine III, Laboratory for Experimental Leukemia and Lymphoma Research (ELLF), Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Hospital, Munich, Germany
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer, Vancouver, Canada
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- BC Cancer Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- The Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
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Li J, Chin CR, Ying HY, Meydan C, Teater MR, Xia M, Farinha P, Takata K, Chu CS, Rivas MA, Chadburn A, Steidl C, Scott DW, Roeder RG, Mason CE, Béguelin W, Melnick AM. Cooperative super-enhancer inactivation caused by heterozygous loss of CREBBP and KMT2D skews B cell fate decisions and yields T cell-depleted lymphomas. bioRxiv 2023:2023.02.13.528351. [PMID: 36824887 PMCID: PMC9949106 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.13.528351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2023]
Abstract
Mutations affecting enhancer chromatin regulators CREBBP and KMT2D are highly co-occurrent in germinal center (GC)-derived lymphomas and other tumors, even though regulating similar pathways. Herein, we report that combined haploinsufficiency of Crebbp and Kmt2d (C+K) indeed accelerated lymphomagenesis. C+K haploinsufficiency induced GC hyperplasia by altering cell fate decisions, skewing B cells away from memory and plasma cell differentiation. C+K deficiency particularly impaired enhancer activation for immune synapse genes involved in exiting the GC reaction. This effect was especially severe at super-enhancers for immunoregulatory and differentiation genes. Mechanistically, CREBBP and KMT2D formed a complex, were highly co-localized on chromatin, and were required for each-other's stable recruitment to enhancers. Notably, C+K lymphomas in mice and humans manifested significantly reduced CD8 + T-cell abundance. Hence, deficiency of C+K cooperatively induced an immune evasive phenotype due at least in part to failure to activate key immune synapse super-enhancers, associated with altered immune cell fate decisions. SIGNIFICANCE Although CREBBP and KMT2D have similar enhancer regulatory functions, they are paradoxically co-mutated in lymphomas. We show that their combined loss causes specific disruption of super-enhancers driving immune synapse genes. Importantly, this leads to reduction of CD8 cells in lymphomas, linking super-enhancer function to immune surveillance, with implications for immunotherapy resistance.
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Chu CS, Hellmuth JC, Singh R, Ying HY, Skrabanek L, Teater MR, Doane AS, Elemento O, Melnick AM, Roeder RG. Unique Immune Cell Coactivators Specify Locus Control Region Function and Cell Stage. Mol Cell 2020; 80:845-861.e10. [PMID: 33232656 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Locus control region (LCR) functions define cellular identity and have critical roles in diseases such as cancer, although the hierarchy of structural components and associated factors that drive functionality are incompletely understood. Here we show that OCA-B, a B cell-specific coactivator essential for germinal center (GC) formation, forms a ternary complex with the lymphoid-enriched OCT2 and GC-specific MEF2B transcription factors and that this complex occupies and activates an LCR that regulates the BCL6 proto-oncogene and is uniquely required by normal and malignant GC B cells. Mechanistically, through OCA-B-MED1 interactions, this complex is required for Mediator association with the BCL6 promoter. Densely tiled CRISPRi screening indicates that only LCR segments heavily bound by this ternary complex are essential for its function. Our results demonstrate how an intimately linked complex of lineage- and stage-specific factors converges on specific and highly essential enhancer elements to drive the function of a cell-type-defining LCR.
