Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE28744: Chemosensitization of DLBCL cells in vitro and in vivo by demethylating nucleoside analogues [gene expression] GSE31101: Chemosensitization of DLBCL cells in vitro and in vivo by demethylating nucleoside analogues [methylation] Refer to individual Series. Supplementary file [gene expression]: To better approach the delta analysis and find differences between sensitive cell lines and resistant cell lines to doxorubicin, we filtered the gene expression matrix for probes with a greater standard deviation among all samples greater than 0.5. We therefore kept 11842 probesets that we used for the analysis.
Project description:Silencing of genes that suppress the malignant phenotype by DNA methylation spurred an interest in the clinical use of epigenetic reprogramming agents. Single therapy is unlikely to be curative in the context of a heterogeneous disease such as Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas (DLBCL). The combination of DNA demethylating drugs could increase the chance to respond to classical and new treatments. We found that DLBCL cell lines respond heterogeneously to DNA demethylating agents. In sensitive cell lines, 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induced a genomic signature similar to that of doxorubicin, the most important drug of the combinatorial chemotherapy regimen for DLBCL treatment. Accordingly, the combination of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine and doxorubicin proved to be synergistic in cell killing in vitro and in vivo for DLBCL cell lines individually responsive to these drugs. In doxorubicin resistant cell lines, long-term exposure to low-dose of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induces DNA demethylation and subsequent doxorubicin sensitization in vitro and in vivo. This later effect correlates with SMAD1 demethylation. SMAD1 is epigenetically silenced in doxorubicin-resistant DLBCL cells and DLBCL patients with poor prognostic. In addition, we found that DNA demethylating agents can sensitize primary DLBCL cells to doxorubicin. Primary cells obtained from a DLBCL patient treated with 5-azacytidine shows SMAD1 demethylation and ex vivo sensitization to multiple drugs. Therefore, DNA demethylating drugs can reprogram otherwise resistant DLBCL cells to respond to chemotherapy agents without increasing the toxicity to normal tissues. Our data also indicate that DNA methylation and consequent suppression of SMAD1 expression represent a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of chemoresistance in DLBCL that can be further exploit for therapy. A microarray study using genomic DNA from different DLBCL cell lines before any treatment. Two to four biological replicates by cell line. The HELP data wil be used to find genes hypermethylated in resistant cell lines compared to sensitive cell lines to doxorubicin and other drugs.
Project description:Silencing of genes that suppress the malignant phenotype by DNA methylation spurred an interest in the clinical use of epigenetic reprogramming agents. Single therapy is unlikely to be curative in the context of a heterogeneous disease such as Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas (DLBCL). The combination of DNA demethylating drugs could increase the chance to respond to classical and new treatments. We found that DLBCL cell lines respond heterogeneously to DNA demethylating agents. In sensitive cell lines, 5-aza-2M-bM-^@M-^Y-deoxycytidine induced a genomic signature similar to that of doxorubicin, the most important drug of the combinatorial chemotherapy regimen for DLBCL treatment. Accordingly, the combination of 5-aza-2M-bM-^@M-^Y-deoxycytidine and doxorubicin proved to be synergistic in cell killing in vitro and in vivo for DLBCL cell lines individually responsive to these drugs. In doxorubicin resistant cell lines, long-term exposure to low-dose of 5-aza-2M-bM-^@M-^Y-deoxycytidine induces DNA demethylation and subsequent doxorubicin sensitization in vitro and in vivo. This later effect correlates with SMAD1 demethylation. SMAD1 is epigenetically silenced in doxorubicin-resistant DLBCL cells and DLBCL patients with poor prognostic. In addition, we found that DNA demethylating agents can sensitize primary DLBCL cells to doxorubicin. Primary cells obtained from a DLBCL patient treated with 5-azacytidine shows SMAD1 demethylation and ex vivo sensitization to multiple drugs. Therefore, DNA demethylating drugs can reprogram otherwise resistant DLBCL cells to respond to chemotherapy agents without increasing the toxicity to normal tissues. Our data also indicate that DNA methylation and consequent suppression of SMAD1 expression represent a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of chemoresistance in DLBCL that can be further exploit for therapy. A microarray study using double-stranded cDNA from different DLBCL cell lines before any treatment. Two biological replicates by cell line. The gene expression will be used to find gene expression signatures between sensitive and resistant cell lines to chemotherapeutics.
