Project description:Core regularity transcription factors (CR TFs) define cell identity and lineage through an exquisitely precise and logical order during embryogenesis and development. These CR TFs regulated one another in three-dimensional space via distal enhancers that serve as logic gates embedded in their TF recognition sequences. Aberrant chromatin organization resulting in miswired circuitry of enhancer logic is a newly recognized feature in many cancers. Here, we report that PAX3-FOXO1 expression is driven by a translocated FOXO1 distal super enhancer (SE). ChIP-seq in tumors bearing rare PAX translocations implicate enhancer miswiring is a pervasive feature across all FP-RMS tumors. Therefore, our data reveal a mechanism of a translocated hijacked enhancer which disrupts the normal CR TF logic during skeletal muscle development (PAX3 to MYOD to MYOG), replacing it with an infinite loop logic that makes rhabdomyosarcoma cells unable to exit the undifferentiated proliferating stage.
Project description:We measured the expression profiles of a series of 30 Rhabdomyosarcoma biopsy samples (15 embryonal RMS, 10 translocation-positive alveolar RMS and 5 translocation-negative alveolar RMS). Expression data was used for unsupervised hierarchical clustering as well as supervised analysis to find gene expression signatures characteristic for the different histological RMS subgroups.
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression in 33 fusion-positive and 25 fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma cases was studied using GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus2 (Affymetrix) Fusion-positive versus fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma tumors
Project description:The goal of this study was to explore in detail how the chromatin remodeler and NuRD subunit CHD4 controls the oncogenic signature of the tumor driver and fusion protein PAX3-FOXO1 in fusion-positive rhabdomyosarcoma. To this aim, we defined the interactome of CHD4 by LC-MS, identified its location in the genome by ChIP-seq, assessed its influence on DNA accessibility by DNase I hypersensitivity assays, and determined its target genes by RNA-seq.
Project description:Genome-wide gene expression in 33 fusion-positive and 25 fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma cases was studied using GeneChip Human Genome U133 Plus2 (Affymetrix)
Project description:The goal of this study was to define functional and gene regulatory effects of KDM3A and Ets1, and their relationship to the PAX3/FOXO1 driver oncofusion, in fusion-positive Rhabdomyosarcoma.