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Nat Commun ; 15(1): 7769, 2024 Sep 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39237515

RESUMO

Histone H3-mutant gliomas are deadly brain tumors characterized by a dysregulated epigenome and stalled differentiation. In contrast to the extensive datasets available on tumor cells, limited information exists on their tumor microenvironment (TME), particularly the immune infiltrate. Here, we characterize the immune TME of H3.3K27M and G34R/V-mutant gliomas, and multiple H3.3K27M mouse models, using transcriptomic, proteomic and spatial single-cell approaches. Resolution of immune lineages indicates high infiltration of H3-mutant gliomas with diverse myeloid populations, high-level expression of immune checkpoint markers, and scarce lymphoid cells, findings uniformly reproduced in all H3.3K27M mouse models tested. We show these myeloid populations communicate with H3-mutant cells, mediating immunosuppression and sustaining tumor formation and maintenance. Dual inhibition of myeloid cells and immune checkpoint pathways show significant therapeutic benefits in pre-clinical syngeneic mouse models. Our findings provide a valuable characterization of the TME of oncohistone-mutant gliomas, and insight into the means for modulating the myeloid infiltrate for the benefit of patients.


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Neoplasias Encefálicas , Glioma , Histonas , Mutação , Células Mieloides , Microambiente Tumoral , Animais , Glioma/genética , Glioma/imunologia , Glioma/patologia , Microambiente Tumoral/imunologia , Microambiente Tumoral/genética , Células Mieloides/metabolismo , Células Mieloides/imunologia , Histonas/metabolismo , Histonas/genética , Camundongos , Neoplasias Encefálicas/genética , Neoplasias Encefálicas/imunologia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Humanos , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Análise de Célula Única
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Cancer Res ; 2024 Aug 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39137399

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The pogo transposable element derived zinc finger protein, POGZ, is notably associated with neurodevelopmental disorders through its role in gene transcription. Many proteins involved in neurological development are often dysregulated in cancer, suggesting a potential role for POGZ in tumor biology. Here, we provided experimental evidence that POGZ influences the growth and metastatic spread of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC). In well-characterized models of TNBC, POGZ exerted a dual role, both as a tumor promoter and metastasis suppressor. Mechanistically, loss of POGZ potentiated TGFß pathway activation to exert cytostatic effects while simultaneously increasing the mesenchymal and migratory properties of breast tumors. Whereas POGZ levels are elevated in human breast cancers, the most aggressive forms of TNBC tumors, including those with increased mesenchymal and metastatic properties, exhibit dampened POGZ levels, and low POGZ expression was associated with inferior clinical outcomes in these tumor types. Taken together, these data suggest that POGZ is a critical suppressor of the early stages of the metastatic cascade.

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JCEM Case Rep ; 2(8): luae144, 2024 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39104442

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Achondroplasia is the most common skeletal dysplasia and is associated with serious complications such as foramen magnum stenosis (FMS). This case report describes an infant with achondroplasia who presented with a syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), secondary to significant FMS and myelocompression. A 2-month-old boy with prenatally diagnosed achondroplasia was referred due to disordered breathing and altered consciousness. On admission, apathy, hypotonus, and hypothermia with typical features of achondroplasia were noticed. Laboratory investigations revealed severe hyponatremia and hypochloridaemia with normal glucose and urea levels. The diagnosis of SIADH was made based on low serum osmolality in the presence of high urine osmolality, along with an elevated copeptin level. An emergency computerized tomography showed a high-grade stenosis at the cranio-cervical junction; subsequent magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated myelocompression. The patient underwent decompression surgery the next day; serum osmolality increased after the operation. Spontaneous breathing after extubation was sufficient whereas tetraplegia persisted despite intensive physiotherapy. Clinicians should be aware of SIADH as a presenting sign of FMS in children with achondroplasia. Further discussion is warranted regarding improving parental education and timing of screening recommendations.

