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Mikhaylova V, Rzepka M, Kawamura T, Xia Y, Chang PL, Zhou S, Paasch A, Pham L, Modi N, Yao L, Perez-Agustin A, Pagans S, Boles TC, Lei M, Wang Y, Garcia-Bassets I, Chen Z. Targeted phasing of 2-200 kilobase DNA fragments with a short-read sequencer and a single-tube linked-read library method. Sci Rep 2024; 14:7988. [PMID: 38580715 PMCID: PMC10997766 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58733-0] [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: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024] Open
Abstract
In the human genome, heterozygous sites refer to genomic positions with a different allele or nucleotide variant on the maternal and paternal chromosomes. Resolving these allelic differences by chromosomal copy, also known as phasing, is achievable on a short-read sequencer when using a library preparation method that captures long-range genomic information. TELL-Seq is a library preparation that captures long-range genomic information with the aid of molecular identifiers (barcodes). The same barcode is used to tag the reads derived from the same long DNA fragment within a range of up to 200 kilobases (kb), generating linked-reads. This strategy can be used to phase an entire genome. Here, we introduce a TELL-Seq protocol developed for targeted applications, enabling the phasing of enriched loci of varying sizes, purity levels, and heterozygosity. To validate this protocol, we phased 2-200 kb loci enriched with different methods: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated excision coupled with pulse-field electrophoresis for the longest fragments, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated protection from exonuclease digestion for mid-size fragments, and long PCR for the shortest fragments. All selected loci have known clinical relevance: BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, APC, PMS2, SCN5A-SCN10A, and PKI3CA. Collectively, the analyses show that TELL-Seq can accurately phase 2-200 kb targets using a short-read sequencer.
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Canton, MA, 02021, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Canton, MA, 02021, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA.
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Goldberg G, Coelho L, Mo G, Adang LA, Patne M, Chen Z, Garcia-Bassets I, Mesci P, Muotri AR. TREX1 is required for microglial cholesterol homeostasis and oligodendrocyte terminal differentiation in human neural assembloids. Mol Psychiatry 2023:10.1038/s41380-023-02348-w. [PMID: 38129659 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-023-02348-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
Three Prime Repair Exonuclease 1 (TREX1) gene mutations have been associated with Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome (AGS) - a rare, severe pediatric autoimmune disorder that primarily affects the brain and has a poorly understood etiology. Microglia are brain-resident macrophages indispensable for brain development and implicated in multiple neuroinflammatory diseases. However, the role of TREX1 - a DNase that cleaves cytosolic nucleic acids, preventing viral- and autoimmune-related inflammatory responses - in microglia biology remains to be elucidated. Here, we leverage a model of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived engineered microglia-like cells, bulk, and single-cell transcriptomics, optical and transmission electron microscopy, and three-month-old assembloids composed of microglia and oligodendrocyte-containing organoids to interrogate TREX1 functions in human microglia. Our analyses suggest that TREX1 influences cholesterol metabolism, leading to an active microglial morphology with increased phagocytosis in the absence of TREX1. Notably, regulating cholesterol metabolism with an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, FDA-approved atorvastatin, rescues these microglial phenotypes. Functionally, TREX1 in microglia is necessary for the transition from gliogenic intermediate progenitors known as pre-oligodendrocyte precursor cells (pre-OPCs) to precursors of the oligodendrocyte lineage known as OPCs, impairing oligodendrogenesis in favor of astrogliogenesis in human assembloids. Together, these results suggest routes for therapeutic intervention in pathologies such as AGS based on microglia-specific molecular and cellular mechanisms.
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- Gabriela Goldberg
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corporation, Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corporation, Carlsbad, CA, 92011, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Axiom Space, Houston, TX, 77058, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) and Archealization (ArchC), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
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Mikhaylova V, Rzepka M, Kawamura T, Xia Y, Chang PL, Zhou S, Pham L, Modi N, Yao L, Perez-Agustin A, Pagans S, Boles TC, Lei M, Wang Y, Garcia-Bassets I, Chen Z. Targeted Phasing of 2-200 Kilobase DNA Fragments with a Short-Read Sequencer and a Single-Tube Linked-Read Library Method. bioRxiv 2023:2023.03.05.531179. [PMID: 36945366 PMCID: PMC10028795 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.05.531179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
Abstract
In the human genome, heterozygous sites are genomic positions with different alleles inherited from each parent. On average, there is a heterozygous site every 1-2 kilobases (kb). Resolving whether two alleles in neighboring heterozygous positions are physically linked-that is, phased-is possible with a short-read sequencer if the sequencing library captures long-range information. TELL-Seq is a library preparation method based on millions of barcoded micro-sized beads that enables instrument-free phasing of a whole human genome in a single PCR tube. TELL-Seq incorporates a unique molecular identifier (barcode) to the short reads generated from the same high-molecular-weight (HMW) DNA fragment (known as 'linked-reads'). However, genome-scale TELL-Seq is not cost-effective for applications focusing on a single locus or a few loci. Here, we present an optimized TELL-Seq protocol that enables the cost-effective phasing of enriched loci (targets) of varying sizes, purity levels, and heterozygosity. Targeted TELL-Seq maximizes linked-read efficiency and library yield while minimizing input requirements, fragment collisions on microbeads, and sequencing burden. To validate the targeted protocol, we phased seven 180-200 kb loci enriched by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated excision coupled with pulse-field electrophoresis, four 20 kb loci enriched by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated protection from exonuclease digestion, and six 2-13 kb loci amplified by PCR. The selected targets have clinical and research relevance (BRCA1, BRCA2, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, APC, PMS2, SCN5A-SCN10A, and PKI3CA). These analyses reveal that targeted TELL-Seq provides a reliable way of phasing allelic variants within targets (2-200 kb in length) with the low cost and high accuracy of short-read sequencing.