Project description:Silencing of genes that suppress the malignant phenotype by DNA methylation spurred an interest in the clinical use of epigenetic reprogramming agents. Single therapy is unlikely to be curative in the context of a heterogeneous disease such as Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas (DLBCL). The combination of DNA demethylating drugs could increase the chance to respond to classical and new treatments. We found that DLBCL cell lines respond heterogeneously to DNA demethylating agents. In sensitive cell lines, 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induced a genomic signature similar to that of doxorubicin, the most important drug of the combinatorial chemotherapy regimen for DLBCL treatment. Accordingly, the combination of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine and doxorubicin proved to be synergistic in cell killing in vitro and in vivo for DLBCL cell lines individually responsive to these drugs. In doxorubicin resistant cell lines, long-term exposure to low-dose of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induces DNA demethylation and subsequent doxorubicin sensitization in vitro and in vivo. This later effect correlates with SMAD1 demethylation. SMAD1 is epigenetically silenced in doxorubicin-resistant DLBCL cells and DLBCL patients with poor prognostic. In addition, we found that DNA demethylating agents can sensitize primary DLBCL cells to doxorubicin. Primary cells obtained from a DLBCL patient treated with 5-azacytidine shows SMAD1 demethylation and ex vivo sensitization to multiple drugs. Therefore, DNA demethylating drugs can reprogram otherwise resistant DLBCL cells to respond to chemotherapy agents without increasing the toxicity to normal tissues. Our data also indicate that DNA methylation and consequent suppression of SMAD1 expression represent a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of chemoresistance in DLBCL that can be further exploit for therapy.
Project description:Silencing of genes that suppress the malignant phenotype by DNA methylation spurred an interest in the clinical use of epigenetic reprogramming agents. Single therapy is unlikely to be curative in the context of a heterogeneous disease such as Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas (DLBCL). The combination of DNA demethylating drugs could increase the chance to respond to classical and new treatments. We found that DLBCL cell lines respond heterogeneously to DNA demethylating agents. In sensitive cell lines, 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induced a genomic signature similar to that of doxorubicin, the most important drug of the combinatorial chemotherapy regimen for DLBCL treatment. Accordingly, the combination of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine and doxorubicin proved to be synergistic in cell killing in vitro and in vivo for DLBCL cell lines individually responsive to these drugs. In doxorubicin resistant cell lines, long-term exposure to low-dose of 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine induces DNA demethylation and subsequent doxorubicin sensitization in vitro and in vivo. This later effect correlates with SMAD1 demethylation. SMAD1 is epigenetically silenced in doxorubicin-resistant DLBCL cells and DLBCL patients with poor prognostic. In addition, we found that DNA demethylating agents can sensitize primary DLBCL cells to doxorubicin. Primary cells obtained from a DLBCL patient treated with 5-azacytidine shows SMAD1 demethylation and ex vivo sensitization to multiple drugs. Therefore, DNA demethylating drugs can reprogram otherwise resistant DLBCL cells to respond to chemotherapy agents without increasing the toxicity to normal tissues. Our data also indicate that DNA methylation and consequent suppression of SMAD1 expression represent a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of chemoresistance in DLBCL that can be further exploit for therapy.
Project description:Myc dysregulation underpins lymphomagenesis in the Atm-null DLBCL model and confers dependence on nucleotide biosynthesis.MYC-driven DLBCL is sensitive to nucleotide depletion with combined mycophenolate mofetil and adavosertib in vitro and in vivo.
Project description:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by progressive ectopic mineralization of the skin, eyes and arteries, for which no effective treatment exists. PXE is caused by inactivating mutations in the gene encoding ABCC6 (MRP6), an ATP-dependent efflux transporter that is mainly present in the liver. Abcc6-/- mice have been instrumental in the demonstration that PXE is a metabolic disease caused by the absence of an unknown factor in the circulation, the presence of which depends on ABCC6 in the liver. Why absence of this factor results in PXE remained a mystery. We now show that medium from HEK293 cells overexpressing either human or rat ABCC6 potently inhibits mineralization in vitro, whereas medium of HEK293 control cells does not. Untargeted metabolomics revealed that cells expressing ABCC6 excrete large amounts of nucleoside triphosphates, even though ABCC6 itself did not transport nucleoside triphosphates. Extracellularly, ectonucleotidases hydrolyzed the excreted nucleoside triphosphates to nucleoside monophosphates and inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi), a strong inhibitor of mineralization that plays a pivotal role in several mineralization disorders similar to PXE. The in vivo relevance of our data was demonstrated in Abcc6-/- mice, which had plasma PPi levels that were less than 40% of those found in wild-type mice. This study provides the first insight into how ABCC6 affects PXE. Our data indicate that the factor that normally prevents PXE is PPi, which is provided to the circulation in the form of nucleoside triphosphates via an as yet unidentified, but ABCC6-dependent mechanism.