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Telonis AG, Rodriguez DA, Spanheimer PM, Figueroa ME, Goel N. Genetic Ancestry-specific Molecular and Survival Differences in Admixed Patients With Breast Cancer. Ann Surg 2024; 279:866-873. [PMID: 38073557 DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000006135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE We aim to determine whether incremental changes in genetic ancestry percentages influence molecular and clinical outcome characteristics of breast cancer in an admixed population. BACKGROUND Patients with breast cancer are predominantly characterized as "Black" or "White" based on self-identified race/ethnicity or arbitrary genetic ancestry cutoffs. This limits scientific discovery in populations that are admixed or of mixed race/ethnicity as they cannot be classified based on historical race/ethnicity boxes or genetic ancestry cutoffs. METHODS We used The Cancer Genome Atlas cohort and focused on genetically admixed patients that had less than 90% European, African, Asian, or Native American ancestry. RESULTS Genetically admixed patients with breast cancer exhibited improved 10-year overall survival relative to those with >90% European ancestry. Within the luminal A subtype, patients with lower African ancestry had longer 10-year overall survival compared to those with higher African ancestry. The correlation of genetic ancestry with gene expression and DNA methylation in the admixed cohort revealed novel ancestry-specific intrinsic PAM50 subtype patterns. In luminal A tumors, genetic ancestry was correlated with both the expression and methylation of signaling genes, while in basal-like tumors, genetic ancestry was correlated with stemness genes. In addition, we took a machine-learning approach to estimate genetic ancestry from gene expression or DNA methylation and were able to accurately calculate ancestry values from a reduced set of 10 genes or 50 methylation sites that were specific for each molecular subtype. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that incremental changes in genetic ancestry percentages result in ancestry-specific molecular differences even between well-established PAM50 subtypes which may influence disparities in breast cancer survival outcomes. Accounting for incremental changes in ancestry will be important in future research, prognostication, and risk stratification, particularly in ancestrally diverse populations.
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- Aristeidis G Telonis
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Department of Surgery and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA
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Hernandez AE, Westrick AC, Stoler J, Kesmodel SB, Pinheiro PS, Figueroa ME, Kobetz EN, Rebbeck T, Goel N. ASO Visual Abstract: Associations Between Neighborhood-Level Income and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in a Majority-Minority Population. Ann Surg Oncol 2024; 31:1029-1030. [PMID: 38071707 DOI: 10.1245/s10434-023-14666-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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- Alexandra E Hernandez
- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
- Division of Computational Medicine and Population Health, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Stahl M, Bewersdorf JP, Xie Z, Porta MGD, Komrokji R, Xu ML, Abdel-Wahab O, Taylor J, Steensma DP, Starczynowski DT, Sekeres MA, Sanz G, Sallman DA, Roboz GJ, Platzbecker U, Patnaik MM, Padron E, Odenike O, Nimer SD, Nazha A, Majeti R, Loghavi S, Little RF, List AF, Kim TK, Hourigan CS, Hasserjian RP, Halene S, Griffiths EA, Gore SD, Greenberg P, Figueroa ME, Fenaux P, Efficace F, DeZern AE, Daver NG, Churpek JE, Carraway HE, Buckstein R, Brunner AM, Boultwood J, Borate U, Bejar R, Bennett JM, Wei AH, Santini V, Savona MR, Zeidan AM. Classification, risk stratification and response assessment in myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS): A state-of-the-art report on behalf of the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS). Blood Rev 2023; 62:101128. [PMID: 37704469 DOI: 10.1016/j.blre.2023.101128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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The guidelines for classification, prognostication, and response assessment of myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS) have all recently been updated. In this report on behalf of the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS) we summarize these developments. We first critically examine the updated World Health Organization (WHO) classification and the International Consensus Classification (ICC) of MDS. We then compare traditional and molecularly based risk MDS risk assessment tools. Lastly, we discuss limitations of criteria in measuring therapeutic benefit and highlight how the International Working Group (IWG) 2018 and 2023 response criteria addressed these deficiencies and are endorsed by the icMDS. We also address the importance of patient centered care by discussing the value of quality-of-life assessment. We hope that the reader of this review will have a better understanding of how to classify MDS, predict clinical outcomes and evaluate therapeutic outcomes.
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- Maximilian Stahl
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- IRCCS Humanitas Clinical and Research Center & Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, via Manzoni 56, 20089, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain; CIBERONC, IS Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Leukemia Program, University of Chicago Medicine and University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Institute, and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Precision BioSciences, Inc., Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies, Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Myeloid Malignancies Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Hôpital Saint Louis, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Paris Cité University, Paris, France
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA), Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Carbone Cancer Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Leukemia Program, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology/ Hematology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Leukemia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Blood Cancer UK Molecular Haematology Unit, Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center/ James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Bewersdorf JP, Xie Z, Bejar R, Borate U, Boultwood J, Brunner AM, Buckstein R, Carraway HE, Churpek JE, Daver NG, Porta MGD, DeZern AE, Fenaux P, Figueroa ME, Gore SD, Griffiths EA, Halene S, Hasserjian RP, Hourigan CS, Kim TK, Komrokji R, Kuchroo VK, List AF, Loghavi S, Majeti R, Odenike O, Patnaik MM, Platzbecker U, Roboz GJ, Sallman DA, Santini V, Sanz G, Sekeres MA, Stahl M, Starczynowski DT, Steensma DP, Taylor J, Abdel-Wahab O, Xu ML, Savona MR, Wei AH, Zeidan AM. Current landscape of translational and clinical research in myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS): Proceedings from the 1 st International Workshop on MDS (iwMDS) Of the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS). Blood Rev 2023; 60:101072. [PMID: 36934059 DOI: 10.1016/j.blre.2023.101072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Biological events that contribute to the pathogenesis of myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS) are becoming increasingly characterized and are being translated into rationally designed therapeutic strategies. Herein, we provide updates from the first International Workshop on MDS (iwMDS) of the International Consortium for MDS (icMDS) detailing recent advances in understanding the genetic landscape of MDS, including germline predisposition, epigenetic and immune dysregulation, the complexities of clonal hematopoiesis progression to MDS, as well as novel animal models of the disease. Connected to this progress is the development of novel therapies targeting specific molecular alterations, the innate immune system, and immune checkpoint inhibitors. While some of these agents have entered clinical trials (e.g., splicing modulators, IRAK1/4 inhibitors, anti-CD47 and anti-TIM3 antibodies, and cellular therapies), none have been approved for MDS. Additional preclinical and clinical work is needed to develop a truly individualized approach to the care of MDS patients.
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- Jan Philipp Bewersdorf
- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer/ James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Blood Cancer UK Molecular Haematology Unit, Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Leukemia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology/Hematology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Leukemia Program, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Carbone Cancer Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- IRCCS Humanitas Clinical and Research Center & Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano - Milan, Italy
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- Division of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Hôpital Saint Louis, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris and Paris Cité University, Paris, France
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies, Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Myeloid Malignancies Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Precision BioSciences, Inc., Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Institute, and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Leukemia Program, University of Chicago Medicine and University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain; CIBERONC, IS Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Goel N, Hernandez A, Thompson C, Choi S, Westrick A, Stoler J, Antoni MH, Rojas K, Kesmodel S, Figueroa ME, Cole S, Merchant N, Kobetz E. Neighborhood Disadvantage and Breast Cancer-Specific Survival. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e238908. [PMID: 37083666 PMCID: PMC10122178 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.8908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Importance Neighborhood-level disadvantage is an important factor in the creation and persistence of underresourced neighborhoods with an undue burden of disparate breast cancer-specific survival outcomes. Although studies have evaluated neighborhood-level disadvantage and breast cancer-specific survival after accounting for individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) in large national cancer databases, these studies are limited by age, socioeconomic, and racial and ethnic diversity. Objective To investigate neighborhood SES (using a validated comprehensive composite measure) and breast cancer-specific survival in a majority-minority population. Design, Setting, and Participants This retrospective multi-institutional cohort study included patients with stage I to IV breast cancer treated at a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center and sister safety-net hospital from January 10, 2007, to September 9, 2016. Mean (SD) follow-up time was 60.3 (41.4) months. Data analysis was performed from March 2022 to March 2023. Exposures Neighborhood SES was measured using the Area Deprivation Index (tertiles), a validated comprehensive composite measure of neighborhood SES. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome was breast cancer-specific survival. Random effects frailty models for breast cancer-specific survival were performed controlling for individual-level sociodemographic, comorbidity, breast cancer risk factor, access to care, tumor, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-concordant treatment characteristics. The Area Deprivation Index was calculated for each patient at the census block group level and categorized into tertiles (T1-T3). Results A total of 5027 women with breast cancer were included: 55.8% were Hispanic, 17.5% were non-Hispanic Black, and 27.0% were non-Hispanic White. Mean (SD) age was 55.5 (11.7) years. Women living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods (T3) had shorter breast cancer-specific survival compared with those living in the most advantaged neighborhoods (T1) after controlling for individual-level sociodemographic, comorbidity, breast cancer risk factor, access to care, tumor, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-concordant treatment characteristics (T3 vs T1: hazard ratio, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.01-1.65; P < .04). Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study, a shorter breast cancer-specific survival in women from disadvantaged neighborhoods compared with advantaged neighborhoods was identified, even after controlling for individual-level sociodemographic, comorbidity, breast cancer risk factor, access to care, tumor, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-concordant treatment characteristics. The findings suggest potential unaccounted mechanisms, including unmeasured social determinants of health and access to care measures. This study also lays the foundation for future research to evaluate whether social adversity from living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with more aggressive tumor biologic factors, and ultimately shorter breast cancer-specific survival, through social genomic and/or epigenomic alterations.
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- Neha Goel
- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Medical student, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Department of Psychology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Psychiatry/Biobehavioral Sciences and Medicine, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
- Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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Brabson JP, Leesang T, Yap YS, Wang J, Lam MQ, Fang B, Dolgalev I, Barbieri DA, Strippoli V, Bañuelos CP, Mohammad S, Lyon P, Chaudhry S, Donich D, Swirski A, Roberts E, Diaz I, Karl D, Dos Santos HG, Shiekhattar R, Neel BG, Nimer SD, Verdun RE, Bilbao D, Figueroa ME, Cimmino L. Oxidized mC modulates synthetic lethality to PARP inhibitors for the treatment of leukemia. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112027. [PMID: 36848231 PMCID: PMC9989506 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112027] [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: 02/21/2022] [Revised: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
TET2 haploinsufficiency is a driving event in myeloid cancers and is associated with a worse prognosis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Enhancing residual TET2 activity using vitamin C increases oxidized 5-methylcytosine (mC) formation and promotes active DNA demethylation via base excision repair (BER), which slows leukemia progression. We utilize genetic and compound library screening approaches to identify rational combination treatment strategies to improve use of vitamin C as an adjuvant therapy for AML. In addition to increasing the efficacy of several US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs, vitamin C treatment with poly-ADP-ribosyl polymerase inhibitors (PARPis) elicits a strong synergistic effect to block AML self-renewal in murine and human AML models. Vitamin-C-mediated TET activation combined with PARPis causes enrichment of chromatin-bound PARP1 at oxidized mCs and γH2AX accumulation during mid-S phase, leading to cell cycle stalling and differentiation. Given that most AML subtypes maintain residual TET2 expression, vitamin C could elicit broad efficacy as a PARPi therapeutic adjuvant.
