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Fang J, Liu Q, Yang J, Kang X, Mei Y, Liu J, Wang G, Xiang T. Functional Portrait and Genomic Feature of Carbapenem-Resistant Pseudomonas mendocina Harboring blaNDM-1 and blaIMP-1 in China. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2023; 20:502-508. [PMID: 37729068 DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2023.0055] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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The purpose of this research was to analyze the functional portraits and genomic features of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas mendocina carrying NDM-1 and IMP-1. The resistance mechanism of the strain was verified by in vivo experiments. Genomic data were aligned and analyzed in the NCBI database. Growth curve measurements were used to describe the growth characteristics of the bacteria. The virulence of P. mendocina strain was analyzed by serum killing assay and biofilm formation assay. Plasmid conjugation experiments were performed to verify the transferability of plasmids carrying drug-resistance genes. The P. mendocina strain was highly resistant to carbapenems. In addition, ST typing is unknown and has been submitted to Genebank. The strain carried two carbapenemase genes, including NDM-1 and IMP-1. Among them, blaNDM-1 was located on a 5.62832 Mb chromosome, and blaIMP-1 was located on a 172.851 Kb transferable plasmid, which was a very close relative of pIMP-NY7610 in China. The strain also had a variety of virulence genes, which were expressed in the siderophore, capsule, pilus, alginate, flagella, etc. The study suggests that the functional portrait and genomic features of carbapenem-resistant P. mendocina harboring blaNDM-1 and blaIMP-1 are unique to China. This outcome represents antibiotic resistance exhibited in the genus Pseudomonas by acquiring chromosomes and plasmid genes. The monitoring and supervision of antimicrobial usage must be strengthened since the multi-drug-resistant and moderately virulent P. mendocina will attract much attention in the near future.
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- Jianhua Fang
- Infectious Disease Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Infectious Disease Department, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critial Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Department of Respiratory and Critial Care Medicine, Nanchang Medical College, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Cerebral Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Hospital Infection Control, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Infectious Disease Department, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Infectious Disease Department, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Hospital Infection Control, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Jiangxi Hospital of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Nanchang, P.R. China
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Li G, Wu Y, Bai Y, Zhao N, Jiang Y, Li N, Lin X, Liu B, Xu C. Patterns of Chromosomal Variation, Homoeologous Exchange, and Their Relationship with Genomic Features in Early Generations of a Synthetic Rice Segmental Allotetraploid. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24076065. [PMID: 37047036 PMCID: PMC10094486 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24076065] [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] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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Polyploidization is a driving force in plant evolution. Chromosomal variation often occurs at early generations following polyploid formation due to meiotic pairing irregularity that may compromise segregation fidelity and cause homoeologous exchange (HE). The trends of chromosomal variation and especially factors affecting HE remain to be fully deciphered. Here, by whole-genome resequencing, we performed nuanced analyses of patterns of chromosomal number variation and explored genomic features that affect HE in two early generations of a synthetic rice segmental allotetraploid. We found a wide occurrence of whole-chromosome aneuploidy and, to a lesser extent, also large segment gains/losses in both generations (S2 and S4) of the tetraploids. However, while the number of chromosome gains was similar between S2 and S4, that of losses in S4 was lower than in S2. HEs were abundant across all chromosomes in both generations and showed variable correlations with different genomic features at chromosomal and/or local scales. Contents of genes and transposable elements (TEs) were positively and negatively correlated with HE frequencies, respectively. By dissecting TEs into different classes, retrotransposons were found to be negatively correlated with HE frequency to a stronger extent than DNA transposons, whereas miniature terminal inverted elements (MITEs) showed a strong positive correlation. Local HE frequencies in the tetraploids and homologous recombination (HR) rates in diploids within 1 Mb sliding windows were significantly correlated with each other and showed similar overall distribution profiles. Nonetheless, non-concordant trends between HE and HR rates were found at distal regions in some chromosomes. At local scale, both shared and polymorphic retrotransposons between parents were negatively correlated with HE frequency; in contrast, both shared and polymorphic MITEs showed positive correlations with HE frequency. Our results shed new light on the patterns of chromosomal number variation and reveal genomic features influencing HE frequency in early generations following plant polyploidization.
