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Hwang GH, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Seo HS, Dhe-Paganon S, Stopka SA, DiPiazza M, Sutter N, Gero TW, Volkert A, Ombelets L, Dittemore G, Rees MG, Ronan MM, Roth JA, Agar NYR, Scott DA, Segal RA. A Benzarone Derivative Inhibits EYA to Suppress Tumor Growth in SHH Medulloblastoma. Cancer Res 2024; 84:872-886. [PMID: 38486486 PMCID: PMC10948029 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-22-3784] [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: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
Abstract
Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant brain tumors of children, and 30% of medulloblastomas are driven by gain-of-function genetic lesions in the Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling pathway. EYA1, a haloacid dehalogenase phosphatase and transcription factor, is critical for tumorigenesis and proliferation of SHH medulloblastoma (SHH-MB). Benzarone and benzbromarone have been identified as allosteric inhibitors of EYA proteins. Using benzarone as a point of departure, we developed a panel of 35 derivatives and tested them in SHH-MB. Among these compounds, DS-1-38 functioned as an EYA antagonist and opposed SHH signaling. DS-1-38 inhibited SHH-MB growth in vitro and in vivo, showed excellent brain penetrance, and increased the lifespan of genetically engineered mice predisposed to fatal SHH-MB. These data suggest that EYA inhibitors represent promising therapies for pediatric SHH-MB. SIGNIFICANCE Development of a benzarone derivative that inhibits EYA1 and impedes the growth of SHH medulloblastoma provides an avenue for improving treatment of this malignant pediatric brain cancer.
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Affiliation(s)
- Grace H. Hwang
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Kulanui St, HI, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Gold MP, Ong W, Masteller AM, Ghasemi DR, Galindo JA, Park NR, Huynh NC, Donde A, Pister V, Saurez RA, Vladoiu MC, Hwang GH, Eisemann T, Donovan LK, Walker AD, Benetatos J, Dufour C, Garzia L, Segal RA, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Mesirov JP, Korshunov A, Pajtler KW, Pomeroy SL, Ayrault O, Davidson SM, Cotter JA, Taylor MD, Fraenkel E. Developmental basis of SHH medulloblastoma heterogeneity. Nat Commun 2024; 15:270. [PMID: 38191555 PMCID: PMC10774283 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44300-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Many genes that drive normal cellular development also contribute to oncogenesis. Medulloblastoma (MB) tumors likely arise from neuronal progenitors in the cerebellum, and we hypothesized that the heterogeneity observed in MBs with sonic hedgehog (SHH) activation could be due to differences in developmental pathways. To investigate this question, here we perform single-nucleus RNA sequencing on highly differentiated SHH MBs with extensively nodular histology and observed malignant cells resembling each stage of canonical granule neuron development. Through innovative computational approaches, we connect these results to published datasets and find that some established molecular subtypes of SHH MB appear arrested at different developmental stages. Additionally, using multiplexed proteomic imaging and MALDI imaging mass spectrometry, we identify distinct histological and metabolic profiles for highly differentiated tumors. Our approaches are applicable to understanding the interplay between heterogeneity and differentiation in other cancers and can provide important insights for the design of targeted therapies.
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Grants
- R35 NS122339 NINDS NIH HHS
- U01 CA253547 NCI NIH HHS
- U24 CA220341 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 NS089076 NINDS NIH HHS
- R01 CA255369 NCI NIH HHS
- P50 HD105351 NICHD NIH HHS
- R01 NS106155 NINDS NIH HHS
- R01 CA159859 NCI NIH HHS
- P30 CA014089 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 CA184898 NCI NIH HHS
- EIF | Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)
- The Pediatric Brain Tumour Foundation, The Terry Fox Research Institute, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, The Cure Search Foundation, Matthew Larson Foundation (IronMatt), b.r.a.i.n.child, Meagan’s Walk, SWIFTY Foundation, The Brain Tumour Charity, Genome Canada, Genome BC, Genome Quebec, the Ontario Research Fund, Worldwide Cancer Research, V-Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research through funding provided by the Government of Ontario, Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute Impact grant, a Cancer Research UK Brain Tumour Award, and the Garron Family Chair in Childhood Cancer Research at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. We also thank Yoon-Jae Cho, John Michaels, Koei Chin, Joe Gray, Connie New, and Ali Abdullatif for their help with the manuscript. Additionally, we appreciate support from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Translational Pathology Core (P30CA014089), the Pediatric Research Biorepository at CHLA, and the Histology Core at the Koch Institute at MIT.
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- Maxwell P Gold
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Hopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- INSERM U981, Molecular Predictors and New Targets in Oncology, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Cancer Research Program, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- MUHC Research Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Hopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology (B300), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Neuropathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology, and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR, INSERM, Orsay, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 3347, INSERM U1021, Orsay, France
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Texas Children's Cancer Center, Hematology-Oncology Section, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology and Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Akula SK, Marciano JH, Lim Y, Exposito-Alonso D, Hylton NK, Hwang GH, Neil JE, Dominado N, Bunton-Stasyshyn RK, Song JHT, Talukdar M, Schmid A, Teboul L, Mo A, Shin T, Finander B, Beck SG, Yeh RC, Otani A, Qian X, DeGennaro EM, Alkuraya FS, Maddirevula S, Cascino GD, Giannini C, Burrage LC, Rosenfield JA, Ketkar S, Clark GD, Bacino C, Lewis RA, Segal RA, Bazan JF, Smith KA, Golden JA, Cho G, Walsh CA. TMEM161B regulates cerebral cortical gyration, Sonic Hedgehog signaling, and ciliary structure in the developing central nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2209964120. [PMID: 36669111 PMCID: PMC9942790 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209964120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Sonic hedgehog signaling regulates processes of embryonic development across multiple tissues, yet factors regulating context-specific Shh signaling remain poorly understood. Exome sequencing of families with polymicrogyria (disordered cortical folding) revealed multiple individuals with biallelic deleterious variants in TMEM161B, which encodes a multi-pass transmembrane protein of unknown function. Tmem161b null mice demonstrated holoprosencephaly, craniofacial midline defects, eye defects, and spinal cord patterning changes consistent with impaired Shh signaling, but were without limb defects, suggesting a CNS-specific role of Tmem161b. Tmem161b depletion impaired the response to Smoothened activation in vitro and disrupted cortical histogenesis in vivo in both mouse and ferret models, including leading to abnormal gyration in the ferret model. Tmem161b localizes non-exclusively to the primary cilium, and scanning electron microscopy revealed shortened, dysmorphic, and ballooned ventricular zone cilia in the Tmem161b null mouse, suggesting that the Shh-related phenotypes may reflect ciliary dysfunction. Our data identify TMEM161B as a regulator of cerebral cortical gyration, as involved in primary ciliary structure, as a regulator of Shh signaling, and further implicate Shh signaling in human gyral development.