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- John P Brabson
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center and Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Adelman ER, Figueroa ME. Abstract B010: Determining the role of BRD9 in human hematopoietic stem cell aging. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.cancepi22-b010] [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: 12/05/2022]
Abstract
Abstract
Aging is the number one non-modifiable risk factor for cancer, including myeloid malignancies, such as Acute Myeloid leukemia (AML). Intrinsic changes within hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) with aging contribute to HSC dysfunction and may predispose to leukemia. We have previously shown that aged human HSC present a reduction of H3K27ac at active promoters and enhancers of genes associated with immune and cancer pathways. Concurrent with this epigenetic deregulation there is deregulation of immune-associated genes and downregulation of the bromodomain containing protein-9 (BRD9). This protein is a component of the non-canonical BAF (nc-BAF) chromatin remodeling complex, which binds to both active enhancers and promoters. Notably alteration of BRD9 has been shown to perturb immune and cancer associated pathways, with BRD9 regulating interferon-stimulated genes. However, little is known about the role of this protein in human hematopoiesis. Therefore, we hypothesize that chromatin remodeling due to loss of BRD9 with HSC aging leads to reduction of H3K27ac at active enhancers and promoters, contributing to HSC dysfunction. To investigate this, we treated human CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) with dBRD9-A (100 nM) a chemical degrader of BRD9. Loss of BRD9 resulted in enhanced myeloid differentiation in vitro with a concurrent block in erythroid differentiation. Interestingly, amongst the myeloid populations upregulated with loss of BRD9 were monocytic myeloid derived suppressor cells (M-MDSC), immunosuppressive cells that are involved both in cancer pathogenesis and aging. Treatment with the BRD9 bromodomain specific inhibitor, I-BRD9 (1 µM), suggests that while the role of BRD9 in myeloid differentiation is largely bromodomain independent, the bromodomain may regulate erythroid differentiation. Similarly, loss of BRD9 leads to more myeloid biased colonies, suggesting that loss of BRD9 may recapitulate certain features of aged HSC. At the transcriptional level, RNA-seq revealed that loss of BRD9 resulted in few, but important differentially expressed genes, including downregulation of MPO, LIF, EPX, and GZMB (FDR < 0.05). However, gene set enrichment analysis showed that both bromodomain inhibition and loss of BRD9 resulted in downregulation of interferon and STAT3 associated genes, which are known BRD9 targets. Chromatin profiling of H3K27ac with CUT&RUN in young HSPC showed that with loss of BRD9, there is a reduction of H3K27ac at active enhancers that we had previously observed have loss of H3K27ac with human HSC aging (n=2). These active enhancers are associated with immune signaling and regulate hematopoietic transcription factors such as KLF6, RUNX1/2/3, and HIF1A. In conclusion, we have found that the chromatin remodeling protein BRD9 contributes to the reprogramming of age-associated enhancers and regulates human myeloid and erythroid differentiation in vitro, and that its loss may result in an expansion of M-MDSC, which has implications for age-related disorders such as immune dysfunction and cancer.
Citation Format: Emmalee R. Adelman, Maria E. Figueroa. Determining the role of BRD9 in human hematopoietic stem cell aging. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference: Cancer Epigenomics; 2022 Oct 6-8; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(23 Suppl_2):Abstract nr B010.
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Zeidan AM, Bewersdorf JP, Buckstein R, Sekeres MA, Steensma DP, Platzbecker U, Loghavi S, Boultwood J, Bejar R, Bennett JM, Borate U, Brunner AM, Carraway H, Churpek JE, Daver NG, Della Porta M, DeZern AE, Efficace F, Fenaux P, Figueroa ME, Greenberg P, Griffiths EA, Halene S, Hasserjian RP, Hourigan CS, Kim N, Kim TK, Komrokji RS, Kutchroo V, List AF, Little RF, Majeti R, Nazha A, Nimer SD, Odenike O, Padron E, Patnaik MM, Roboz GJ, Sallman DA, Sanz G, Stahl M, Starczynowski DT, Taylor J, Xie Z, Xu M, Savona MR, Wei AH, Abdel-Wahab O, Santini V. Finding consistency in classifications of myeloid neoplasms: a perspective on behalf of the International Workshop for Myelodysplastic Syndromes. Leukemia 2022; 36:2939-2946. [PMID: 36266326 DOI: 10.1038/s41375-022-01724-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Amer M Zeidan
- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Blood Cancer UK Molecular Haematology Unit, Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Hematopathology Division, Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, James Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Leukemia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Leukemia Program, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Carbone Cancer Center, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center & Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
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- Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (GIMEMA), Data Center and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Rome, Italy
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies, Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Institute, and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- The University of Chicago Medicine and University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain; and CIBERONC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Figueroa ME, DeZern AE. Editorial: Advancing Science for Clinical Care in MDS. Front Oncol 2022; 12:901118. [PMID: 35530304 PMCID: PMC9068944 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.901118] [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] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Maria E. Figueroa
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL, United States
- *Correspondence: Amy E. DeZern,
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Schaefer EJ, Wang HC, Karp HQ, Meyer CA, Cejas P, Gearhart MD, Adelman ER, Fares I, Apffel A, Lim K, Xie Y, Gibson CJ, Schenone M, Murdock HM, Wang ES, Gondek LP, Carroll MP, Vedula RS, Winer ES, Garcia JS, Stone RM, Luskin MR, Carr SA, Long HW, Bardwell VJ, Figueroa ME, Lindsley RC. BCOR and BCORL1 Mutations Drive Epigenetic Reprogramming and Oncogenic Signaling by Unlinking PRC1.1 from Target Genes. Blood Cancer Discov 2022; 3:116-135. [PMID: 35015684 PMCID: PMC9414116 DOI: 10.1158/2643-3230.bcd-21-0115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 11/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Polycomb repressive epigenetic complexes are recurrently dysregulated in cancer. Unlike polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), the role of PRC1 in oncogenesis and therapy resistance is not well-defined. Here, we demonstrate that highly recurrent mutations of the PRC1 subunits BCOR and BCORL1 in leukemia disrupt assembly of a noncanonical PRC1.1 complex, thereby selectively unlinking the RING-PCGF enzymatic core from the chromatin-targeting auxiliary subcomplex. As a result, BCOR-mutated PRC1.1 is localized to chromatin but lacks repressive activity, leading to epigenetic reprogramming and transcriptional activation at target loci. We define a set of functional targets that drive aberrant oncogenic signaling programs in PRC1.1-mutated cells and primary patient samples. Activation of these PRC1.1 targets in BCOR-mutated cells confers acquired resistance to treatment while sensitizing to targeted kinase inhibition. Our study thus reveals a novel epigenetic mechanism that explains PRC1.1 tumor-suppressive activity and identifies a therapeutic strategy in PRC1.1-mutated cancer. SIGNIFICANCE We demonstrate that BCOR and BCORL1 mutations in leukemia unlink PRC1.1 repressive function from target genes, resulting in epigenetic reprogramming and activation of aberrant cell signaling programs that mediate treatment resistance. Our study provides mechanistic insights into the pathogenesis of PRC1.1-mutated leukemia that inform novel therapeutic approaches. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 85.
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- Eva J. Schaefer
- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Developmental Biology Center, Masonic Cancer Center, and Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, Perelman Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Developmental Biology Center, Masonic Cancer Center, and Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.,Corresponding Author: R. Coleman Lindsley, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Phone: 617-632-6649; E-mail:
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Pronier E, Imanci A, Selimoglu-Buet D, Badaoui B, Itzykson R, Roger T, Jego C, Naimo A, Francillette M, Breckler M, Wagner-Ballon O, Figueroa ME, Aglave M, Gautheret D, Porteu F, Bernard OA, Vainchenker W, Delhommeau F, Solary E, Droin NM. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is overproduced through EGR1 in TET2 low resting monocytes. Commun Biol 2022; 5:110. [PMID: 35115654 PMCID: PMC8814058 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03057-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Somatic mutation in TET2 gene is one of the most common clonal genetic events detected in age-related clonal hematopoiesis as well as in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). In addition to being a pre-malignant state, TET2 mutated clones are associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, which could involve cytokine/chemokine overproduction by monocytic cells. Here, we show in mice and in human cells that, in the absence of any inflammatory challenge, TET2 downregulation promotes the production of MIF (macrophage migration inhibitory factor), a pivotal mediator of atherosclerotic lesion formation. In healthy monocytes, TET2 is recruited to MIF promoter and interacts with the transcription factor EGR1 and histone deacetylases. Disruption of these interactions as a consequence of TET2-decreased expression favors EGR1-driven transcription of MIF gene and its secretion. MIF favors monocytic differentiation of myeloid progenitors. These results designate MIF as a chronically overproduced chemokine and a potential therapeutic target in patients with clonal TET2 downregulation in myeloid cells. To improve our understanding of the pathological role of TET2 mutations, Pronier, Imanci et al. use mice and human cells to show that TET2 downregulation promotes the production of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF). In addition they show that whilst TET2 is recruited to the MIF promoter in healthy monocytes, decreased TET2 expression results in chronic overproduction of MIF - suggesting that MIF signaling could therefore constitute a potential therapeutic target for conditions associated with TET2 mutations.
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- Elodie Pronier
- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Owkin Lab, Owkin, Inc., New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri-Mondor, Département d'Hématologie et Immunologie Biologiques, 94000, Créteil, France
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- AP-HP, Service Hématologie Adultes, Hôpital Saint-Louis, 75010, Paris, France
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- Infectious Disease Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Genomic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Genomic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Genomic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri-Mondor, Département d'Hématologie et Immunologie Biologiques, 94000, Créteil, France.,Université Paris Est Créteil, INSERM, IMRB, Equipe 9, 94010, Créteil, France
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- Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 33136, Miami, USA.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 33136, Miami, USA
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- INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Bioinformatic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Bioinformatic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, CRSA, 75012, Paris, France.,AP-HP, Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service d'Hématologie et Immunologie Biologique, 75012, Paris, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,Hematology department, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM U1287, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France. .,Université Paris Saclay, Faculté de Médecine, 94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. .,INSERM US23, CNRS UMS 3655, AMMICa, Genomic platform, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, 94805, Villejuif, France.