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bioRxiv ; 2024 Aug 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39211165

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Halting breast cancer metastatic relapses following primary tumor removal and the clinical dormant phase, remains challenging, due to a lack of specific vulnerabilities to target during dormancy. To address this, we conducted genome-wide CRISPR screens on two breast cancer cell lines with distinct dormancy properties: 4T1 (short-term dormancy) and 4T07 (prolonged dormancy). We discovered that loss of class-III PI3K, Pik3c3, revealed a unique vulnerability in 4T07 cells. Surprisingly, dormancy-prone 4T07 cells exhibited higher mTORC1 activity than 4T1 cells, due to lysosome-dependent signaling occurring at the cell periphery. Pharmacological inhibition of Pik3c3 counteracted this phenotype in 4T07 cells, and selectively reduced metastasis burden only in the 4T07 dormancy-prone model. This mechanism was also detected in human breast cancer cell lines in addition to a breast cancer patient-derived xenograft supporting that it may be relevant in humans. Our findings suggest dormant cancer cell-initiated metastasis may be prevented in patients carrying tumor cells that display PIK3C3-peripheral lysosomal signaling to mTORC1. Statement of Significance: We reveal that dormancy-prone breast cancer cells depend on the class III PI3K to mediate a constant peripheral lysosomal positioning and mTORC1 hyperactivity. Targeting this pathway might blunt breast cancer metastasis.

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Sci Adv ; 10(12): eadn4649, 2024 Mar 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38517960

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Genomic rearrangements are a hallmark of most childhood tumors, including medulloblastoma, one of the most common brain tumors in children, but their causes remain largely unknown. Here, we show that PiggyBac transposable element derived 5 (Pgbd5) promotes tumor development in multiple developmentally accurate mouse models of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) medulloblastoma. Most Pgbd5-deficient mice do not develop tumors, while maintaining normal cerebellar development. Ectopic activation of SHH signaling is sufficient to enforce cerebellar granule cell progenitor-like cell states, which exhibit Pgbd5-dependent expression of distinct DNA repair and neurodevelopmental factors. Mouse medulloblastomas expressing Pgbd5 have increased numbers of somatic structural DNA rearrangements, some of which carry PGBD5-specific sequences at their breakpoints. Similar sequence breakpoints recurrently affect somatic DNA rearrangements of known tumor suppressors and oncogenes in medulloblastomas in 329 children. This identifies PGBD5 as a medulloblastoma mutator and provides a genetic mechanism for the generation of oncogenic DNA rearrangements in childhood cancer.


Assuntos
Neoplasias Cerebelares , Meduloblastoma , Humanos , Criança , Animais , Camundongos , Meduloblastoma/genética , Transposases/genética , Transposases/metabolismo , Proteínas Hedgehog/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Mutagênese , Neoplasias Cerebelares/genética
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Redox Biol ; 70: 103028, 2024 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38211442

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Significant efforts have focused on identifying targetable genetic drivers that support the growth of solid tumors and/or increase metastatic ability. During tumor development and progression to metastatic disease, physiological and pharmacological selective pressures influence parallel adaptive strategies within cancer cell sub-populations. Such adaptations allow cancer cells to withstand these stressful microenvironments. This Darwinian model of stress adaptation often prevents durable clinical responses and influences the emergence of aggressive cancers with increased metastatic fitness. However, the mechanisms contributing to such adaptive stress responses are poorly understood. We now demonstrate that the p66ShcA redox protein, itself a ROS inducer, is essential for survival in response to physiological stressors, including anchorage independence and nutrient deprivation, in the context of poor outcome breast cancers. Mechanistically, we show that p66ShcA promotes both glucose and glutamine metabolic reprogramming in breast cancer cells, to increase their capacity to engage catabolic metabolism and support glutathione synthesis. In doing so, chronic p66ShcA exposure contributes to adaptive stress responses, providing breast cancer cells with sufficient ATP and redox balance needed to withstand such transient stressed states. Our studies demonstrate that p66ShcA functionally contributes to the maintenance of aggressive phenotypes and the emergence of metastatic disease by forcing breast tumors to adapt to chronic and moderately elevated levels of oxidative stress.