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- Shyam K. Akula
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology MD/PhD Program, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA90048
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology MD/PhD Program, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Anatomy & Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC3010, Australia
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology MD/PhD Program, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Physics/Electron Microscopy Core, Northeastern University, Boston, MA02115
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- Mary Lyon Centre, United Kingdom Medical Research Council Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire,OX11 0RD, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, 11564 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, 11564 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN55905
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Departments of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
- Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX77030
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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- Unit for Structural Biology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, 9052Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Anatomy & Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC3010, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA90048
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA90048
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA02115
- Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology MD/PhD Program, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115
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Segal RA. Let's be more careful about the data-and commentary-we publish. J Fam Pract 2022; 71:87. [PMID: 35507812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Li Y, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Avizonis D, de Sá Tavares Russo M, Tang S, Chen CY, Hsueh YP, Bergholz JS, Jiang T, Zhao JJ, Zhu J, Ko KW, Milbrandt J, DiAntonio A, Segal RA. Sarm1 activation produces cADPR to increase intra-axonal Ca++ and promote axon degeneration in PIPN. J Cell Biol 2022; 221:e202106080. [PMID: 34935867 PMCID: PMC8704956 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202106080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [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: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Cancer patients frequently develop chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), a painful and long-lasting disorder with profound somatosensory deficits. There are no effective therapies to prevent or treat this disorder. Pathologically, CIPN is characterized by a "dying-back" axonopathy that begins at intra-epidermal nerve terminals of sensory neurons and progresses in a retrograde fashion. Calcium dysregulation constitutes a critical event in CIPN, but it is not known how chemotherapies such as paclitaxel alter intra-axonal calcium and cause degeneration. Here, we demonstrate that paclitaxel triggers Sarm1-dependent cADPR production in distal axons, promoting intra-axonal calcium flux from both intracellular and extracellular calcium stores. Genetic or pharmacologic antagonists of cADPR signaling prevent paclitaxel-induced axon degeneration and allodynia symptoms, without mitigating the anti-neoplastic efficacy of paclitaxel. Our data demonstrate that cADPR is a calcium-modulating factor that promotes paclitaxel-induced axon degeneration and suggest that targeting cADPR signaling provides a potential therapeutic approach for treating paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy (PIPN).
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- Yihang Li
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Metabolomics Innovation Resource, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Metabolomics Innovation Resource, Goodman Cancer Research Centre, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
- Needleman Center for Neurometabolism and Axonal Therapeutics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
- Needleman Center for Neurometabolism and Axonal Therapeutics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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Rota CM, Brown AT, Addleson E, Ives C, Trumper E, Pelton K, Teh WP, Schniederjan MJ, Castellino RC, Buhrlage S, Lauffenburger DA, Ligon KL, Griffith LG, Segal RA. Synthetic extracellular matrices and astrocytes provide a supportive microenvironment for the cultivation and investigation of primary pediatric gliomas. Neurooncol Adv 2022; 4:vdac049. [PMID: 35669012 PMCID: PMC9159660 DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdac049] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Pediatric gliomas comprise a diverse set of brain tumor entities that have substantial long-term ramifications for patient survival and quality of life. However, the study of these tumors is currently limited due to a lack of authentic models. Additionally, many aspects of pediatric brain tumor biology, such as tumor cell invasiveness, have been difficult to study with currently available tools. To address these issues, we developed a synthetic extracellular matrix (sECM)-based culture system to grow and study primary pediatric brain tumor cells. Methods We developed a brain-like sECM material as a supportive scaffold for the culture of primary, patient-derived pediatric glioma cells and established patient-derived cell lines. Primary juvenile brainstem-derived murine astrocytes were used as a feeder layer to support the growth of primary human tumor cells. Results We found that our culture system facilitated the proliferation of various primary pediatric brain tumors, including low-grade gliomas, and enabled ex vivo testing of investigational therapeutics. Additionally, we found that tuning this sECM material allowed us to assess high-grade pediatric glioma cell invasion and evaluate therapeutic interventions targeting invasive behavior. Conclusion Our sECM culture platform provides a multipurpose tool for pediatric brain tumor researchers that enables both a wide breadth of biological assays and the cultivation of diverse tumor types.
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- Christopher M Rota
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Zats LP, Ahmad L, Casden N, Lee MJ, Belzer V, Adato O, Bar Cohen S, Ko SHB, Filbin MG, Unger R, Lauffenburger DA, Segal RA, Behar O. An affinity for brainstem microglia in pediatric high-grade gliomas of brainstem origin. Neurooncol Adv 2022; 4:vdac117. [PMID: 35990702 PMCID: PMC9389428 DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdac117] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background High-grade gliomas (HGG) in children have a devastating prognosis and occur in a remarkable spatiotemporal pattern. Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG), typically occur in mid-childhood, while cortical HGGs are more frequent in older children and adults. The mechanisms behind this pattern are not clear. Methods We used mouse organotypic slice cultures and glial cell cultures to test the impact of the microenvironment on human DIPG cells. Comparing the expression between brainstem and cortical microglia identified differentially expressed secreted proteins. The impact of some of these proteins on DIPGs was tested. Results DIPGs, pediatric HGGs of brainstem origin, survive and divide more in organotypic slice cultures originating in the brainstem as compared to the cortex. Moreover, brainstem microglia are better able to support tumors of brainstem origin. A comparison between the two microglial populations revealed differentially expressed genes. One such gene, interleukin-33 (IL33), is highly expressed in the pons of young mice and its DIPG receptor is upregulated in this context. Consistent with this observation, the expression levels of IL33 and its receptor, IL1RL1, are higher in DIPG biopsies compared to low-grade cortical gliomas. Furthermore, IL33 can enhance proliferation and clonability of HGGs of brainstem origin, while blocking IL33 in brainstem organotypic slice cultures reduced the proliferation of these tumor cells. Conclusions Crosstalk between DIPGs and the brainstem microenvironment, in particular microglia, through IL33 and other secreted factors, modulates spatiotemporal patterning of this HGG and could prove to be an important future therapeutic target.
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- Liat Peretz Zats
- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University , Ramat Gan , Israel
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center , Boston, MA
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University , Ramat Gan , Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, MA
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem , Israel
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Tasdemir-Yilmaz OE, Druckenbrod NR, Olukoya OO, Dong W, Yung AR, Bastille I, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Sitko AA, Hale EB, Vigneau S, Gimelbrant AA, Kharchenko PV, Goodrich LV, Segal RA. Diversity of developing peripheral glia revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing. Dev Cell 2021; 56:2516-2535.e8. [PMID: 34469751 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [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: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The peripheral nervous system responds to a wide variety of sensory stimuli, a process that requires great neuronal diversity. These diverse neurons are closely associated with glial cells originating from the neural crest. However, the molecular nature and diversity among peripheral glia are not understood. Here, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to profile developing and mature glia from somatosensory dorsal root ganglia and auditory spiral ganglia. We found that glial precursors (GPs) in these two systems differ in their transcriptional profiles. Despite their unique features, somatosensory and auditory GPs undergo convergent differentiation to generate molecularly uniform myelinating and non-myelinating Schwann cells. By contrast, somatosensory and auditory satellite glial cells retain system-specific features. Lastly, we identified a glial signature gene set, providing new insights into commonalities among glia across the nervous system. This survey of gene expression in peripheral glia constitutes a resource for understanding functions of glia across different sensory modalities.
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- Ozge E Tasdemir-Yilmaz
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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This scientific commentary refers to ‘Paclitaxel increases axonal localization and vesicular trafficking of Nav1.7’ by Akin et al. (doi: 10.1093/brain/awab113).