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Wei Y, Huang YH, Skopelitis DS, Iyer SV, Costa AS, Yang Z, Kramer M, Adelman ER, Klingbeil O, Demerdash OE, Polyanskaya SA, Chang K, Goodwin S, Hodges E, McCombie WR, Figueroa ME, Vakoc CR. SLC5A3-Dependent Myo-inositol Auxotrophy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Discov 2022; 12:450-467. [PMID: 34531253 PMCID: PMC8831445 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-1849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [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: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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An enhanced requirement for nutrients is a hallmark property of cancer cells. Here, we optimized an in vivo genetic screening strategy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which led to the identification of the myo-inositol transporter SLC5A3 as a dependency in this disease. We demonstrate that SLC5A3 is essential to support a myo-inositol auxotrophy in AML. The commonality among SLC5A3-dependent AML lines is the transcriptional silencing of ISYNA1, which encodes the rate-limiting enzyme for myo-inositol biosynthesis, inositol-3-phosphate synthase 1. We use gain- and loss-of-function experiments to reveal a synthetic lethal genetic interaction between ISYNA1 and SLC5A3 in AML, which function redundantly to sustain intracellular myo-inositol. Transcriptional silencing and DNA hypermethylation of ISYNA1 occur in a recurrent manner in human AML patient samples, in association with IDH1/IDH2 and CEBPA mutations. Our findings reveal myo-inositol as a nutrient dependency in AML caused by the aberrant silencing of a biosynthetic enzyme. SIGNIFICANCE: We show how epigenetic silencing can provoke a nutrient dependency in AML by exploiting a synthetic lethality relationship between biosynthesis and transport of myo-inositol. Blocking the function of this solute carrier may have therapeutic potential in an epigenetically defined subset of AML.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 275.
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- Yiliang Wei
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.,Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.,School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Department of Biochemistry and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.,Corresponding Author: Christopher R. Vakoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724. Phone: 516-367-5030; E-mail:
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Man N, Mas G, Karl DL, Sun J, Liu F, Yang Q, Torres-Martin M, Itonaga H, Martinez C, Chen S, Xu Y, Duffort S, Hamard PJ, Chen C, Zucconi BE, Cimmino L, Yang FC, Xu M, Cole PA, Figueroa ME, Nimer SD. p300 suppresses the transition of myelodysplastic syndromes to acute myeloid leukemia. JCI Insight 2021; 6:138478. [PMID: 34622806 PMCID: PMC8525640 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.138478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) malignancies characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis and an increased risk of leukemia transformation. Epigenetic regulators are recurrently mutated in MDS, directly implicating epigenetic dysregulation in MDS pathogenesis. Here, we identified a tumor suppressor role of the acetyltransferase p300 in clinically relevant MDS models driven by mutations in the epigenetic regulators TET2, ASXL1, and SRSF2. The loss of p300 enhanced the proliferation and self-renewal capacity of Tet2-deficient HSPCs, resulting in an increased HSPC pool and leukemogenicity in primary and transplantation mouse models. Mechanistically, the loss of p300 in Tet2-deficient HSPCs altered enhancer accessibility and the expression of genes associated with differentiation, proliferation, and leukemia development. Particularly, p300 loss led to an increased expression of Myb, and the depletion of Myb attenuated the proliferation of HSPCs and improved the survival of leukemia-bearing mice. Additionally, we show that chemical inhibition of p300 acetyltransferase activity phenocopied Ep300 deletion in Tet2-deficient HSPCs, whereas activation of p300 activity with a small molecule impaired the self-renewal and leukemogenicity of Tet2-deficient cells. This suggests a potential therapeutic application of p300 activators in the treatment of MDS with TET2 inactivating mutations.
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- Na Man
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Medicine, and
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Medicine, and
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- Division of Genetics, Departments of Medicine and Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Medicine, and
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Departments of Medicine and Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.,Department of Medicine, and.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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Yang Z, Wu XS, Wei Y, Polyanskaya SA, Iyer SV, Jung M, Lach FP, Adelman ER, Klingbeil O, Milazzo JP, Kramer M, Demerdash OE, Chang K, Goodwin S, Hodges E, McCombie WR, Figueroa ME, Smogorzewska A, Vakoc CR. Transcriptional Silencing of ALDH2 Confers a Dependency on Fanconi Anemia Proteins in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Discov 2021; 11:2300-2315. [PMID: 33893150 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-1542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Hundreds of genes become aberrantly silenced in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), with most of these epigenetic changes being of unknown functional consequence. Here, we demonstrate how gene silencing can lead to an acquired dependency on the DNA repair machinery in AML. We make this observation by profiling the essentiality of the ubiquitination machinery in cancer cell lines using domain-focused CRISPR screening, which revealed Fanconi anemia (FA) proteins UBE2T and FANCL as unique dependencies in AML. We demonstrate that these dependencies are due to a synthetic lethal interaction between FA proteins and aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which function in parallel pathways to counteract the genotoxicity of endogenous aldehydes. We show DNA hypermethylation and silencing of ALDH2 occur in a recurrent manner in human AML, which is sufficient to confer FA pathway dependency. Our study suggests that targeting of the ubiquitination reaction catalyzed by FA proteins can eliminate ALDH2-deficient AML. SIGNIFICANCE: Aberrant gene silencing is an epigenetic hallmark of human cancer, but the functional consequences of this process are largely unknown. In this study, we show how an epigenetic alteration leads to an actionable dependency on a DNA repair pathway through the disabling of genetic redundancy.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 2113.
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- Zhaolin Yang
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.,Genetics Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.,Genetics Program, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Department of Biochemistry and Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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- Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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MacBeth KJ, Chopra VS, Tang L, Zheng B, Avanzino B, See WL, Schwickart M, Figueroa ME, Quek L, DiMartino JF. Combination of azacitidine and enasidenib enhances leukemic cell differentiation and cooperatively hypomethylates DNA. Exp Hematol 2021; 98:47-52.e6. [PMID: 33794295 DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2021.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Azacitidine and enasidenib are two therapies available for treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), and the mechanisms of action of these drugs involve alteration of aberrant DNA methylation. We hypothesized that a combination of these agents could have interactive effects on DNA methylation and enhance differentiation in mIDH2 cells. Combination treatment enhanced cellular differentiation in TF-1 cells overexpressing IDJ2R140Q through increased hemoglobinization and increased hemoglobin γ RNA expression compared with the effects of single agents. Furthermore, in primary AML samples (IDH2R140Q or R172K), combination treatment reduced CD34+ cells and increased CD15+ cells to a greater extent than attained with single agents. To explore the mechanism of enhanced differentiation with combination treatment, the TF-1 epigenome was analyzed by profiling 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) and 5-methylcytosine (5mC) DNA methylation changes. Enasidenib treatment alone increased 5hmC, consistent with reactivation of ten-eleven-translocation (TET) enzyme activity. Compared with treatment with azacitidine alone, combination treatment reduced 5mC levels at greater numbers of sites and these loci were significantly enriched in regions with increased 5hMC (25.8% vs. 7.4%). Results are consistent with a model in which enasidenib-mediated reactivation of ten-eleven-translocation enzymes cooperates with azacitidine-mediated inhibition of DNA methyltransferase enzymes, leading to greater reductions in DNA methylation and enhanced erythroid differentiation.
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- Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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- MRC Molecular Hematology Unit, WIMM University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Martins-Noguerol R, Cambrollé J, Mancilla-Leytón JM, Puerto-Marchena A, Muñoz-Vallés S, Millán-Linares MC, Millán F, Martínez-Force E, Figueroa ME, Pedroche J, Moreno-Pérez AJ. Influence of soil salinity on the protein and fatty acid composition of the edible halophyte Halimione portulacoides. Food Chem 2021; 352:129370. [PMID: 33652199 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.129370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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As the worldwide population continues to rise, so does global demand for agricultural production. This scenario of uncertain food supply is exacerbated by the high salinization of soils worldwide, a serious constraint to crop productivity. In this context, there is an increasing need for alternative sustainable crops. Halophytes are thought to be a promising alternative food source due to their natural ability to grow in saline soils and their multiple potential uses in the food industry. In this study, the protein and fatty acid content of the halophyte Halimione (Atriplex) portulacoides (L.) was studied in different saline conditions. Although more studies are needed to explore the nutritional properties of H. portulacoides, the data presented here suggest that this halophyte should be considered as a promising food crop for saline agriculture.
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- R Martins-Noguerol
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Our understanding of the effects of aging on human hematopoiesis has advanced significantly in recent years, yet the full ramifications of these findings are not fully understood. This review summarizes these findings and discusses their implication as they relate to malignant hematopoiesis. RECENT FINDINGS With human aging there is an impaired immune response, loss of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) function, increase in clonal hematopoiesis, and higher frequency of myeloid malignancies. Although murine models have implicated abnormalities in DNA damage repair, autophagy, metabolism, and epigenetics, studies in primary human specimens are more limited. The development of age-related clonal hematopoiesis and the risk associated with this is one of the major findings in the field of recent years. This is accompanied by changes in bone marrow stem and progenitor composition, changes in the epigenetic program of stem cells and an inflammatory milieu in the bone marrow. The precise consequences of these changes for the development of age-related malignancies are still unclear. SUMMARY Advances in the field have begun to reveal the mechanisms driving human HSC loss of function with age. It will be critical to delineate between normal and malignant aging in order to better prevent age-associated myeloid malignancies.
