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Cancer is characterized by hypomethylation-associated silencing of large chromatin domains, whose contribution to tumorigenesis is uncertain. Through high-resolution genome-wide single-cell DNA methylation sequencing, we identify 40 core domains that are uniformly hypomethylated from the earliest detectable stages of prostate malignancy through metastatic circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Nested among these repressive domains are smaller loci with preserved methylation that escape silencing and are enriched for cell proliferation genes. Transcriptionally silenced genes within the core hypomethylated domains are enriched for immune-related genes; prominent among these is a single gene cluster harboring all five CD1 genes that present lipid antigens to NKT cells and four IFI16-related interferon-inducible genes implicated in innate immunity. The re-expression of CD1 or IFI16 murine orthologs in immuno-competent mice abrogates tumorigenesis, accompanied by the activation of anti-tumor immunity. Thus, early epigenetic changes may shape tumorigenesis, targeting co-located genes within defined chromosomal loci. Hypomethylation domains are detectable in blood specimens enriched for CTCs.
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Metilação de DNA , Neoplasias da Próstata , Animais , Humanos , Masculino , Camundongos , Carcinogênese/genética , DNA , Epigênese Genética , Neoplasias da Próstata/genética , Células Neoplásicas CirculantesRESUMO
Single-cell technologies have described heterogeneity across tissues, but the spatial distribution and forces that drive single-cell phenotypes have not been well defined. Combining single-cell RNA and protein analytics in studying the role of stromal cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in modulating heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma [PDAC]) model systems, we have identified significant single-cell population shifts toward invasive epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and proliferative (PRO) phenotypes linked with mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling. Using high-content digital imaging of RNA in situ hybridization in 195 PDAC tumors, we quantified these EMT and PRO subpopulations in 319,626 individual cancer cells that can be classified within the context of distinct tumor gland "units." Tumor gland typing provided an additional layer of intratumoral heterogeneity that was associated with differences in stromal abundance and clinical outcomes. This demonstrates the impact of the stroma in shaping tumor architecture by altering inherent patterns of tumor glands in human PDAC.
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Fibroblastos Associados a Câncer/metabolismo , Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático/metabolismo , Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático/patologia , Neoplasias Pancreáticas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pancreáticas/patologia , Microambiente Tumoral , Animais , Proliferação de Células , Técnicas de Cocultura , Transição Epitelial-Mesenquimal , Feminino , Células HEK293 , Xenoenxertos , Humanos , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos NOD , Camundongos SCID , Proteínas Quinases Ativadas por Mitógeno/metabolismo , RNA-Seq , Fator de Transcrição STAT3/metabolismo , Células Estromais/metabolismo , TransfecçãoRESUMO
Acquired chromosomal DNA amplifications are features of many tumors. Although overexpression and stabilization of the histone H3 lysine 9/36 (H3K9/36) tri-demethylase KDM4A generates transient site-specific copy number gains (TSSGs), additional mechanisms directly controlling site-specific DNA copy gains are not well defined. In this study, we uncover a collection of H3K4-modifying chromatin regulators that function with H3K9 and H3K36 regulators to orchestrate TSSGs. Specifically, the H3K4 tri-demethylase KDM5A and specific COMPASS/KMT2 H3K4 methyltransferases modulate different TSSG loci through H3K4 methylation states and KDM4A recruitment. Furthermore, a distinct chromatin modifier network, MLL1-KDM4B-KDM5B, controls copy number regulation at a specific genomic locus in a KDM4A-independent manner. These pathways comprise an epigenetic addressing system for defining site-specific DNA rereplication and amplifications.