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- Guo Li
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genetic Breeding of Heilongjiang Province, College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Jilin Academy of Agriculture, Changchun 130033, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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Yao S, Yu Y, Xu L, Pan X. Genomic and clinical features of endoplasmic reticulum stress factor in digestive system pan-cancer studies. Front Oncol 2023; 12:1072576. [PMID: 36698399 PMCID: PMC9868864 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1072576] [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] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Introduction Digestive system pan-cancer is one of the lethal malignant tumors, which have the propensity for poor prognosis and difficult treatment. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has served as a pivotal role in the progression of the tumor, while the implication of ER stress on digestive system pan-cancers still needs elucidation, especially from the perspective of clinical outcome and that of genomic features. Methods First, Among the ER STRESS factors from the REACTOME_UNFOLDED_PROTEIN_RESPONSE_UPR (113 genes) and HALLMARK_UNFOLDED_PROTEIN_RESPONSE (92 genes) terms, 153 ER STRESS regulators were identified after removing replicates. The somatic mutation data and copy number variation data of gastrointestinal pan-cancer were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Then, we explored the clinical outcome and genetic mutation of ER stress-related differentially expressed genes (DEGs) by multiple bioinformatics analysis. Subsequently, we analyzed the Spearman correlation between the drug sensitivity of 179 gastrointestinal anticancer drugs and the transcriptional expression of 153 ER stress factors in 769 cancer cell lines of the GDSC2 cohort. Next, ssGSEA method was used to quantify the immune cell infiltration scores in the tumor microenvironment, and Spearman correlation was used to calculate the correlation between ER stress scores and immune cell infiltration. Finally, we analyzed the cellular origin of ER stress factor dysregulation. Results We analyzed the genomic changes and clinical outcomes of ER stress factors in different tumors of gastrointestinal pan-cancer. Endoplasmic reticulum stress factor (ER) in digestive tract tumors showed high SNV mutation frequency, less methylation dysregulation and was associated with multiple oncogenic pathways. Endoplasmic reticulum stress factor (ER) is a risk factor for many cancers, but the effect on overall survival in rectal adenocarcinoma is opposite to that in other gastrointestinal tumors. And ER stress factors are highly correlated with drugs that target important pathways. Discussion Based on the clinical prognosis and genomic analysis of ER stress-related factors in patients with gastrointestinal pan-cancer, this study provides a new direction for further research on gastrointestinal pan-cancer.
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- Sheng Yao
- Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China,Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China,*Correspondence: Liyi Xu, ; Xiang Pan,
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China,Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China,*Correspondence: Liyi Xu, ; Xiang Pan,
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Qiao W, Liu F, Wan X, Qiao Y, Li R, Wu Z, Saris PEJ, Xu H, Qiao M. Genomic Features and Construction of Streamlined Genome Chassis of Nisin Z Producer Lactococcus lactis N8. Microorganisms 2021; 10:microorganisms10010047. [PMID: 35056496 PMCID: PMC8779420 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10010047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Lactococcus lactis is a commonly used fermenting bacteria in cheese, beverages and meat products. Due to the lack of simplified chassis strains, it has not been widely used in the fields of synthetic biology. Thus, the construction of lactic acid bacteria chassis strains becomes more and more important. In this study, we performed whole genome sequencing, annotation and analysis of L. lactis N8. Based on the genome analysis, we found that L. lactis N8 contains two large plasmids, and the function prediction of the plasmids shows that some regions are related to carbohydrate transport/metabolism, multi-stress resistance and amino acid uptake. L. lactis N8 contains a total of seven prophage-related fragments and twelve genomic islands. A gene cluster encoding a hybrid NRPS–PKS system that was found in L. lactis N8 reveals that the strain has the potential to synthesize novel secondary metabolites. Furthermore, we have constructed a simplified genome chassis of L. lactis N8 and achieved the largest amount of deletion of L. lactis so far. Taken together, the present study offers further insights into the function and potential role of L. lactis N8 as a model strain of lactic acid bacteria and lays the foundation for its application in the field of synthetic biology.