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- Emmalee R. Adelman
- Dept of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
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- Dept of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
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Liu S, de Medeiros MC, Fernandez EM, Zarins KR, Cavalcante RG, Qin T, Wolf GT, Figueroa ME, D'Silva NJ, Rozek LS, Sartor MA. 5-Hydroxymethylation highlights the heterogeneity in keratinization and cell junctions in head and neck cancers. Clin Epigenetics 2020; 12:175. [PMID: 33203436 PMCID: PMC7672859 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-020-00965-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most prevalent cancer worldwide, with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related HNSCC rising to concerning levels. Extensive clinical, genetic and epigenetic differences exist between HPV-associated HNSCC and HPV-negative HNSCC, which is often linked to tobacco use. However, 5-hydroxymethylation (5hmC), an oxidative derivative of DNA methylation and its heterogeneity among HNSCC subtypes, has not been studied. RESULTS We characterized genome-wide 5hmC profiles in HNSCC by HPV status and subtype in 18 HPV(+) and 18 HPV(-) well-characterized tumors. Results showed significant genome-wide hyper-5hmC in HPV(-) tumors, with both promoter and enhancer 5hmC able to distinguish meaningful tumor subgroups. We identified specific genes whose differential expression by HPV status is driven by differential hydroxymethylation. CDKN2A (p16), used as a key biomarker for HPV status, exhibited the most extensive hyper-5hmC in HPV(+) tumors, while HPV(-) tumors showed hyper-5hmC in CDH13, TIMP2, MMP2 and other cancer-related genes. Among the previously reported two HPV(+) subtypes, IMU (stronger immune response) and KRT (more keratinization), the IMU subtype revealed hyper-5hmC and up-regulation of genes in cell migration, and hypo-5hmC with down-regulation in keratinization and cell junctions. We experimentally validated our key prediction of higher secreted and intracellular protein levels of the invasion gene MMP2 in HPV(-) oral cavity cell lines. CONCLUSION Our results implicate 5hmC in driving differences in keratinization, cell junctions and other cancer-related processes among tumor subtypes. We conclude that 5hmC levels are critical for defining tumor characteristics and potentially used to define clinically meaningful cancer patient subgroups.
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- Siyu Liu
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2218, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2218, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2218, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2218, USA. .,Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
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Smith MA, Culver-Cochran AE, Adelman ER, Rhyasen GW, Ma A, Figueroa ME, Starczynowski DT. TNFAIP3 Plays a Role in Aging of the Hematopoietic System. Front Immunol 2020; 11:536442. [PMID: 33224133 PMCID: PMC7670064 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.536442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) experience a functional decline in response to chronic inflammation or aging. Haploinsufficiency of A20, or TNFAIP3, an innate immune regulator, is associated with a variety of autoimmune, inflammatory, and hematologic malignancies. Based on a prior analysis of epigenomic and transcriptomic changes during normal human aging, we find that the expression of A20 is significantly reduced in aged HSPC as compared to young HSPC. Here, we show that the partial reduction of A20 expression in young HSPC results in characteristic features of aging. Specifically, heterozygous deletion of A20 in hematopoietic cells resulted in expansion of the HSPC pool, reduced HSPC fitness, and myeloid-biased hematopoiesis. These findings suggest that altered expression of A20 in HSPC contributes to an aging-like phenotype, and that there may be a common underlying mechanism for diminished HSPC function between inflammatory states and aging.
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- Molly A Smith
- Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
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- Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
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- Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Fang C, Wang Z, Han C, Safgren SL, Helmin KA, Adelman ER, Serafin V, Basso G, Eagen KP, Gaspar-Maia A, Figueroa ME, Singer BD, Ratan A, Ntziachristos P, Zang C. Cancer-specific CTCF binding facilitates oncogenic transcriptional dysregulation. Genome Biol 2020; 21:247. [PMID: 32933554 PMCID: PMC7493976 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02152-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [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: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The three-dimensional genome organization is critical for gene regulation and can malfunction in diseases like cancer. As a key regulator of genome organization, CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) has been characterized as a DNA-binding protein with important functions in maintaining the topological structure of chromatin and inducing DNA looping. Among the prolific binding sites in the genome, several events with altered CTCF occupancy have been reported as associated with effects in physiology or disease. However, hitherto there is no comprehensive survey of genome-wide CTCF binding patterns across different human cancers. RESULTS To dissect functions of CTCF binding, we systematically analyze over 700 CTCF ChIP-seq profiles across human tissues and cancers and identify cancer-specific CTCF binding patterns in six cancer types. We show that cancer-specific lost and gained CTCF binding events are associated with altered chromatin interactions, partially with DNA methylation changes, and rarely with sequence mutations. While lost bindings primarily occur near gene promoters, most gained CTCF binding events exhibit enhancer activities and are induced by oncogenic transcription factors. We validate these findings in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines and patient samples and show that oncogenic NOTCH1 induces specific CTCF binding and they cooperatively activate expression of target genes, indicating transcriptional condensation phenomena. CONCLUSIONS Specific CTCF binding events occur in human cancers. Cancer-specific CTCF binding can be induced by other transcription factors to regulate oncogenic gene expression. Our results substantiate CTCF binding alteration as a functional epigenomic signature of cancer.
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- Celestia Fang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Experimental Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Oncohematology Laboratory, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Oncohematology Laboratory, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, 10060, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Experimental Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- UVA Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- UVA Cancer Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
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Balogh P, Adelman ER, Pluvinage JV, Capaldo BJ, Freeman KC, Singh S, Elagib KE, Nakamura Y, Kurita R, Sashida G, Zunder ER, Li H, Gru AA, Price EA, Schrier SL, Weissman IL, Figueroa ME, Pang WW, Goldfarb AN. RUNX3 levels in human hematopoietic progenitors are regulated by aging and dictate erythroid-myeloid balance. Haematologica 2020; 105:905-913. [PMID: 31171641 PMCID: PMC7109730 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2018.208918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Healthy bone marrow progenitors yield a co-ordinated balance of hematopoietic lineages. This balance shifts with aging toward enhanced granulopoiesis with diminished erythropoiesis and lymphopoiesis, changes which likely contribute to the development of bone marrow disorders in the elderly. In this study, RUNX3 was identified as a hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell factor whose levels decline with aging in humans and mice. This decline is exaggerated in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from subjects diagnosed with unexplained anemia of the elderly. Hematopoietic stem cells from elderly unexplained anemia patients had diminished erythroid but unaffected granulocytic colony forming potential. Knockdown studies revealed human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to be strongly influenced by RUNX3 levels, with modest deficiencies abrogating erythroid differentiation at multiple steps while retaining capacity for granulopoiesis. Transcriptome profiling indicated control by RUNX3 of key erythroid transcription factors, including KLF1 and GATA1 These findings thus implicate RUNX3 as a participant in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell aging, and a key determinant of erythroid-myeloid lineage balance.
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- Peter Balogh
- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Flow Cytometry Core Facility, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Cell Engineering Division, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Research and Development Department, Central Blood Institute, Blood Service Headquarters, Japanese Red Cross Society, Tatsumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Transcriptional Regulation in Leukemogenesis IRCMS, Kumamoto University, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA
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Núñez FJ, Mendez FM, Kadiyala P, Alghamri MS, Savelieff MG, Garcia-Fabiani MB, Haase S, Koschmann C, Calinescu AA, Kamran N, Saxena M, Patel R, Carney S, Guo MZ, Edwards M, Ljungman M, Qin T, Sartor MA, Tagett R, Venneti S, Brosnan-Cashman J, Meeker A, Gorbunova V, Zhao L, Kremer DM, Zhang L, Lyssiotis CA, Jones L, Herting CJ, Ross JL, Hambardzumyan D, Hervey-Jumper S, Figueroa ME, Lowenstein PR, Castro MG. IDH1-R132H acts as a tumor suppressor in glioma via epigenetic up-regulation of the DNA damage response. Sci Transl Med 2020; 11:11/479/eaaq1427. [PMID: 30760578 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaq1427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2017] [Revised: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Patients with glioma whose tumors carry a mutation in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1R132H) are younger at diagnosis and live longer. IDH1 mutations co-occur with other molecular lesions, such as 1p/19q codeletion, inactivating mutations in the tumor suppressor protein 53 (TP53) gene, and loss-of-function mutations in alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked gene (ATRX). All adult low-grade gliomas (LGGs) harboring ATRX loss also express the IDH1R132H mutation. The current molecular classification of LGGs is based, partly, on the distribution of these mutations. We developed a genetically engineered mouse model harboring IDH1R132H, TP53 and ATRX inactivating mutations, and activated NRAS G12V. Previously, we established that ATRX deficiency, in the context of wild-type IDH1, induces genomic instability, impairs nonhomologous end-joining DNA repair, and increases sensitivity to DNA-damaging therapies. In this study, using our mouse model and primary patient-derived glioma cultures with IDH1 mutations, we investigated the function of IDH1R132H in the context of TP53 and ATRX loss. We discovered that IDH1R132H expression in the genetic context of ATRX and TP53 gene inactivation (i) increases median survival in the absence of treatment, (ii) enhances DNA damage response (DDR) via epigenetic up-regulation of the ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM) signaling pathway, and (iii) elicits tumor radioresistance. Accordingly, pharmacological inhibition of ATM or checkpoint kinases 1 and 2, essential kinases in the DDR, restored the tumors' radiosensitivity. Translation of these findings to patients with IDH1132H glioma harboring TP53 and ATRX loss could improve the therapeutic efficacy of radiotherapy and, consequently, patient survival.
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- Felipe J Núñez
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Departments of Pathology, Oncology and Urology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Graduate Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.,Graduate Division of Molecular and Systems Pharmacology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.,Graduate Division of Cancer Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136-1000, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. .,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. .,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Qin T, Sotzen J, Rampal RK, Rapaport FT, Levine RL, Klimek V, Nimer SD, Figueroa ME. Risk of disease progression in low-risk MDS is linked to distinct epigenetic subtypes. Leukemia 2019; 33:2753-2757. [PMID: 31332268 PMCID: PMC6842085 DOI: 10.1038/s41375-019-0518-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Revised: 05/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Tingting Qin
- University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Pathology, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA.,Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Center for Hematologic Malignancies, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA.,Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136, USA. .,Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
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Adelman ER, Huang HT, Roisman A, Olsson A, Colaprico A, Qin T, Lindsley RC, Bejar R, Salomonis N, Grimes HL, Figueroa ME. Aging Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells Manifest Profound Epigenetic Reprogramming of Enhancers That May Predispose to Leukemia. Cancer Discov 2019; 9:1080-1101. [PMID: 31085557 PMCID: PMC7080409 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-18-1474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Aging is associated with functional decline of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) as well as an increased risk of myeloid malignancies. We performed an integrative characterization of epigenomic and transcriptomic changes, including single-cell RNA sequencing, during normal human aging. Lineage-CD34+CD38- cells [HSC-enriched (HSCe)] undergo age-associated epigenetic reprogramming consisting of redistribution of DNA methylation and reductions in H3K27ac, H3K4me1, and H3K4me3. This reprogramming of aged HSCe globally targets developmental and cancer pathways that are comparably altered in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) of all ages, encompassing loss of 4,646 active enhancers, 3,091 bivalent promoters, and deregulation of several epigenetic modifiers and key hematopoietic transcription factors, such as KLF6, BCL6, and RUNX3. Notably, in vitro downregulation of KLF6 results in impaired differentiation, increased colony-forming potential, and changes in expression that recapitulate aging and leukemia signatures. Thus, age-associated epigenetic reprogramming may form a predisposing condition for the development of age-related AML. SIGNIFICANCE: AML, which is more frequent in the elderly, is characterized by epigenetic deregulation. We demonstrate that epigenetic reprogramming of human HSCs occurs with age, affecting cancer and developmental pathways. Downregulation of genes epigenetically altered with age leads to impairment in differentiation and partially recapitulates aging phenotypes.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 983.