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Cromatina/metabolismo , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Metilação de DNA , Histonas/metabolismo , Lisina/metabolismo , Proteína 2 de Ligação ao Retinoblastoma/metabolismo , Ciclo Celular , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Proteína 2 de Ligação ao Retinoblastoma/genéticaRESUMO
We conducted comprehensive integrative molecular analyses of the complete set of tumors in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), consisting of approximately 10,000 specimens and representing 33 types of cancer. We performed molecular clustering using data on chromosome-arm-level aneuploidy, DNA hypermethylation, mRNA, and miRNA expression levels and reverse-phase protein arrays, of which all, except for aneuploidy, revealed clustering primarily organized by histology, tissue type, or anatomic origin. The influence of cell type was evident in DNA-methylation-based clustering, even after excluding sites with known preexisting tissue-type-specific methylation. Integrative clustering further emphasized the dominant role of cell-of-origin patterns. Molecular similarities among histologically or anatomically related cancer types provide a basis for focused pan-cancer analyses, such as pan-gastrointestinal, pan-gynecological, pan-kidney, and pan-squamous cancers, and those related by stemness features, which in turn may inform strategies for future therapeutic development.
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Neoplasias/patologia , Aneuploidia , Cromossomos/genética , Análise por Conglomerados , Ilhas de CpG , Metilação de DNA , Bases de Dados Factuais , Humanos , MicroRNAs/metabolismo , Mutação , Proteínas de Neoplasias/genética , Proteínas de Neoplasias/metabolismo , Neoplasias/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismoRESUMO
Identifying molecular cancer drivers is critical for precision oncology. Multiple advanced algorithms to identify drivers now exist, but systematic attempts to combine and optimize them on large datasets are few. We report a PanCancer and PanSoftware analysis spanning 9,423 tumor exomes (comprising all 33 of The Cancer Genome Atlas projects) and using 26 computational tools to catalog driver genes and mutations. We identify 299 driver genes with implications regarding their anatomical sites and cancer/cell types. Sequence- and structure-based analyses identified >3,400 putative missense driver mutations supported by multiple lines of evidence. Experimental validation confirmed 60%-85% of predicted mutations as likely drivers. We found that >300 MSI tumors are associated with high PD-1/PD-L1, and 57% of tumors analyzed harbor putative clinically actionable events. Our study represents the most comprehensive discovery of cancer genes and mutations to date and will serve as a blueprint for future biological and clinical endeavors.
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Neoplasias/patologia , Algoritmos , Antígeno B7-H1/genética , Biologia Computacional , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Entropia , Humanos , Instabilidade de Microssatélites , Mutação , Neoplasias/genética , Neoplasias/imunologia , Análise de Componente Principal , Receptor de Morte Celular Programada 1/genéticaRESUMO
Mutational processes constantly shape the somatic genome, leading to immunity, aging, cancer, and other diseases. When cancer is the outcome, we are afforded a glimpse into these processes by the clonal expansion of the malignant cell. Here, we characterize a less explored layer of the mutational landscape of cancer: mutational asymmetries between the two DNA strands. Analyzing whole-genome sequences of 590 tumors from 14 different cancer types, we reveal widespread asymmetries across mutagenic processes, with transcriptional ("T-class") asymmetry dominating UV-, smoking-, and liver-cancer-associated mutations and replicative ("R-class") asymmetry dominating POLE-, APOBEC-, and MSI-associated mutations. We report a striking phenomenon of transcription-coupled damage (TCD) on the non-transcribed DNA strand and provide evidence that APOBEC mutagenesis occurs on the lagging-strand template during DNA replication. As more genomes are sequenced, studying and classifying their asymmetries will illuminate the underlying biological mechanisms of DNA damage and repair.