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- Wanjin Qiao
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; (W.Q.); (F.L.); (Y.Q.)
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; (W.Q.); (F.L.); (Y.Q.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; (X.W.); (R.L.); (P.E.J.S.)
- Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Human Microbiome Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; (W.Q.); (F.L.); (Y.Q.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; (X.W.); (R.L.); (P.E.J.S.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China;
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland; (X.W.); (R.L.); (P.E.J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; (W.Q.); (F.L.); (Y.Q.)
- Correspondence: (H.X.); (M.Q.)
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; (W.Q.); (F.L.); (Y.Q.)
- School of Life Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
- Correspondence: (H.X.); (M.Q.)
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Kang M, Lee H, Byeon SJ, Kwon GY, Jeon SS. Genomic Features and Clinical Implications of Intraductal Carcinoma of the Prostate. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:13125. [PMID: 34884926 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222313125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Intraductal carcinoma of the prostate (IDC-P) is a rare and unique form of aggressive prostate carcinoma, which is characterized by an expansile proliferation of malignant prostatic epithelial cells within prostatic ducts or acini and the preservation of basal cell layers around the involved glands. The vast majority of IDC-P tumors result from adjacent high-grade invasive cancer via the retrograde spreading of tumor cells into normal prostatic ducts or acini. A subset of IDC-P tumors is rarely derived from the de novo intraductal proliferation of premalignant cells. The presence of IDC-P in biopsy or surgical specimens is significantly associated with aggressive pathologic features, such as high Gleason grade, large tumor volume, and advanced tumor stage, and with poor clinical courses, including earlier biochemical recurrence, distant metastasis, and worse survival outcomes. These architectural and behavioral features of IDC-P may be driven by specific molecular properties. Notably, IDC-P possesses distinct genomic profiles, including higher rates of TMPRSS2–ERG gene fusions and PTEN loss, increased percentage of genomic instability, and higher prevalence of germline BRCA2 mutations. Considering that IDC-P tumors are usually resistant to conventional therapies for prostate cancer, further studies should be performed to develop optimal therapeutic strategies based on distinct genomic features, such as treatment with immune checkpoint blockades or poly (adenosine diphosphate–ribose) polymerase inhibitors for patients harboring increased genomic instability or BRCA2 mutations, as well as genetic counseling with genetic testing. Patient-derived xenografts and tumor organoid models can be the promising in vitro platforms for investigating the molecular features of IDC-P tumor.
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Chen C, Wang T, Yang M, Song J, Huang M, Bai Y, Su H. Genomic Profiling of Blood-Derived Circulating Tumor DNA from Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer. Pathol Oncol Res 2021; 27:1609879. [PMID: 34720757 PMCID: PMC8553707 DOI: 10.3389/pore.2021.1609879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Background: Biliary tract cancer is a highly lethal malignancy with poor clinical outcome. Accumulating evidence indicates targeted therapeutics may provide new hope for improving treatment response in BTC, hence better understanding the genomic profile is particularly important. Since tumor tissue may not be available for some patients, a complementary method is urgently needed. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) provides a noninvasive means for detecting genomic alterations, and has been regarded as a promising tool to guide clinical therapies. Methods: Next-generation sequencing of 150 cancer-related genes was used to detect gene alterations in blood-derived ctDNA from 154 Chinese patients with BTC. Genomic alterations were analyzed and compared with an internal tissue genomic database and TCGA database. Results: 94.8% patients had at least one change detected in their ctDNA. The median maximum somatic allele frequency was 6.47% (ranging 0.1-34.8%). TP53 and KRAS were the most often mutated genes. The frequencies of single nucleotide variation in commonly mutated genes in ctDNA were similar to those detected in tissue samples, TP53 (35.1 vs. 40.4%) and KRAS (20.1 vs. 22.6%). Pathway analysis revealed that mutated genes were mapped to several key pathways including PI3K-Akt, p53, ErbB and Ras signaling pathway. In addition, patients harboring LRP1B, TP53, and ErbB family mutations presented significantly higher tumor mutation burden. Conclusions: These findings demonstrated that ctDNA testing by NGS was feasible in revealing genomic changes and could be a viable alternative to tissue biopsy in patients with metastatic BTC.
