Targeting epigenetic networks mediated by Prmt1 and Kdm4c in acute myeloid leukemia
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Project description:Transcriptional deregulation plays a major role in acute myeloid leukemia, identification of epigenetic modifying enzymes essential for the maintenance of oncogenic transcription programs holds the key to better understanding the biology and designing effective therapeutic strategies for the disease. Here we provide experimental evidence showing the functional involvement and therapeutic potentials of targeting PRMT1 with H4R3 methyltransferase activity in various MLL and non-MLL leukemias. PRMT1 is necessary but not sufficient for leukemic transformation, which requires co-recruitment of KDM4C with H3K9 demethylase activity by chimeric transcription factors to mediate epigenetic reprogramming. Inhibition of KDM4C/PRMT1 suppresses transcription and transformation ability of MLL fusions and MOZ-TIF2, revealing a novel and targetable epigenetic circuitry mediated by PRMT1 and KDM4C in acute leukemia.
2016-01-14 | E-MTAB-3322 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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Project description:Targeting epigenetic networks mediated by Prmt1 and Kdm4c in acute myeloid leukemia
2019-05-14 | E-MTAB-3322 | ExpressionAtlas
Project description:PRMT1 is highly expressed in breast tumors, and has been suggested to play a vital role in breast tumorigenesis, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain to be fully characterized. Here, we reveal that PRMT1 exhibits a wide-spreading role in RNA alternative splicing based on transcriptome analysis, with a preference for exon inclusion in a large cohort of oncogenic genes. Profiling PRMT1 methylome reveals that the arginine/serine-rich splicing factor SRSF1 is heavily arginine-methylated by PRMT1, which is critical for SRSF1 phosphorylation, SRSF1 binding with RNA, and PRMT1-induced exon inclusion. In breast tumors, the overexpression of PRMT1 is associated with high levels of SRSF1 arginine methylation and aberrant exon inclusion in those oncogenic genes. Accordingly, PRMT1-mediated SRSF1 methylation and exon inclusion events are found to be critical for the malignant behaviors of breast cancer cells. Furthermore, we identified and characterized a selective PRMT1 inhibitor iPRMT1, which is potent in inhibiting PRMT1-mediated SRSF1 methylation and exon inclusion events, and breast cancer cell growth both in vitro and in vivo. Combination treatment with iPRMT1 and inhibitor targeting SRSF1 phosphorylation, SPHINX31 or SRPIN340, exhibits synergistic effects on suppressing breast cancer cell growth, strengthening the cross-talk between arginine methylation and phosphorylation in SRSF1. In conclusion, our data uncover a key mechanism underlying PRMT1-mediated gene alternative splicing, demonstrating targeting PRMT1 has great potential to treat breast cancer in clinic.
2023-10-02 | GSE212049 | GEO
Project description:Epigenetic and genetic regulations are sometimes considered as separate mechanisms that influence gene expression and phenotypes. However, there are DNA sequence variants in epigenetic regulators that could affect gene regulation. The histone demethylase, KDM4C, promotes transcriptional activation by removing the repressive histone mark, tri-methylation of lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9me3), from its target genes. In this study, we uncovered cis-acting DNA sequence variants in KDM4C that contribute to individual differences in its expression. Utilizing this natural variation, we performed genetic analyses in B-cells in order to identify target genes that are regulated by KDM4C. We used microarrays to investigate gene expression changes in the target genes from our genetic analyses following knockdown of KDM4C in primary fibroblasts. Primary fibroblasts with stable expression of shRNA targeting KDM4C or a control construct were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization to Affymetrix microarrays. Following selection for stable expression of the shRNA constructs we selected clones expressing 3 non-overlapping constructs targeting KDM4C (shKDM4C) and 2 clones expressing the control construct (shCtr) for analysis by microarray.
2013-09-14 | E-GEOD-41040 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The presence of FLT3-ITD mutations in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is associated with poor clinical outcome. FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), although effective in kinase ablation, do not eliminate FLT3-ITD+ leukemia stem cells (LSCs) which are potential sources of disease relapse, prompting us to ask whether FLT3-ITD protein regulates the AML LSCs survival through a kinase-independent mechanism. Here, we show that expression of PRMT1, the primary type I arginine methyltransferase, significantly increases in LSC-enriched CD34+CD38- populations relative to normal counterparts. Genetic PRMT1 depletion blocked AML CD34+ cell survival, and had more potent effects in AML cells from patients harboring FLT3-ITD. Our genome wide analysis of gene expression and PRMT1 conditional KO mouse study confirmed that PRMT1 preferentially cooperates with FLT3-ITD contributing to AML cell maintenance. Mechanistically, PRMT1 catalyzed FLT3-ITD protein methylation at arginines 972/973, and PRMT1 promoted leukemia cell growth in a FLT3 methylation-dependent manner. Moreover, effects of FLT3-ITD methylation in AML cells were in part due to crosstalk with FLT3-ITD phosphorylation at tyrosine 969 (Y969). Importantly, FLT3 methylation persisted in FLT3-ITD+ AML cells following TKI (AC220) treatment, indicating that methylation occurs independently of kinase activity. Finally, in both patient-derived xenograft (PDX) and murine AML models, combined administration of AC220 with a type I PRMT inhibitor (MS023) enhanced elimination of FLT3-ITD+ AML relative to AC220 treatment alone. Our study demonstrates that PRMT1-mediated FLT3 methylation promotes LSC activity and suggests that combining PRMT1 inhibition with FLT3 TKI treatment could be a promising approach to selectively target FLT3-ITD+ LSCs.