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- Emmalee R Adelman
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Immunobiology and Center for Systems Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematological Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of Immunobiology and Center for Systems Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida. .,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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Beke A, Laplane L, Riviere J, Yang Q, Torres-Martin M, Dayris T, Rameau P, Saada V, Bilhou-Nabera C, Hurtado A, Lordier L, Vainchenker W, Figueroa ME, Droin N, Solary E. Multilayer intraclonal heterogeneity in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Haematologica 2019; 105:112-123. [PMID: 31048357 PMCID: PMC6939510 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2018.208488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 10/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The functional diversity of cells that compose myeloid malignancies, i.e., the respective roles of genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity in this diversity, remains poorly understood. This question is addressed in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, a myeloid neoplasm in which clinical diversity contrasts with limited genetic heterogeneity. To generate induced pluripotent stem cell clones, we reprogrammed CD34+ cells collected from a patient with a chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in which whole exome sequencing of peripheral blood monocyte DNA had identified 12 gene mutations, including a mutation in KDM6A and two heterozygous mutations in TET2 in the founding clone and a secondary KRAS(G12D) mutation. CD34+ cells from an age-matched healthy donor were also reprogrammed. We captured a part of the genetic heterogeneity observed in the patient, i.e. we analyzed five clones with two genetic backgrounds, without and with the KRAS(G12D) mutation. Hematopoietic differentiation of these clones recapitulated the main features of the patient's disease, including overproduction of granulomonocytes and dysmegakaryopoiesis. These analyses also disclosed significant discrepancies in the behavior of hematopoietic cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cell clones with similar genetic background, correlating with limited epigenetic changes. These analyses suggest that, beyond the coding mutations, several levels of intraclonal heterogeneity may participate in the yet unexplained clinical heterogeneity of the disease.
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- Allan Beke
- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.,CNRS UMR8590, IHPST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
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- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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- Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- CNRS 3655 & INSERM US23, AMMICa, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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- CNRS 3655 & INSERM US23, AMMICa, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Biopathology, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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- Hematology and Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Morales Meseguer, IMIB, Murcia, Spain
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- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.,CNRS 3655 & INSERM US23, AMMICa, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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- Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.,Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM U1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France .,Université Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.,Department of Hematology, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France
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Fernandez AGL, Crescenzi B, Pierini V, Di Battista V, Barba G, Pellanera F, Di Giacomo D, Roti G, Piazza R, Adelman ER, Figueroa ME, Mecucci C. A distinct epigenetic program underlies the 1;7 translocation in myelodysplastic syndromes. Leukemia 2019; 33:2481-2494. [PMID: 30923319 DOI: 10.1038/s41375-019-0433-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
The unbalanced translocation dic(1;7)(q10;p10) in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is originated by centromeric juxtaposition resulting into 1q trisomy and 7q monosomy. More than half of cases arise after chemo/radio-therapy. To date, given the absence of genes within the centromeric regions, no specific molecular events have been identified in this cytogenetic subgroup. We performed the first comprehensive genetic and epigenetic analysis of MDS with dic(1;7)(q10;p10) compared to normal controls and therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (t-MNs). RNA-seq showed a unique downregulated signature in dic(1;7) cases, affecting more than 80% of differentially expressed genes. As revealed by pathway and gene ontology analyses, downregulation of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and lipid-related genes and upregulation of p53 signaling were the most relevant biological features of dic(1;7). Epigenetic supervised analysis revealed hypermethylation at intronic enhancers in the dicentric subgroup, in which low expression levels of enhancer putative target genes accounted for around 35% of the downregulated signature. Enrichment of Krüppel-like transcription factor binding sites emerged at enhancers. Furthermore, a specific hypermethylated pattern on 1q was found to underlie the hypo-expression of more than 50% of 1q-deregulated genes, despite trisomy. In summary, dic(1;7) in MDS establishes a specific transcriptional program driven by a unique epigenomic signature.
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Hematology, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
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Dominguez PM, Ghamlouch H, Rosikiewicz W, Kumar P, Béguelin W, Fontán L, Rivas MA, Pawlikowska P, Armand M, Mouly E, Torres-Martin M, Doane AS, Calvo Fernandez MT, Durant M, Della-Valle V, Teater M, Cimmino L, Droin N, Tadros S, Motanagh S, Shih AH, Rubin MA, Tam W, Aifantis I, Levine RL, Elemento O, Inghirami G, Green MR, Figueroa ME, Bernard OA, Aoufouchi S, Li S, Shaknovich R, Melnick AM. TET2 Deficiency Causes Germinal Center Hyperplasia, Impairs Plasma Cell Differentiation, and Promotes B-cell Lymphomagenesis. Cancer Discov 2018; 8:1632-1653. [PMID: 30274972 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-18-0657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
TET2 somatic mutations occur in ∼10% of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) but are of unknown significance. Herein, we show that TET2 is required for the humoral immune response and is a DLBCL tumor suppressor. TET2 loss of function disrupts transit of B cells through germinal centers (GC), causing GC hyperplasia, impaired class switch recombination, blockade of plasma cell differentiation, and a preneoplastic phenotype. TET2 loss was linked to focal loss of enhancer hydroxymethylation and transcriptional repression of genes that mediate GC exit, such as PRDM1. Notably, these enhancers and genes are also repressed in CREBBP-mutant DLBCLs. Accordingly, TET2 mutation in patients yields a CREBBP-mutant gene-expression signature, CREBBP and TET2 mutations are generally mutually exclusive, and hydroxymethylation loss caused by TET2 deficiency impairs enhancer H3K27 acetylation. Hence, TET2 plays a critical role in the GC reaction, and its loss of function results in lymphomagenesis through failure to activate genes linked to GC exit signals. SIGNIFICANCE: We show that TET2 is required for exit of the GC, B-cell differentiation, and is a tumor suppressor for mature B cells. Loss of TET2 phenocopies CREBBP somatic mutation. These results advocate for sequencing TET2 in patients with lymphoma and for the testing of epigenetic therapies to treat these tumors.See related commentary by Shingleton and Dave, p. 1515.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1494.
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- Pilar M Dominguez
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- CNRS UMR8200, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.,CNRS UMR8200, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, and The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma and Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, and The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma and Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- INSERM U1170, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.
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- CNRS UMR8200, équipe labelisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut. .,The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center, Bar Harbor, Maine.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York. .,Cancer Genetics, Inc., Rutherford, New Jersey
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
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Chan HL, Beckedorff F, Zhang Y, Garcia-Huidobro J, Jiang H, Colaprico A, Bilbao D, Figueroa ME, LaCava J, Shiekhattar R, Morey L. Polycomb complexes associate with enhancers and promote oncogenic transcriptional programs in cancer through multiple mechanisms. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3377. [PMID: 30139998 PMCID: PMC6107513 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05728-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [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: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) plays essential roles in cell fate decisions and development. However, its role in cancer is less well understood. Here, we show that RNF2, encoding RING1B, and canonical PRC1 (cPRC1) genes are overexpressed in breast cancer. We find that cPRC1 complexes functionally associate with ERα and its pioneer factor FOXA1 in ER+ breast cancer cells, and with BRD4 in triple-negative breast cancer cells (TNBC). While cPRC1 still exerts its repressive function, it is also recruited to oncogenic active enhancers. RING1B regulates enhancer activity and gene transcription not only by promoting the expression of oncogenes but also by regulating chromatin accessibility. Functionally, RING1B plays a divergent role in ER+ and TNBC metastasis. Finally, we show that concomitant recruitment of RING1B to active enhancers occurs across multiple cancers, highlighting an under-explored function of cPRC1 in regulating oncogenic transcriptional programs in cancer. The role of Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) is well described in development. Here, the authors investigate canonical PRC1’s regulation of transcriptional programs in breast cancer where, in addition to its repressive function, it is also recruited to oncogenic active enhancers to regulate enhancer activity and chromatin accessibility.
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- Ho Lam Chan
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Centro de Investigaciones Médicas (CIM), Núcleo Científico Multidisciplinario, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Talca, Avenida Lircay S/N, Talca, 3460000, Chile
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.,Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Biomedical Research Building, 1501 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, USA. .,Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA.
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Rampal R, Figueroa ME. Wilms tumor 1 mutations in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia. Haematologica 2017; 101:672-9. [PMID: 27252512 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2015.141796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) has long been implicated in acute myeloid leukemia. It has been described to be both overexpressed and mutated in different forms of acute myeloid leukemia, and overexpression has been reported to play a prognostic role in this disease. However, the precise mechanism through which WT1 may play a role in leukemogenesis has remained elusive. In recent years, new evidence has emerged that points towards a novel role of WT1 mutations in the deregulation of epigenetic programs in leukemic cells through its interaction with TET proteins. Herein we review the current status of the field and its therapeutic and prognostic implications in acute myeloid leukemia.
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- Raajit Rampal
- Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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HIV stigma continues to be a major challenge to addressing HIV/AIDS in various countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique. This paper explores the multidimensional nature of HIV stigma through the thematic analysis of five qualitative studies conducted in high HIV prevalence provinces in Mozambique between 2009 and 2012. These studies included 23 interviews with people living with HIV (PLHIV) (10 women and 13 men); 6 focus groups with 32 peer educators (24 women and 8 men) working for community-based organisations (CBOs) providing services to PLHIV; 17 focus groups with community members (72 men and 70 women); 6 interviews (4 women and 2 men) with people who had family members living with HIV/AIDS; 24 focus groups (12 with men and 12 with women) and 6 interviews with couples. Our findings indicate that HIV stigma is a barrier to HIV testing and counselling, status disclosure, partner notification, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) access and adherence, and that moral stigma seems to be more common than physical stigma. Additionally, the findings highlight that HIV stigma is a dynamic social process that is conceptualised as being tied to personal responsibility. To effectively diminish HIV stigma in Mozambique, future interventions should address moral stigma and re-conceptualise HIV as a chronic disease.