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Canton, MA 02021, USA
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- Universal Sequencing Technology Corp., Carlsbad, CA 92011, USA
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Del Olmo B, Merkurjev D, Yao L, Pinsach-Abuin ML, Garcia-Bassets I, Almenar-Queralt A. Analysis of Clonal Composition in Human iPSC and ESC and Derived 2D and 3D Differentiated Cultures. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2454:31-47. [PMID: 34505265 DOI: 10.1007/7651_2021_414] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Human induced pluripotent and embryonic stem cell cultures (hiPSC/hESC) are phenotypically heterogeneous and prone to clonal deviations during subculturing and differentiation. Clonal deviations often emerge unnoticed, but they can change the biology of the cell culture with a negative impact on experimental reproducibility. Here, we describe a computational workflow to profile the bulk clonal composition in a hiPSC/hESC culture that can also be used to infer clonal deviations. This workflow processes data obtained with two versions of the same method. The two versions-epigenetic and transcriptomic-rely on a mechanism of stochastic H3K4me3 deposition during hiPSC/hESC derivation. This mechanism generates a signature of ten or more H3K4me3-enriched clustered protocadherin (PCDH) promoters distinct in every single cell. The aggregate of single-cell signatures provides an identificatory feature in every hiPSC/hESC line. This feature is stably transmitted to the cell progeny of the culture even after differentiation unless there is a clonal deviation event that changes the internal balance of single-cell signatures. H3K4me3 signatures can be profiled by chromatin immunoprecipitation and next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq). Alternatively, an equivalent PCDH-expression version can be profiled by RNA-seq in PCDH-expressing hiPSC/hESC-derived cells (such as neurons, astrocytes, and cardiomyocytes; and, in long-term cultures, such as cerebral organoids). Notably, our workflow can also distinguish genetically identical hiPSC/hESC lines derived from the same patient or generated in the same editing process. Together, we propose a method to improve data sharing and reproducibility in the hiPSC and hESC fields.
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- Bernat Del Olmo
- Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Oh S, Shao J, Mitra J, Xiong F, D'Antonio M, Wang R, Garcia-Bassets I, Ma Q, Zhu X, Lee JH, Nair SJ, Yang F, Ohgi K, Frazer KA, Zhang ZD, Li W, Rosenfeld MG. Enhancer release and retargeting activates disease-susceptibility genes. Nature 2021; 595:735-740. [PMID: 34040254 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03577-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
The functional engagement between an enhancer and its target promoter ensures precise gene transcription1. Understanding the basis of promoter choice by enhancers has important implications for health and disease. Here we report that functional loss of a preferred promoter can release its partner enhancer to loop to and activate an alternative promoter (or alternative promoters) in the neighbourhood. We refer to this target-switching process as 'enhancer release and retargeting'. Genetic deletion, motif perturbation or mutation, and dCas9-mediated CTCF tethering reveal that promoter choice by an enhancer can be determined by the binding of CTCF at promoters, in a cohesin-dependent manner-consistent with a model of 'enhancer scanning' inside the contact domain. Promoter-associated CTCF shows a lower affinity than that at chromatin domain boundaries and often lacks a preferred motif orientation or a partnering CTCF at the cognate enhancer, suggesting properties distinct from boundary CTCF. Analyses of cancer mutations, data from the GTEx project and risk loci from genome-wide association studies, together with a focused CRISPR interference screen, reveal that enhancer release and retargeting represents an overlooked mechanism that underlies the activation of disease-susceptibility genes, as exemplified by a risk locus for Parkinson's disease (NUCKS1-RAB7L1) and three loci associated with cancer (CLPTM1L-TERT, ZCCHC7-PAX5 and PVT1-MYC).
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- Soohwan Oh
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Ma Q, Yang F, Mackintosh C, Jayani RS, Oh S, Jin C, Nair SJ, Merkurjev D, Ma W, Allen S, Wang D, Almenar-Queralt A, Garcia-Bassets I. Super-Enhancer Redistribution as a Mechanism of Broad Gene Dysregulation in Repeatedly Drug-Treated Cancer Cells. Cell Rep 2021; 31:107532. [PMID: 32320655 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [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: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Cisplatin is an antineoplastic drug administered at suboptimal and intermittent doses to avoid life-threatening effects. Although this regimen shortly improves symptoms in the short term, it also leads to more malignant disease in the long term. We describe a multilayered analysis ranging from chromatin to translation-integrating chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq), global run-on sequencing (GRO-seq), RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and ribosome profiling-to understand how cisplatin confers (pre)malignant features by using a well-established ovarian cancer model of cisplatin exposure. This approach allows us to segregate the human transcriptome into gene modules representing distinct regulatory principles and to characterize that the most cisplatin-disrupted modules are associated with underlying events of super-enhancer plasticity. These events arise when cancer cells initiate without ultimately ending the program of drug-stimulated death. Using a PageRank-based algorithm, we predict super-enhancer regulator ISL1 as a driver of this plasticity and validate this prediction by using CRISPR/dCas9-KRAB inhibition (CRISPRi) and CRISPR/dCas9-VP64 activation (CRISPRa) tools. Together, we propose that cisplatin reprograms cancer cells when inducing them to undergo near-to-death experiences.
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- Qi Ma
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan 611137, China
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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Pinsach-Abuin M, del Olmo B, Pérez-Agustin A, Mates J, Allegue C, Iglesias A, Ma Q, Merkurjev D, Konovalov S, Zhang J, Sheikh F, Telenti A, Brugada J, Brugada R, Gymrek M, di Iulio J, Garcia-Bassets I, Pagans S. Analysis of Brugada syndrome loci reveals that fine-mapping clustered GWAS hits enhances the annotation of disease-relevant variants. Cell Rep Med 2021; 2:100250. [PMID: 33948580 PMCID: PMC8080235 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2021.100250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are instrumental in identifying loci harboring common single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) that affect human traits and diseases. GWAS hits emerge in clusters, but the focus is often on the most significant hit in each trait- or disease-associated locus. The remaining hits represent SNVs in linkage disequilibrium (LD) and are considered redundant and thus frequently marginally reported or exploited. Here, we interrogate the value of integrating the full set of GWAS hits in a locus repeatedly associated with cardiac conduction traits and arrhythmia, SCN5A-SCN10A. Our analysis reveals 5 common 7-SNV haplotypes (Hap1-5) with 2 combinations associated with life-threatening arrhythmia-Brugada syndrome (the risk Hap1/1 and protective Hap2/3 genotypes). Hap1 and Hap2 share 3 SNVs; thus, this analysis suggests that assuming redundancy among clustered GWAS hits can lead to confounding disease-risk associations and supports the need to deconstruct GWAS data in the context of haplotype composition.