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Neoplasias da Mama , Humanos , Feminino , Proteínas Adaptadoras da Sinalização Shc/genética , Proteínas Adaptadoras da Sinalização Shc/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Proteína 1 de Transformação que Contém Domínio 2 de Homologia de Src/metabolismo , Estresse Oxidativo/fisiologia , Fenótipo , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Microambiente Tumoral
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Mol Cell Biol ; 44(1): 1-16, 2024 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38270191

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The ubiquitin proteasome system performs the covalent attachment of lysine 48-linked polyubiquitin chains to substrate proteins, thereby targeting them for degradation, while deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) reverse this process. This posttranslational modification regulates key features both of innate and adaptative immunity, including antigen presentation, protein homeostasis and signal transduction. Here we show that loss of one of the most highly expressed DUBs, Otub1, results in changes in murine splenic B cell subsets, leading to a significant increase in marginal zone and transitional B cells and a concomitant decrease in follicular B cells. We demonstrate that Otub1 interacts with the γ-subunit of the heterotrimeric G protein, Gng2, and modulates its ubiquitylation status, thereby controlling Gng2 stability. Proximal mapping of Gng2 revealed an enrichment in partners associated with chemokine signaling, actin cytoskeleton and cell migration. In line with these findings, we show that Otub1-deficient B cells exhibit greater Ca2+ mobilization, F-actin polymerization and chemotactic responsiveness to Cxcl12, Cxcl13 and S1P in vitro, which manifests in vivo as altered localization of B cells within the spleen. Together, our data establishes Otub1 as a novel regulator of G-protein coupled receptor signaling in B cells, regulating their differentiation and positioning in the spleen.


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Quimiotaxia de Leucócito , Enzimas Desubiquitinantes , Baço , Ubiquitina , Animais , Camundongos , Enzimas Desubiquitinantes/metabolismo , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Baço/metabolismo , Ubiquitina/metabolismo , Ubiquitinação , Cisteína Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismo , Linfócitos B/metabolismo , Quimiotaxia de Leucócito/genética
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J Cell Sci ; 136(13)2023 07 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37313743

RESUMO

The genetic alterations contributing to migration proficiency, a phenotypic hallmark of metastatic cells required for colonizing distant organs, remain poorly defined. Here, we used single-cell magneto-optical capture (scMOCa) to isolate fast cells from heterogeneous human breast cancer cell populations, based on their migratory ability alone. We show that captured fast cell subpopulations retain higher migration speed and focal adhesion dynamics over many generations as a result of a motility-related transcriptomic profile. Upregulated genes in isolated fast cells encoded integrin subunits, proto-cadherins and numerous other genes associated with cell migration. Dysregulation of several of these genes correlates with poor survival outcomes in people with breast cancer, and primary tumors established from fast cells generated a higher number of circulating tumor cells and soft tissue metastases in pre-clinical mouse models. Subpopulations of cells selected for a highly migratory phenotype demonstrated an increased fitness for metastasis.


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Neoplasias da Mama , Células Neoplásicas Circulantes , Animais , Camundongos , Humanos , Feminino , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Células Neoplásicas Circulantes/patologia , Movimento Celular/genética , Caderinas , Metástase Neoplásica
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J Exp Med ; 220(9)2023 09 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37310381

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Positively selected germinal center B cells (GCBC) can either resume proliferation and somatic hypermutation or differentiate. The mechanisms dictating these alternative cell fates are incompletely understood. We show that the protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (Prmt1) is upregulated in murine GCBC by Myc and mTORC-dependent signaling after positive selection. Deleting Prmt1 in activated B cells compromises antibody affinity maturation by hampering proliferation and GCBC light zone to dark zone cycling. Prmt1 deficiency also results in enhanced memory B cell generation and plasma cell differentiation, albeit the quality of these cells is compromised by the GCBC defects. We further demonstrate that Prmt1 intrinsically limits plasma cell differentiation, a function co-opted by B cell lymphoma (BCL) cells. Consistently, PRMT1 expression in BCL correlates with poor disease outcome, depends on MYC and mTORC1 activity, is required for cell proliferation, and prevents differentiation. Collectively, these data identify PRMT1 as a determinant of normal and cancerous mature B cell proliferation and differentiation balance.


