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Int J Mol Sci ; 24(13)2023 Jun 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37445828

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Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a neuromuscular disease associated with toxic RNA containing expanded CUG repeats. The developing therapeutic approaches to DM1 target mutant RNA or correct early toxic events downstream of the mutant RNA. We have previously described the benefits of the correction of the GSK3ß-CUGBP1 pathway in DM1 mice (HSALR model) expressing 250 CUG repeats using the GSK3 inhibitor tideglusib (TG). Here, we show that TG treatments corrected the expression of ~17% of genes misregulated in DM1 mice, including genes involved in cell transport, development and differentiation. The expression of chloride channel 1 (Clcn1), the key trigger of myotonia in DM1, was also corrected by TG. We found that correction of the GSK3ß-CUGBP1 pathway in mice expressing long CUG repeats (DMSXL model) is beneficial not only at the prenatal and postnatal stages, but also during adulthood. Using a mouse model with dysregulated CUGBP1, which mimics alterations in DM1, we showed that the dysregulated CUGBP1 contributes to the toxicity of expanded CUG repeats by changing gene expression and causing CNS abnormalities. These data show the critical role of the GSK3ß-CUGBP1 pathway in DM1 muscle and in CNS pathologies, suggesting the benefits of GSK3 inhibitors in patients with different forms of DM1.


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Distrofia Miotônica , Humanos , Distrofia Miotônica/tratamento farmacológico , Distrofia Miotônica/genética , Distrofia Miotônica/metabolismo , Glicogênio Sintase Quinase 3 beta/genética , Quinase 3 da Glicogênio Sintase/genética , Músculos/metabolismo , RNA/metabolismo
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Hepatol Commun ; 8(2)2024 02 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38285876

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Lung metastases are the most threatening signs for patients with aggressive hepatoblastoma (HBL). Despite intensive studies, the cellular origin and molecular mechanisms of lung metastases in patients with aggressive HBL are not known. The aims of these studies were to identify metastasis-initiating cells in primary liver tumors and to determine if these cells are secreted in the blood, reach the lung, and form lung metastases. APPROACH: We have examined mechanisms of activation of key oncogenes in primary liver tumors and lung metastases and the role of these mechanisms in the appearance of metastasis-initiating cells in patients with aggressive HBL by RNA-Seq, immunostaining, chromatin immunoprecipitation, Real-Time Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR and western blot approaches. Using a protocol that mimics the exit of metastasis-initiating cells from tumors, we generated 16 cell lines from liver tumors and 2 lines from lung metastases of patients with HBL. RESULTS: We found that primary HBL liver tumors have a dramatic elevation of neuron-like cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts and that these cells are released into the bloodstream of patients with HBL and found in lung metastases. In the primary liver tumors, the ph-S675-ß-catenin pathway activates the expression of markers of cancer-associated fibroblasts; while the ZBTB3-SRCAP pathway activates the expression of markers of neurons via cancer-enhancing genomic regions/aggressive liver cancer domains leading to a dramatic increase of cancer-associated fibroblasts and neuron-like cells. Studies of generated metastasis-initiating cells showed that these cells proliferate rapidly, engage in intense cell-cell interactions, and form tumor clusters. The inhibition of ß-catenin in HBL/lung metastases-released cells suppresses the formation of tumor clusters. CONCLUSIONS: The inhibition of the ß-catenin-cancer-enhancing genomic regions/aggressive liver cancer domains axis could be considered as a therapeutic approach to treat/prevent lung metastases in patients with HBL.


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Hepatoblastoma , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Neoplasias Pulmonares , Humanos , Hepatoblastoma/genética , Hepatoblastoma/metabolismo , Hepatoblastoma/patologia , beta Catenina/genética , beta Catenina/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patologia , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética
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Cancers (Basel) ; 14(24)2022 Dec 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36551548

RESUMO

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Hepatoblastoma (HBL), a deadly malignancy in children, is the most common type of pediatric liver cancer. We recently demonstrated that ß-catenin, phosphorylated at S675 (ph-S675-ß-catenin), causes pathological alterations in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FLC), by activating oncogenes and fibrotic genes via human genomic regions, known as cancer-enhancing genomic regions or aggressive liver cancer domains (CEGRs/ALCDs). The aim of this study was to determine the role of the ph-S675-ß-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway in HBL. METHODS: The ph-S675-ß-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway was examined in a large cohort of HBL specimens, in HBL cell lines HepG2 and Huh6, and in patient-derived xenografts (PDXs). RESULTS: ß-catenin is phosphorylated at S675 in a large portion of tested HBL patients. In these patients, ph-S675-ß-catenin forms complexes with TCF4 and opens CEGRs/ALCDs-dependent oncogenes for transcription, leading to a massive overexpression of the oncogenes. The inhibition of the ß-catenin-TCF4-CEGRs/ALCDs axis inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells and tumor growth in HBL cell lines and HBL-PDXs. The ph-S675-ß-catenin is abundant in mitotic cells. We found that markers of HBL Glypican 3 (GPC3) and Alpha Fetoprotein (AFP) are increased in HBL patients by ß-catenin-TCF4-p300 complexes. CONCLUSIONS: The phosphorylation-mediated activation of the ß-catenin-TCF4-p300-CEGRs/ALCDs pathway increases oncogene expression in patients with aggressive liver cancer and promotes the development of hepatoblastoma.

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