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- Mel·lina Pinsach-Abuin
- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Visiting Scholar Program, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Arrhythmia Unit, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
- Cardiology Service, Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
- Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Salt, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Madrid, Spain
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Teng S, Li YE, Yang M, Qi R, Huang Y, Wang Q, Zhang Y, Chen S, Li S, Lin K, Cao Y, Ji Q, Gu Q, Cheng Y, Chang Z, Guo W, Wang P, Garcia-Bassets I, Lu ZJ, Wang D. Tissue-specific transcription reprogramming promotes liver metastasis of colorectal cancer. Cell Res 2020; 30:34-49. [PMID: 31811277 PMCID: PMC6951341 DOI: 10.1038/s41422-019-0259-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [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: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Metastasis, the development of secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary tumor, is the cause of death for 90% of cancer patients, but little is known about how metastatic cancer cells adapt to and colonize new tissue environments. Here, using clinical samples, patient-derived xenograft (PDX) samples, PDX cells, and primary/metastatic cell lines, we discovered that liver metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) cells lose their colon-specific gene transcription program yet gain a liver-specific gene transcription program. We showed that this transcription reprogramming is driven by a reshaped epigenetic landscape of both typical enhancers and super-enhancers. Further, we identified that the liver-specific transcription factors FOXA2 and HNF1A can bind to the gained enhancers and activate the liver-specific gene transcription, thereby driving CRC liver metastasis. Importantly, similar transcription reprogramming can be observed in multiple cancer types. Our data suggest that reprogrammed tissue-specific transcription promotes metastasis and should be targeted therapeutically.
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- Shuaishuai Teng
- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- PKU-THU Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Division of General Surgery, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- WuXi AppTec (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200131, China
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- WuXi AppTec (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, 200131, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, Haining, China
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- Division of General Surgery, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- MOE Key Lab of Bioinformatics, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 611137, China.
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Tarradas A, Pinsach-Abuin ML, Mackintosh C, Llorà-Batlle O, Pérez-Serra A, Batlle M, Pérez-Villa F, Zimmer T, Garcia-Bassets I, Brugada R, Beltran-Alvarez P, Pagans S. Transcriptional regulation of the sodium channel gene (SCN5A) by GATA4 in human heart. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2016; 102:74-82. [PMID: 27894866 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Aberrant expression of the sodium channel gene (SCN5A) has been proposed to disrupt cardiac action potential and cause human cardiac arrhythmias, but the mechanisms of SCN5A gene regulation and dysregulation still remain largely unexplored. To gain insight into the transcriptional regulatory networks of SCN5A, we surveyed the promoter and first intronic regions of the SCN5A gene, predicting the presence of several binding sites for GATA transcription factors (TFs). Consistent with this prediction, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) and sequential ChIP (Re-ChIP) assays show co-occupancy of cardiac GATA TFs GATA4 and GATA5 on promoter and intron 1 SCN5A regions in fresh-frozen human left ventricle samples. Gene reporter experiments show GATA4 and GATA5 synergism in the activation of the SCN5A promoter, and its dependence on predicted GATA binding sites. GATA4 and GATA6 mRNAs are robustly expressed in fresh-frozen human left ventricle samples as measured by highly sensitive droplet digital PCR (ddPCR). GATA5 mRNA is marginally but still clearly detected in the same samples. Importantly, GATA4 mRNA levels are strongly and positively correlated with SCN5A transcript levels in the human heart. Together, our findings uncover a novel mechanism of GATA TFs in the regulation of the SCN5A gene in human heart tissue. Our studies suggest that GATA5 but especially GATA4 are main contributors to SCN5A gene expression, thus providing a new paradigm of SCN5A expression regulation that may shed new light into the understanding of cardiac disease.
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- Anna Tarradas
- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain; School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648, USA
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain
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- Thorax Institute, Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Thorax Institute, Cardiology Department, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer, 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute for Physiology II, University Hospital, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648, USA
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain; Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta, 17001 Girona, Spain
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain; School of Biological, Biomedical, and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, HU6 7RX, Hull, UK.
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- Medical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Girona, 17071 Girona, Spain; Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, 17190 Salt, Spain.
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Mackintosh C, Konovalov S, Garcia-Bassets I. Abstract 2358: Dissecting the cellular response to cisplatin from RNA transcription to translation. Cancer Res 2014. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2014-2358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Platinum-based antineoplastic drugs, such as cisplatin, are DNA damaging agents typically utilized in cancer treatment. In ovarian cancer, however, these drugs have a relatively low therapeutic index (which is a measure of clinical benefit over toxicity of these drugs), thus even a small change (reduction) in the cellular sensitivity to these chemotherapeutic agents leads to clinical treatment failure, also known as ‘drug resistance’. To increase the clinical efficacy of platinum-based antineoplastic drugs, we need to develop therapies that are less likely to result in drug resistance, or we need to modify the current therapies to prevent or reduce drug resistance.