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Linfócitos B , Proteína-Arginina N-Metiltransferases , Animais , Camundongos , Afinidade de Anticorpos , Diferenciação Celular , Centro Germinativo , Proteína-Arginina N-Metiltransferases/genética , Proliferação de Células
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Cancer Discov ; 13(7): 1592-1615, 2023 07 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37011011

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Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) are lethal, incurable brain tumors frequently driven by clonal mutations in histone genes. They often harbor a range of additional genetic alterations that correlate with different ages, anatomic locations, and tumor subtypes. We developed models representing 16 pHGG subtypes driven by different combinations of alterations targeted to specific brain regions. Tumors developed with varying latencies and cell lines derived from these models engrafted in syngeneic, immunocompetent mice with high penetrance. Targeted drug screening revealed unexpected selective vulnerabilities-H3.3G34R/PDGFRAC235Y to FGFR inhibition, H3.3K27M/PDGFRAWT to PDGFRA inhibition, and H3.3K27M/PDGFRAWT and H3.3K27M/PPM1DΔC/PIK3CAE545K to combined inhibition of MEK and PIK3CA. Moreover, H3.3K27M tumors with PIK3CA, NF1, and FGFR1 mutations were more invasive and harbored distinct additional phenotypes, such as exophytic spread, cranial nerve invasion, and spinal dissemination. Collectively, these models reveal that different partner alterations produce distinct effects on pHGG cellular composition, latency, invasiveness, and treatment sensitivity. SIGNIFICANCE: Histone-mutant pediatric gliomas are a highly heterogeneous tumor entity. Different histone mutations correlate with different ages of onset, survival outcomes, brain regions, and partner alterations. We have developed models of histone-mutant gliomas that reflect this anatomic and genetic heterogeneity and provide evidence of subtype-specific biology and therapeutic targeting. See related commentary by Lubanszky and Hawkins, p. 1516. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 1501.


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Neoplasias Encefálicas , Glioma , Animais , Camundongos , Histonas/metabolismo , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Glioma/tratamento farmacológico , Glioma/genética , Neoplasias Encefálicas/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Encefálicas/genética , Neoplasias Encefálicas/metabolismo , Encéfalo/patologia , Mutação
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Nat Genet ; 54(12): 1865-1880, 2022 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36471070

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Canonical (H3.1/H3.2) and noncanonical (H3.3) histone 3 K27M-mutant gliomas have unique spatiotemporal distributions, partner alterations and molecular profiles. The contribution of the cell of origin to these differences has been challenging to uncouple from the oncogenic reprogramming induced by the mutation. Here, we perform an integrated analysis of 116 tumors, including single-cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility, 3D chromatin architecture and epigenomic profiles, and show that K27M-mutant gliomas faithfully maintain chromatin configuration at developmental genes consistent with anatomically distinct oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). H3.3K27M thalamic gliomas map to prosomere 2-derived lineages. In turn, H3.1K27M ACVR1-mutant pontine gliomas uniformly mirror early ventral NKX6-1+/SHH-dependent brainstem OPCs, whereas H3.3K27M gliomas frequently resemble dorsal PAX3+/BMP-dependent progenitors. Our data suggest a context-specific vulnerability in H3.1K27M-mutant SHH-dependent ventral OPCs, which rely on acquisition of ACVR1 mutations to drive aberrant BMP signaling required for oncogenesis. The unifying action of K27M mutations is to restrict H3K27me3 at PRC2 landing sites, whereas other epigenetic changes are mainly contingent on the cell of origin chromatin state and cycling rate.


