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RNA-Seq of Kaposi’s sarcoma reveal alterations in glucose and lipid metabolism

ABSTRACT: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the etiologic agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). In sub-Saharan Africa, the high prevalence of both HIV-1 and KSHV has made KS a leading cancer in the region, associated with poor prognosis and high mortality due to late medical presentation and advanced disease stages. A better understanding of the cellular and viral transcriptome profiles during neoplastic growth will aid in the definition of biomarkers and cellular functions associated with KS tumorigenesis and progression. Our approach is to examine the transcriptome profile in actual KS lesions versus non-cancer tissues from the same individual for a total of four male African epidemic KS patients. These patients have undetectable HIV-1 plasma viral load after successful anti-retroviral therapy. Our results capture the cellular complexity of in vivo lesion environment and provide a marked contrast to those derived from in vitro monoculture models. The findings demonstrate that latency and immune modulation related functions dominate the viral gene expression pattern. Moreover, KSHV significantly affected the cellular transcriptome profile with genes involved in lipid and glucose metabolism disorder pathways being the most substantially dysregulated. Despite the implied infiltration of immune cells into the lesions as predicted by CIBERSORT, KS tumor continued to progress, suggesting immunological dysfunction in these KS patients despite control of HIV-1 viremia. Lastly, there is limited overlap of our in vivo dataset with in vitro studies, suggesting a limitation of in vitro KS models.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE100684 | GEO | 2018/01/17

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA392660

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:In sub-Saharan Africa, endemic Kaposi’s sarcoma (EnKS) is still prevalent despite high incidence of epidemic Kaposi’s sarcoma (EpKS) resulting from the on-going HIV-1 epidemic. While KSHV is clearly the etiologic agent of KS, the mechanisms underlying KS development are not fully understood. For example, HIV-1 co-infection and concomitant immune dysfunction have been associated with EpKS development. However, the direct or indirect role(s) of HIV-1, and therefore of immune suppression, in EpKS remains unclear. How, or whether, EpKS is mechanistically distinct from EnKS is unknown. Thus, the absence of HIV-1 co-infection in EnKS provides a unique control for investigating and deciphering whether HIV-1 plays a direct or indirect role in the EpKS tumor microenvironment. We hypothesized that HIV-1 co-infection would induce transcriptome changes that differentiate EpKS from EnKS, thereby defining the direct intra-tumor role of HIV-1 in KS. Comparison of ART-treated and -naïve patients would further define the impact of ART on the KS transcriptome. We utilized RNA-seq followed by multiparameter bioinformatics analysis to compare transcriptomes from KS lesions to uninvolved control skin. We provide the first transcriptomic comparison of EpKS versus EnKS, ART-treated vs. –naïve EpKS and male vs. female EpKS to define the roles of HIV-1 co-infection, the impact of ART, and gender on KS gene expression profiles. Our findings suggest that ART-use and gender have minimal impact on transcriptome profiles of KS lesions. Gene expression profiles strongly correlated between EpKS and EnKS patients (Spearman r=0.83, p<10-10). A subset of genes involved in tumorigenesis and inflammation/immune responses showed higher magnitude, but not unique dysregulation in EnKS compared to EpKS. While gender and ART had no detectable contribution, the trend toward higher magnitude of gene dysregulation in EnKS coupled with the absence of HIV-1 transcripts in EpKS may suggest an indirect or systemic effect of HIV-1 to promote KS tumorigenesis.

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RNA-Seq of Kaposi’s sarcoma reveal alterations in glucose and lipid metabolism

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