To gain mechanistic insights into the process of drug resistance that may help us to develop new or modified therapies that are less prone to clinical drug resistance, we have focused our studies on the comprehensive analysis of two still poorly studied cisplatin-associated processes at genome-wide scale: the processes of RNA nascent transcription and RNA translation. In particular, we investigate by global run-on combined with next-generation sequencing (GRO-seq) how cisplatin-sensitive A2780 ovarian cancer cells and its cisplatin-resistance derivative, A2780cis cells, respond to acute cisplatin treatment at the level of the nascent transcriptome. We also investigate, in this case by ribosome profiling, how the same cells respond to acute cisplatin treatment at the level of the ribosome-associated transcriptome (also known as translatome). These two massive analyses, complemented with conventional profiling of steady-state RNA (profiled by RNA-seq) provide the first multidimensional analysis of the actions induced by any chemotherapeutic agent at the level of the three basic states of the transcriptome (nascent RNA, steady-state RNA, and translated RNA). Interestingly, this analysis reveals an unexpected large fraction of uncoupled events between these three transcriptomic states, which challenges the conventional one-dimensional approach based exclusively on RNA-seq for the study of drug resistance.
Note: This abstract was not presented at the meeting.
Citation Format: Carlos Mackintosh, Sergiy Konovalov, Ivan Garcia-Bassets. Dissecting the cellular response to cisplatin from RNA transcription to translation. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2014 Apr 5-9; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2014;74(19 Suppl):Abstract nr 2358. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2014-2358
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Benner C, Konovalov S, Mackintosh C, Hutt KR, Stunnenberg R, Garcia-Bassets I. Decoding a signature-based model of transcription cofactor recruitment dictated by cardinal cis-regulatory elements in proximal promoter regions. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003906. [PMID: 24244184 PMCID: PMC3820735 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide maps of DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) reveal that most human promoters contain perpetually active cis-regulatory elements between −150 bp and +50 bp (−150/+50 bp) relative to the transcription start site (TSS). Transcription factors (TFs) recruit cofactors (chromatin remodelers, histone/protein-modifying enzymes, and scaffold proteins) to these elements in order to organize the local chromatin structure and coordinate the balance of post-translational modifications nearby, contributing to the overall regulation of transcription. However, the rules of TF-mediated cofactor recruitment to the −150/+50 bp promoter regions remain poorly understood. Here, we provide evidence for a general model in which a series of cis-regulatory elements (here termed ‘cardinal’ motifs) prefer acting individually, rather than in fixed combinations, within the −150/+50 bp regions to recruit TFs that dictate cofactor signatures distinctive of specific promoter subsets. Subsequently, human promoters can be subclassified based on the presence of cardinal elements and their associated cofactor signatures. In this study, furthermore, we have focused on promoters containing the nuclear respiratory factor 1 (NRF1) motif as the cardinal cis-regulatory element and have identified the pervasive association of NRF1 with the cofactor lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1/KDM1A). This signature might be distinctive of promoters regulating nuclear-encoded mitochondrial and other particular genes in at least some cells. Together, we propose that decoding a signature-based, expanded model of control at proximal promoter regions should lead to a better understanding of coordinated regulation of gene transcription. Human cells exploit different mechanisms to coordinate the expression of both protein-coding and non-coding RNAs. Elucidating these mechanisms is essential to understanding normal physiology and disease. In our attempt to identify new regulatory layers acting particularly at proximal promoters, we have computationally analyzed the genomic sequences located from −150 bp to +50 bp relative to the transcriptional start site (TSS), which are often at the center of ‘open’ chromatin regions in human promoters. We have confirmed the presence of a series of cis-regulatory elements (here referred to as ‘cardinal’ motifs) that show a strong preference for these short regions. Interestingly, these elements tend to act independently rather than in fixed combinations. Therefore, we propose that they confer unique regulatory features to the human promoter subsets that contain each of these particular elements. In agreement with this model, we have identified a large repertoire of preferential partnerships between transcription factors recognizing cardinal motifs and their associated proteins (cofactors), thus decoding a signature-based model that distinguishes distinctive regulatory types of promoters based on cardinal motifs. These signatures may underlie a new layer of transcriptional regulation to orchestrate coordinated gene expression in human promoters.
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- Christopher Benner
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Konovalov S, Garcia-Bassets I. Analysis of the levels of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) mRNA in human ovarian tumors and the effects of chemical LSD1 inhibitors in ovarian cancer cell lines. J Ovarian Res 2013; 6:75. [PMID: 24165091 PMCID: PMC4176291 DOI: 10.1186/1757-2215-6-75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 10/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1, also known as KDM1A and AOF2) is a chromatin-modifying activity that catalyzes the removal of methyl groups from lysine residues in histone and non-histone proteins, regulating gene transcription. LSD1 is overexpressed in several cancer types, and chemical inhibition of the LSD1 activity has been proposed as a candidate cancer therapy. Here, we examine the levels of LSD1 mRNA in human ovarian tumors and the cytotoxicity of several chemical LSD1 inhibitors in a panel of ovarian cancer cell lines. METHODS We measured LSD1 mRNA levels in a cohort of n = 177 normal and heterogeneous tumor specimens by quantitative real time-PCR (qRT-PCR). Tumors were classified by FIGO stage, FIGO grade, and histological subtypes. We tested the robustness of our analyses in an independent cohort of n = 573 serous tumor specimens (source: TCGA, based on microarray). Statistical analyses were based on Kruskal-Wallis/Dunn's and Mann Whitney tests. Changes in LSD1 mRNA levels were also correlated with transcriptomic alterations at genome-wide scale. Effects on cell viability (MTS/PMS assay) of six LSD1 inhibitors (pargyline, TCP, RN-1, S2101, CAS 927019-63-4, and CBB1007) were also evaluated in a panel of ovarian cancer cell lines (SKOV3, OVCAR3, A2780 and cisplatin-resistant A2780cis). RESULTS We found moderate but consistent LSD1 mRNA overexpression in stage IIIC and high-grade ovarian tumors. LSD1 mRNA overexpression correlated with a transcriptomic signature of up-regulated genes involved in cell cycle and down-regulated genes involved in the immune/inflammatory response, a signature previously observed in aggressive tumors. In fact, some ovarian tumors showing high levels of LSD1 mRNA are associated with poor patient survival. Chemical LSD1 inhibition induced cytotoxicity in ovarian cancer lines, which roughly correlated with their reported LSD1 inhibitory potential (RN-1,S2101 >> pargyline,TCP). CONCLUSIONS Our findings may suggest a role of LSD1 in the biology of some ovarian tumors. It is of special interest to find a correlation of LSD1 mRNA overexpression with a transcriptomic signature relevant to cancer. Our findings, therefore, prompt further investigation of the role of LSD1 in ovarian cancer, as well as the study of its enzymatic inhibition in animal models for potential therapeutic purposes in the context of this disease.