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Cromatina , Epigenômica , Linhagem da Célula/genética , Encéfalo
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 119(36): e2203452119, 2022 09 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36037342

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The contribution of deregulated chromatin architecture, including topologically associated domains (TADs), to cancer progression remains ambiguous. CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is a central regulator of higher-order chromatin structure that undergoes copy number loss in over half of all breast cancers, but the impact of this defect on epigenetic programming and chromatin architecture remains unclear. We find that under physiological conditions, CTCF organizes subTADs to limit the expression of oncogenic pathways, including phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and cell adhesion networks. Loss of a single CTCF allele potentiates cell invasion through compromised chromatin insulation and a reorganization of chromatin architecture and histone programming that facilitates de novo promoter-enhancer contacts. However, this change in the higher-order chromatin landscape leads to a vulnerability to inhibitors of mTOR. These data support a model whereby subTAD reorganization drives both modification of histones at de novo enhancer-promoter contacts and transcriptional up-regulation of oncogenic transcriptional networks.


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Montagem e Desmontagem da Cromatina , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Invasividade Neoplásica , Fator de Ligação a CCCTC/metabolismo , Carcinogênese/genética , Cromatina/genética , Cromatina/metabolismo , Humanos , Invasividade Neoplásica/genética , Invasividade Neoplásica/patologia , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/genética , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinases/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas
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Children (Basel) ; 8(6)2021 Jun 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34205278

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BACKGROUND: Data on the end-of-life phase of children receiving palliative care are limited. The purpose of this study is to investigate the spectrum of symptoms of terminally ill children, adolescents, and young adults, depending on their underlying disease. METHODS: Findings are based on a 4.5-year retrospective study of 89 children who received palliative care before they died, investigating the symptomatology of the last two weeks before death. RESULTS: In this study, the most common clinical symptomatology present in children undergoing end-of-life care includes pain, shortness of breath, anxiety, nausea, and constipation. Out of 89 patients included in this study, 47% suffered from an oncological disease. Oncological patients had a significantly higher symptom burden at the end of life (p < 0.05) compared to other groups, and the intensity of symptoms increased as the underlying disease progressed. The likelihood of experiencing pain and nausea/vomiting was also significantly higher in oncological patients (p = 0.016). CONCLUSIONS: We found that the underlying disease is associated with marked differences in the respective leading clinical symptom. Therefore, related to these differences, symptom management has to be adjusted according to the underlying disease, since the underlying disorder seems to exert an influence on the severity of symptoms and thereby on the modality and choice of treatment. This study is intended to aid underlying disease-specific symptom management at the end-of-life care for children, adolescents, and young adults, with a specific focus on end-of-life care in a home environment.

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Nat Commun ; 12(1): 3299, 2021 06 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34083537

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Bioenergetic perturbations driving neoplastic growth increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), requiring a compensatory increase in ROS scavengers to limit oxidative stress. Intervention strategies that simultaneously induce energetic and oxidative stress therefore have therapeutic potential. Phenformin is a mitochondrial complex I inhibitor that induces bioenergetic stress. We now demonstrate that inflammatory mediators, including IFNγ and polyIC, potentiate the cytotoxicity of phenformin by inducing a parallel increase in oxidative stress through STAT1-dependent mechanisms. Indeed, STAT1 signaling downregulates NQO1, a key ROS scavenger, in many breast cancer models. Moreover, genetic ablation or pharmacological inhibition of NQO1 using ß-lapachone (an NQO1 bioactivatable drug) increases oxidative stress to selectively sensitize breast cancer models, including patient derived xenografts of HER2+ and triple negative disease, to the tumoricidal effects of phenformin. We provide evidence that therapies targeting ROS scavengers increase the anti-neoplastic efficacy of mitochondrial complex I inhibitors in breast cancer.