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- Elizabeth S Silagi
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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H. Hwang G, Scott DA, Segal RA. EPCT-17. DEVELOPING EYA PHOSPHATASE INHIBITORS WITH ON-TARGET EFFECTS IN SHH-MEDULLOBLASTOMA. Neuro Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8168119 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab090.203] [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] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Medulloblastoma, one of the most frequent malignant pediatric brain tumors, encompasses four molecularly and clinically distinct cancers. Sonic hedgehog (SHH)-subtype medulloblastoma constitutes about 30% of medulloblastomas, and therapies targeting the SHH pathway can lead to new highly selective treatment. The haloacid dehalogenase (HAD) phosphatase Eyes Absent 1 (EYA1) is critically involved in the development and progression of SHH-medulloblastoma: Eya1 is highly expressed in SHH-medulloblastomas, and single cell sequencing indicates that Eya1 is a consistent feature that can be detected in every individual cancer cell. Inhibition of EYA1 interrupts SHH pathway signaling. During normal development, EYA1 promotes symmetric division of cerebellar granule cell precursors (GCPs), the cells of origin for SHH-subtype medulloblastoma, and reduced levels of EYA1 decrease medulloblastoma mortality rates in mouse models. Therefore, targeting EYA1 may be a novel therapeutic avenue for these pediatric cancers. Benzarone derivatives have been suggested as allosteric EYA-inhibitors, and benzarone provides a promising platform for chemical derivatives. Here, we develop 60 novel benzarone derivatives and assess their efficacy in inhibiting SHH-medulloblastoma growth through the inhibition of EYA1. Several of the new compounds inhibit EYA1 phosphotyrosine phosphatase activity in a cell-based assay, interrupt SHH pathway, and prevent SHH-medulloblastoma growth in vitro. Our results show that these novel benzarone derivatives are a new promising avenue for developing therapeutics for pediatric SHH-medulloblastoma via inhibition of EYA phosphatases.
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- Grace H. Hwang
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Merk DJ, Zhou P, Cohen SM, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Hwang GH, Rehm KJ, Alfaro J, Reid CM, Zhao X, Park E, Xu PX, Chan JA, Eck MJ, Nazemi KJ, Harwell CC, Segal RA. The Eya1 Phosphatase Mediates Shh-Driven Symmetric Cell Division of Cerebellar Granule Cell Precursors. Dev Neurosci 2021; 42:170-186. [PMID: 33472197 DOI: 10.1159/000512976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
During neural development, stem and precursor cells can divide either symmetrically or asymmetrically. The transition between symmetric and asymmetric cell divisions is a major determinant of precursor cell expansion and neural differentiation, but the underlying mechanisms that regulate this transition are not well understood. Here, we identify the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) pathway as a critical determinant regulating the mode of division of cerebellar granule cell precursors (GCPs). Using partial gain and loss of function mutations within the Shh pathway, we show that pathway activation determines spindle orientation of GCPs, and that mitotic spindle orientation correlates with the mode of division. Mechanistically, we show that the phosphatase Eya1 is essential for implementing Shh-dependent GCP spindle orientation. We identify atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) as a direct target of Eya1 activity and show that Eya1 dephosphorylates a critical threonine (T410) in the activation loop. Thus, Eya1 inactivates aPKC, resulting in reduced phosphorylation of Numb and other components that regulate the mode of division. This Eya1-dependent cascade is critical in linking spindle orientation, cell cycle exit and terminal differentiation. Together these findings demonstrate that a Shh-Eya1 regulatory axis selectively promotes symmetric cell divisions during cerebellar development by coordinating spindle orientation and cell fate determinants.
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- Daniel J Merk
- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurology & Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Hwang GH, Segal RA. An Architect of the Hindbrain: DDX3X Regulates Normal and Malignant Development. Dev Cell 2021; 54:425-426. [PMID: 32841591 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.07.021] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Hallmark mutations in WNT and SHH medulloblastoma are usually distinct, but DDX3X is often mutated in both subgroups. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Patmore et al. identify Ddx3x as essential for hindbrain patterning, cell fate determination, and as a tumor suppressor gene that restricts cell lineage progression in tumorigenesis.
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- Grace H Hwang
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Fukuda Y, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Silagi ES, Tasdemir-Yilmaz OE, Li Y, Rose L, Yeoh ZC, Vangos NE, Geffken EA, Seo HS, Adelmant G, Bird GH, Walensky LD, Marto JA, Dhe-Paganon S, Segal RA. Binding and transport of SFPQ-RNA granules by KIF5A/KLC1 motors promotes axon survival. J Cell Biol 2021; 220:e202005051. [PMID: 33284322 PMCID: PMC7721913 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202005051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [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: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Complex neural circuitry requires stable connections formed by lengthy axons. To maintain these functional circuits, fast transport delivers RNAs to distal axons where they undergo local translation. However, the mechanism that enables long-distance transport of RNA granules is not yet understood. Here, we demonstrate that a complex containing RNA and the RNA-binding protein (RBP) SFPQ interacts selectively with a tetrameric kinesin containing the adaptor KLC1 and the motor KIF5A. We show that the binding of SFPQ to the KIF5A/KLC1 motor complex is required for axon survival and is impacted by KIF5A mutations that cause Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) disease. Moreover, therapeutic approaches that bypass the need for local translation of SFPQ-bound proteins prevent axon degeneration in CMT models. Collectively, these observations indicate that KIF5A-mediated SFPQ-RNA granule transport may be a key function disrupted in KIF5A-linked neurologic diseases and that replacing axonally translated proteins serves as a therapeutic approach to axonal degenerative disorders.
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- Yusuke Fukuda
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Blais Proteomics Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Blais Proteomics Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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Pak E, MacKenzie EL, Zhao X, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Park PMC, Wu L, Shaw DL, Addleson EC, Cayer SS, Lopez BGC, Agar NYR, Rubin LL, Qi J, Merk DJ, Segal RA. A large-scale drug screen identifies selective inhibitors of class I HDACs as a potential therapeutic option for SHH medulloblastoma. Neuro Oncol 2020; 21:1150-1163. [PMID: 31111916 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noz089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [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: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Medulloblastoma (MB) is one of the most frequent malignant brain tumors of children, and a large set of these tumors is characterized by aberrant activation of the sonic hedgehog (SHH) pathway. While some tumors initially respond to inhibition of the SHH pathway component Smoothened (SMO), tumors ultimately recur due to downstream resistance mechanisms, indicating a need for novel therapeutic options. METHODS Here we performed a targeted small-molecule screen on a stable, SHH-dependent murine MB cell line (SMB21). Comprehensive isotype profiling of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors was performed, and effects of HDAC inhibition were evaluated in cell lines both sensitive and resistant to SMO inhibition. Lastly, distinct mouse models of SHH MB were used to demonstrate pharmacologic efficacy in vivo. RESULTS A subset of the HDAC inhibitors tested significantly inhibit tumor growth of SMB21 cells by preventing SHH pathway activation. Isotype profiling of HDAC inhibitors, together with genetic approaches suggested that concerted inhibition of multiple class I HDACs is necessary to achieve pathway inhibition. Of note, class I HDAC inhibitors were also efficacious in suppressing growth of diverse SMO inhibitor‒resistant clones of SMB21 cells. Finally, we show that the novel HDAC inhibitor quisinostat targets multiple class I HDACs, is well tolerated in mouse models, and robustly inhibits growth of SHH MB cells in vivo as well as in vitro. CONCLUSIONS Our data provide strong evidence that quisinostat or other class I HDAC inhibitors might be therapeutically useful for patients with SHH MB, including those resistant to SMO inhibition.
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- Ekaterina Pak
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Cancer Biology and Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Monje M, Borniger JC, D'Silva NJ, Deneen B, Dirks PB, Fattahi F, Frenette PS, Garzia L, Gutmann DH, Hanahan D, Hervey-Jumper SL, Hondermarck H, Hurov JB, Kepecs A, Knox SM, Lloyd AC, Magnon C, Saloman JL, Segal RA, Sloan EK, Sun X, Taylor MD, Tracey KJ, Trotman LC, Tuveson DA, Wang TC, White RA, Winkler F. Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience. Cell 2020; 181:219-222. [PMID: 32302564 PMCID: PMC7286095 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
Mounting evidence indicates that the nervous system plays a central role in cancer pathogenesis. In turn, cancers and cancer therapies can alter nervous system form and function. This Commentary seeks to describe the burgeoning field of "cancer neuroscience" and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration for the study of cancer-nervous system interactions.