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- Chi-Shuen Chu
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Applied Bioinformatics Core, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Parsa S, Ortega-Molina A, Ying HY, Jiang M, Teater M, Wang J, Zhao C, Reznik E, Pasion JP, Kuo D, Mohan P, Wang S, Camarillo JM, Thomas PM, Jain N, Garcia-Bermudez J, Cho BK, Tam W, Kelleher NL, Socci N, Dogan A, De Stanchina E, Ciriello G, Green MR, Li S, Birsoy K, Melnick AM, Wendel HG. The serine hydroxymethyltransferase-2 (SHMT2) initiates lymphoma development through epigenetic tumor suppressor silencing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 1:653-664. [PMID: 33569544 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-020-0080-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Cancer cells adapt their metabolic activities to support growth and proliferation. However, increased activity of metabolic enzymes is not usually considered an initiating event in the malignant process. Here, we investigate the possible role of the enzyme serine hydroxymethyltransferase-2 (SHMT2) in lymphoma initiation. SHMT2 localizes to the most frequent region of copy number gains at chromosome 12q14.1 in lymphoma. Elevated expression of SHMT2 cooperates with BCL2 in lymphoma development; loss or inhibition of SHMT2 impairs lymphoma cell survival. SHMT2 catalyzes the conversion of serine to glycine and produces an activated one-carbon unit that can be used to support S-adenosyl methionine synthesis. SHMT2 induces changes in DNA and histone methylation patterns leading to promoter silencing of previously uncharacterized mutational genes, such as SASH1 and PTPRM. Together, our findings reveal that amplification of SHMT2 in cooperation with BCL2 is sufficient in the initiation of lymphomagenesis through epigenetic tumor suppressor silencing.
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- Sara Parsa
- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences and the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Hematopathology Service, Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Wang X, You Y, Ge YP, Ying HY, Cheng YJ, Bai CM. [Ovarian metastases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas: the clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes of 10 cases]. Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi 2020; 42:331-335. [PMID: 32375450 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112152-20190220-00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Objective: To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes of a series of ovarian metastases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Methods: Data of clinical manifestation, pathological characteristic, treatment and follow-up result from ten patients with ovarian metastases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma confirmed by pathology were retrospectively analyzed. Results: The median age of onset was 46 years (38~79 years). The primary tumors were located in the body and tail of the pancreas in 8 cases. Bilateral ovarian metastasis occurred in 8 patients at the time of diagnosis. The median time from patients with clinical symptom to ovarian metastases was 2.5 months (0~12 months). Peritoneal metastasis was found in all of 10 cases. Nine cases were accompanied by CA125 elevation. The major features of metastatic carcinoma in the ovary were cystic-solid appearance (8 cases) and mucinous adenocarcinoma (6 cases) with no obvious immunohistochemical features in pathological observation. All patients underwent palliative ovariectomy at onset, and one patient underwent primary tumor resection simultaneously. Seven patients received chemotherapy. The median survival time of the 10 patients was 10.3 months. Conclusions: Ovarian metastases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma are easily misdiagnosed. The final diagnosis depends on clinical manifestations, imaging and histopathological observation. Ovariectomy may be associated with better outcome.
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- X Wang
- Department of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Pathology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China
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Mondello P, Tadros S, Teater M, Fontan L, Chang AY, Jain N, Yang H, Singh S, Ying HY, Chu CS, Ma MCJ, Toska E, Alig S, Durant M, de Stanchina E, Ghosh S, Mottok A, Nastoupil L, Neelapu SS, Weigert O, Inghirami G, Baselga J, Younes A, Yee C, Dogan A, Scheinberg DA, Roeder RG, Melnick AM, Green MR. Selective Inhibition of HDAC3 Targets Synthetic Vulnerabilities and Activates Immune Surveillance in Lymphoma. Cancer Discov 2020; 10:440-459. [PMID: 31915197 PMCID: PMC7275250 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-19-0116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
CREBBP mutations are highly recurrent in B-cell lymphomas and either inactivate its histone acetyltransferase (HAT) domain or truncate the protein. Herein, we show that these two classes of mutations yield different degrees of disruption of the epigenome, with HAT mutations being more severe and associated with inferior clinical outcome. Genes perturbed by CREBBP mutation are direct targets of the BCL6-HDAC3 onco-repressor complex. Accordingly, we show that HDAC3-selective inhibitors reverse CREBBP-mutant aberrant epigenetic programming, resulting in: (i) growth inhibition of lymphoma cells through induction of BCL6 target genes such as CDKN1A and (ii) restoration of immune surveillance due to induction of BCL6-repressed IFN pathway and antigen-presenting genes. By reactivating these genes, exposure to HDAC3 inhibitors restored the ability of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to kill DLBCL cells in an MHC class I and II-dependent manner, and synergized with PD-L1 blockade in a syngeneic model in vivo. Hence, HDAC3 inhibition represents a novel mechanism-based immune epigenetic therapy for CREBBP-mutant lymphomas. SIGNIFICANCE: We have leveraged the molecular characterization of different types of CREBBP mutations to define a rational approach for targeting these mutations through selective inhibition of HDAC3. This represents an attractive therapeutic avenue for targeting synthetic vulnerabilities in CREBBP-mutant cells in tandem with promoting antitumor immunity.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 327.