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Neoplasias da Mama/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Fenformin/farmacologia , Fator de Transcrição STAT1/metabolismo , Animais , Antineoplásicos/administração & dosagem , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Sinergismo Farmacológico , Complexo I de Transporte de Elétrons/antagonistas & inibidores , Metabolismo Energético/efeitos dos fármacos , Feminino , Glutationa/antagonistas & inibidores , Glutationa/biossíntese , Humanos , Interferon gama/administração & dosagem , Interferon gama/deficiência , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Células MCF-7 , Neoplasias Mamárias Experimentais/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Mamárias Experimentais/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Knockout , Camundongos SCID , NAD(P)H Desidrogenase (Quinona)/antagonistas & inibidores , NAD(P)H Desidrogenase (Quinona)/metabolismo , Naftoquinonas/administração & dosagem , Estresse Oxidativo/efeitos dos fármacos , Fenformin/administração & dosagem , Poli I-C/administração & dosagem , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Fator de Transcrição STAT1/agonistas , Ensaios Antitumorais Modelo de Xenoenxerto
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Clin Transl Med ; 11(4): e401, 2021 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33931971

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BACKGROUND: Therapeutic resistance is the main cause of death in metastatic colorectal cancer. To investigate genomic plasticity, most specifically of metastatic lesions, associated with response to first-line systemic therapy, we collected longitudinal liver metastatic samples and characterized the copy number aberration (CNA) landscape and its effect on the transcriptome. METHODS: Liver metastatic biopsies were collected prior to treatment (pre, n = 97) and when clinical imaging demonstrated therapeutic resistance (post, n = 43). CNAs were inferred from whole exome sequencing and were correlated with both the status of the lesion and overall patient progression-free survival (PFS). We used RNA sequencing data from the same sample set to validate aberrations as well as independent datasets to prioritize candidate genes. RESULTS: We identified a significantly increased frequency gain of a unique CN, in liver metastatic lesions after first-line treatment, on chr18p11.32 harboring 10 genes, including TYMS, which has not been reported in primary tumors (GISTIC method and test of equal proportions, FDR-adjusted p = 0.0023). CNA lesion profiles exhibiting different treatment responses were compared and we detected focal genomic divergences in post-treatment resistant lesions but not in responder lesions (two-tailed Fisher's Exact test, unadjusted p ≤ 0.005). The importance of examining metastatic lesions is highlighted by the fact that 15 out of 18 independently validated CNA regions found to be associated with PFS in this study were only identified in the metastatic lesions and not in the primary tumors. CONCLUSION: This investigation of genomic-phenotype associations in a large colorectal cancer liver metastases cohort identified novel molecular features associated with treatment response, supporting the clinical importance of collecting metastatic samples in a defined clinical setting.


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Neoplasias Colorretais/genética , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA/genética , Transcriptoma/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Antineoplásicos/uso terapêutico , Bevacizumab/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Colorretais/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Colorretais/patologia , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos/genética , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/secundário , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Intervalo Livre de Progressão , Sequenciamento do Exoma
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Nat Commun ; 12(1): 971, 2021 02 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33579942

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Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is an incurable malignant childhood brain tumor, with no active systemic therapies and a 5-year survival of less than 1%. Polyamines are small organic polycations that are essential for DNA replication, translation and cell proliferation. Ornithine decarboxylase 1 (ODC1), the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine synthesis, is irreversibly inhibited by difluoromethylornithine (DFMO). Herein we show that polyamine synthesis is upregulated in DIPG, leading to sensitivity to DFMO. DIPG cells compensate for ODC1 inhibition by upregulation of the polyamine transporter SLC3A2. Treatment with the polyamine transporter inhibitor AMXT 1501 reduces uptake of polyamines in DIPG cells, and co-administration of AMXT 1501 and DFMO leads to potent in vitro activity, and significant extension of survival in three aggressive DIPG orthotopic animal models. Collectively, these results demonstrate the potential of dual targeting of polyamine synthesis and uptake as a therapeutic strategy for incurable DIPG.