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- Michelle Monje
- Departments of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Pediatrics, Pathology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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- Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Center, Departments of Surgery and Molecular Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G1X8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Cancer Research Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center and Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Swiss Cancer Center Leman, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Program in Craniofacial Biology, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- UMR1274 (Equipe Cancer et Microenvironnement-INSERM-CEA), Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale, Paris, France
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- Departments of Medicine and Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Center, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, Departments of Surgery, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and Medical Biophysics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G1X8, Canada
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- The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, DKTK & Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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Dorsey SG, Kleckner IR, Barton D, Mustian K, O'Mara A, St Germain D, Cavaletti G, Danhauer SC, Hershman DL, Hohmann AG, Hoke A, Hopkins JO, Kelly KP, Loprinzi CL, McLeod HL, Mohile S, Paice J, Rowland JH, Salvemini D, Segal RA, Smith EL, Stevens WM, Janelsins MC. The National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Planning Meeting for Prevention and Treatment of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. J Natl Cancer Inst 2020; 111:531-537. [PMID: 30715378 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djz011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 01/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Although recent scientific advances have improved our understanding of basic biological mechanisms underlying chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), few interventions are available to prevent or treat CIPN. Although some biological targets from preclinical studies show promise in nonhuman animal models, few targets have been translated to successful clinical trials. To address this problem, the National Cancer Institute's Symptom Management and Health-Related Quality of Life Steering Committee convened a meeting of experts in the CIPN and oncology symptom management fields to participate in a Clinical Trials Planning Meeting (CTPM). Investigators presented data from preclinical and translational studies for possible CIPN interventions; these were evaluated for readiness of randomized clinical trial testing by experts, and recommendations were provided. Breakout sessions were convened to discuss and develop future studies. The CTPM experts concluded that there is compelling evidence to move forward with selected pharmacological and nonpharmacological clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of CIPN. Several key feasibility issues need to be addressed, however. These include identification of optimal outcome measures to define the CIPN phenotype, establishment of parameters that guide the evaluation of clinically meaningful effects, and adoption of approaches for inclusion of translational and biomarker and/or genetic measures. The results of the CTPM provide support for conducting clinical trials that include both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches, alone or in combination, with biomarkers, genetics, or other measures designed to inform underlying CIPN mechanisms. Several working groups were formed to design rigorous CIPN clinical trials, the results of which are ongoing.
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- Susan G Dorsey
- Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Cancer Control Program, Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, NY
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- University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Cancer Control Program, Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, NY
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- Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, School of Medicine and Surgery, University Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Program in Neuroscience and Gill Center for Biomolecular Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- Children's National Health System, Department of Nursing Science, Professional Practice, and Quality, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC
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- Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Cancer Control Program, Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, NY
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- Hematology-Oncology Division, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Cancer Control Program, Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, NY
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Staff NP, Fehrenbacher JC, Caillaud M, Damaj MI, Segal RA, Rieger S. Pathogenesis of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy: A current review of in vitro and in vivo findings using rodent and human model systems. Exp Neurol 2020; 324:113121. [PMID: 31758983 PMCID: PMC6993945 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2019.113121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Revised: 10/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Paclitaxel (Brand name Taxol) is widely used in the treatment of common cancers like breast, ovarian and lung cancer. Although highly effective in blocking tumor progression, paclitaxel also causes peripheral neuropathy as a side effect in 60-70% of chemotherapy patients. Recent efforts by numerous labs have aimed at defining the underlying mechanisms of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy (PIPN). In vitro models using rodent dorsal root ganglion neurons, human induced pluripotent stem cells, and rodent in vivo models have revealed a number of molecular pathways affected by paclitaxel within axons of sensory neurons and within other cell types, such as the immune system and peripheral glia, as well skin. These studies revealed that paclitaxel induces altered calcium signaling, neuropeptide and growth factor release, mitochondrial damage and reactive oxygen species formation, and can activate ion channels that mediate responses to extracellular cues. Recent studies also suggest a role for the matrix-metalloproteinase 13 (MMP-13) in mediating neuropathy. These diverse changes may be secondary to paclitaxel-induced microtubule transport impairment. Human genetic studies, although still limited, also highlight the involvement of cytoskeletal changes in PIPN. Newly identified molecular targets resulting from these studies could provide the basis for the development of therapies with which to either prevent or reverse paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy in chemotherapy patients.
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- Nathan P Staff
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA.
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Witter MP, Karagogeos D, Van Bockstaele EJ, Segal RA. A transatlantic cooperation for enriched neuroscience training. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 48:1717-1719. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Menno P. Witter
- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)Committee for Higher Education and Training Brussels Belgium
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- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)Committee for Higher Education and Training Brussels Belgium
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- Society for NeuroscienceNeuroscience Training Committee Washington District of Columbia
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Pease-Raissi SE, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Li Y, Wachter F, Fukuda Y, Fenstermacher SJ, Barclay LA, Bird GH, Walensky LD, Segal RA. Paclitaxel Reduces Axonal Bclw to Initiate IP 3R1-Dependent Axon Degeneration. Neuron 2017; 96:373-386.e6. [PMID: 29024661 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Abstract
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a debilitating side effect of many cancer treatments. The hallmark of CIPN is degeneration of long axons required for transmission of sensory information; axonal degeneration causes impaired tactile sensation and persistent pain. Currently the molecular mechanisms of CIPN are not understood, and there are no available treatments. Here we show that the chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel triggers CIPN by altering IP3 receptor phosphorylation and intracellular calcium flux, and activating calcium-dependent calpain proteases. Concomitantly paclitaxel impairs axonal trafficking of RNA-granules and reduces synthesis of Bclw (bcl2l2), a Bcl2 family member that binds IP3R1 and restrains axon degeneration. Surprisingly, Bclw or a stapled peptide corresponding to the Bclw BH4 domain interact with axonal IP3R1 and prevent paclitaxel-induced degeneration, while Bcl2 and BclxL cannot do so. Together these data identify a Bclw-IP3R1-dependent cascade that causes axon degeneration and suggest that Bclw-mimetics could provide effective therapy to prevent CIPN.
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- Sarah E Pease-Raissi
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Linde Program in Cancer Chemical Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Zhao X, Pak E, Ornell KJ, Pazyra-Murphy MF, MacKenzie EL, Chadwick EJ, Ponomaryov T, Kelleher JF, Segal RA. A Transposon Screen Identifies Loss of Primary Cilia as a Mechanism of Resistance to SMO Inhibitors. Cancer Discov 2017; 7:1436-1449. [DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-17-0281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2017] [Revised: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Fukuda Y, Li Y, Segal RA. A Mechanistic Understanding of Axon Degeneration in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:481. [PMID: 28912674 PMCID: PMC5583221 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Chemotherapeutic agents cause many short and long term toxic side effects to peripheral nervous system (PNS) that drastically alter quality of life. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and enduring disorder caused by several anti-neoplastic agents. CIPN typically presents with neuropathic pain, numbness of distal extremities, and/or oversensitivity to thermal or mechanical stimuli. This adverse side effect often requires a reduction in chemotherapy dosage or even discontinuation of treatment. Currently there are no effective treatment options for CIPN. While the underlying mechanisms for CIPN are not understood, current data identify a “dying back” axon degeneration of distal nerve endings as the major pathology in this disorder. Therefore, mechanistic understanding of axon degeneration will provide insights into the pathway and molecular players responsible for CIPN. Here, we review recent findings that expand our understanding of the pathogenesis of CIPN and discuss pathways that may be shared with the axonal degeneration that occurs during developmental axon pruning and during injury-induced Wallerian degeneration. These mechanistic insights provide new avenues for development of therapies to prevent or treat CIPN.