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- Chen Chen
- Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital (The First Affiliate Hospital of Hunan Normal University), Changsha, China
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- Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital (The First Affiliate Hospital of Hunan Normal University), Changsha, China
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- The Medical Department, 3D Medicines Inc., Shanghai, China
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- The Medical Department, 3D Medicines Inc., Shanghai, China
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- The Medical Department, 3D Medicines Inc., Shanghai, China
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- The Medical Department, 3D Medicines Inc., Shanghai, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
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Niu S, Liu K, Xu Y, Peng C, Yu Y, Huang Q, Wu S, Cui B, Huang Y, Ma X, Zhang X, Wang B. Genomic Landscape of Chinese Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients With Venous Tumor Thrombus Identifies Chromosome 9 and 14 Deletions and Related Immunosuppressive Microenvironment. Front Oncol 2021; 11:646338. [PMID: 34249685 PMCID: PMC8260842 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.646338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) with venous tumor thrombus (VTT) is associated with a poor clinical outcome. Although several studies have examined the genomic features of ccRCC, the genetic profile of VTT along with its matched primary tumor has not been fully elucidated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Samples of VTT tissues and matched primary tumor tissues from ccRCC patients (n = 25), as well as primary tumor tissues from patients without VTT (n = 25) were collected and analyzed using whole-exome sequencing. Four additional ccRCC patients who were unfit for surgery were treated with an anti-programmed death receptor-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody (Toripalimab, 240 mg, Q3W, IV). RESULTS By comparing the primary kidney tumors from ccRCC patients with or without VTT, a relatively higher prevalence of BAP1 and KDM5C alterations were found in ccRCC patients with VTT, and these alterations were associated with worse overall survival in the kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) database. Based on subclone analysis, VTT was predicted to primarily originate directly from the primary renal mass. A significantly higher prevalence of CELSR2 and TET2 alterations were identified in the VTTs compared with the matched primary tumors. An increased prevalence of DNA damage repair genes, especially those involved in homologous recombination repair and non-homologous end joining, was found in ccRCC patients with VTT. Notably, VTT was characterized by the increase incidence of copy number loss in the whole exome (p < 0.05), particularly in the chromosome 9 and 14 regions. Deletion of chromosome 9 and 14 was associated with worse survival, unfavorable clinical features, and the presence of an immunosuppressive microenvironment, which was characterized by higher infiltration of regulatory T cells, follicular helper T cells, and resting mast cells, but lower counts of resting CD4 memory T cells and CD8 positive T cells. A significantly lower count of CD4+ and CD8+ tumor-infiltrated lymphocytes was identified in the VTT samples comparing with matched primary tumor. Of note, three out of the four ccRCC patients with VTT in our cohort who were treated with the anti-PD-1 therapy exhibited remarkable remission in the renal mass but no notable shrinkage in the VTT mass. CONCLUSION Our study revealed the genetic profile of Chinese ccRCC patients with VTT, and identified multiple features associated with known poor outcomes, including gene alterations and copy number loss. The deletions in chromosomes 9 and 14, and the associated immunosuppressive microenvironment may indicate limited sensitivity to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monotherapy in VTT.