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Transporte Biológico/efeitos dos fármacos , Neoplasias do Tronco Encefálico/tratamento farmacológico , Glioma Pontino Intrínseco Difuso/tratamento farmacológico , Poliaminas/metabolismo , Poliaminas/farmacologia , Animais , Morte Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Replicação do DNA/efeitos dos fármacos , Transportadores de Ácidos Dicarboxílicos , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Eflornitina/farmacologia , Eflornitina/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Nus , Proteínas de Transporte da Membrana Mitocondrial , Ornitina Descarboxilase/efeitos dos fármacos , Ornitina Descarboxilase/metabolismo , Poliaminas/uso terapêutico
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Cell ; 183(6): 1617-1633.e22, 2020 12 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33259802

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Histone H3.3 glycine 34 to arginine/valine (G34R/V) mutations drive deadly gliomas and show exquisite regional and temporal specificity, suggesting a developmental context permissive to their effects. Here we show that 50% of G34R/V tumors (n = 95) bear activating PDGFRA mutations that display strong selection pressure at recurrence. Although considered gliomas, G34R/V tumors actually arise in GSX2/DLX-expressing interneuron progenitors, where G34R/V mutations impair neuronal differentiation. The lineage of origin may facilitate PDGFRA co-option through a chromatin loop connecting PDGFRA to GSX2 regulatory elements, promoting PDGFRA overexpression and mutation. At the single-cell level, G34R/V tumors harbor dual neuronal/astroglial identity and lack oligodendroglial programs, actively repressed by GSX2/DLX-mediated cell fate specification. G34R/V may become dispensable for tumor maintenance, whereas mutant-PDGFRA is potently oncogenic. Collectively, our results open novel research avenues in deadly tumors. G34R/V gliomas are neuronal malignancies where interneuron progenitors are stalled in differentiation by G34R/V mutations and malignant gliogenesis is promoted by co-option of a potentially targetable pathway, PDGFRA signaling.


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Neoplasias Encefálicas/genética , Carcinogênese/genética , Glioma/genética , Histonas/genética , Interneurônios/metabolismo , Mutação/genética , Células-Tronco Neurais/metabolismo , Receptor alfa de Fator de Crescimento Derivado de Plaquetas/genética , Animais , Astrócitos/metabolismo , Astrócitos/patologia , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Carcinogênese/patologia , Linhagem da Célula , Reprogramação Celular/genética , Cromatina/metabolismo , Embrião de Mamíferos/metabolismo , Epigênese Genética , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Inativação Gênica , Glioma/patologia , Histonas/metabolismo , Lisina/metabolismo , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Modelos Biológicos , Gradação de Tumores , Oligodendroglia/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Prosencéfalo/embriologia , Receptor alfa de Fator de Crescimento Derivado de Plaquetas/metabolismo , Transcrição Gênica , Transcriptoma/genética
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Nat Genet ; 51(12): 1702-1713, 2019 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31768071

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Childhood brain tumors have suspected prenatal origins. To identify vulnerable developmental states, we generated a single-cell transcriptome atlas of >65,000 cells from embryonal pons and forebrain, two major tumor locations. We derived signatures for 191 distinct cell populations and defined the regional cellular diversity and differentiation dynamics. Projection of bulk tumor transcriptomes onto this dataset shows that WNT medulloblastomas match the rhombic lip-derived mossy fiber neuronal lineage and embryonal tumors with multilayered rosettes fully recapitulate a neuronal lineage, while group 2a/b atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors may originate outside the neuroectoderm. Importantly, single-cell tumor profiles reveal highly defined cell hierarchies that mirror transcriptional programs of the corresponding normal lineages. Our findings identify impaired differentiation of specific neural progenitors as a common mechanism underlying these pediatric cancers and provide a rational framework for future modeling and therapeutic interventions.