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- Yusuke Fukuda
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical SchoolBoston, MA, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA, United States
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The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway governs complex developmental processes, including proliferation and patterning within diverse tissues. These activities rely on a tightly regulated transduction system that converts graded Hh input signals into specific levels of pathway activity. Uncontrolled activation of Hh signaling drives tumor initiation and maintenance. However, recent entry of pathway-specific inhibitors into the clinic reveals mixed patient responses and thus prompts further exploration of pathway activation and inhibition. In this review, we share emerging insights into regulated and oncogenic Hh signaling, supplemented with updates on the development and use of Hh pathway-targeted therapies.
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- Ekaterina Pak
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Sun Y, Alberta JA, Pilarz C, Calligaris D, Chadwick EJ, Ramkissoon SH, Ramkissoon LA, Garcia VM, Mazzola E, Goumnerova L, Kane M, Yao Z, Kieran MW, Ligon KL, Hahn WC, Garraway LA, Rosen N, Gray NS, Agar NY, Buhrlage SJ, Segal RA, Stiles CD. A brain-penetrant RAF dimer antagonist for the noncanonical BRAF oncoprotein of pediatric low-grade astrocytomas. Neuro Oncol 2017; 19:774-785. [PMID: 28082416 PMCID: PMC5464455 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Activating mutations or structural rearrangements in BRAF are identified in roughly 75% of all pediatric low-grade astrocytomas (PLGAs). However, first-generation RAF inhibitors approved for adult melanoma have poor blood-brain penetrance and are only effective on tumors that express the canonical BRAFV600E oncoprotein, which functions as a monomer. These drugs (type I antagonists that target the "DFG-in" conformation of the kinase) fail to block signaling via KIAA1549:BRAF, a truncation/fusion BRAF oncoprotein which functions as a dimer and is found in the most common form of PLGA. Methods A panel of small molecule RAF inhibitors (including type II inhibitors, targeting the "DFG-out" conformation of the kinase) was screened for drugs showing efficacy on murine models of PLGA and on authentic human PLGA cells expressing KIAA1549:BRAF. Results We identify a type II RAF inhibitor that serves as an equipotent antagonist of BRAFV600E, KIAA1549:BRAF, and other noncanonical BRAF oncoproteins that function as dimers. This drug (MLN2480, also known as TAK-580) has good brain penetrance and is active on authentic human PLGA cells in brain organotypic cultures. Conclusion MLN2480 may be an effective therapeutic for BRAF mutant pediatric astrocytomas.
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- Yu Sun
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, and Center for Mechanism Based Therapeutics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, and Center for Mechanism Based Therapeutics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Ni J, Xie S, Ramkissoon SH, Luu V, Sun Y, Bandopadhayay P, Beroukhim R, Roberts TM, Stiles CD, Segal RA, Ligon KL, Hahn WC, Zhao JJ. Tyrosine receptor kinase B is a drug target in astrocytomas. Neuro Oncol 2016; 19:22-30. [PMID: 27402815 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Astrocytomas are the most common primary human brain tumors. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), including tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB, also known as tropomyosin-related kinase B; encoded by neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor type 2 [NTRK2]), are frequently mutated by rearrangement/fusion in high-grade and low-grade astrocytomas. We found that activated TrkB can contribute to the development of astrocytoma and might serve as a therapeutic target in this tumor type. METHODS To identify RTKs capable of inducing astrocytoma formation, a library of human tyrosine kinases was screened for the ability to transform murine Ink4a-/-/Arf-/- astrocytes. Orthotopic allograft studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of RTKs on the development of astrocytoma. Since TrkB was identified as a driver of astrocytoma formation, the effect of the Trk inhibitors AZD1480 and RXDX-101 was assessed in astrocytoma cells expressing activated TrkB. RNA sequencing, real-time PCR, western blotting, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays were conducted to characterize NTRK2 in astrocytomas. RESULTS Activated TrkB cooperated with Ink4a/Arf loss to induce the formation of astrocytomas through a mechanism mediated by activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3). TrkB activation positively correlated with Ccl2 expression. TrkB-induced astrocytomas remained dependent on TrkB signaling for survival, highlighting a role of NTRK2 as an addictive oncogene. Furthermore, the QKI-NTRK2 fusion associated with human astrocytoma transformed Ink4a-/-/Arf-/- astrocytes, and this process was also mediated via STAT3 signaling. CONCLUSIONS Our findings provide evidence that constitutively activated NTRK2 alleles, notably the human tumor-associated QKI-NTRK2 fusion, can cooperate with Ink4a/Arf loss to drive astrocytoma formation. Therefore, we propose NTRK2 as a potential therapeutic target in the subset of astrocytoma patients defined by QKI-NTRK2 fusion.
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- Jing Ni
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., Y.S., P.B., R.B., T.M.R., C.D.S., R.A.S., J.J.Z.); Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (J.N., S.X., V.L., T.M.R., J.J.Z.); Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., R.B., K.L.L., W.C.H.); Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (P.B., R.B., W.C.H.); Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (S.H.R., K.L.L.); Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.L.)
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Kieran MW, Sun Y, Pilarz C, Calligaris D, Chadwick EJ, Alberta JA, Ramkissoon SH, Ramkissoon LA, Garcia VM, Wilkinson K, Kane M, Goumnerova L, Chi SN, Manley P, Wright KD, Agar NY, Ligon KL, Beroukhim R, Bandopadhayay P, Kannan G, Segal RA, Garraway LA, Gray NS, Eck M, Stiles CD, Buhrlage SJ. LG-47TYPE II RAF INHIBITORS INHIBIT BRAF MUTATIONS AND TRUNCATED FUSIONS IN PEDIATRIC LOW-GRADE GLIOMAS. Neuro Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now075.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cosker KE, Fenstermacher SJ, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Elliott HL, Segal RA. The RNA-binding protein SFPQ orchestrates an RNA regulon to promote axon viability. Nat Neurosci 2016; 19:690-696. [PMID: 27019013 PMCID: PMC5505173 DOI: 10.1038/nn.4280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [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: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
To achieve accurate spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) guide nuclear processing, intracellular trafficking and local translation of target mRNAs. In neurons, RBPs direct transport of target mRNAs to sites of translation in remote axons and dendrites. However, it is not known whether an individual RBP coordinately regulates multiple mRNAs within these morphologically complex cells. Here we identify SFPQ (splicing factor, poly-glutamine rich) as an RBP that binds and regulates multiple mRNAs in dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons and thereby promotes neurotrophin-dependent axonal viability. SFPQ acts in nuclei, cytoplasm and axons to regulate functionally related mRNAs essential for axon survival. Notably, SFPQ is required for coassembly of LaminB2 (Lmnb2) and Bclw (Bcl2l2) mRNAs in RNA granules and for axonal trafficking of these mRNAs. Together these data demonstrate that SFPQ orchestrates spatial gene expression of a newly identified RNA regulon essential for axonal viability.
