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Project description:The induction of ferroptosis is promising for cancer therapy. However, the mechanisms enabling cancer cells to evade ferroptosis, particularly in low-cystine environments, remain elusive. Our study delves into the intricate regulatory mechanisms of Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) on Cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) under cystine deprivation stress, conferring resistance to ferroptosis in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Additionally, our findings establish a positively correlation between this signaling axis and CRC progression, suggesting its potential as a therapeutic target. Mechanistically, ATF3 positively regulates CBS to resist ferroptosis under cystine deprivation stress. In contrast, the suppression of CBS sensitizes CRC cells to ferroptosis through targeting the mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. Notably, our study highlights that the ATF3-CBS signaling axis enhances ferroptosis-based CRC cancer therapy. Collectively, the findings reveal that the ATF3-CBS signaling axis is the primary feedback pathway in ferroptosis, and blocking this axis could be a potential therapeutic approach for colorectal cancer.
| S-EPMC10958616 | biostudies-literature
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2022-11-16 | GSE213536 | GEO
Project description:ATF3-CBS axis regulates ferroptosis and tumorigenesis via targeting mitochondrial homeostasis
| PRJNA881307 | ENA
Project description:Maintenance of genetic integrity is essential for survival of all organisms. Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) is a member of the c-AMP response element binding (CREB)/ATF family of transcription factors, and is highly inducible by various stress conditions including DNA damage. However, downstream targets and molecular basis underlying pleiotropic effects of ATF3 on the cell fate have been largely unknown. To identify ATF3 targets in the human genome, we carried out chromatin immunoprecipitation-microarray (ChiP-on-chip) and knockdown-expression profiling analysis using two models where ATF3 was either transiently induced or constitutively expressed. We show that ATF3 binds to an unexpectedly large number of targets; 5,984 promoters in HCT116 cells treated with an alkylating agene methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and 1,423 promoters in LNCaP cells constitutively expressing ATF3. Importantly, targets of MMS-induced ATF3 are highly enriched not only for CREB/ATF motifs but also for binding sites of several stress sensors including DDIT3/CHOP, Egr1, and c-Ets which are concomitantly induced by MMS. Stress-induced ATF3 affects broad but select biological processes including cell cycle, cell death, adhesion, biosynthesis, and receptor signaling pathways. In addition, ATF3 binds to as many as 40% of the p53 targets and preferentially enhances MMS-induced activation of proapoptotic genes such as DR4, DR5, and PUMA, consistent with the proapoptotic effect of ATF3. These data shed new light on the co-regulatory function of ATF3 in the stress-induced transcription factor network. The comprehensive list of genomic targets of ATF3 will facilitate further understanding the role of ATF3 in determining life and death of cells under both physiological and tumour-associated stress conditions. Maintenance of genetic integrity is fundamental to survival of all organisms. DNA damage can be caused by various agents in environment and elicits complex responses in the cell. ATF3 is one of the transcription factors activated by various stress conditions including DNA damage, and has been shown to have pleiotropic effects on life and death of cells depending on the context of experimental conditions. It has been largely unknown, however, which genes and pathways are regulated by stress-induced ATF3. Here we attempted to answer this question by chromatin immunoprecipitation-microarray analysis of downstream targets of ATF3. We show that ATF3 binds to an unexpectedly large number of promoters (nearly 6,000) in a human colorectal cancer cell lineHCT116 treated with an alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate. Interestingly, the ATF3 targets are highly enriched for binding sites of other stress sensors shedding light on a transcriptional co-regulatory network of DNA damage response. We further show that ATF3 regulates expression of genes in select biological processes including cell cycle, cell death, adhesion, metabolism, signal transduction, and the p53 pathway. The comprehensive list of ATF3 targets provides new insight into a highly inter-connected network of stress-induced transcription factors around ATF3. ChIP-chip samples: Comparison of ATF3-IP and whole genome DNA (control) Gene expression samples: HCT116 cells pre-transfected with either control siRNA or ATF3 knockdown siRNA and stimulated by methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) for 0, 6, 12, and 24 hours
2010-10-01 | E-GEOD-18457 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:We performed ChIP-seq to find the trageted genes regulated by ATF3 in hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R)using ATF3 antibody for ChIP.