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- Shaoxi Niu
- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Urology, The Third Medical Centre, Chinese PLA (People’s Liberation Army) General Hospital, Beijing, China
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Zhou S, Sun G, Wang J, Zhang H. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement in adult renal cell carcinoma with lung metastasis: a case report and literature review. Transl Androl Urol 2021; 9:2855-2861. [PMID: 33457258 PMCID: PMC7807375 DOI: 10.21037/tau-20-1343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement is rare, and the genetic profiles of the tumor have not been elucidated. Here, we report a case with recurrent papillary RCC and lung metastasis after nephrectomy for nearly 7 years. The patient first received sunitinib, whereas the drug toxicity was intolerable. Combined Immunohistology (IHC) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) revealed the patient has an ALK rearrangement, and the patient then was treated with crizotinib. The patient had good tolerance, and a partial response in the target lesions was achieved. In order to further understand the benefit of crizotinib in ALK-rearranged RCC, the patient was detected with whole exome sequencing (WES) to study her genetic profiles. Compared those of RCC cases without ALK rearrangement (nALK-RCC), the patient and nine RCC cases with ALK rearrangement (ALK-RCC) revealed unique genetic characteristics: 1) The common mutations that occurred in RCC were not found in ALK-RCC.; 2) A total of 11 co-existing mutations in ALK-RCC were found, and they occurred in nALK-RCC at a relatively low frequency. DNMT3A mutations were concurrent with ALK fusions in our case. These findings indicated a different genetic alteration pattern of ALK-RCC from nALK-RCC. Our case demonstrated the efficacy of crizotinib in an RCC patient with ALK rearrangement.
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- Shengyu Zhou
- Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Zaozhuang Municipal Hospital, Zaozhuang, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China
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Song B, Chen K, Tang Y, Ma J, Meng J, Wei Z. PSI-MOUSE: Predicting Mouse Pseudouridine Sites From Sequence and Genome-Derived Features. Evol Bioinform Online 2020; 16:1176934320925752. [PMID: 32565674 PMCID: PMC7285933 DOI: 10.1177/1176934320925752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the first discovered and the most prevalent posttranscriptional modification, which has been widely studied during the past decades. Pseudouridine was observed in almost all kinds of RNAs and shown to have important biological functions. Currently, the time-consuming and high-cost procedures of experimental approaches limit its uses in real-life Ψ site detection. Alternatively, by taking advantage of the explosive growth of Ψ sequencing data, the computational methods may provide a more cost-effective avenue. To date, the existing mouse Ψ site predictors were all developed based on sequence-derived features, and their performance can be further improved by adding the domain knowledge derived feature. Therefore, it is highly desirable to propose a genomic feature-based computational method to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the identification of Ψ RNA modification in the mouse transcriptome. In our study, a predictive framework PSI-MOUSE was built. Besides the conventional sequence-based features, PSI-MOUSE first introduced 38 additional genomic features derived from the mouse genome, which achieved a satisfactory improvement in the prediction performance, compared with other existing models. Moreover, PSI-MOUSE also features in automatically annotating the putative Ψ sites with diverse types of posttranscriptional regulations (RNA-binding protein [RBP]-binding regions, miRNA-RNA interactions, and splicing sites), which can serve as a useful research tool for the study of Ψ RNA modification in the mouse genome. Finally, 3282 experimentally validated mouse Ψ sites were also collected in a database with customized query functions. For the convenience of academic users, a website was built to provide a user-friendly interface for the query and analysis on the database. The website is freely accessible at www.xjtlu.edu.cn/biologicalsciences/psimouse and http://psimouse.rnamd.com. We introduced the genome-derived features to mouse for the first time, and we achieved a good performance in mouse Ψ site prediction. Compared with the existing state-of-art methods, our newly developed approach PSI-MOUSE obtained a substantial improvement in prediction accuracy, marking the reliable contributions of genomic features for the prediction of RNA modifications in a species other than human.