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- Maria A Carrasco
- a Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health . Baltimore , Maryland , USA
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- a Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health . Baltimore , Maryland , USA
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- b Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs , Baltimore , Maryland , USA
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Glass JL, Hassane D, Wouters BJ, Kunimoto H, Avellino R, Garrett-Bakelman FE, Guryanova OA, Bowman R, Redlich S, Intlekofer AM, Meydan C, Qin T, Fall M, Alonso A, Guzman ML, Valk PJM, Thompson CB, Levine R, Elemento O, Delwel R, Melnick A, Figueroa ME. Epigenetic Identity in AML Depends on Disruption of Nonpromoter Regulatory Elements and Is Affected by Antagonistic Effects of Mutations in Epigenetic Modifiers. Cancer Discov 2017; 7:868-883. [PMID: 28408400 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-16-1032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Revised: 10/20/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
We performed cytosine methylation sequencing on genetically diverse patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and found leukemic DNA methylation patterning is primarily driven by nonpromoter regulatory elements and CpG shores. Enhancers displayed stronger differential methylation than promoters, consisting predominantly of hypomethylation. AMLs with dominant hypermethylation featured greater epigenetic disruption of promoters, whereas those with dominant hypomethylation displayed greater disruption of distal and intronic regions. Mutations in IDH and DNMT3A had opposing and mutually exclusive effects on the epigenome. Notably, co-occurrence of both mutations resulted in epigenetic antagonism, with most CpGs affected by either mutation alone no longer affected in double-mutant AMLs. Importantly, this epigenetic antagonism precedes malignant transformation and can be observed in preleukemic LSK cells from Idh2R140Q or Dnmt3aR882H single-mutant and Idh2R140Q/Dnmt3aR882H double-mutant mice. Notably, IDH/DNMT3A double-mutant AMLs manifested upregulation of a RAS signaling signature and displayed unique sensitivity to MEK inhibition ex vivo as compared with AMLs with either single mutation.Significance: AML is biologically heterogeneous with subtypes characterized by specific genetic and epigenetic abnormalities. Comprehensive DNA methylation profiling revealed that differential methylation of nonpromoter regulatory elements is a driver of epigenetic identity, that gene mutations can be context-dependent, and that co-occurrence of mutations in epigenetic modifiers can result in epigenetic antagonism. Cancer Discov; 7(8); 868-83. ©2017 AACR.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 783.
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- Jacob L Glass
- Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.,Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York.,Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York.,Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Epigenomics Core Facility, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Epigenomics Core Facility, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Leukemia Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.,Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.,Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Institute of Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York.
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- Department of Human Genetics and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
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Ho TT, Warr MR, Adelman ER, Lansinger OM, Flach J, Verovskaya EV, Figueroa ME, Passegué E. Autophagy maintains the metabolism and function of young and old stem cells. Nature 2017; 543:205-210. [PMID: 28241143 PMCID: PMC5344718 DOI: 10.1038/nature21388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 572] [Impact Index Per Article: 81.7] [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: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 01/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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With age, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) lose their ability to regenerate the blood system, and promote disease development. Autophagy is associated with health and longevity, and is critical for protecting HSCs from metabolic stress. Here, we show that loss of autophagy in HSCs causes accumulation of mitochondria and an activated metabolic state, which drives accelerated myeloid differentiation mainly through epigenetic deregulations, and impairs HSC self-renewal activity and regenerative potential. Strikingly, the majority of HSCs in aged mice share these altered metabolic and functional features. However, ~ 1/3 of aged HSCs exhibit high autophagy levels and maintain a low metabolic state with robust long-term regeneration potential similar to healthy young HSCs. Our results demonstrate that autophagy actively suppresses HSC metabolism by clearing active, healthy mitochondria to maintain quiescence and stemness, and becomes increasingly necessary with age to preserve the regenerative capacity of old HSCs.
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- Theodore T Ho
- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hem/Onc Division, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Luskin MR, Gimotty PA, Smith C, Loren AW, Figueroa ME, Harrison J, Sun Z, Tallman MS, Paietta EM, Litzow MR, Melnick AM, Levine RL, Fernandez HF, Luger SM, Carroll M, Master SR, Wertheim GBW. A clinical measure of DNA methylation predicts outcome in de novo acute myeloid leukemia. JCI Insight 2016; 1. [PMID: 27446991 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.87323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Variable response to chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) represents a major treatment challenge. Clinical and genetic features incompletely predict outcome. The value of clinical epigenetic assays for risk classification has not been extensively explored. We assess the prognostic implications of a clinical assay for multilocus DNA methylation on adult patients with de novo AML. METHODS We performed multilocus DNA methylation assessment using xMELP on samples and calculated a methylation statistic (M-score) for 166 patients from UPENN with de novo AML who received induction chemotherapy. The association of M-score with complete remission (CR) and overall survival (OS) was evaluated. The optimal M-score cut-point for identifying groups with differing survival was used to define a binary M-score classifier. This classifier was validated in an independent cohort of 383 patients from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Trial 1900 (E1900; NCT00049517). RESULTS A higher mean M-score was associated with death and failure to achieve CR. Multivariable analysis confirmed that a higher M-score was associated with death (P = 0.011) and failure to achieve CR (P = 0.034). Median survival was 26.6 months versus 10.6 months for low and high M-score groups. The ability of the M-score to perform as a classifier was confirmed in patients ≤ 60 years with intermediate cytogenetics and patients who achieved CR, as well as in the E1900 validation cohort. CONCLUSION The M-score represents a valid binary prognostic classifier for patients with de novo AML. The xMELP assay and associated M-score can be used for prognosis and should be further investigated for clinical decision making in AML patients.
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- Marlise R Luskin
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Hematology and Oncology Division, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Meyer SE, Qin T, Muench DE, Masuda K, Venkatasubramanian M, Orr E, Suarez L, Gore SD, Delwel R, Paietta E, Tallman MS, Fernandez H, Melnick A, Le Beau MM, Kogan S, Salomonis N, Figueroa ME, Grimes HL. DNMT3A Haploinsufficiency Transforms FLT3ITD Myeloproliferative Disease into a Rapid, Spontaneous, and Fully Penetrant Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Discov 2016; 6:501-15. [PMID: 27016502 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-16-0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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UNLABELLED Cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (CN-AML) represents nearly 50% of human AML. Co-occurring mutations in the de novo DNA methyltransferase DNMT3A and the FMS related tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) are common in CN-AML and confer a poorer prognosis. We demonstrate that mice with Flt3-internal tandem duplication (Flt3(ITD)) and inducible deletion of Dnmt3a spontaneously develop a rapidly lethal, completely penetrant, and transplantable AML of normal karyotype. AML cells retain a single Dnmt3a floxed allele, revealing the oncogenic potential of Dnmt3a haploinsufficiency. FLT3(ITD)/DNMT3A-mutant primary human and murine AML exhibit a similar pattern of global DNA methylation associated with changes in the expression of nearby genes. In the murine model, rescuing Dnmt3a expression was accompanied by DNA remethylation and loss of clonogenic potential, suggesting that Dnmt3a-mutant oncogenic effects are reversible. Dissection of the cellular architecture of the AML model using single-cell assays, including single-cell RNA sequencing, identified clonogenic subpopulations that express genes sensitive to the methylation of nearby genomic loci and responsive to DNMT3A levels. Thus, Dnmt3a haploinsufficiency transforms Flt3(ITD) myeloproliferative disease by modulating methylation-sensitive gene expression within a clonogenic AML subpopulation. SIGNIFICANCE DNMT3A haploinsufficiency results in reversible epigenetic alterations that transform FLT3(ITD)-mutant myeloproliferative neoplasm into AML. Cancer Discov; 6(5); 501-15. ©2016 AACR.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 461.
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- Sara E Meyer
- Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Hematology, and Clinical Trial Center, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Medicine (Oncology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
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- Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Moffitt Cancer Center, Oncologic Sciences, College of Medicine at University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Division, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Section of Hematology/Oncology, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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- Division of Immunobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Gölzenleuchter M, Kanwar R, Zaibak M, Al Saiegh F, Hartung T, Klukas J, Smalley RL, Cunningham JM, Figueroa ME, Schroth GP, Therneau TM, Banck MS, Beutler AS. Plasticity of DNA methylation in a nerve injury model of pain. Epigenetics 2015; 10:200-12. [PMID: 25621511 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2015.1006493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 10/23/2022] Open
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The response of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) to injury may go together with alterations in epigenetics, a conjecture that has not been subjected to a comprehensive, genome-wide test. Using reduced representation bisulfite sequencing, we report widespread remodeling of DNA methylation in the rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) occurring within 24 h of peripheral nerve ligation, a neuropathy model of allodynia. Significant (P < 10(-4)) cytosine hyper- and hypo-methylation was found at thousands of CpG sites. Remodeling occurred outside of CpG islands. Changes affected genes with known roles in the PNS, yet methylome remodeling also involved genes that were not linked to neuroplasticity by prior evidence. Consistent with emerging models relying on genome-wide methylation and RNA-seq analysis of promoter regions and gene bodies, variation of methylation was not tightly linked with variation of gene expression. Furthermore, approximately 44% of the dynamically changed CpGs were located outside of genes. We compared their positions with the intergenic, tissue-specific differentially methylated CpGs (tDMCs) of an independent experimental set consisting of liver, spleen, L4 control DRG, and muscle. Dynamic changes affected those intergenic CpGs that were different between tissues (P < 10(-15)) and almost never the invariant portion of the methylome (those CpGs that were identical across all tissues). Our findings-obtained in mixed tissue-show that peripheral nerve injury leads to methylome remodeling in the DRG. Future studies may address which of the cell types found in the DRG, such as specific groups of neurons or non-neuronal cells are affected by which aspect of the observed methylome remodeling.
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- Meike Gölzenleuchter
- a Departments of Anesthesiology; Oncology; and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Mayo Clinic , Rochester , MN USA
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Gaillard C, Tokuyasu TA, Rosen G, Sotzen J, Vitaliano-Prunier A, Roy R, Passegué E, de Thé H, Figueroa ME, Kogan SC. Transcription and methylation analyses of preleukemic promyelocytes indicate a dual role for PML/RARA in leukemia initiation. Haematologica 2015; 100:1064-75. [PMID: 26088929 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2014.123018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia is an aggressive malignancy characterized by the accumulation of promyelocytes in the bone marrow. PML/RARA is the primary abnormality implicated in this pathology, but the mechanisms by which this chimeric fusion protein initiates disease are incompletely understood. Identifying PML/RARA targets in vivo is critical for comprehending the road to pathogenesis. Utilizing a novel sorting strategy, we isolated highly purified promyelocyte populations from normal and young preleukemic animals, carried out microarray and methylation profiling analyses, and compared the results from the two groups of animals. Surprisingly, in the absence of secondary lesions, PML/RARA had an overall limited impact on both the transcriptome and methylome. Of interest, we did identify down-regulation of secondary and tertiary granule genes as the first step engaging the myeloid maturation block. Although initially not sufficient to arrest terminal granulopoiesis in vivo, such alterations set the stage for the later, complete differentiation block seen in leukemia. Further, gene set enrichment analysis revealed that PML/RARA promyelocytes exhibit a subtle increase in expression of cell cycle genes, and we show that this leads to both increased proliferation of these cells and expansion of the promyelocyte compartment. Importantly, this proliferation signature was absent from the poorly leukemogenic p50/RARA fusion model, implying a critical role for PML in the altered cell-cycle kinetics and ability to initiate leukemia. Thus, our findings challenge the predominant model in the field and we propose that PML/RARA initiates leukemia by subtly shifting cell fate decisions within the promyelocyte compartment.
