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Our study investigated the underlying mechanism for the 14q24 renal cell carcinoma (RCC) susceptibility risk locus identified by a genome-wide association study (GWAS). The sentinel single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs4903064, at 14q24 confers an allele-specific effect on expression of the double PHD fingers 3 (DPF3) of the BAF SWI/SNF complex as assessed by massively parallel reporter assay, confirmatory luciferase assays, and eQTL analyses. Overexpression of DPF3 in renal cell lines increases growth rates and alters chromatin accessibility and gene expression, leading to inhibition of apoptosis and activation of oncogenic pathways. siRNA interference of multiple DPF3-deregulated genes reduces growth. Our results indicate that germline variation in DPF3, a component of the BAF complex, part of the SWI/SNF complexes, can lead to reduced apoptosis and activation of the STAT3 pathway, both critical in RCC carcinogenesis. In addition, we show that altered DPF3 expression in the 14q24 RCC locus could influence the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatment for RCC by regulating tumor cytokine secretion and immune cell activation.
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Carcinoma de Células Renais/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 14 , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Loci Gênicos , Neoplasias Renais/genética , Fator de Transcrição STAT3/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Carcinogênese/genética , Carcinogênese/imunologia , Carcinogênese/patologia , Carcinoma de Células Renais/imunologia , Carcinoma de Células Renais/patologia , Carcinoma de Células Renais/terapia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Cromatina/química , Cromatina/imunologia , Montagem e Desmontagem da Cromatina/imunologia , Citocinas/genética , Citocinas/imunologia , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/imunologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genoma Humano , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Humanos , Imunoterapia/métodos , Neoplasias Renais/imunologia , Neoplasias Renais/patologia , Neoplasias Renais/terapia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Fator de Transcrição STAT3/imunologia , Linfócitos T Citotóxicos , Fatores de Transcrição/imunologiaRESUMO
Emerging evidence suggests that dysregulation of oncogenic pathways requires precise tuning in order for cancer to develop. To test this, we examined the overlap between cis-acting elements of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway and cancer-susceptibility polymorphisms as defined in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). In renal cancer, where HIF is constitutively and un-physiologically activated by mutation of the von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor, we observed marked excess overlap, which extended to potential susceptibility polymorphisms that are below the conventional threshold applied in GWAS. In contrast, in other cancers where HIF is upregulated by different mechanisms, including micro-environmental hypoxia, we observed no excess in overlap. Our findings support a 'pathway tuning' model of cancer, whereby precise modulation of multiple outputs of specific, activated pathways is important in oncogenesis. This implies that selective pressures to modulate such pathways operate during cancer development and should focus attempts to identify their nature and consequences.
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Carcinogênese/genética , Carcinoma de Células Renais/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Neoplasias Renais/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/metabolismo , Carcinoma de Células Renais/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia/genética , Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia/metabolismo , Neoplasias Renais/patologia , Mutação , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Proteína Supressora de Tumor Von Hippel-Lindau/genética , Proteína Supressora de Tumor Von Hippel-Lindau/metabolismoRESUMO
Un-physiological activation of hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) is an early event in most renal cell cancers (RCC) following inactivation of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor. Despite intense study, how this impinges on cancer development is incompletely understood. To test for the impact of genetic signals on this pathway, we aligned human RCC-susceptibility polymorphisms with genome-wide assays of HIF-binding and observed highly significant overlap. Allele-specific assays of HIF binding, chromatin conformation and gene expression together with eQTL analyses in human tumors were applied to mechanistic analysis of one such overlapping site at chromosome 12p12.1. This defined a novel stage-specific mechanism in which the risk polymorphism, rs12814794, directly creates a new HIF-binding site that mediates HIF-1α isoform specific upregulation of its target BHLHE41. The alignment of multiple sites in the HIF cis-acting apparatus with RCC-susceptibility polymorphisms strongly supports a causal model in which minor variation in this pathway exerts significant effects on RCC development.
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Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/metabolismo , Carcinoma de Células Renais/genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Subunidade alfa do Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia/metabolismo , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Alelos , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Carcinoma de Células Renais/diagnóstico , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Imunoprecipitação da Cromatina , Cromossomos Humanos Par 12/genética , Ciclina D1 , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Células HeLa , Células Hep G2 , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Humanos , Subunidade alfa do Fator 1 Induzível por Hipóxia/genética , Células MCF-7 , Locos de Características Quantitativas , RNA Interferente Pequeno/genética , RNA Interferente Pequeno/metabolismo , Regulação para CimaRESUMO
At every cell cycle, faithful inheritance of metazoan genomes requires the concerted activation of thousands of DNA replication origins. However, the genetic and chromatin features defining metazoan replication start sites remain largely unknown. Here, we delineate the origin repertoire of the Drosophila genome at high resolution. We address the role of origin-proximal G-quadruplexes and suggest that they transiently stall replication forks in vivo. We dissect the chromatin configuration of replication origins and identify a rich spatial organization of chromatin features at initiation sites. DNA shape and chromatin configurations, not strict sequence motifs, mark and predict origins in higher eukaryotes. We further examine the link between transcription and origin firing and reveal that modulation of origin activity across cell types is intimately linked to cell-type-specific transcriptional programs. Our study unravels conserved origin features and provides unique insights into the relationship among DNA topology, chromatin, transcription, and replication initiation across metazoa.