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Dano ao DNA , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Reparo do DNA , Neoplasias/genética , Replicação do DNA , Genoma Humano , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Mutação , Neoplasias/patologia , Transcrição GênicaRESUMO
The mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency of cancer cells drives mutagenesis and offers a useful biomarker for immunotherapy. However, many MMR-deficient (MMR-d) tumors do not respond to immunotherapy, highlighting the need for alternative approaches to target MMR-d cancer cells. Here, we show that inhibition of the ATR kinase preferentially kills MMR-d cancer cells. Mechanistically, ATR inhibitor (ATRi) imposes synthetic lethality on MMR-d cells by inducing DNA damage in a replication- and MUS81 nuclease-dependent manner. The DNA damage induced by ATRi is colocalized with both MSH2 and PCNA, suggesting that it arises from DNA structures recognized by MMR proteins during replication. In syngeneic mouse models, ATRi effectively reduces the growth of MMR-d tumors. Interestingly, the antitumor effects of ATRi are partially due to CD8+ T cells. In MMR-d cells, ATRi stimulates the accumulation of nascent DNA fragments in the cytoplasm, activating the cGAS-mediated interferon response. The combination of ATRi and anti-PD-1 antibody reduces the growth of MMR-d tumors more efficiently than ATRi or anti-PD-1 alone, showing the ability of ATRi to augment the immunotherapy of MMR-d tumors. Thus, ATRi selectively targets MMR-d tumor cells by inducing synthetic lethality and enhancing antitumor immunity, providing a promising strategy to complement and augment MMR deficiency-guided immunotherapy.
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Linfócitos T CD8-Positivos , Reparo de Erro de Pareamento de DNA , Animais , Camundongos , Reparo de Erro de Pareamento de DNA/genética , Mutações Sintéticas Letais , DNA , ImunoterapiaRESUMO
In Rspondin-based 3D cultures, Lgr5 stem cells from multiple organs form ever-expanding epithelial organoids that retain their tissue identity. We report the establishment of tumor organoid cultures from 20 consecutive colorectal carcinoma (CRC) patients. For most, organoids were also generated from adjacent normal tissue. Organoids closely recapitulate several properties of the original tumor. The spectrum of genetic changes within the "living biobank" agrees well with previous large-scale mutational analyses of CRC. Gene expression analysis indicates that the major CRC molecular subtypes are represented. Tumor organoids are amenable to high-throughput drug screens allowing detection of gene-drug associations. As an example, a single organoid culture was exquisitely sensitive to Wnt secretion (porcupine) inhibitors and carried a mutation in the negative Wnt feedback regulator RNF43, rather than in APC. Organoid technology may fill the gap between cancer genetics and patient trials, complement cell-line- and xenograft-based drug studies, and allow personalized therapy design. PAPERCLIP.
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Bancos de Espécimes Biológicos , Neoplasias Colorretais/patologia , Ensaios de Seleção de Medicamentos Antitumorais/métodos , Organoides , Neoplasias Colorretais/tratamento farmacológico , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Humanos , Proteínas Oncogênicas/metabolismo , Técnicas de Cultura de Órgãos , Organoides/efeitos dos fármacos , Medicina de Precisão , Ubiquitina-Proteína LigasesRESUMO
The interaction of RB with chromatin is key to understanding its molecular functions. Here, for first time, we identify the full spectrum of chromatin-bound RB. Rather than exclusively binding promoters, as is often described, RB targets three fundamentally different types of loci (promoters, enhancers, and insulators), which are largely distinguishable by the mutually exclusive presence of E2F1, c-Jun, and CTCF. While E2F/DP facilitates RB association with promoters, AP-1 recruits RB to enhancers. Although phosphorylation in CDK sites is often portrayed as releasing RB from chromatin, we show that the cell cycle redistributes RB so that it enriches at promoters in G1 and at non-promoter sites in cycling cells. RB-bound promoters include the classic E2F-targets and are similar between lineages, but RB-bound enhancers associate with different categories of genes and vary between cell types. Thus, RB has a well-preserved role controlling E2F in G1, and it targets cell-type-specific enhancers and CTCF sites when cells enter S-phase.