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- Coline Gaillard
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Université Paris-Diderot UMR 944/7212, France
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- Computational Biology Core, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Phoenix Children's Hospital, AZ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Computational Biology Core, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie, Université Paris-Diderot UMR 944/7212, France
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Amabile G, Di Ruscio A, Müller F, Welner RS, Yang H, Ebralidze AK, Zhang H, Levantini E, Qi L, Martinelli G, Brummelkamp T, Le Beau MM, Figueroa ME, Bock C, Tenen DG. Dissecting the role of aberrant DNA methylation in human leukaemia. Nat Commun 2015; 6:7091. [PMID: 25997600 PMCID: PMC4443494 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [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: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 04/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by the genetic translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) encoding for the BCR-ABL fusion oncogene. However, many molecular mechanisms of the disease progression still remain poorly understood. A growing body of evidence suggests that the epigenetic abnormalities are involved in tyrosine kinase resistance in CML, leading to leukaemic clone escape and disease propagation. Here we show that, by applying cellular reprogramming to primary CML cells, aberrant DNA methylation contributes to the disease evolution. Importantly, using a BCR-ABL inducible murine model, we demonstrate that a single oncogenic lesion triggers DNA methylation changes, which in turn act as a precipitating event in leukaemia progression.
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- Giovanni Amabile
- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Max Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken 117599, Germany
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 66123, Singapore
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [3] Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 66123, Singapore
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy
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- Section of Hematology/Oncology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- University of Michigan, Department of Pathology, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2200, USA
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- 1] Max Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken 117599, Germany [2] CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1090, Austria [3] Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria
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- 1] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [3] Cancer Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 66123, Singapore
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Meldi K, Qin T, Buchi F, Droin N, Sotzen J, Micol JB, Selimoglu-Buet D, Masala E, Allione B, Gioia D, Poloni A, Lunghi M, Solary E, Abdel-Wahab O, Santini V, Figueroa ME. Specific molecular signatures predict decitabine response in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. J Clin Invest 2015; 125:1857-72. [PMID: 25822018 DOI: 10.1172/jci78752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) are characterized by mutations in genes encoding epigenetic modifiers and aberrant DNA methylation. DNA methyltransferase inhibitors (DMTis) are used to treat these disorders, but response is highly variable, with few means to predict which patients will benefit. Here, we examined baseline differences in mutations, DNA methylation, and gene expression in 40 CMML patients who were responsive or resistant to decitabine (DAC) in order to develop a molecular means of predicting response at diagnosis. While somatic mutations did not differentiate responders from nonresponders, we identified 167 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) of DNA at baseline that distinguished responders from nonresponders using next-generation sequencing. These DMRs were primarily localized to nonpromoter regions and overlapped with distal regulatory enhancers. Using the methylation profiles, we developed an epigenetic classifier that accurately predicted DAC response at the time of diagnosis. Transcriptional analysis revealed differences in gene expression at diagnosis between responders and nonresponders. In responders, the upregulated genes included those that are associated with the cell cycle, potentially contributing to effective DAC incorporation. Treatment with CXCL4 and CXCL7, which were overexpressed in nonresponders, blocked DAC effects in isolated normal CD34+ and primary CMML cells, suggesting that their upregulation contributes to primary DAC resistance.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/pharmacology
- Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic/therapeutic use
- Azacitidine/analogs & derivatives
- Azacitidine/pharmacology
- Azacitidine/therapeutic use
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- DNA Methylation/drug effects
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA, Intergenic/genetics
- Decitabine
- Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/genetics
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Genes, Neoplasm
- Humans
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/genetics
- Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic/metabolism
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplasm Proteins/biosynthesis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Platelet Factor 4/biosynthesis
- Platelet Factor 4/genetics
- Platelet Factor 4/physiology
- Treatment Outcome
- beta-Thromboglobulin/biosynthesis
- beta-Thromboglobulin/genetics
- beta-Thromboglobulin/physiology
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Garrett-Bakelman FE, Sheridan CK, Kacmarczyk TJ, Ishii J, Betel D, Alonso A, Mason CE, Figueroa ME, Melnick AM. Enhanced reduced representation bisulfite sequencing for assessment of DNA methylation at base pair resolution. J Vis Exp 2015:e52246. [PMID: 25742437 PMCID: PMC4354670 DOI: 10.3791/52246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [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] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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DNA methylation pattern mapping is heavily studied in normal and diseased tissues. A variety of methods have been established to interrogate the cytosine methylation patterns in cells. Reduced representation of whole genome bisulfite sequencing was developed to detect quantitative base pair resolution cytosine methylation patterns at GC-rich genomic loci. This is accomplished by combining the use of a restriction enzyme followed by bisulfite conversion. Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (ERRBS) increases the biologically relevant genomic loci covered and has been used to profile cytosine methylation in DNA from human, mouse and other organisms. ERRBS initiates with restriction enzyme digestion of DNA to generate low molecular weight fragments for use in library preparation. These fragments are subjected to standard library construction for next generation sequencing. Bisulfite conversion of unmethylated cytosines prior to the final amplification step allows for quantitative base resolution of cytosine methylation levels in covered genomic loci. The protocol can be completed within four days. Despite low complexity in the first three bases sequenced, ERRBS libraries yield high quality data when using a designated sequencing control lane. Mapping and bioinformatics analysis is then performed and yields data that can be easily integrated with a variety of genome-wide platforms. ERRBS can utilize small input material quantities making it feasible to process human clinical samples and applicable in a range of research applications. The video produced demonstrates critical steps of the ERRBS protocol.
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College; Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Park SM, Gönen M, Vu L, Minuesa G, Tivnan P, Barlowe TS, Taggart J, Lu Y, Deering RP, Hacohen N, Figueroa ME, Paietta E, Fernandez HF, Tallman MS, Melnick A, Levine R, Leslie C, Lengner CJ, Kharas MG. Musashi2 sustains the mixed-lineage leukemia-driven stem cell regulatory program. J Clin Invest 2015; 125:1286-98. [PMID: 25664853 DOI: 10.1172/jci78440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 01/05/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are found in most aggressive myeloid diseases and contribute to therapeutic resistance. Leukemia cells exhibit a dysregulated developmental program as the result of genetic and epigenetic alterations. Overexpression of the RNA-binding protein Musashi2 (MSI2) has been previously shown to predict poor survival in leukemia. Here, we demonstrated that conditional deletion of Msi2 in the hematopoietic compartment results in delayed leukemogenesis, reduced disease burden, and a loss of LSC function in a murine leukemia model. Gene expression profiling of these Msi2-deficient animals revealed a loss of the hematopoietic/leukemic stem cell self-renewal program and an increase in the differentiation program. In acute myeloid leukemia patients, the presence of a gene signature that was similar to that observed in Msi2-deficent murine LSCs correlated with improved survival. We determined that MSI2 directly maintains the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) self-renewal program by interacting with and retaining efficient translation of Hoxa9, Myc, and Ikzf2 mRNAs. Moreover, depletion of MLL target Ikzf2 in LSCs reduced colony formation, decreased proliferation, and increased apoptosis. Our data provide evidence that MSI2 controls efficient translation of the oncogenic LSC self-renewal program and suggest MSI2 as a potential therapeutic target for myeloid leukemia.
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Cambrollé J, García JL, Figueroa ME, Cantos M. Evaluating wild grapevine tolerance to copper toxicity. Chemosphere 2015; 120:171-178. [PMID: 25025740 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 06/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We evaluate copper tolerance and accumulation in Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris in populations from a copper contaminated site and an uncontaminated site, and in the grapevine rootstock "41B", investigating the effects of copper (0-23 mM) on growth, photosynthetic performance and mineral nutrient content. The highest Cu treatment induced nutrient imbalances and inhibited photosynthetic function, causing a drastic reduction in growth in the three study plants. Effective concentration was higher than 23 mM Cu in the wild grapevines and around 9 mM in the "41B" plants. The wild grapevine accessions studied controlled root Cu concentration more efficiently than is the case with the "41B" rootstock and must be considered Cu-tolerant. Wild grapevines from the Cu-contaminated site present certain physiological characteristics that make them relatively more suitable for exploitation in the genetic improvement of vines against conditions of excess Cu, compared to wild grapevine populations from uncontaminated sites.
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- J Cambrollé
- Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, P.O. Box 1095, 41080 Sevilla, Spain.
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (C.S.I.C.), P.O. Box 1052, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
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- Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, P.O. Box 1095, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (C.S.I.C.), P.O. Box 1052, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
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Wertheim GBW, Smith C, Luskin M, Rager A, Figueroa ME, Carroll M, Master SR. Validation of DNA methylation to predict outcome in acute myeloid leukemia by use of xMELP. Clin Chem 2014; 61:249-58. [PMID: 25348669 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.229781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Epigenetic dysregulation involving alterations in DNA methylation is a hallmark of various types of cancer, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Although specific cancer types and clinical aggressiveness of tumors can be determined by DNA methylation status, the assessment of DNA methylation at multiple loci is not routinely performed in the clinical laboratory. METHODS We recently described a novel microsphere-based assay for multiplex evaluation of DNA methylation. In the current study, we validated and used an improved assay [termed expedited microsphere HpaII small fragment Enrichment by Ligation-mediated PCR (xMELP)] that can be performed with appropriate clinical turnaround time. RESULTS Using the xMELP assay in conjunction with a new 17-locus random forest classifier that has been trained using 344 AML samples, we were able to segregate an independent cohort of 70 primary AML patients into methylation-determined subgroups with significantly distinct mortality risk (P = 0.009). We also evaluated precision, QC parameters, and preanalytic variables of the xMELP assay and determined the sensitivity of the random forest classifier score to failure at 1 or more loci. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate that xMELP performance is suitable for implementation in the clinical laboratory and predicts AML outcome in an independent patient cohort.