2021-11-10 | GSE122435 | GEO
Project description:Radioresistance is regarded as the main barrier to effective radiotherapy in lung cancer. However, the underlying mechanisms of radioresistance remain elusive. Here, we show that lysine-specific demethylase 4C (KDM4C) is overexpressed and correlated with poor prognosis in lung cancer patients. We provide evidence that genetical or pharmacological inhibition of KDM4C impairs tumorigenesis and radioresistance in lung cancer in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, we uncover that KDM4C upregulates TGFβ2 expression by directly reducing H3K9me3 level at the TGFβ2 promoter and then activates TGF-β/Smad/ATM signaling to confer radioresistance in lung cancer. Using tandem affinity purification technology, we further identify deubiquitinase USP9X as a critical binding partner which deubiquitinates and stabilizes KDM4C. More importantly, depletion of USP9X impairs TGF-β/Smad signaling and radioresistance by destabilizing KDM4C in lung cancer cells. Thus, our findings demonstrate that USP9X-mediated KDM4C deubiquitination activates TGF-β/Smad signaling to promote radioresistance, suggesting that targeting KDM4C may be a promising radiosensitization strategy in the treatment of lung cancer.
2021-07-14 | GSE136404 | GEO
Project description:PRMT1 is thought to be responsible for the majority of PRMT activity in Toxoplasma gondii, but its exact function is unknown. We generated T. gondii mutants lacking PRMT1 (∆prmt1) by deletion of the PRMT1 gene. ∆prmt1 parasites exhibit morphological defects during cell division and grow slowly, and this phenotype reverses in the complemented strain ∆prmt::PRMT1mRFP. PRMT1 localizes primarily in the cytoplasm with enrichment at the centrosome, and the strain lacking PRMT1 is unable to segregate progeny accurately. Unlike wild-type and complemented parasites, ∆prmt1 parasites have abnormal daughter buds, perturbed centrosome stoichiometry, and loss of synchronous replication. Whole genome expression profiling demonstrated differences in expression of cell cycle regulated genes in ∆prmt1 relative to the complemented ∆prmt1::PRMT1mRFP and parental wild-type strains, but these changes did not correlate with a specific block in cell cycle. Although PRMT1’s primary biological function was previously proposed to be methylation of histones, our genetic studies suggest that the most critical function of PRMT1 is within the centrosome as a regulator of daughter cell counting to assure the proper replication of the parasite. RNA samples were isolated in triplicates from RH-hxgprt parent strain (W), PRMT1 knockout (K) strain and PRMT1 knockout strain complemented with RFP-tagged PRMT1 protein (C). Parasites were grown for 32h at 37C. Samples were hybridized to the Toxoplasma gondii Affymetrix microarray (ToxoGeneChip: http://ancillary.toxodb.org/docs/Array-Tutorial.html). Hybridization data was preprocessed with Robust Multi-array Average (RMA) and normalized using per chip and per gene median polishing and analyzed using the software package GeneSpring GX (Agilent Technologies).
2015-09-18 | E-GEOD-73177 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Fusion protein AML1-ETO resulted from t(8;21) translocation is highly related to leukemia development. We have previously shown that the expression of AE9a, a spliced form of AML1-ETO, can rapidly cause leukemia in mouse. To understand how AML1-ETO is involved in leukemia development, we used AE9a leukemia model to identify a novel AE9a interacting proteins PRMT1 (protein arginine methyltransferase 1) from primary leukemic cells expressing AE9a. To examine whether PRMT1 is involved in AE9a-mediated transcription regulation, genome wide gene expression analysis is carried out in hematopoietic cell line K562 (wild type or AE9a expressing) treated with (-) control siRNA or siPRMT1. Wild type or AE9a-expressing K562 cells with control siRNA or siPRMT1 in triplicate
2012-06-17 | E-GEOD-28135 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Gastric cancer (GC) stem cells (GCSCs) are characterized as high level of ALDH activity, however, the mechanisms of maintenance of high ALDH activity and stemness in GCSCs are largely unknown. Here, we report that KDM4C, a H3K9me2/3-demethylase, epigenetically regulates ALDH1A3 by histone demethylation and forms a feed-forward loop with ALDH1A3 to supports GS stemness. Ectopic expression of both KDM4C and ALDH1A3 promotes the properties of GCSCs, including spherogenecity, self-renewal, CD44 expression and ALDH activity; knockdown of anyone abolished the effect of each other. KDM4C directly binds to the promoter of ALDH1A3, leads to histone demethylation, thereby promoting ALDH1A3 transcription. Upregulated ALDH1A3 in turn transcriptionally upregulates KDM4C. Simultaneous inhibition of KDM4C and ALDH1A3 synergistically sensitizes GC sphere-derived cells to traditional chemotherapeutic drugs. The finding that upregulated ALDH1A3 promotes its own transcription via KDM4C-mediated epigenetic modification represents an important feed-forward mechanism for GCSCs to maintain stemness and promote tumourigenesis and our work thus suggests a novel therapeutic strategy for eradicating human GCSCs. To investigate the mechanisms underlying KDM4C promoting CG stemness, we identified the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) between KDM4C-overexpressing and control AGS cells by iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis.
2022-02-16 | PXD023455 | Pride