Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is notorious for its early and frequent metastases. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying HCC metastasis, we generated a pulmonary metastasis HCC mouse model and performed both time-series transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of protein methylation. We found that methyltransferase NSD2 with significant upregulation in the tipping point for metastasis was closely correlated with high numbers of methylated-proteins in HCC tissues. NSD2 promoted the invasion and metastasis of HCC cells, both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NSD2 directly bound to PKM2, a glycolysis rate-limiting enzyme, and catalyzed di-methylation of PKM2 at the lysine 336 residue. Further investigation demonstrated that NSD2-mediated di-methylation of PKM2 increased the intracellular glycolytic rate and lactate production by enhancing its pyruvate kinase activity. High-lactate level in HCC cells lead to lactylation of splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) at lysine 333 residue, promoting SF3B1-mediated RNA splicing of several metastasis-related genes. Further, UNC8153, a novel NSD2-targeted degrader, inhibited HCC metastasis in PDX model. Altogether, our study identifies a key methyltransferase NSD2 for HCC metastasis and reveals a protein methylation-mediated molecular mechanism catalyzed by NSD2 integrate glycolysis regulation and alternative splicing.
Project description:Chromatin insulators are functionally conserved DNA-protein complexes that are situated throughout the genome and organize independent transcriptional domains. Previous work implicated RNA as an important cofactor in chromatin insulator activity, although the mechanisms by which RNA affects insulator activity are not yet understood. Here we identify the exosome, the highly conserved major cellular 3’ to 5’ RNA degradation machinery, as a physical interactor of CP190-dependent chromatin insulator complexes in Drosophila. High resolution genome-wide profiling of exosome by ChIP-seq in two different embryonic cell lines reveals extensive and specific overlap with the CP190, BEAF-32, and CTCF insulator proteins. Colocalization occurs mainly at promoters but also well-characterized boundary elements, such as scs, scs’, Mcp, and Fab-8. Surprisingly, exosome associates primarily with promoters but not gene bodies, arguing against simple cotranscriptional recruitment to RNA substrates. We find that exosome is recruited to chromatin in a transcription dependent manner, preferentially to highly transcribed genes. Similar to insulator proteins, exosome is also significantly enriched at divergently transcribed promoters. Directed ChIP of exosome in cell lines depleted of insulator proteins shows that CTCF is specifically required for exosome association at Mcp and Fab-8 but not other sites, suggesting that alternate mechanisms must also contribute to exosome chromatin recruitment. Taken together, our results reveal a novel relationship between exosome and chromatin insulators throughout the genome. ChIP-seq of exosome components. RNA-seq after control and exosome subunit knockdown in Drosophila cell lines.
Project description:Nude mice harboring HCC-PDX were subjected to treatment with either vehicle or SP2509, followed by analysis of tumor samples using CUT&Tag-seq assays.