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- Gerald B W Wertheim
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, and Abramson Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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MOTIVATION DNA methylation plays critical roles in gene regulation and cellular specification without altering DNA sequences. The wide application of reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) and whole genome bisulfite sequencing (bis-seq) opens the door to study DNA methylation at single CpG site resolution. One challenging question is how best to test for significant methylation differences between groups of biological samples in order to minimize false positive findings. RESULTS We present a statistical analysis package, methylSig, to analyse genome-wide methylation differences between samples from different treatments or disease groups. MethylSig takes into account both read coverage and biological variation by utilizing a beta-binomial approach across biological samples for a CpG site or region, and identifies relevant differences in CpG methylation. It can also incorporate local information to improve group methylation level and/or variance estimation for experiments with small sample size. A permutation study based on data from enhanced RRBS samples shows that methylSig maintains a well-calibrated type-I error when the number of samples is three or more per group. Our simulations show that methylSig has higher sensitivity compared with several alternative methods. The use of methylSig is illustrated with a comparison of different subtypes of acute leukemia and normal bone marrow samples. AVAILABILITY methylSig is available as an R package at http://sartorlab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/software. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Yongseok Park
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Pathology Department, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology and Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Prebet T, Sun Z, Figueroa ME, Ketterling R, Melnick A, Greenberg PL, Herman J, Juckett M, Smith MR, Malick L, Paietta E, Czader M, Litzow M, Gabrilove J, Erba HP, Gore SD, Tallman MS. Prolonged administration of azacitidine with or without entinostat for myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia-related changes: results of the US Leukemia Intergroup trial E1905. J Clin Oncol 2014; 32:1242-8. [PMID: 24663049 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2013.50.3102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Although azacitidine (AZA) improves survival in patients with high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, the overall response remains approximately 50%. Entinostat is a histone deacetylase inhibitor that has been combined with AZA with significant clinical activity in a previous phase I dose finding study. DESIGN Open label phase II randomized trial comparing AZA 50 mg/m(2)/d given for 10 days ± entinostat 4 mg/m(2)/d day 3 and day 10. All subtypes of myelodysplasia, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, and acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia-related changes were eligible for the study. The primary objective was the rate of hematologic normalization (HN; complete remission + partial remission + trilineage hematological improvement). RESULTS One hundred forty-nine patients were analyzed, including 97 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and 52 patients with acute myeloid leukemia. In the AZA group, 32% (95% CI, 22% to 44%) experienced HN and 27% (95% CI, 17% to 39%) in the AZA + entinostat group. Both arms exceeded the HN rate of historical control (Cancer and Leukemia Group B 9221 trial), but only the AZA group fulfilled the primary objective of the study. Rates of overall hematologic response were 46% and 44%, respectively. Median overall survivals were 18 months for the AZA group and 13 months for the AZA + entinostat group. The combination arm led to less demethylation compared with the monotherapy arm, suggesting pharmacodynamic antagonism. CONCLUSION Addition of entinostat to AZA did not increase clinical response as defined by the protocol and was associated with pharmacodynamic antagonism. However, the prolonged administration of AZA by itself seems to increase HN rate compared with standard dosing and warrants additional investigation.
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- Thomas Prebet
- Thomas Prebet, James Herman, Lisa Malick, and Steven D. Gore, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; Zhuoxin Sun, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Maria E. Figueroa and Ari Melnick, Weill Cornell Medical College; Janice Gabrilove, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Martin S. Tallman, Leukemia Service, Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Elisabeth Paietta, North Division, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; Rhett Ketterling and Mark Litzow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Peter L. Greenberg, Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, CA; Mark Juckett, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Mitchell R. Smith, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; Magdalena Czader, Indiana University Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN; and Harry P. Erba, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI
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Wertheim GBW, Smith C, Figueroa ME, Kalos M, Bagg A, Carroll M, Master SR. Microsphere-based multiplex analysis of DNA methylation in acute myeloid leukemia. J Mol Diagn 2013; 16:207-15. [PMID: 24373919 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2013.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2013] [Revised: 10/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/30/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Aberrant regulation of DNA methylation is characteristic of cancer cells and clearly influences phenotypes of various malignancies. Despite clear correlations between DNA methylation and patient outcome, tests that directly measure multiple-locus DNA methylation are typically expensive and technically challenging. Previous studies have demonstrated that the prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukemia can be predicted by the DNA methylation pattern of 18 loci. We have developed a novel strategy, termed microsphere HpaII tiny fragment enrichment by ligation-mediated PCR (MELP), to simultaneously analyze the DNA methylation pattern at these loci using methylation-specific DNA digestion, fluorescently labeled microspheres, and branched DNA hybridization. The method uses techniques that are inexpensive and easily performed in a molecular laboratory. MELP accurately reflects the methylation levels at each locus analyzed and segregates patients with acute myeloid leukemia into prognostic subgroups. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of MELP as a platform for simultaneous evaluation of DNA methylation of multiple loci.
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- Gerald B W Wertheim
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Abramson Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Vu LP, Perna F, Wang L, Voza F, Figueroa ME, Tempst P, Erdjument-Bromage H, Gao R, Chen S, Paietta E, Deblasio T, Melnick A, Liu Y, Zhao X, Nimer SD. PRMT4 blocks myeloid differentiation by assembling a methyl-RUNX1-dependent repressor complex. Cell Rep 2013; 5:1625-38. [PMID: 24332853 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.11.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2013] [Revised: 10/02/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Defining the role of epigenetic regulators in hematopoiesis has become critically important, because recurrent mutations or aberrant expression of these genes has been identified in both myeloid and lymphoid hematological malignancies. We found that PRMT4, a type I arginine methyltransferase whose function in normal and malignant hematopoiesis is unknown, is overexpressed in acute myelogenous leukemia patient samples. Overexpression of PRMT4 blocks the myeloid differentiation of human stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs), whereas its knockdown is sufficient to induce myeloid differentiation of HSPCs. We demonstrated that PRMT4 represses the expression of miR-223 in HSPCs via the methylation of RUNX1, which triggers the assembly of a multiprotein repressor complex that includes DPF2. As part of the feedback loop, PRMT4 expression is repressed posttranscriptionally by miR-223. Depletion of PRMT4 results in differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells in vitro and their decreased proliferation in vivo. Thus, targeting PRMT4 holds potential as a novel therapy for acute myelogenous leukemia.
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- Ly P Vu
- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Pathology, the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Cancer Center, Montefiore Medical Center-North Division, Bronx, NY 10466, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology Oncology Division, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
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- Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA; Department of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Cambrollé J, Mancilla-Leytón JM, Muñoz-Vallés S, Figueroa-Luque E, Luque T, Figueroa ME. Effects of copper sulfate on growth and physiological responses of Limoniastrum monopetalum. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2013; 20:8839-8847. [PMID: 23744160 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1833-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
A glasshouse study of the coastal shrub Limoniastrum monopetalum was carried out to evaluate its tolerance and capacity to accumulate copper. We investigate the effects of Cu from 0 to 60 mmol l(-1) on the growth, photosynthetic apparatus, and nutrient uptake of L. monopetalum, by measuring gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, photosynthetic pigments, and total copper, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, and magnesium content in the plant tissues. Although L. monopetalum did not survive at 60 mmol l(-1) Cu, the species demonstrated a high tolerance to Cu-induced stress, since all plants survived external Cu concentrations of up to 35 mmol l(-1) and displayed similar growth in the Cu-enriched medium as in the control treatment of up to the external level of 15 mmol Cu l(-1) (1,000 mg Cu l(-1)). The reduced growth registered in plants exposed to 35 mmol Cu l(-1) can be attributed to reduced photosynthetic carbon assimilation associated with the adverse effect of the metal on the photochemical apparatus and a reduction in the absorption of essential nutrients. Copper tolerance was associated with the capacity of the plant to accumulate the metal in its roots and effectively prevent its translocation to photosynthetic tissues. L. monopetalum has the characteristics of a Cu-excluder plant and could be used in the revegetation of Cu-contaminated soils.
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- J Cambrollé
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080, Seville, Spain,
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Andrades-Moreno L, Cambrollé J, Figueroa ME, Mateos-Naranjo E. Growth and survival of Halimione portulacoides stem cuttings in heavy metal contaminated soils. Mar Pollut Bull 2013; 75:28-32. [PMID: 24018174 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Revised: 08/11/2013] [Accepted: 08/13/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The halophytic shrub Halimione portulacoides demonstrates a high tolerance to heavy metal contamination and a capacity for accumulating metals within its tissues. On the Iberian Peninsula, this species has colonized habitats with high levels of metal pollution. The aim of this study is to analyze the response of H. portulacoides stem cuttings to this pollution. Growth, photosynthesis and metal uptake were examined in H. portulacoides through an experiment in which stem cuttings were replanted in metal-contaminated soil. This condition decreased growth and lowered both photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance. Reduced photosynthetic performance was largely due to the reduced concentration of photosynthetic pigments. Despite these responses, there was some important evidence suggesting the phytoremediatory potential of Halimione stem cuttings. The results of our study indicate that this salt-marsh shrub may represent a biotool of value in the restoration of polluted areas.
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- L Andrades-Moreno
- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080 Seville, Spain.
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080 Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080 Seville, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, 41080 Seville, Spain
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Kuo HP, Wang Z, Lee DF, Iwasaki M, Duque-Afonso J, Wong SH, Lin CH, Figueroa ME, Su J, Lemischka IR, Cleary ML. Epigenetic roles of MLL oncoproteins are dependent on NF-κB. Cancer Cell 2013; 24:423-37. [PMID: 24054986 PMCID: PMC3816582 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2013] [Revised: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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MLL fusion proteins in leukemia induce aberrant transcriptional elongation and associated chromatin perturbations; however, the upstream signaling pathways and activators that recruit or retain MLL oncoproteins at initiated promoters are unknown. Through functional and comparative genomic studies, we identified an essential role for NF-κB signaling in MLL leukemia. Suppression of NF-κB led to robust antileukemia effects that phenocopied loss of functional MLL oncoprotein or associated epigenetic cofactors. The NF-κB subunit RELA occupies promoter regions of crucial MLL target genes and sustains the MLL-dependent leukemia stem cell program. IKK/NF-κB signaling is required for wild-type and fusion MLL protein retention and maintenance of associated histone modifications, providing a molecular rationale for enhanced efficacy in therapeutic targeting of this pathway in MLL leukemias.
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- Hsu-Ping Kuo
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Correspondence: , Ph: 650-723-5471, Fax: 650-498-6222
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