2023-01-01 | GSE193996 | GEO
Project description:Liver cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies with an annual death of over 830,000 cases. Although targeted therapeutic drugs have achieved certain clinical efficacy, only sorafenib and lenvatinib are currently marketed as first-line targeted drugs to treat patients with advanced liver cancer. Therefore, developing more drugs are urgently needed. Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent programmed cell death (PCD) distinct from known PCDs including apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy. Targeting ferroptosis is recognized as a promising potential therapeutic modality for liver cancer. Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) is an important ferroptosis inducer and targeting ATF3 offers a potential means to cancer therapy. In the present study, we reported for the first time a sophoridine derivative 6j with promising anti-liver cancer effects in vitro and in vivo. Compound 6j could induce liver cancer cells ferroptosis by promoting the accumulation of intracellular Fe2+, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and MDA. Inhibition of ferroptosis by ferrostatin-1 alleviated 6j induced accumulation of Fe2+, ROS, and MDA and restored cell viability. Further study revealed that compound 6j upregulated the expression of ATF3 via ER stress and knockdown of ATF3 by RNA interference attenuated 6j induced ferroptosis and cell proliferation inhibition. This study would provide new insights for the design of ferroptosis inducers and the development of anti-liver cancer drugs.
2023-08-23 | GSE237138 | GEO
Project description:Expression of the activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) gene is induced by Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling. In turn, ATF3 protein inhibits the expression of various TLR-driven pro-inflammatory genes. Given its counter-regulatory role in diverse innate immune responses, we defined the effects of ATF3 on neutrophilic airway inflammation in mice. ATF3 deletion was associated with increased lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-driven airway epithelia production of CXCL1, but not CXCL2, findings concordant with a consensus ATF3-binding site identified solely in the Cxcl1 promoter. Unexpectedly, ATF3-deficient mice did not exhibit increased airway neutrophilia after LPS challenge. Bone marrow chimeras revealed a specific reduction in ATF3-/- neutrophil recruitment to wild type lungs. In vitro, ATF3-/- neutrophils exhibited a profound chemotaxis defect. Global gene expression analysis identified ablated Tiam2 expression in ATF3-/- neutrophils. TIAM2 regulates cellular motility by activating Rac1-mediated focal adhesion disassembly. Notably, ATF3-/- and ATF3-sufficient TIAM2 knockdown neutrophils, both lacking TIAM2, exhibited increased focal complex area, along with excessive CD11b-mediated F-actin polymerization. Together, our data describe a dichotomous role for ATF3-mediated regulation of neutrophilic responses: inhibition of neutrophil chemokine production, but promotion of neutrophil chemotaxis. Ly6G+ neutrophils were purified by magnetic beads from WT or ATF3 KO bone marrow and RNA was immediately isolated for global gene expression using microarrays.
2014-04-05 | E-GEOD-53973 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) contamination in food poses a global health risk, primarily entering the human food chain through contaminated food. Given that ferroptosis—a form of cell death characterized by glutathione depletion—is involved in toxicant-induced liver injury and that retrorsine (RTS, A typical toxic PA) depletes glutathione, we investigated whether RTS induces hepatotoxicity via ferroptosis. This study demonstrates that RTS induces acute hepatotoxicity and ferroptosis in vitro and in vivo, RTS triggers mitochondrial dysfunction and activates ATF3, which translocates to the nucleus to directly repress PLA2G6 expression. Genetic studies revealed ATF3's dual role in enhancing RTS-induced cytotoxicity and oxidative stress, while its target PLA2G6 confers protection, unveiling a novel mechanism of RTS-induced liver injury centered on the ATF3-PLA2G6 axis. These findings demonstrates that RTS-induced hepatotoxicity, driven by ferroptosis, is governed by the ATF3-PLA2G6 axis, thus revealing a pivotal mechanism and a promising therapeutic target for PA-related liver injury.
2025-12-31 | GSE312412 | GEO
Project description:Cardiomyocytes, the terminally-differentiated contractile cells of the heart, undergo hypertrophic growth in response to endothelin-1. This is associated with changes in mRNA expression of immediate early genes (IEGs). Atf3 is a member of the ATF/CREB family transcription factors which bind as dimers to the cAMP response element (CRE). Atf3 mRNA is particularly associated with cell stress responses and is implicated in negative feedback regulation of gene expression. We confirmed that endothelin-1 promotes expression of Atf3 mRNA and protein in cardiomyocytes and that it is an IEG. Atf3 expression was transient and maximal at 0.5-1 h. We used adenoviruses for expression of antisense Atf3 RNA in cardiomyocytes to inhibit upregulation of Atf3 protein in response to endothelin-1. The effects on the cardiomyocyte transcriptome in control cells and cells exposed to endothelin-1 were examined using Affymetrix rat exon 1.0 ST arrays with data analysis using GeneSpring GX11.5. We identified transcripts that were upregulated by endothelin-1 for which antisense Atf3 significantly (FDR<0.05) enhanced or inhibited expression, respectively. The basal levels of other transcripts that are upregulated by endothelin-1 were also increased by antisense Atf3, though antisense Atf3 had no further effect on the response to endothelin-1. The data were validated by quantitative PCR of selected IEG mRNAs examining the effects at different times.
2012-10-01 | E-MEXP-3392 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:To explore MBD1-related ferroptosis targets, we performed Cut&Tag sequencing using MBD1 antibody in lung cancer
2026-02-25 | GSE279197 | GEO