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- Patrizia Mondello
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Human Oncology and Pathogenesis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Antitumor Assessment Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Institute of Pathology, University of Würzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
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- Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
- Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Center for Cancer Epigenetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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Jiang Y, Ortega-Molina A, Geng H, Ying HY, Hatzi K, Parsa S, McNally D, Wang L, Doane AS, Agirre X, Teater M, Meydan C, Li Z, Poloway D, Wang S, Ennishi D, Scott DW, Stengel KR, Kranz JE, Holson E, Sharma S, Young JW, Chu CS, Roeder RG, Shaknovich R, Hiebert SW, Gascoyne RD, Tam W, Elemento O, Wendel HG, Melnick AM. CREBBP Inactivation Promotes the Development of HDAC3-Dependent Lymphomas. Cancer Discov 2016; 7:38-53. [PMID: 27733359 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-16-0975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Somatic mutations in CREBBP occur frequently in B-cell lymphoma. Here, we show that loss of CREBBP facilitates the development of germinal center (GC)-derived lymphomas in mice. In both human and murine lymphomas, CREBBP loss-of-function resulted in focal depletion of enhancer H3K27 acetylation and aberrant transcriptional silencing of genes that regulate B-cell signaling and immune responses, including class II MHC. Mechanistically, CREBBP-regulated enhancers are counter-regulated by the BCL6 transcriptional repressor in a complex with SMRT and HDAC3, which we found to bind extensively to MHC class II loci. HDAC3 loss-of-function rescued repression of these enhancers and corresponding genes, including MHC class II, and more profoundly suppressed CREBBP-mutant lymphomas in vitro and in vivo Hence, CREBBP loss-of-function contributes to lymphomagenesis by enabling unopposed suppression of enhancers by BCL6/SMRT/HDAC3 complexes, suggesting HDAC3-targeted therapy as a precision approach for CREBBP-mutant lymphomas. SIGNIFICANCE Our findings establish the tumor suppressor function of CREBBP in GC lymphomas in which CREBBP mutations disable acetylation and result in unopposed deacetylation by BCL6/SMRT/HDAC3 complexes at enhancers of B-cell signaling and immune response genes. Hence, inhibition of HDAC3 can restore the enhancer histone acetylation and may serve as a targeted therapy for CREBBP-mutant lymphomas. Cancer Discov; 7(1); 38-53. ©2016 AACR.See related commentary by Höpken, p. 14This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1.
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- Yanwen Jiang
- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.,Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.,Area de Oncología, Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Laboratory of Cellular Immunobiology, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Cellular Immunobiology, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine; The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
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- Department of Medicine and Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
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Ying HY, Su ST, Hsu PH, Chang CC, Lin IY, Tseng YH, Tsai MD, Shih HM, Lin KI. SUMOylation of Blimp-1 is critical for plasma cell differentiation. EMBO Rep 2012; 13:631-7. [PMID: 22555612 DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2011] [Revised: 04/16/2012] [Accepted: 04/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Transcriptional repressor B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (Blimp-1) is a master regulator of plasma cell differentiation. Here we show that Blimp-1 is covalently modified by SUMO1 at lysine 816, a modification mediated by SUMO E3 ligase PIAS1. Mutation of Blimp-1 lysine 816 reduces transcriptional repression--correlating with a reduced interaction with a histone deacetylase, HDAC2--and impairs differentiation of antibody-secreting cells. Thus, the SUMO pathway critically regulates Blimp-1 function during plasma cell differentiation.