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- Katharina E Cosker
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer
Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer
Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer
Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA 02215, USA
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- Image and Data Analysis Core, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115,
USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cancer
Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA 02215, USA
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- Rosalind A. Segal
- Rosalind A. Segal is a neurobiology professor at Harvard Medical School and co-chair of cancer biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Send your story to
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Chadwick EJ, Yang DP, Filbin MG, Mazzola E, Sun Y, Behar O, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Goumnerova L, Ligon KL, Stiles CD, Segal RA. A Brain Tumor/Organotypic Slice Co-culture System for Studying Tumor Microenvironment and Targeted Drug Therapies. J Vis Exp 2015:e53304. [PMID: 26575352 DOI: 10.3791/53304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain tumors are a major cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Developing new therapeutics for these cancers is difficult, as many of these tumors are not easily grown in standard culture conditions. Neurosphere cultures under serum-free conditions and orthotopic xenografts have expanded the range of tumors that can be maintained. However, many types of brain tumors remain difficult to propagate or study. This is particularly true for pediatric brain tumors such as pilocytic astrocytomas and medulloblastomas. This protocol describes a system that allows primary human brain tumors to be grown in culture. This quantitative assay can be used to investigate the effect of microenvironment on tumor growth, and to test new drug therapies. This protocol describes a system where fluorescently labeled brain tumor cells are grown on an organotypic brain slice from a juvenile mouse. The response of tumor cells to drug treatments can be studied in this assay, by analyzing changes in the number of cells on the slice over time. In addition, this system can address the nature of the microenvironment that normally fosters growth of brain tumors. This brain tumor organotypic slice co-culture assay provides a propitious system for testing new drugs on human tumor cells within a brain microenvironment.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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- Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Balastik M, Zhou XZ, Alberich-Jorda M, Weissova R, Žiak J, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Cosker KE, Machonova O, Kozmikova I, Chen CH, Pastorino L, Asara JM, Cole A, Sutherland C, Segal RA, Lu KP. Prolyl Isomerase Pin1 Regulates Axon Guidance by Stabilizing CRMP2A Selectively in Distal Axons. Cell Rep 2015; 13:812-828. [PMID: 26489457 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Revised: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Axon guidance relies on precise translation of extracellular signal gradients into local changes in cytoskeletal dynamics, but the molecular mechanisms regulating dose-dependent responses of growth cones are still poorly understood. Here, we show that during embryonic development in growing axons, a low level of Semaphorin3A stimulation is buffered by the prolyl isomerase Pin1. We demonstrate that Pin1 stabilizes CDK5-phosphorylated CRMP2A, the major isoform of CRMP2 in distal axons. Consequently, Pin1 knockdown or knockout reduces CRMP2A levels specifically in distal axons and inhibits axon growth, which can be fully rescued by Pin1 or CRMP2A expression. Moreover, Pin1 knockdown or knockout increases sensitivity to Sema3A-induced growth cone collapse in vitro and in vivo, leading to developmental abnormalities in axon guidance. These results identify an important isoform-specific function and regulation of CRMP2A in controlling axon growth and uncover Pin1-catalyzed prolyl isomerization as a regulatory mechanism in axon guidance.
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- Martin Balastik
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic; Institute of Physiology, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic; Institute of Physiology, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic; Institute of Physiology, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Vídeňská 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK
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- Biomedical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, CLS 0408, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Institute for Translational Medicine, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350108, China.
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Zhao X, Segal RA. A Polyamine Twist on Hedgehog Signaling. Dev Cell 2015; 35:1-2. [PMID: 26460938 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.09.024] [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: 10/22/2022]
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The Hedgehog pathway plays important roles in embryonic development and oncogenesis, but how it affects metabolism is less clear. D'Amico et al. (2015) now demonstrate that the Hedgehog pathway regulates translation of ornithine decarboxylase, thereby enhancing polyamine biosynthesis and cell proliferation in neural precursor cells and in brain tumors.
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- Xuesong Zhao
- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Filbin MG, Segal RA. How neuronal activity regulates glioma cell proliferation. Neuro Oncol 2015; 17:1543-4. [PMID: 26359210 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Mariella G Filbin
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (M.G.F., R.A.S.)
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts (M.G.F., R.A.S.)
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Zhao X, Ponomaryov T, Ornell KJ, Zhou P, Dabral SK, Pak E, Li W, Atwood SX, Whitson RJ, Chang ALS, Li J, Oro AE, Chan JA, Kelleher JF, Segal RA. RAS/MAPK Activation Drives Resistance to Smo Inhibition, Metastasis, and Tumor Evolution in Shh Pathway-Dependent Tumors. Cancer Res 2015; 75:3623-35. [PMID: 26130651 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-14-2999-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aberrant Shh signaling promotes tumor growth in diverse cancers. The importance of Shh signaling is particularly evident in medulloblastoma and basal cell carcinoma (BCC), where inhibitors targeting the Shh pathway component Smoothened (Smo) show great therapeutic promise. However, the emergence of drug resistance limits long-term efficacy, and the mechanisms of resistance remain poorly understood. Using new medulloblastoma models, we identify two distinct paradigms of resistance to Smo inhibition. Sufu mutations lead to maintenance of the Shh pathway in the presence of Smo inhibitors. Alternatively activation of the RAS-MAPK pathway circumvents Shh pathway dependency, drives tumor growth, and enhances metastatic behavior. Strikingly, in BCC patients treated with Smo inhibitor, squamous cell cancers with RAS/MAPK activation emerged from the antecedent BCC tumors. Together, these findings reveal a critical role of the RAS-MAPK pathway in drug resistance and tumor evolution of Shh pathway-dependent tumors.
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- Xuesong Zhao
- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. University of Birmingham, Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Eisner A, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Durresi E, Zhou P, Zhao X, Chadwick EC, Xu PX, Hillman RT, Scott MP, Greenberg ME, Segal RA. The Eya1 phosphatase promotes Shh signaling during hindbrain development and oncogenesis. Dev Cell 2015; 33:22-35. [PMID: 25816987 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.01.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Revised: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling is critical in development and oncogenesis, but the mechanisms regulating this pathway remain unclear. Although protein phosphorylation clearly affects Shh signaling, little is known about phosphatases governing the pathway. Here, we conducted a small hairpin RNA (shRNA) screen of the phosphatome and identified Eya1 as a positive regulator of Shh signaling. We find that the catalytically active phosphatase Eya1 cooperates with the DNA-binding protein Six1 to promote gene induction in response to Shh and that Eya1/Six1 together regulate Gli transcriptional activators. We show that Eya1, which is mutated in a human deafness disorder, branchio-oto-renal syndrome, is critical for Shh-dependent hindbrain growth and development. Moreover, Eya1 drives the growth of medulloblastoma, a Shh-dependent hindbrain tumor. Together, these results identify Eya1 and Six1 as key components of the Shh transcriptional network in normal development and in oncogenesis.
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- Adriana Eisner
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA
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- Departments of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5439, USA
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- Departments of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5439, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Pease SE, Segal RA. Preserve and protect: maintaining axons within functional circuits. Trends Neurosci 2014; 37:572-82. [PMID: 25167775 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 06/18/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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During development, neural circuits are initially generated by exuberant innervation and are rapidly refined by selective preservation and elimination of axons. The establishment and maintenance of functional circuits therefore requires coordination of axon survival and degeneration pathways. Both developing and mature circuits rely on interdependent mitochondrial and cytoskeletal components to maintain axonal health and homeostasis; injury or diseases that impinge on these components frequently cause pathologic axon loss. Here, we review recent findings that identify mechanisms of axonal preservation in the contexts of development, injury, and disease.