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Almenar-Queralt A, Kim SN, Benner C, Herrera CM, Kang DE, Garcia-Bassets I, Goldstein LSB. Presenilins regulate neurotrypsin gene expression and neurotrypsin-dependent agrin cleavage via cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB) modulation. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:35222-36. [PMID: 24145027 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.513705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Presenilins, the catalytic components of the γ-secretase complex, are upstream regulators of multiple cellular pathways via regulation of gene transcription. However, the underlying mechanisms and the genes regulated by these pathways are poorly characterized. In this study, we identify Tequila and its mammalian ortholog Prss12 as genes negatively regulated by presenilins in Drosophila larval brains and mouse embryonic fibroblasts, respectively. Prss12 encodes the serine protease neurotrypsin, which cleaves the heparan sulfate proteoglycan agrin. Altered neurotrypsin activity causes serious synaptic and cognitive defects; despite this, the molecular processes regulating neurotrypsin expression and activity are poorly understood. Using γ-secretase drug inhibitors and presenilin mutants in mouse embryonic fibroblasts, we found that a mature γ-secretase complex was required to repress neurotrypsin expression and agrin cleavage. We also determined that PSEN1 endoproteolysis or processing of well known γ-secretase substrates was not essential for this process. At the transcriptional level, PSEN1/2 removal induced cyclic AMP response element-binding protein (CREB)/CREB-binding protein binding, accumulation of activating histone marks at the neurotrypsin promoter, and neurotrypsin transcriptional and functional up-regulation that was dependent on GSK3 activity. Upon PSEN1/2 reintroduction, this active epigenetic state was replaced by a methyl CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2)-containing repressive state and reduced neurotrypsin expression. Genome-wide analysis revealed hundreds of other mouse promoters in which CREB binding is similarly modulated by the presence/absence of presenilins. Our study thus identifies Tequila and neurotrypsin as new genes repressed by presenilins and reveals a novel mechanism used by presenilins to modulate CREB signaling based on controlling CREB recruitment.
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Telese F, Gamliel A, Skowronska-Krawczyk D, Garcia-Bassets I, Rosenfeld MG. "Seq-ing" insights into the epigenetics of neuronal gene regulation. Neuron 2013; 77:606-23. [PMID: 23439116 PMCID: PMC3736682 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.01.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The epigenetic control of neuronal gene expression patterns has emerged as an underlying regulatory mechanism for neuronal function, identity, and plasticity, in which short- to long-lasting adaptation is required to dynamically respond and process external stimuli. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of the physiology and pathology of the brain, it becomes essential to understand the mechanisms that regulate the epigenome and transcriptome in neurons. Here, we review recent advances in the study of regulated neuronal gene expression, which are dramatically expanding as a result of the development of new and powerful contemporary methodologies, based on next-generation sequencing. This flood of new information has already transformed our understanding of many biological processes and is now driving discoveries elucidating the molecular mechanisms of brain function in cognition, behavior, and disease and may also inform the study of neuronal identity, diversity, and neuronal reprogramming.
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- Francesca Telese
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Mammalian genomes contain thousands of cis-regulatory elements for each transcription factor (TF), but TFs only occupy a relatively small subset referred to as cistrome. Recent studies demonstrate that a TF cistrome might differ among different organisms, tissue types and individuals. In a cell, a TF cistrome might differ among different physiological states, pathological stages and between physiological and pathological conditions. It is, therefore, remarkable how highly plastic these binding profiles are, and how massively they can be reprogrammed in rapid response to intra/extracellular variations and during cell identity transitions and evolution. Biologically, cistrome reprogramming events tend to be followed by changes in transcriptional outputs, thus serving as transformative mechanisms to synchronically alter the biology of the cell. In this review, we discuss the molecular basis of cistrome plasticity and attempt to integrate the different mechanisms and biological conditions associated with cistrome reprogramming. Emerging data suggest that, when altered, these reprogramming events might be linked to tumor development and/or progression, which is a radical conceptual change in our mechanistic understanding of cancer and, potentially, other diseases.
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- Ivan Garcia-Bassets
- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Garcia-Bassets I, Almenar-Queralt A. Cisplatin‐induced, coordinated transcriptional reprogramming of neurotrypsin and other proteases in cisplatin‐resistant ovarian cancer cells. FASEB J 2012. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.956.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Escoubet-Lozach L, Benner C, Kaikkonen MU, Lozach J, Heinz S, Spann NJ, Crotti A, Stender J, Ghisletti S, Reichart D, Cheng CS, Luna R, Ludka C, Sasik R, Garcia-Bassets I, Hoffmann A, Subramaniam S, Hardiman G, Rosenfeld MG, Glass CK. Mechanisms establishing TLR4-responsive activation states of inflammatory response genes. PLoS Genet 2011; 7:e1002401. [PMID: 22174696 PMCID: PMC3234212 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2011] [Accepted: 10/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Precise control of the innate immune response is required for resistance to microbial infections and maintenance of normal tissue homeostasis. Because this response involves coordinate regulation of hundreds of genes, it provides a powerful biological system to elucidate the molecular strategies that underlie signal- and time-dependent transitions of gene expression. Comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the epigenetic and transcription status of the TLR4-induced transcriptional program in macrophages suggests that Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-dependent activation of nearly all immediate/early- (I/E) and late-response genes results from a sequential process in which signal-independent factors initially establish basal levels of gene expression that are then amplified by signal-dependent transcription factors. Promoters of I/E genes are distinguished from those of late genes by encoding a distinct set of signal-dependent transcription factor elements, including TATA boxes, which lead to preferential binding of TBP and basal enrichment for RNA polymerase II immediately downstream of transcriptional start sites. Global nuclear run-on (GRO) sequencing and total RNA sequencing further indicates that TLR4 signaling markedly increases the overall rates of both transcriptional initiation and the efficiency of transcriptional elongation of nearly all I/E genes, while RNA splicing is largely unaffected. Collectively, these findings reveal broadly utilized mechanisms underlying temporally distinct patterns of TLR4-dependent gene activation required for homeostasis and effective immune responses. The innate immune response is a complex biological program that is configured to allow host cells to rapidly respond to infection and tissue injury. An essential feature of this response is the sequential activation of large numbers of genes that play roles in amplification of the initial inflammatory response, exert anti-microbial activities, and initiate acquired immunity. Here, we use a combination of genome-wide approaches to characterize the basal and activated states of promoters that drive the expression of genes that are turned on at immediate/early or late times in macrophages following their stimulation with a mimetic of bacterial infection. These studies identify genetically encoded features that establish basal levels of expression and distinct temporal profiles of signal-dependent gene activation required for effective immune responses. The general features of immediate/early and late genes defined by these studies are likely to be instructive for understanding how other high-magnitude, temporally orchestrated programs of gene expression are established.
