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Identification of 22 novel susceptibility loci associated with testicular germ cell tumors [ATAC-seq]

ABSTRACT: To investigate the role of the testicular germ cell tumor cells in complex traits, we generated ATAC-seq and Promoter Focused Capture C to gain insight into the gene regulatory arcitecture contacting promoters in an testicular cell line NT2-D1 model of testicular cancer

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE175367 | GEO | 2021/06/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Human embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are the stem cells of nonseminoma testicular germ cells tumors (TGCTs) and share remarkable similarities to human embryonic stem (ES) cells. In prior work we found that EC cells are hypersensitive to low nanomolar doses of 5-aza deoxycytidine (5-aza) and that this hypersensitivity partially depended on unusually high levels of the DNA methyltransferase, DNMT3B. We show here that low-dose 5-aza treatment results in DNA damage and induction of p53 in NT2/D1 cells. In addition, low-dose 5-aza results in global and gene specific promoter DNA hypomethylation. Low-dose 5-aza induces a p53 transcriptional signature distinct from that induced with cisplatin in NT2/D1 cells and also uniquely downregulates genes associated with pluripotency including NANOG, SOX2, GDF3 and Myc target genes. Changes in the p53 and pluripotency signatures with 5-aza were to a large extent dependent on high levels of DNMT3B. In contrast to the majority of p53 target genes upregulated by 5-aza that did not show DNA hypomethylation, several other genes induced with 5-aza had corresponding decreases in promoter methylation. These genes include RIN1, SOX15, GPER, and TLR4 and are novel candidate tumors suppressors in TGCTs. Our studies suggest that the hypersensitivity of NT2/D1 cells to low-dose 5-aza is multifactorial and involves the combined activation of p53 targets, repression of pluripotency genes, and activation of genes repressed by DNA methylation. Low-dose 5-aza therapy may be a general strategy to treat those tumors that are sustained by cells with embryonic stem-like properties. Total RNA obtained from wild-type NT2/D1 cells treated with vehicle (control) or 10 nM 5-aza deoxycytidine for 1 day (1day) or 10 nM 5-aza deoxycytidine for 3 days (3day) or treated with 0.5 uM cisplatin (cispl) for 6 hours followed by a 24 hour recovery before harvest. Four groups in biological triplicate for total of 12 hybridizations on Illumina HT-12v4 beadarray.

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Identification of 22 novel susceptibility loci associated with testicular germ cell tumors [ATAC-seq]

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