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- Sarah E Pease
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Persson L, Witt RM, Galligan M, Greer PL, Eisner A, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Datta SR, Segal RA. Shh-proteoglycan interactions regulate maturation of olfactory glomerular circuitry. Dev Neurobiol 2014; 74:1255-67. [PMID: 24913191 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The olfactory system relies on precise circuitry connecting olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) and appropriate relay and processing neurons of the olfactory bulb (OB). In mammals, the exact correspondence between specific olfactory receptor types and individual glomeruli enables a spatially precise map of glomerular activation that corresponds to distinct odors. However, the mechanisms that govern the establishment and maintenance of the glomerular circuitry are largely unknown. Here we show that high levels of Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling at multiple sites enable refinement and maintenance of olfactory glomerular circuitry. Mice expressing a mutant version of Shh (Shh(Ala/Ala)), with impaired binding to proteoglycan co-receptors, exhibit disproportionately small olfactory bulbs containing fewer glomeruli. Notably, in mutant animals the correspondence between individual glomeruli and specific olfactory receptors is lost, as olfactory sensory neurons expressing different olfactory receptors converge on the same glomeruli. These deficits arise at late stages in post-natal development and continue into adulthood, indicating impaired pruning of erroneous connections within the olfactory bulb. In addition, mature Shh(Ala/Ala) mice exhibit decreased proliferation in the subventricular zone (SVZ), with particular reduction in neurogenesis of calbindin-expressing periglomerular cells. Thus, Shh interactions with proteoglycan co-receptors function at multiple locations to regulate neurogenesis and precise olfactory connectivity, thereby promoting functional neuronal circuitry.
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- Laura Persson
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Bergthold G, Bandopadhayay P, Bi WL, Ramkissoon L, Stiles C, Segal RA, Beroukhim R, Ligon KL, Grill J, Kieran MW. Pediatric low-grade gliomas: how modern biology reshapes the clinical field. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2014; 1845:294-307. [PMID: 24589977 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2014.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Low-grade gliomas represent the most frequent brain tumors arising during childhood. They are characterized by a broad and heterogeneous group of tumors that are currently classified by the WHO according to their morphological appearance. Here we review the clinical features of these tumors, current therapeutic strategies and the recent discovery of genomic alterations characteristic to these tumors. We further explore how these recent biological findings stand to transform the treatment for these tumors and impact the diagnostic criteria for pediatric low-grade gliomas.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departement de Cancerologie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, Gustave Roussy and Unité Mixte de Recherche 8203 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
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- Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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The distinctive morphology of neurons, with complex dendritic arbors and extensive axons, presents spatial challenges for intracellular signal transduction. The endosomal system provides mechanisms that enable signaling molecules initiated by extracellular cues to be trafficked throughout the expanse of the neuron, allowing intracellular signals to be sustained over long distances. Therefore endosomes are critical for many aspects of neuronal signaling that regulate cell survival, axonal growth and guidance, dendritic branching, and cell migration. An intriguing characteristic of neuronal signal transduction is that endosomal trafficking enables physiological responses that vary based on the subcellular location of signal initiation. In this review, we will discuss the specialized mechanisms and the functional significance of endosomal signaling in neurons, both during normal development and in disease.
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- Katharina E Cosker
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Pak E, Segal RA, Stiles CD. New progenitors NESTIN(g) in the EGL. Nat Neurosci 2013; 16:1710-2. [PMID: 24270268 DOI: 10.1038/nn.3580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Ekaterina Pak
- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Filbin MG, Dabral SK, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Ramkissoon S, Kung AL, Pak E, Chung J, Theisen MA, Sun Y, Franchetti Y, Sun Y, Shulman DS, Redjal N, Tabak B, Beroukhim R, Wang Q, Zhao J, Dorsch M, Buonamici S, Ligon KL, Kelleher JF, Segal RA. Coordinate activation of Shh and PI3K signaling in PTEN-deficient glioblastoma: new therapeutic opportunities. Nat Med 2013; 19:1518-23. [PMID: 24076665 DOI: 10.1038/nm.3328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2013] [Accepted: 08/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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In glioblastoma, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling is frequently activated by loss of the tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN). However, it is not known whether inhibiting PI3K represents a selective and effective approach for treatment. We interrogated large databases and found that sonic hedgehog (SHH) signaling is activated in PTEN-deficient glioblastoma. We demonstrate that the SHH and PI3K pathways synergize to promote tumor growth and viability in human PTEN-deficient glioblastomas. A combination of PI3K and SHH signaling inhibitors not only suppressed the activation of both pathways but also abrogated S6 kinase (S6K) signaling. Accordingly, targeting both pathways simultaneously resulted in mitotic catastrophe and tumor apoptosis and markedly reduced the growth of PTEN-deficient glioblastomas in vitro and in vivo. The drugs tested here appear to be safe in humans; therefore, this combination may provide a new targeted treatment for glioblastoma.
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- Mariella Gruber Filbin
- 1] Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [3] Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [4] Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Witt RM, Hecht ML, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Cohen SM, Noti C, van Kuppevelt TH, Fuller M, Chan JA, Hopwood JJ, Seeberger PH, Segal RA. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans containing a glypican 5 core and 2-O-sulfo-iduronic acid function as Sonic Hedgehog co-receptors to promote proliferation. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:26275-26288. [PMID: 23867465 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.438937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling is crucial for growth, cell fate determination, and axonal guidance in the developing nervous system. Although the receptors Patched (Ptch1) and Smoothened (Smo) are required for Shh signaling, a number of distinct co-receptors contribute to these critical responses to Shh. Several membrane-embedded proteins such as Boc, Cdo, and Gas1 bind Shh and promote signaling. In addition, heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) have also been implicated in the initiation of Shh responses. However, the attributes of HSPGs that function as co-receptors for Shh have not yet been defined. Here, we identify HSPGs containing a glypican 5 core protein and 2-O-sulfo-iduronic acid residues at the nonreducing ends of the glycans as co-receptors for Shh. These HSPG co-receptors are expressed by cerebellar granule cell precursors and promote Shh binding and signaling. At the subcellular level, these HSPG co-receptors are located adjacent to the primary cilia that act as Shh signaling organelles. Thus, Shh binds to HSPG co-receptors containing a glypican 5 core and 2-O-sulfo-iduronic acid to promote neural precursor proliferation.
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- Rochelle M Witt
- From the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,; the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1,14476 Potsdam, Germany,; the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str.10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- From the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,; the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- From the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,; the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str.10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- the Department of Biochemistry, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, P. O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit, SA Pathology at Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
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- the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada, and
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- the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit, SA Pathology at Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King William Road, North Adelaide, South Australia 5006, Australia
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- the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg 1,14476 Potsdam, Germany,; the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- From the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,; the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,.
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Zhou P, Alfaro J, Chang EH, Zhao X, Porcionatto M, Segal RA. Numb links extracellular cues to intracellular polarity machinery to promote chemotaxis. Dev Cell 2011; 20:610-22. [PMID: 21571219 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [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: 08/29/2010] [Revised: 02/17/2011] [Accepted: 04/12/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Cell polarization is essential throughout development for proliferation, migration, and differentiation. However, it is not known how extracellular cues correctly orient cell polarity at distinct stages of development. Here, we show that the endocytic adaptor protein Numb, previously characterized for its role in cell proliferation, subsequently plays an important role in cell migration. In neural precursors stimulated with the chemotactic factor BDNF, Numb binds to activated TrkB, the BDNF receptor, and functions both as an endocytic regulator for TrkB and as a scaffold for aPKC (aPKC). Thus, Numb promotes BDNF-dependent aPKC activation. Interestingly, Numb is also a substrate of aPKC. When phosphorylated, Numb exhibits increased efficacy in binding TrkB and in promoting a chemotactic response to BDNF. Therefore, Numb functions in a feed-forward loop to promote chemotaxis of neural precursors, linking BDNF, an extracellular cue, to aPKC, a critical component of the intrinsic polarity machinery.