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- Hsia-Yuan Ying
- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (Blimp-1) is a transcriptional repressor that plays an important role during plasmacytic differentiation and is expressed in normal and transformed plasma cells. We here investigated the importance of continuous Blimp-1 expression. We found that knockdown of Blimp-1 expression by lentiviral vector-delivered short hairpin RNA causes apoptosis in multiple myeloma cell lines and plasmacytoma cells, indicating that continued expression of Blimp-1 is required for cell survival. We examined the mechanism underlying Blimp-1 knockdown-mediated apoptosis and found that the Blimp-1 knockdown neither reversed the phenotypic markers of plasma cells nor caused cell cycle arrest. Instead, our results show that knockdown of Blimp-1 induced the proapoptotic protein Bim, reduced the antiapoptotic protein Mcl-1, and activated caspase-9 and caspase-3. We further link apoptosis in transformed plasma cells mediated by proteasome inhibitors, the effective therapeutic agent for multiple myeloma patients, with reduced expression of Blimp-1. Lastly, we show that Blimp-1-dependent cell survival may act downstream of IFN regulatory factor 4 (IRF4) because IRF4 knockdown leads to down-regulation of Blimp-1 and apoptosis in multiple myeloma cells and plasmacytoma cells. Together, our data suggest that Blimp-1 ensures the survival of transformed plasma cells.
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- Fan-Ru Lin
- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Gu BW, Hu J, Xu L, Yan H, Jin WR, Zhu YM, Zhao WL, Niu C, Cao Q, Su XY, Gu J, Ying HY, Chen Y, Xiong SM, Shen ZX, Chen Z, Chen SJ. Feasibility and clinical significance of real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay of PML-RARalpha fusion transcript in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia. Hematol J 2001; 2:330-40. [PMID: 11920269 DOI: 10.1038/sj.thj.6200128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2000] [Accepted: 04/01/2001] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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INTRODUCTION To study the relationship between the expression level of the PML-RARalpha fusion transcripts and the clinical status and efficiency of the therapy in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients, we applied a very sensitive and specific real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) system to quantify the dose of PML-RARalpha fusion transcripts in a series of APL patients at distinct disease stages. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 31 APL patients (19 males and 12 females; aged from 8 to 74 years) from eight hospitals in Shanghai were analysed. Real-time Quantitative RT-PCR was used to measure the normalized dose (DoseN) of PML-RARalpha fusion transcripts. RESULTS A wide range of PML-RARalpha DoseN above 1 x 10(3) was noted in 25 newly diagnosed patients. PML-RARalpha DoseN was significantly decreased after remission induction with ATRA, ATRA/chemotherapy or As2O3 and further reduced after consolidation. The fact that all patients with long disease free survival had a constantly low PML-RARalpha DoseN below 2 x 10(2) and a higher level predicted impending relapse suggests that this value could serve as a 'threshold' for molecular remission. PML-RARalpha DoseN was also of prognostic value in a group of relapsed patients, since good response to As2O3 reinduction was accompanied by a remarkable reduction of fusion transcript level, whereas patients with high PML-RARalpha Dose(N) after the second CR tended to relapse again rapidly. CONCLUSION These results confirm that real-time RT-PCR assay for PML-RARalpha transcripts in APL patients is useful in reflecting leukemic burden, assessing response to treatment and indicating the ultimate clinical outcome or curability of disease.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Antineoplastic Agents/administration & dosage
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Child
- Disease Progression
- Disease-Free Survival
- Feasibility Studies
- Female
- Humans
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/diagnosis
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/genetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Proteins/analysis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Neoplasm, Residual/diagnosis
- Neoplasm, Residual/genetics
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/analysis
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/genetics
- Prognosis
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Reproducibility of Results
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/standards
- Sensitivity and Specificity
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- B W Gu
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Key Laboratory of Human Genome Research, Ministry of Public Health and Shanghai Municipality, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, 197 Rui Jin Road II, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China
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Ying HY, Shen X, Ding RR. [Research progress in natural killer cell receptors]. Sheng Li Ke Xue Jin Zhan 2000; 31:25-9. [PMID: 12532763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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Natural killer cell expresses two kinds of recognition receptors with contrary functions: killer cell activatory receptors (KAR) and killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIR). KIR can interact with MHC I type molecular-self nonself peptide complex expressed on self cell surface, and produce inhibitory signals which can prevent the activation of KAR, thereby preventing the cytotoxicity of NK cells. NK cell will trigger effector functions(cytolysis) by KAR, if target cell loses appropriate ligands recognized by KIR. In this article we will review the research progress in the structure of these receptors, their recognition and signal transduction mechanisms.
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- H Y Ying
- College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310012
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