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Retinoic Acid Signaling Drives Differentiation towards Enterocytes in Colorectal Cancer

ABSTRACT: Retinoic Acid (RA) signaling is an important and conserved pathway that regulated cellular proliferation and differentiation. Furthermore, perturbed RA signaling is implicated in cancer initiation and progression. However, the mechanisms by which RA signaling contributes homeostasis malignant transformation and disease progression in the intestine, remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that activation of the Retinoic Acid Receptor and the Retinoid X Receptor results in enhanced transcription of enterocyte-specific genes in mouse small intestinal organoids. Conversely, inhibition of this pathway results in reduced expression of genes associated with the absorptive lineage. Strikingly, this latter effect is conserved in a human organoid model for colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. We further show that the epigenome in metastatic organoids is less permissive for RXR binding compared to pre-metastatic organoids, resulting in reduced sensitivity for RA signaling perturbations. Finally, we show that reduced RXR target gene expression correlates with worse CRC prognosis, implying RA signaling as a putative therapeutic strategy in CRC.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE163142 | GEO | 2021/11/26

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:In mouse embryonic cells, a retinoic acid (RA) stimulation triggers a massive change of gene expression leading the pluripotent, proliferating cells to a lineage-specific differentiation process. The retinoic acid receptor (RAR) plays a key role in this response by inhibiting pluripotency-maintaining genes and simultaneously activating some major actors of cell differentiation. To investigate the mechanism underlying this dual regulation, we performed joint RAR/RXR ChIP-seq and mRNA-seq time series during the first 48 hours of the RA-induced Primitive Endoderm differentiation process in F9 embryonic carcinoma cells. We detected significantly more RAR/RXR binding regions than previous studies and identified among them a handful of typical binding intensity patterns during differentiation. We demonstrate that these patterns are correlated with the coincidental binding of essential transcription factors (TFs) for pluripotency maintenance or PrE differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells, as well as the presence of variants of RAR binding motifs. Most importantly, early-bound regions coincide with pluripotency-associated transcription factor binding in ES (like Pou5f1, Sox2, Esrrb and Nr5a2) and display an increased frequency of the DR0 type RAR binding motifs; late-bound sites are associated to the PrE marker Sox17 and are enriched in the canonical DR5 binding motif. Our data offer an unprecedently detailed view on the action of RA in triggering pluripotent cell differentiation. Altogether, this work sheds light on the relocation of RAR/RXR binding sites throughout differentiation, and shows how RAR/RXR progressively shift from DR0 enriched regions, which were specifically identified in undifferentiated models, to canonical RAR binding sites containing loci. Time course (0, 2, 6, 12, 24, 48h) after stimulation of F9 cultured cells by retinoic acid: PanRAR and PanRXR ChIP-seq at 0, 2, 24 and 48h (no replicate); WCE-seq at 0h (no replicate); mRNA-seq at 0, 6, 12, 24, 48h (2 replicates except for time 0h, 4 replicates). Additionally, a control time course (culture in DMSO) sampled at 24 and 48h (no replicates).

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Retinoic Acid Signaling Drives Differentiation towards Enterocytes in Colorectal Cancer

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