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- Pengcheng Zhou
- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Rosalind A Segal
- Department of Cancer BiologyDana‐Farber Cancer InstituteHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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Courchesne SL, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Lee DJ, Segal RA. Neuromuscular junction defects in mice with mutation of dynein heavy chain 1. PLoS One 2011; 6:e16753. [PMID: 21346813 PMCID: PMC3035627 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 09/29/2010] [Accepted: 01/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Disruptions in axonal transport have been implicated in a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. Cramping 1 (Cra1/+) and Legs at odd angles (Loa/+) mice, with hypomorphic mutations in the dynein heavy chain 1 gene, which encodes the ATPase of the retrograde motor protein dynein, were originally reported to exhibit late onset motor neuron disease. Subsequent, conflicting reports suggested that sensory neuron disease without motor neuron loss underlies the phenotypes of Cra1/+ and Loa/+ mice. Here, we present behavioral and anatomical analyses of Cra1/+ mice. We demonstrate that Cra1/+ mice exhibit early onset, stable behavioral deficits, including abnormal hindlimb posturing and decreased grip strength. These deficits do not progress through 24 months of age. No significant loss of primary motor neurons or dorsal root ganglia sensory neurons was observed at ages where the mice exhibited clear symptomatology. Instead, there is a decrease in complexity of neuromuscular junctions. These results indicate that disruption of dynein function in Cra1/+ mice results in abnormal morphology of neuromuscular junctions. The time course of behavioral deficits, as well as the nature of the morphological defects in neuromuscular junctions, suggests that disruption of dynein function in Cra1/+ mice causes a developmental defect in synapse assembly or stabilization.
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- Stephanie L. Courchesne
- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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TrkA receptors are well known for promoting neuronal cell survival. However, in some neuroblastic tumors, TrkA activation can instead induce apoptosis. In this issue of Neuron, Harel et al. identify CCM2 as a mediator of TrkA-dependent cell death, suggesting that CCM2 is a distinctive type of tumor suppressor that modulates tyrosine kinase signaling.
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- Mariella Gruber-Olipitz
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Cancer Biology and Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Arimura N, Kimura T, Nakamuta S, Taya S, Funahashi Y, Hattori A, Shimada A, Ménager C, Kawabata S, Fujii K, Iwamatsu A, Segal RA, Fukuda M, Kaibuchi K. Anterograde transport of TrkB in axons is mediated by direct interaction with Slp1 and Rab27. Dev Cell 2009; 16:675-86. [PMID: 19460344 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2009.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2008] [Revised: 11/25/2008] [Accepted: 03/03/2009] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The neurotrophin receptors TrkA, TrkB, and TrkC are localized at the surface of the axon terminus and transmit key signals from brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) for diverse effects on neuronal survival, differentiation, and axon formation. Trk receptors are sorted into axons via the anterograde transport of vesicles and are then inserted into axonal plasma membranes. However, the transport mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we show that the Slp1/Rab27B/CRMP-2 complex directly links TrkB to Kinesin-1, and that this association is required for the anterograde transport of TrkB-containing vesicles. The cytoplasmic tail of TrkB binds to Slp1 in a Rab27B-dependent manner, and CRMP-2 connects Slp1 to Kinesin-1. Knockdown of these molecules by siRNA reduces the anterograde transport and membrane targeting of TrkB, thereby inhibiting BDNF-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation in axons. Our data reveal a molecular mechanism for the selective anterograde transport of TrkB in axons and show how the transport is coupled to BDNF signaling.
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- Nariko Arimura
- Department of Cell Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Showa, Nagoya, Japan
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Cosker KE, Courchesne SL, Segal RA. Action in the axon: generation and transport of signaling endosomes. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2009; 18:270-5. [PMID: 18778772 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2008] [Revised: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 08/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Neurons extend axonal processes over long distances, necessitating efficient transport mechanisms to convey target-derived neurotrophic survival signals from remote distal axons to cell bodies. Retrograde transport, powered by dynein motors, supplies cell bodies with survival signals in the form of 'signaling endosomes'. In this review, we will discuss new advances in our understanding of the motor proteins that bind to and move signaling components in a retrograde direction and discuss mechanisms that might specify distinct neuronal responses to spatially restricted neurotrophin signals. Disruption of retrograde transport leads to a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, highlighting the role of retrograde transport of signaling endosomes for axonal maintenance and the importance of efficient transport for neuronal survival and function.
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- Katharina E Cosker
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Chan JA, Balasubramanian S, Witt RM, Nazemi KJ, Choi Y, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Walsh CO, Thompson M, Segal RA. Proteoglycan interactions with Sonic Hedgehog specify mitogenic responses. Nat Neurosci 2009; 12:409-17. [PMID: 19287388 PMCID: PMC2676236 DOI: 10.1038/nn.2287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2008] [Accepted: 01/28/2009] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) has dual roles in vertebrate development, as it promotes progenitor cell proliferation and induces tissue patterning. Here we show mitogenic and patterning functions of Shh can be uncoupled from one another. Using a genetic approach to selectively inhibit Shh-proteoglycan interactions in a mouse model, we show binding of Shh to proteoglycans is required for proliferation of neural stem/precursor cells but not for tissue patterning. Shh-proteoglycan interactions regulate both spatial and temporal features of Shh signaling. Proteoglycans localize Shh to specialized mitogenic niches and also act at the single cell level to regulate the duration of Shh signaling, thereby promoting a gene expression program important for cell division. As activation of the Shh pathway is a feature of diverse human cancers, selective stimulation of proliferation by Shh-proteoglycan interactions may also figure prominently in neoplastic growth.
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- Jennifer A Chan
- Neurobiology Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Neurons extend axonal processes that are far removed from the cell body to innervate target tissues, where target-derived growth factors are required for neuronal survival and function. Neurotrophins are specifically required to maintain the survival and differentiation of innervating sensory neurons but the question of how these target-derived neurotrophins communicate to the cell body of innervating neurons has been an area of active research for over 30 years. The most commonly accepted model of how neurotrophin signals reach the cell body proposes that signaling endosomes carry this signal retrogradely along the axon. In order to study retrograde transport, a culture system was originally devised by Robert Campenot, in which cell bodies are isolated from their axons. The technique of preparing these compartmented chambers for culturing sensory neurons recapitulates the selective stimulation of neuron terminals that occurs in vivo following release of target-derived neurotrophins. Retrograde signaling events that require long-range microtubule dependent retrograde transport have important implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
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Ha J, Lo KWH, Myers KR, Carr TM, Humsi MK, Rasoul BA, Segal RA, Pfister KK. A neuron-specific cytoplasmic dynein isoform preferentially transports TrkB signaling endosomes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 181:1027-39. [PMID: 18559670 PMCID: PMC2426944 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200803150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [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: 01/11/2023]
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Cytoplasmic dynein is the multisubunit motor protein for retrograde movement of diverse cargoes to microtubule minus ends. Here, we investigate the function of dynein variants, defined by different intermediate chain (IC) isoforms, by expressing fluorescent ICs in neuronal cells. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-IC incorporates into functional dynein complexes that copurify with membranous organelles. In living PC12 cell neurites, GFP-dynein puncta travel in both the anterograde and retrograde directions. In cultured hippocampal neurons, neurotrophin receptor tyrosine kinase B (TrkB) signaling endosomes are transported by cytoplasmic dynein containing the neuron-specific IC-1B isoform and not by dynein containing the ubiquitous IC-2C isoform. Similarly, organelles containing TrkB isolated from brain by immunoaffinity purification also contain dynein with IC-1 but not IC-2 isoforms. These data demonstrate that the IC isoforms define dynein populations that are selectively recruited to transport distinct cargoes.
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- Junghoon Ha
- Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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