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Cromatina , Proteína do Retinoblastoma , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Cromatina/genética , Fatores de Transcrição E2F/genética , Fatores de Transcrição E2F/metabolismo , Fator de Transcrição E2F1/genética , Fator de Transcrição E2F1/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Proteína do Retinoblastoma/genética , Proteína do Retinoblastoma/metabolismo , Fator de Transcrição AP-1/genéticaRESUMO
Acquired drug resistance to anticancer targeted therapies remains an unsolved clinical problem. Although many drivers of acquired drug resistance have been identified1-4, the underlying molecular mechanisms shaping tumour evolution during treatment are incompletely understood. Genomic profiling of patient tumours has implicated apolipoprotein B messenger RNA editing catalytic polypeptide-like (APOBEC) cytidine deaminases in tumour evolution; however, their role during therapy and the development of acquired drug resistance is undefined. Here we report that lung cancer targeted therapies commonly used in the clinic can induce cytidine deaminase APOBEC3A (A3A), leading to sustained mutagenesis in drug-tolerant cancer cells persisting during therapy. Therapy-induced A3A promotes the formation of double-strand DNA breaks, increasing genomic instability in drug-tolerant persisters. Deletion of A3A reduces APOBEC mutations and structural variations in persister cells and delays the development of drug resistance. APOBEC mutational signatures are enriched in tumours from patients with lung cancer who progressed after extended responses to targeted therapies. This study shows that induction of A3A in response to targeted therapies drives evolution of drug-tolerant persister cells, suggesting that suppression of A3A expression or activity may represent a potential therapeutic strategy in the prevention or delay of acquired resistance to lung cancer targeted therapy.
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Citidina Desaminase , Neoplasias Pulmonares , Humanos , Citidina Desaminase/deficiência , Citidina Desaminase/efeitos dos fármacos , Citidina Desaminase/genética , Citidina Desaminase/metabolismo , Quebras de DNA de Cadeia Dupla , Instabilidade Genômica , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Neoplasias Pulmonares/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patologia , Terapia de Alvo Molecular , Mutação , Resistencia a Medicamentos AntineoplásicosRESUMO
Deregulation of oncogenic signals in cancer triggers replication stress. Immediate early genes (IEGs) are rapidly and transiently expressed following stressful signals, contributing to an integrated response. Here, we find that the orphan nuclear receptor NR4A1 localizes across the gene body and 3' UTR of IEGs, where it inhibits transcriptional elongation by RNA Pol II, generating R-loops and accessible chromatin domains. Acute replication stress causes immediate dissociation of NR4A1 and a burst of transcriptionally poised IEG expression. Ectopic expression of NR4A1 enhances tumorigenesis by breast cancer cells, while its deletion leads to massive chromosomal instability and proliferative failure, driven by deregulated expression of its IEG target, FOS. Approximately half of breast and other primary cancers exhibit accessible chromatin domains at IEG gene bodies, consistent with this stress-regulatory pathway. Cancers that have retained this mechanism in adapting to oncogenic replication stress may be dependent on NR4A1 for their proliferation.
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Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Proliferação de Células , Proteínas Imediatamente Precoces/metabolismo , Mitose , Células Neoplásicas Circulantes/metabolismo , Membro 1 do Grupo A da Subfamília 4 de Receptores Nucleares/metabolismo , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Animais , Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Sítios de Ligação , Neoplasias da Mama/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Montagem e Desmontagem da Cromatina , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Instabilidade Genômica , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Proteínas Imediatamente Precoces/genética , Indóis/farmacologia , Células MCF-7 , Camundongos Endogâmicos NOD , Camundongos SCID , Mitose/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Neoplásicas Circulantes/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Neoplásicas Circulantes/patologia , Membro 1 do Grupo A da Subfamília 4 de Receptores Nucleares/antagonistas & inibidores , Membro 1 do Grupo A da Subfamília 4 de Receptores Nucleares/genética , Fenilacetatos/farmacologia , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-fos/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-fos/metabolismo , Estruturas R-Loop , RNA Polimerase II/genética , RNA Polimerase II/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Elongação da Transcrição Genética , Células Tumorais Cultivadas , Ensaios Antitumorais Modelo de XenoenxertoRESUMO
Clonal evolution is a key feature of cancer progression and relapse. We studied intratumoral heterogeneity in 149 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cases by integrating whole-exome sequence and copy number to measure the fraction of cancer cells harboring each somatic mutation. We identified driver mutations as predominantly clonal (e.g., MYD88, trisomy 12, and del(13q)) or subclonal (e.g., SF3B1 and TP53), corresponding to earlier and later events in CLL evolution. We sampled leukemia cells from 18 patients at two time points. Ten of twelve CLL cases treated with chemotherapy (but only one of six without treatment) underwent clonal evolution, predominantly involving subclones with driver mutations (e.g., SF3B1 and TP53) that expanded over time. Furthermore, presence of a subclonal driver mutation was an independent risk factor for rapid disease progression. Our study thus uncovers patterns of clonal evolution in CLL, providing insights into its stepwise transformation, and links the presence of subclones with adverse clinical outcomes.
