Project description:Antiangiogenetic therapies (AATs) have limited effects owing to most patients with cancer inevitably developing resistance to them. In this study, data generated using a nasopharyngeal carcinoma orthotopic mouse model in combination with clinical data suggested compensatory vasculogenic mimicry (VM) formation during AATs and the association of VM with poor prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Additionally, data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry-based proteomics demonstrated that ADAM10 upregulation contributes to VM. Mechanistically, epigenetic and high-resolution chromatin interaction landscape analyses revealed that while ADAM10 does not interact with either the proximal or distal enhancers, DDX5, a transcription factor of ADAM10, is regulated by long-range looping enhancer-promoter interactions. Further analysis identified transcription factors bound to critical constituents of the DDX5 super-enhancer. Ingenol Mebutate, which docked excellently with DDX5, reversed ADAM10-mediated changes in gene expression, thereby effectively suppressing compensatory VM formation and metastasis and improving prognosis. Collectively, these findings provide insights into the clinical application of AATs.
Project description:Antiangiogenetic therapies (AATs) have limited effects owing to most patients with cancer inevitably developing resistance to them. In this study, data generated using a nasopharyngeal carcinoma orthotopic mouse model in combination with clinical data suggested compensatory vasculogenic mimicry (VM) formation during AATs and the association of VM with poor prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Additionally, data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry-based proteomics demonstrated that ADAM10 upregulation contributes to VM. Mechanistically, epigenetic and high-resolution chromatin interaction landscape analyses revealed that while ADAM10 does not interact with either the proximal or distal enhancers, DDX5, a transcription factor of ADAM10, is regulated by long-range looping enhancer-promoter interactions. Further analysis identified transcription factors bound to critical constituents of the DDX5 super-enhancer. Ingenol Mebutate, which docked excellently with DDX5, reversed ADAM10-mediated changes in gene expression, thereby effectively suppressing compensatory VM formation and metastasis and improving prognosis. Collectively, these findings provide insights into the clinical application of AATs.
Project description:Antiangiogenetic therapies (AATs) have limited effects owing to most patients with cancer inevitably developing resistance to them. In this study, data generated using a nasopharyngeal carcinoma orthotopic mouse model in combination with clinical data suggested compensatory vasculogenic mimicry (VM) formation during AATs and the association of VM with poor prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Additionally, data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry-based proteomics demonstrated that ADAM10 upregulation contributes to VM. Mechanistically, epigenetic and high-resolution chromatin interaction landscape analyses revealed that while ADAM10 does not interact with either the proximal or distal enhancers, DDX5, a transcription factor of ADAM10, is regulated by long-range looping enhancer-promoter interactions. Further analysis identified transcription factors bound to critical constituents of the DDX5 super-enhancer. Ingenol Mebutate, which docked excellently with DDX5, reversed ADAM10-mediated changes in gene expression, thereby effectively suppressing compensatory VM formation and metastasis and improving prognosis. Collectively, these findings provide insights into the clinical application of AATs.
Project description:Vasculogenic mimicry has been generally accepted as a new form of tumor vascularization and regarded as an unfavorable prognostic factor in multiple aggressive malignancies. We previously reported the presence of vasculogenic mimicry in osteosarcoma patients. The mechanistic basis for osteosarcoma VM remains unclear. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression between 143B cells and HOS cells exposed to Matrigel which showed greatly different vasculogenic mimicry formation potential and identified distinct classes of vasculogenic mimicry-realted genes during this process.
Project description:Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is an intriguing phenomenon observed in tumor masses, in which cancer cells organize themselves into capillary-like channels that closely resemble the structure and function of blood vessels. Although VM is believed to contribute to alternative tumor vascularization, the detailed regulatory mechanisms controlling these cellular processes remain poorly understood. Our study aimed to investigate the role of Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1) in regulating VM in aggressive cancer cells, specifically MDA-MB-231 triple-negative breast cancer cells.