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- Laure Escoubet-Lozach
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- A. I. Virtanen Institute, Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Genomics Microarray Laboratory (BIOGEM), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Genomics Microarray Laboratory (BIOGEM), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Genomics Microarray Laboratory (BIOGEM), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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OBJECTIVE Although the role of reputation in determining the relative standings in the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) annual rankings of the top 50 hospitals has received analytical attention, the role of reputation in the best children's hospitals pediatric specialty rankings has not been quantified. Our goal was to quantify the role of reputation in determining the relative standings of the top-ranked pediatric specialties and their associated hospitals in the 2008-2010 editions of the USNWR best children's hospital rankings. METHODS A cross-sectional study of USNWR data collected from the top 30 hospitals in each of 6 (and later 10) specialties was performed. The main outcome measures were rankings based on total USNWR scores and subjective reputation scores. RESULTS On average, rankings based on reputation scores alone correlated with USNWR overall rankings; correlation coefficients ranged from 0.80 to 0.98 (Spearman Correlation; mean P < .001). This relationship was consistent over all 3 survey years. CONCLUSIONS The relative standings of the top 30 pediatric hospitals in each of 10 specialties are largely explained by the compelling correlation between subjective reputation scores and ranking scores.
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- Ruth A Bush
- Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123-5074, USA.
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Garcia-Bassets I, Wang D, Benner C, Wenbo L, Su X, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG, Fu XD. Abstract 930: Reprogramming the transcriptional response to hormone through functionally-distinct classes of gene enhancers in prostate cancer cells. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2011-930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mammalian genomes are populated with thousands of transcriptional enhancers that orchestrate cell type-specific gene expression programs; however, the potential that there are pre-established enhancers that permit alternative signal-dependent transcriptional responses has remained unexplored. Here we present evidence that cell lineage-specific factors, such as FoxA1, which contribute to the activation of cell-type specific enhancers by selectively favoring the recruitment of key regulated transcription factors such as the androgen receptor (AR) in prostate cancer cells, can simultaneously restrict these same factors from activating additional (alternative) pre-established but yet inactive enhancers, thus licensing specific signal-activated responses and restricting others. Importantly, these alternative hormonal responses are linked to distinct structural and functional classes of enhancers. Consequently, FoxA1 down-regulation, an unfavorable prognostic sign in some sets of advanced prostate tumors, causes a massive switch in AR binding from one functional enhancer class to another, which massively reprograms the hormonal response. The molecular basis for this switch lies in the release of FoxA1-mediated “restriction” of AR binding to the new enhancer class that requires no apparent nucleosome remodeling for their activation.
Multiple global analyses of enhancer formation, structure, looping, and activation were combined to support these conclusions, including: H3K4me1/me3, H3K27ac, and H4K4ac mapping (ChIP-seq); nucleosomal H3K4me2 mapping (nucleosomal ChIP-seq); FoxA1, AR, p300, and MED12 mapping (ChIP-seq), also supported by the 3C assay; enhancer ncRNA or eRNAs generation analysis (GRO-seq); and gene expression analysis (microarray and GRO-seq).
Together, these findings reveal a large repository of pre-determined enhancers in the human genome that can be dynamically tuned to induce alternative gene expression programs, which -we speculate- may underlie many sequential gene expression events in development or during cancer progression.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2011 Apr 2-6; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 930. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2011-930
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- 1HHMI, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
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Nunez E, Kwon YS, Hutt KR, Hu Q, Cardamone MD, Ohgi KA, Garcia-Bassets I, Rose DW, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG, Fu XD. Nuclear receptor-enhanced transcription requires motor- and LSD1-dependent gene networking in interchromatin granules. Cell 2008; 132:996-1010. [PMID: 18358812 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.01.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2007] [Revised: 11/21/2007] [Accepted: 01/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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While the transcriptional machinery has been extensively dissected at the molecular level, little is known about regulation of chromosomal organization in the three-dimensional space of the nucleus to achieve integrated transcriptional responses to diverse signaling events. Here, we report that ligand induces rapid interchromosomal interactions among subsets of estrogen receptor alpha-bound transcription units, with a dramatic reorganization of nuclear territories requiring nuclear actin/myosin-I transport machinery, dynein light chain 1 (DLC1), and a specific subset of transcriptional coactivators and chromatin remodeling complexes. We establish a requirement for the histone lysine demethylase, LSD1, in directing specific interchromosomal interaction loci to distinct interchromatin granules, long thought to be "storage" sites for splicing machinery, and demonstrate that these three-dimensional motor-dependent interactions are required to achieve enhanced transcription of specific estrogen-receptor target genes. These findings reveal roles for the modulation of nuclear architecture in orchestrating regulated gene-expression programs in the mammalian nucleus.