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- Bowen Song
- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Cancer Genome Computational Analysis, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
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Tang B. Genomic feature extraction and comparison based on global alignment of ChIP-sequencing data. Bioengineered 2017; 8:248-255. [PMID: 27690208 PMCID: PMC5470523 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2016.1226714] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Enhanced accuracy and high-throughput capability in capturing genetic activities lead ChIP-sequencing technology to be applied prevalently in diverse study for tackling DNA-protein interaction problems. Till now, such questions as deciding suitable ChIP-seq arguments and comparing sample quality still haunt biologists. We propose the methods for answering such questions as deciding optimal argument pairs in global alignment of ChIP sequencing data; then we employ a modern signal processing approach to extract inherent genomic features from the global alignments of transcriptional binding activities; together with pairwise comparison from intra- and inter-sample perspectives; thus we can further determine alignment quality and decide the optimal candidate for multi-source heterogeneous high-throughput sequences. The work provides a practical approach to quantitatively compare the alignment quality for heterogeneous sequencing data, especially in determining the efficiency of transcriptional binding from replicate samples, thus it helps to exploit the potentiality of ChIP-seq for deep comprehension of inherent biological meanings from the high-throughput genomic sequences.
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- Binhua Tang
- a Epigenetics & Function Group , College of the Internet of Things, Hohai University , Jiangsu , China.,b School of Public Health , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai , China
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Khaw YS, Chan YF, Jafar FL, Othman N, Chee HY. Comparative Genetic Analyses of Human Rhinovirus C (HRV-C) Complete Genome from Malaysia. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:543. [PMID: 27199901 PMCID: PMC4851184 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Human rhinovirus-C (HRV-C) has been implicated in more severe illnesses than HRV-A and HRV-B, however, the limited number of HRV-C complete genomes (complete 5′ and 3′ non-coding region and open reading frame sequences) has hindered the in-depth genetic study of this virus. This study aimed to sequence seven complete HRV-C genomes from Malaysia and compare their genetic characteristics with the 18 published HRV-Cs. Seven Malaysian HRV-C complete genomes were obtained with newly redesigned primers. The seven genomes were classified as HRV-C6, C12, C22, C23, C26, C42, and pat16 based on the VP4/VP2 and VP1 pairwise distance threshold classification. Five of the seven Malaysian isolates, namely, 3430-MY-10/C22, 8713-MY-10/C23, 8097-MY-11/C26, 1570-MY-10/C42, and 7383-MY-10/pat16 are the first newly sequenced complete HRV-C genomes. All seven Malaysian isolates genomes displayed nucleotide similarity of 63–81% among themselves and 63–96% with other HRV-Cs. Malaysian HRV-Cs had similar putative immunogenic sites, putative receptor utilization and potential antiviral sites as other HRV-Cs. The genomic features of Malaysian isolates were similar to those of other HRV-Cs. Negative selections were frequently detected in HRV-Cs complete coding sequences indicating that these sequences were under functional constraint. The present study showed that HRV-Cs from Malaysia have diverse genetic sequences but share conserved genomic features with other HRV-Cs. This genetic information could provide further aid in the understanding of HRV-C infection.
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- Yam Sim Khaw
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Malaysia
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Protein-protein interactions play an important role in many cellular processes. The availability of a comprehensive and accurate list of protein interactions can facilitate drug target discovery. Recent advances in high-throughput experimental technologies have generated enormous amounts of data and provided valuable resources for studying protein interactions. However, these technologies suffer from high error rates because of their inherent limitations. Therefore, computational approaches capable of incorporating multiple data sources are needed to fully take advantage of the rapid accumulation of data. In this review, we focus on the computational methods that integrate multiple data sources by combining direct measurements on protein interactions from diverse organisms, and by integrating different types of indirect information from various genomic and proteomic approaches.
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- Yin Liu
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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