Reducing N6AMT1-mediated 6mA DNA modification promotes breast tumor progression via transcriptional repressing cell cycle inhibitors.
Cell Death Dis
; 13(3): 216, 2022 03 07.
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ABSTRACT
DNA N6-methyladenosine (6mA) is a novel epigenetic signaling modification in humans and has been implicated in the progression and tumorigenesis of several cancers. However, the function and mechanism of 6mA in breast cancer (BC), the most common cancer among women, are unclear. Here, we found that decreases in N6AMT1 correlated with the extent of 6mA in clinical BC tissues and predicted a worse survival of BC patients. Functionally, knockdown of N6AMT1 markedly reduced 6mA in DNA and promoted colony formation and migration of BC cells, whereas overexpression of N6AMT1 had the opposite effect. Moreover, silencing of N6AMT1 reduced 6mA modification and enhanced the growth of BC cells in vitro and tumors in vivo. 6mA immunoprecipitation sequencing (6mA-IP-seq), RNA-seq, 6mA-IP-PCR, and bioinformatics analysis indicated that N6AMT1 was a functional methyltransferase for genomic 6mA DNA modifications and related to gene transcriptional activity. Critical negative regulators of the cell cycle, such as RB1, P21, REST, and TP53 were identified as targets of N6AMT1 in BC. These results suggest N6AMT1 enhances DNA 6mA levels to repress tumor progression via transcriptional regulation of cell cycle inhibitors.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Mama
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Genoma
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cell Death Dis
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article
País de afiliação:
China