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- Esperanza Nunez
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651, USA
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Garcia-Bassets I, Kwon YS, Telese F, Prefontaine GG, Hutt KR, Cheng CS, Ju BG, Ohgi KA, Wang J, Escoubet-Lozach L, Rose DW, Glass CK, Fu XD, Rosenfeld MG. Histone methylation-dependent mechanisms impose ligand dependency for gene activation by nuclear receptors. Cell 2007; 128:505-518. [PMID: 17289570 PMCID: PMC1994663 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 355] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2006] [Revised: 07/27/2006] [Accepted: 12/04/2006] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Nuclear receptors undergo ligand-dependent conformational changes that are required for corepressor-coactivator exchange, but whether there is an actual requirement for specific epigenetic landmarks to impose ligand dependency for gene activation remains unknown. Here we report an unexpected and general strategy that is based on the requirement for specific cohorts of inhibitory histone methyltransferases (HMTs) to impose gene-specific gatekeeper functions that prevent unliganded nuclear receptors and other classes of regulated transcription factors from binding to their target gene promoters and causing constitutive gene activation in the absence of stimulating signals. This strategy, based at least in part on an HMT-dependent inhibitory histone code, imposes a requirement for specific histone demethylases, including LSD1, to permit ligand- and signal-dependent activation of regulated gene expression. These events link an inhibitory methylation component of the histone code to a broadly used strategy that circumvents pathological constitutive gene induction by physiologically regulated transcription factors.
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- Ivan Garcia-Bassets
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: M. G. Rosenfeld, Phone: 858-534-5858, Fax: 858-534-8180, E-mail: , X.D. Fu, Phone: 858-534-4937, Fax: 959-822-6920, E-mail : , C. K. Glass, Phone: 858-534-6011, Fax: 858-822-2127, E-mail :
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: M. G. Rosenfeld, Phone: 858-534-5858, Fax: 858-534-8180, E-mail: , X.D. Fu, Phone: 858-534-4937, Fax: 959-822-6920, E-mail : , C. K. Glass, Phone: 858-534-6011, Fax: 858-822-2127, E-mail :
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: M. G. Rosenfeld, Phone: 858-534-5858, Fax: 858-534-8180, E-mail: , X.D. Fu, Phone: 858-534-4937, Fax: 959-822-6920, E-mail : , C. K. Glass, Phone: 858-534-6011, Fax: 858-822-2127, E-mail :
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Wang J, Scully K, Zhu X, Cai L, Zhang J, Prefontaine GG, Krones A, Ohgi KA, Zhu P, Garcia-Bassets I, Liu F, Taylor H, Lozach J, Jayes FL, Korach KS, Glass CK, Fu XD, Rosenfeld MG. Opposing LSD1 complexes function in developmental gene activation and repression programmes. Nature 2007; 446:882-7. [PMID: 17392792 DOI: 10.1038/nature05671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 425] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2007] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Precise control of transcriptional programmes underlying metazoan development is modulated by enzymatically active co-regulatory complexes, coupled with epigenetic strategies. One thing that remains unclear is how specific members of histone modification enzyme families, such as histone methyltransferases and demethylases, are used in vivo to simultaneously orchestrate distinct developmental gene activation and repression programmes. Here, we report that the histone lysine demethylase, LSD1--a component of the CoREST-CtBP co-repressor complex--is required for late cell-lineage determination and differentiation during pituitary organogenesis. LSD1 seems to act primarily on target gene activation programmes, as well as in gene repression programmes, on the basis of recruitment of distinct LSD1-containing co-activator or co-repressor complexes. LSD1-dependent gene repression programmes can be extended late in development with the induced expression of ZEB1, a Krüppel-like repressor that can act as a molecular beacon for recruitment of the LSD1-containing CoREST-CtBP co-repressor complex, causing repression of an additional cohort of genes, such as Gh, which previously required LSD1 for activation. These findings suggest that temporal patterns of expression of specific components of LSD1 complexes modulate gene regulatory programmes in many mammalian organs.
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- Jianxun Wang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department and School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Room 345, La Jolla, California 92093-0648, USA
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Kwon YS, Garcia-Bassets I, Hutt KR, Cheng CS, Jin M, Liu D, Benner C, Wang D, Ye Z, Bibikova M, Fan JB, Duan L, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG, Fu XD. Sensitive ChIP-DSL technology reveals an extensive estrogen receptor alpha-binding program on human gene promoters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:4852-7. [PMID: 17360330 PMCID: PMC1821125 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700715104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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ChIP coupled with microarray provides a powerful tool to determine in vivo binding profiling of transcription factors to deduce regulatory circuitries in mammalian cells. Aiming at improving the specificity and sensitivity of such analysis, we developed a new technology called ChIP-DSL using the DNA selection and ligation (DSL) strategy, permitting robust analysis with much reduced materials compared with standard procedures. We profiled general and sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factors using a full human genome promoter array based on the ChIP-DSL technology, revealing an unprecedented number of the estrogen receptor (ERalpha) target genes in MCF-7 cells. Coupled with gene expression profiling, we found that only a fraction of these direct ERalpha target genes were highly responsive to estrogen and that the expression of those ERalpha-bound, estrogen-inducible genes was associated with breast cancer progression in humans. This study demonstrates the power of the ChIP-DSL technology in revealing regulatory gene expression programs that have been previously invisible in the human genome.
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- Young-Soo Kwon
- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
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- Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Aviva Systems Biology Corporation, San Diego, CA 92121; and
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- Aviva Systems Biology Corporation, San Diego, CA 92121; and
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- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
- Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
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- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
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- Aviva Systems Biology Corporation, San Diego, CA 92121; and
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- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
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- Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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- *Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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Ju BG, Lunyak VV, Perissi V, Garcia-Bassets I, Rose DW, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG. A topoisomerase IIbeta-mediated dsDNA break required for regulated transcription. Science 2006; 312:1798-802. [PMID: 16794079 DOI: 10.1126/science.1127196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 673] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Multiple enzymatic activities are required for transcriptional initiation. The enzyme DNA topoisomerase II associates with gene promoter regions and can generate breaks in double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Therefore, it is of interest to know whether this enzyme is critical for regulated gene activation. We report that the signal-dependent activation of gene transcription by nuclear receptors and other classes of DNA binding transcription factors, including activating protein 1, requires DNA topoisomerase IIbeta-dependent, transient, site-specific dsDNA break formation. Subsequent to the break, poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase-1 enzymatic activity is induced, which is required for a nucleosome-specific histone H1-high-mobility group B exchange event and for local changes of chromatin architecture. Our data mechanistically link DNA topoisomerase IIbeta-dependent dsDNA breaks and the components of the DNA damage and repair machinery in regulated gene transcription.