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Neoplasias Encefálicas/genética , Neoplasias Encefálicas/patologia , Encéfalo/embriologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Animais , Encéfalo/patologia , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Humanos , Lactente , Meduloblastoma/genética , Meduloblastoma/patologia , Camundongos , Neoplasias Embrionárias de Células Germinativas/genética , Neoplasias Embrionárias de Células Germinativas/patologia , Fibras Nervosas/patologia , Fibras Nervosas/fisiologia , Prosencéfalo/citologia , Prosencéfalo/embriologia , Tumor Rabdoide/genética , Tumor Rabdoide/patologia , Análise de Célula Única
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Nat Commun ; 10(1): 22, 2019 01 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30604754

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Mechanisms regulating B cell development, activation, education in the germinal center (GC) and differentiation, underpin the humoral immune response. Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (Prmt5), which catalyzes most symmetric dimethyl arginine protein modifications, is overexpressed in B cell lymphomas but its function in normal B cells is poorly defined. Here we show that Prmt5 is necessary for antibody responses and has essential but distinct functions in all proliferative B cell stages in mice. Prmt5 is necessary for B cell development by preventing p53-dependent and p53-independent blocks in Pro-B and Pre-B cells, respectively. By contrast, Prmt5 protects, via p53-independent pathways, mature B cells from apoptosis during activation, promotes GC expansion, and counters plasma cell differentiation. Phenotypic and RNA-seq data indicate that Prmt5 regulates GC light zone B cell fate by regulating transcriptional programs, achieved in part by ensuring RNA splicing fidelity. Our results establish Prmt5 as an essential regulator of B cell biology.


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Linfócitos B/fisiologia , Proliferação de Células/fisiologia , Centro Germinativo/fisiologia , Imunidade Humoral/fisiologia , Proteína-Arginina N-Metiltransferases/fisiologia , Animais , Apoptose/imunologia , Linfócitos B/imunologia , Linfócitos B/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/imunologia , Células Cultivadas , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Técnicas de Silenciamento de Genes , Centro Germinativo/citologia , Humanos , Ativação Linfocitária/imunologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Transgênicos , Cultura Primária de Células , Proteína-Arginina N-Metiltransferases/genética , Proteína-Arginina N-Metiltransferases/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Trichostrongyloidea/imunologia , Tricostrongiloidíase/imunologia , Tricostrongiloidíase/parasitologia , Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53/metabolismo
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Mol Cancer Res ; 16(5): 894-908, 2018 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29453318

RESUMO

The commonality between most phospho-tyrosine signaling networks is their shared use of adaptor proteins to transduce mitogenic signals. ShcA (SHC1) is one such adaptor protein that employs two phospho-tyrosine binding domains (PTB and SH2) and key phospho-tyrosine residues to promote mammary tumorigenesis. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK), such as ErbB2, bind the ShcA PTB domain to promote breast tumorigenesis by engaging Grb2 downstream of the ShcA tyrosine phosphorylation sites to activate AKT/mTOR signaling. However, breast tumors also rely on the ShcA PTB domain to bind numerous negative regulators that limit activation of secondary mitogenic signaling networks. This study examines the role of PTB-independent ShcA pools in controlling breast tumor growth and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. We demonstrate that PTB-independent ShcA complexes predominately rely on the ShcA SH2 domain to activate multiple Src family kinases (SFK), including Src and Fyn, in ErbB2-positive breast cancers. Using genetic and pharmacologic approaches, we show that PTB-independent ShcA complexes augment mammary tumorigenesis by increasing the activity of the Src and Fyn tyrosine kinases in an SH2-dependent manner. This bifurcation of signaling complexes from distinct ShcA pools transduces non-redundant signals that integrate the AKT/mTOR and SFK pathways to cooperatively increase breast tumor growth and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including lapatinib and PP2. This study mechanistically dissects how the interplay between diverse intracellular ShcA complexes impacts the tyrosine kinome to affect breast tumorigenesis.Implications: The ShcA adaptor, within distinct signaling complexes, impacts tyrosine kinase signaling, breast tumor growth, and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Mol Cancer Res; 16(5); 894-908. ©2018 AACR.


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Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/metabolismo , Proteína 1 de Transformação que Contém Domínio 2 de Homologia de Src/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Feminino , Humanos , Transdução de Sinais
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