Project description:Genome-wide profiling of Copy Number Alterations (CNA) and Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH), gene expression and resequencing of pediatric AML. This study characterizes the CNA and LOH in a representative cross-section through subtypes of pediatric AML. Affymetrix SNP arrays were performed according to the manufacturer's directions on DNA extracted from cryopreserved diagnostic bone marrow or peripheral blood samples. 111 pediatric AML samples were studied using either Affymetrix 100K + 500K 5.0 SNP arrays, 65 of the samples had paired germ line material. The supplemental file 'GSE15732_AML_175_SNP_Xba_signal.txt' contains the raw signals generated by dChip without normalization. The CNA and LOH data can be found in the Supplemental Information of the associated manuscript.
Project description:Genome-wide profiling of Copy Number Alterations (CNA) and Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH), gene expression and resequencing of pediatric AML. This study characterizes the CNA and LOH in a representative cross-section through subtypes of pediatric AML. Affymetrix SNP arrays were performed according to the manufacturer's directions on DNA extracted from cryopreserved diagnostic bone marrow or peripheral blood samples. 111 pediatric AML samples were studied using either Affymetrix 100K + 500K 5.0 SNP arrays, 65 of the samples had paired germ line material. The supplemental file 'GSE15714_AML_175_SNP_Hind_signal.txt' contains the raw signals generated by dChip without normalization. The CNA and LOH data can be found in the Supplemental Information of the associated manuscript.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematologic malignancy with a poor prognosis. We discovered that BMAL1 is a ferroptosis suppressor. Furthermore, it was also found to be overexpressed in AML patients, affecting the cell cycle and promoting tumor cell growth and progression. In this study, we further validated the association of BMAL1 with the progression and survival outcomes of AML. Lipidomic revealed that the levels of ceramide increased in AML cells following the depletion of BMAL1. Ceramide facilitated ferroptosis in AML cells. ASAH2 played a key role in this process. BMAL1 could not directly regulate ASAH2 but instead through IKZF2. Elevated levels of ceramide promoted the degradation of the ferroptosis protection molecule GPX4, ultimately promoting ferroptosis. Furthermore, ceramide treatment has been demonstrated to enhance the responsiveness of AML cells to sorafenib. In summary, this study elucidates that BMAL1 depletion remodels ceramide metabolism to regulate the sensitivity of AML cells to ferroptosis and targeted drug sorafenib.
Project description:<p>We used massively parallel sequencing technology to sequence the genomic DNA of tumor cells (leukemic bone marrow) and normal cells (skin biopsy) obtained from patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Patients had either de novo AML (AML with no prior diagnosis of a hematologic disease or exposure to chemotherapy), secondary AML (occurring after a prior diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)), or therapy-related AML (occurring after exposure to prior chemotherapy). We identified somatic mutations in the tumor genomes, including single nucleotide variants, insertions, deletions, and structural variants.</p>
Project description:Despite early optimism, therapeutics targeting oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) have faced clinical setbacks, primarily stemming from their inability to distinguish healthy from cancerous mitochondria. Herein, we describe an actionable bioenergetic mechanism unique to cancerous mitochondria inside acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. Unlike healthy cells which couple respiration to the synthesis of ATP, AML mitochondria were discovered to support inner membrane polarization by consuming ATP. Because matrix ATP consumption allows cells to survive bioenergetic stress, we hypothesized that AML cells may resist cell death induced by OxPhos damaging chemotherapy by reversing the ATP synthase reaction. In support of our hypothesis, targeted inhibition of BCL-2 with venetoclax abolished OxPhos flux without impacting mitochondrial membrane potential. In surviving AML cells, sustained polarization of the mitochondrial inner membrane was dependent on matrix ATP consumption. Mitochondrial ATP consumption was further enhanced in AML cells made refractory venetoclax, consequential to downregulations in both the proton-pumping respiratory complexes, as well the endogenous F1-ATPase inhibitor ATP5IF1. In treatment-naive AML, ATP5IF1 knockdown was sufficient to drive venetoclax resistance, while ATP5IF1 overexpression impaired F1-ATPase activity and heightened sensitivity to venetoclax. Collectively, our data identify matrix ATP consumption as cancer-cell intrinsic bioenergetic vulnerability actionable in the context of mitochondrial damaging chemotherapy.
Project description:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with the t(8;21)(q22;q22) chromosomal translocation is among the most common subtypes of AML and produces the AML1-ETO (AE) oncogenic fusion gene. AML1-ETO expression is critical to for t(8;21) AML leukemogenesis and maintenance. Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is often mediated through transcript 3'-untranslated regions (UTR). AML1-ETO uses the 3’UTR of the ETO gene, which is not normally expressed in hematopoietic cells. Therefore, the mechanisms regulating AML1-ETO via the 3’UTR are attractive therapeutic targets. In this study, we examine the regulation of AML1-ETO via the 3’UTR. We demonstrate that AML1-ETO primarily uses a 3.7kb isoform of the ETO 3’UTR in both t(8;21) patients and cell lines. Using a luciferase assay approach, we identify an AML1-ETO 3’UTR fragment between 2.8 and 3.4kb which is negatively regulated, increases expression upon inhibition of microRNA biogenesis, and contains a putative let-7 microRNA target site. We show that let-7b directly represses AML1-ETO through this site. An analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas AML dataset shows that let-7b and let-7 family miRNA expression is significantly lower in t(8;21) AML than other AMLs. Finally, we demonstrate that let-7b-5p inhibits the proliferation of t(8;21) AML cell lines, rescues expression of AML1-ETO target genes, and promotes differentiation. Our findings establish AML1-ETO as a let-7b target gene and suggest that let-7 based therapeutics may be applied to t(8;21) AML.
Project description:<p>We used massively parallel sequencing technology to sequence the genomic DNA of tumor cells (leukemic bone marrow) and normal cells (skin biopsy) obtained from patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Patients had either de novo AML (AML with no prior diagnosis of a hematologic disease or exposure to chemotherapy), secondary AML (occurring after a prior diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)), or therapy-related AML (occurring after exposure to prior chemotherapy). We identified somatic mutations in the tumor genomes, including single nucleotide variants, insertions, deletions, and structural variants.</p>
Project description:Genome-wide profiling of Copy Number Alterations (CNA) and Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH), gene expression and resequencing of pediatric AML This study characterizes CNA and LOH, gene expression and gene sequence mutations in a representative cross-section through subtypes of pediatric AML. Keywords: Affymetrix arrays were performed according to the maufacturers directions on DNA extracted from cryopreserved diagnostic bone marrow or peripheral blood samples. Samples with less than 80% blasts were flow sorted prior to DNA extraction 111 pediatric AML samples were studied using the Affymetrix U133A array.
Project description:Here we used Illumina NGS for high-throughput profiling of the DNA methylome(ERRBS) and hydroxymethylome(hMe-Seal) of primary tumor samples with Acute Myeloid Leukemia(AML). The data can be used to compare hydroxymethylation and methylation patterns from different AML subtypes and normal bone marrow samples. We have sequenced 4 subtypes of AML with hydroxymethylation decrease and 1 subtype with no decrease. We have sequenced 2-5 primary tumor samples for each subtype, and comprated the epigenomic profiles ( ERRBS and hMe-Seal ) of hydroxymethylation deficient subtypes to the control subtype and normal bone marrow samples.