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Leucemia Linfocítica Crônica de Células B/genética , Mutação , Algoritmos , Animais , Linfócitos B/metabolismo , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Leucemia Linfocítica Crônica de Células B/tratamento farmacológico , PloidiasRESUMO
The analysis of exonic DNA from prostate cancers has identified recurrently mutated genes, but the spectrum of genome-wide alterations has not been profiled extensively in this disease. We sequenced the genomes of 57 prostate tumors and matched normal tissues to characterize somatic alterations and to study how they accumulate during oncogenesis and progression. By modeling the genesis of genomic rearrangements, we identified abundant DNA translocations and deletions that arise in a highly interdependent manner. This phenomenon, which we term "chromoplexy," frequently accounts for the dysregulation of prostate cancer genes and appears to disrupt multiple cancer genes coordinately. Our modeling suggests that chromoplexy may induce considerable genomic derangement over relatively few events in prostate cancer and other neoplasms, supporting a model of punctuated cancer evolution. By characterizing the clonal hierarchy of genomic lesions in prostate tumors, we charted a path of oncogenic events along which chromoplexy may drive prostate carcinogenesis.
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Aberrações Cromossômicas , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Genoma Humano , Neoplasias da Próstata/genética , Adenocarcinoma/genética , Adenocarcinoma/patologia , Estudos de Coortes , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Masculino , Tumores Neuroendócrinos/genética , Tumores Neuroendócrinos/patologia , Neoplasias da Próstata/patologiaRESUMO
Lung adenocarcinoma, the most common subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, is responsible for more than 500,000 deaths per year worldwide. Here, we report exome and genome sequences of 183 lung adenocarcinoma tumor/normal DNA pairs. These analyses revealed a mean exonic somatic mutation rate of 12.0 events/megabase and identified the majority of genes previously reported as significantly mutated in lung adenocarcinoma. In addition, we identified statistically recurrent somatic mutations in the splicing factor gene U2AF1 and truncating mutations affecting RBM10 and ARID1A. Analysis of nucleotide context-specific mutation signatures grouped the sample set into distinct clusters that correlated with smoking history and alterations of reported lung adenocarcinoma genes. Whole-genome sequence analysis revealed frequent structural rearrangements, including in-frame exonic alterations within EGFR and SIK2 kinases. The candidate genes identified in this study are attractive targets for biological characterization and therapeutic targeting of lung adenocarcinoma.
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Adenocarcinoma/genética , Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas/genética , Genes Neoplásicos , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Adenocarcinoma/patologia , Adenocarcinoma de Pulmão , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas/patologia , Estudos de Coortes , Exoma , Feminino , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mutação , Taxa de MutaçãoRESUMO
Despite recent insights into melanoma genetics, systematic surveys for driver mutations are challenged by an abundance of passenger mutations caused by carcinogenic UV light exposure. We developed a permutation-based framework to address this challenge, employing mutation data from intronic sequences to control for passenger mutational load on a per gene basis. Analysis of large-scale melanoma exome data by this approach discovered six novel melanoma genes (PPP6C, RAC1, SNX31, TACC1, STK19, and ARID2), three of which-RAC1, PPP6C, and STK19-harbored recurrent and potentially targetable mutations. Integration with chromosomal copy number data contextualized the landscape of driver mutations, providing oncogenic insights in BRAF- and NRAS-driven melanoma as well as those without known NRAS/BRAF mutations. The landscape also clarified a mutational basis for RB and p53 pathway deregulation in this malignancy. Finally, the spectrum of driver mutations provided unequivocal genomic evidence for a direct mutagenic role of UV light in melanoma pathogenesis.