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- Bong-Gun Ju
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0648, USA
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Costa E, Canudas S, Garcia-Bassets I, Pérez S, Fernández I, Giralt E, Azorín F, Espinás ML. Drosophila dSAP18 is a nuclear protein that associates with chromosomes and the nuclear matrix, and interacts with pinin, a protein factor involved in RNA splicing. Chromosome Res 2006; 14:515-26. [PMID: 16823614 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-006-1046-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2006] [Revised: 02/17/2006] [Accepted: 02/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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SAP18 is a highly conserved protein that was proposed to be involved in multiple cellular processes from autophagy to gene regulation and mRNA processing. In this paper we show that, in Drosophila, dSAP18 is a predominantly nuclear protein that associates to both chromosomes and the nuclear matrix. dSAP18 becomes nuclear early during development, at the onset of cellularization, and remains so all through embryo development. dSAP18 is also nuclear in salivary glands, ovaries and cultured S2 cells. Here we also show that dSAP18 forms a complex with the Drosophila homolog of pinin (dPnn), a protein factor involved in mRNA splicing. dSAP18-dPnn interaction was confirmed in vivo, through co-immunoprecipitation experiments, as well as in vitro, through GST pull-down assays. These results are discussed in the context of the possible functions played by SAP18.
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- Elisabet Costa
- Departament de Biologia Molecular i Cellular, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC), Parc Científic de Barcelona, Josep Samitier 1-5, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Toyo-oka K, Bowen TJ, Hirotsune S, Li Z, Jain S, Ota S, Escoubet-Lozach L, Lozach LE, Garcia-Bassets I, Bassett IG, Lozach J, Rosenfeld MG, Glass CK, Eisenman R, Ren B, Hurlin P, Wynshaw-Boris A. Mnt-deficient mammary glands exhibit impaired involution and tumors with characteristics of myc overexpression. Cancer Res 2006; 66:5565-73. [PMID: 16740691 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-2683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The proto-oncogene c-Myc plays a central role in cell growth and the development of human tumors. c-Myc interacts with Max and Myc-Max complexes bind to E-box and related sequences to activate transcription. Max also interacts with Mnt but Mnt-Max complexes repress transcription when bound to these sequences. MNT maps to human chromosome 17p13.3, a region frequently deleted in various human tumors, including mammary gland tumors. Consistent with the possibility that Mnt functions as a Myc antagonist, Mnt-deficient fibroblasts exhibit many of the hallmark characteristics of cells that overexpress Myc, and conditional (Cre/Lox) inactivation of Mnt in mammary gland epithelium leads to adenocarcinomas. Here, we further characterize mammary gland tissue following conditional deletion of Mnt in the mammary gland. We show that loss of Mnt severely disrupts mammary gland involution and leads to hyperplastic ducts associated with reduced numbers of apoptotic cells. These findings suggest that loss of Mnt in mammary tissue has similarities to Myc overexpression. We tested this directly by using promoter array analysis and mRNA expression analysis by oligonucleotide arrays. We found that Mnt and c-Myc bound to similar promoters in tumors from MMTV-c-Myc transgenic mice, and mRNA expression patterns were similar between mammary tumors from MMTV-Cre/Mnt(KO/CKO) and MMTV-c-Myc transgenic mice. These results reveal an important role for Mnt in pregnancy-associated mammary gland development and suggest that mammary gland tumorigenesis in the absence of Mnt is analogous to that caused by Myc deregulation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/biosynthesis
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/deficiency
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/genetics
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Lactation/physiology
- Mammary Glands, Animal/growth & development
- Mammary Glands, Animal/metabolism
- Mammary Glands, Animal/pathology
- Mammary Glands, Animal/physiology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Protein Binding
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/biosynthesis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/metabolism
- Repressor Proteins/biosynthesis
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Repressor Proteins/metabolism
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- Kazuhito Toyo-oka
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego Comprehensive Cancer Center, La Jolla, California, USA
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Zhu P, Baek SH, Bourk EM, Ohgi KA, Garcia-Bassets I, Sanjo H, Akira S, Kotol PF, Glass CK, Rosenfeld MG, Rose DW. Macrophage/cancer cell interactions mediate hormone resistance by a nuclear receptor derepression pathway. Cell 2006; 124:615-29. [PMID: 16469706 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2005] [Revised: 10/26/2005] [Accepted: 12/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Defining the precise molecular strategies that coordinate patterns of transcriptional responses to specific signals is central for understanding normal development and homeostasis as well as the pathogenesis of hormone-dependent cancers. Here we report specific prostate cancer cell/macrophage interactions that mediate a switch in function of selective androgen receptor antagonists/modulators (SARMs) from repression to activation in vivo. This is based on an evolutionarily conserved receptor N-terminal L/HX7LL motif, selectively present in sex steroid receptors, that causes recruitment of TAB2 as a component of an N-CoR corepressor complex. TAB2 acts as a sensor for inflammatory signals by serving as a molecular beacon for recruitment of MEKK1, which in turn mediates dismissal of the N-CoR/HDAC complex and permits derepression of androgen and estrogen receptor target genes. Surprisingly, this conserved sensor strategy may have arisen to mediate reversal of sex steroid-dependent repression of a limited cohort of target genes in response to inflammatory signals, linking inflammatory and nuclear receptor ligand responses to essential reproductive functions.
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- Ping Zhu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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