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Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Melanoma/genética , Mutagênese , Raios Ultravioleta , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Células Cultivadas , Exoma , Humanos , Melanócitos/metabolismo , Modelos Moleculares , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas B-raf/genética , Alinhamento de Sequência , Proteínas rac1 de Ligação ao GTP/genéticaRESUMO
Hyper-phosphorylation of RB controls its interaction with E2F and inhibits its tumor suppressor properties. However, during G1 active RB can be mono-phosphorylated on any one of 14 CDK phosphorylation sites. Here, we used quantitative proteomics to profile protein complexes formed by each mono-phosphorylated RB isoform (mP-RB) and identified the associated transcriptional outputs. The results show that the 14 sites of mono-phosphorylation co-ordinate RB's interactions and confer functional specificity. All 14 mP-RBs interact with E2F/DP proteins, but they provide different shades of E2F regulation. RB mono-phosphorylation at S811, for example, alters RB transcriptional activity by promoting its association with NuRD complexes. The greatest functional differences between mP-RBs are evident beyond the cell cycle machinery. RB mono-phosphorylation at S811 or T826 stimulates the expression of oxidative phosphorylation genes, increasing cellular oxygen consumption. These results indicate that RB activation signals are integrated in a phosphorylation code that determines the diversity of RB activity.
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Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Proteína do Retinoblastoma/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Fatores de Transcrição E2F/genética , Fatores de Transcrição E2F/metabolismo , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Complexo Mi-2 de Remodelação de Nucleossomo e Desacetilase/genética , Complexo Mi-2 de Remodelação de Nucleossomo e Desacetilase/metabolismo , Mutação , Fosforilação Oxidativa , Fosforilação , Ligação Proteica , Proteômica/métodos , Proteína do Retinoblastoma/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Transcrição GênicaRESUMO
Large panels of comprehensively characterized human cancer models, including the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), have provided a rigorous framework with which to study genetic variants, candidate targets, and small-molecule and biological therapeutics and to identify new marker-driven cancer dependencies. To improve our understanding of the molecular features that contribute to cancer phenotypes, including drug responses, here we have expanded the characterizations of cancer cell lines to include genetic, RNA splicing, DNA methylation, histone H3 modification, microRNA expression and reverse-phase protein array data for 1,072 cell lines from individuals of various lineages and ethnicities. Integration of these data with functional characterizations such as drug-sensitivity, short hairpin RNA knockdown and CRISPR-Cas9 knockout data reveals potential targets for cancer drugs and associated biomarkers. Together, this dataset and an accompanying public data portal provide a resource for the acceleration of cancer research using model cancer cell lines.
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Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Neoplasias/genética , Neoplasias/patologia , Antineoplásicos/farmacologia , Biomarcadores Tumorais , Metilação de DNA , Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos , Etnicidade/genética , Edição de Genes , Histonas/metabolismo , Humanos , MicroRNAs/genética , Terapia de Alvo Molecular , Neoplasias/metabolismo , Análise Serial de Proteínas , Splicing de RNARESUMO
Activation-induced deaminase (AID) is a DNA-cytosine deaminase that mediates maturation of antibodies through somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination. While it causes mutations in immunoglobulin heavy and light chain genes and strand breaks in the switch regions of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene, it largely avoids causing such damage in the rest of the genome. To help understand targeting by human AID, we expressed it in repair-deficient Escherichia coli and mapped the created uracils in the genomic DNA using uracil pull-down and sequencing, UPD-seq. We found that both AID and the human APOBEC3A preferentially target tRNA genes and transcription start sites, but do not show preference for highly transcribed genes. Unlike A3A, AID did not show a strong replicative strand bias or a preference for hairpin loops. Overlapping uracilation peaks between these enzymes contained binding sites for a protein, FIS, that helps create topological domains in the E. coli genome. To confirm whether these findings were relevant to B cells, we examined mutations from lymphoma and leukemia genomes within AID-preferred sequences. These mutations also lacked replicative strand bias or a hairpin loop preference. We propose here a model for how AID avoids causing mutations in the single-stranded DNA found within replication forks.