Project description:Dysregulation of the NF-κB pathway is frequently observed in cancers, contributing to therapy resistance by inhibiting apoptosis. In this study, we identify RNF25, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, as a key regulator of signal transduction, inflammation, immune responses, and apoptosis. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis following RNF25 knockdown revealed significant alterations in key apoptotic regulators and NF-κB signaling components, highlighting the role of RNF25 in apoptotic resistance and therapeutic response. Pathway enrichment analysis further demonstrated disruptions in pro-survival and inflammatory signaling pathways, suggesting that RNF25 knockdown enhances apoptotic sensitivity and may influence treatment efficacy. This dataset provides valuable insights into potential therapeutic targets for overcoming treatment resistance.
Project description:Type II germ cell tumors (GCTs) are the most common neoplasia in young men of age 14-45 years. It is generally accepted that GCTs arise from a common precursor lesion, called germ cell neoplasia in situ (GCNIS), eventually developing into seminomas or non-seminomas, such as (embryonal carcinomas, ECs). The latter stem-cell like EC can further differentiate into teratomas (TE), yolk-sac tumors (YST), or choriocarcinomas (CC). Even though cisplatin-based chemotherapy is an efficacious standard of care during the management of GCT patients, the development of cisplatin resistance remains a major obstacle. As such, the surrounding tumor microenvironment and its secreted factors could endorse the development of drug resistance. These stromal cells, including immune cells (e.g. macrophages, T-lymphocytes), endothelial cells, and fibroblasts, can influence tumor cells by promoting proliferative and anti-apoptotic signaling pathways. Vice versa, microenvironmental cells can be influenced by tumor cells as well. For the identification of secreted proteins, cell lysates and supernatants from seven human germ cell tumor cell lines (seminoma: TCam-2; embryonal carcinoma (EC): 2102EP, NCCIT; choriocarcinoma (CC): JAR, JEG-3), yolk-sac tumor (YST): GCT72; 1411H) and five human cell types from the microenvironment (fibroblasts: MPAF, HVHF2; M2 macrophages: THP-1-M2; T-lymphocytes: JURKAT; endothelial cells: HUVEC) have been evaluated using liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS).
Project description:Platinum-based chemotherapy causes genetic damage and induces apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells. Enhancing the ability to resist platinum drug-induced DNA damage and apoptotic stress is critical for tumor cells to acquire drug resistance. Here, we found that Y-box binding protein 1 (YBX1) was highly expressed in platinum-resistant patient-derived organoids (PDOs) and was a crucial gene for alleviating platinum-induced stress and maintaining drug resistance characteristics in ovarian cancer cells.
Project description:Dysregulation of the NF-κB pathway is frequently observed in cancers, contributing to therapy resistance by inhibiting apoptosis. In this study, we identify RNF25, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, as a key regulator of signal transduction, inflammation, immune responses, and apoptosis. RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis following RNF25 knockdown revealed significant alterations in key apoptotic regulators and NF-κB signaling components, highlighting the role of RNF25 in apoptotic resistance and therapeutic response. Pathway enrichment analysis further demonstrated disruptions in pro-survival and inflammatory signaling pathways, suggesting that RNF25 knockdown enhances apoptotic sensitivity and may influence treatment efficacy. This dataset provides valuable insights into potential therapeutic targets for overcoming treatment resistance.
Project description:Traditional ideas hold that the accumulation of mitochondria in thermogenic adipose tissue, namely brown and beige fat, helps to increase energy expenditure (EE), thereby alleviating obesity and metabolic disorders. However, recent studies in mice have shown that knocking out key proteins that maintain mitochondrial function can inhibit the activation of thermogenic fat while somehow protecting the mice from high-fat diet (HFD)–induced metabolic disorders. Therefore, the specific role of adipose mitochondria in metabolic benefits needs further analysis. Here, our use of non-biased sequencing-based screening identified YY1 as a key player in maintaining mitochondrial function in thermogenic adipose tissue. YY1 promotes the transcription of electron transport chain (ETC) genes during thermogenesis; thus, YY1 adipose knockout (YAKO) mice showed reduced body temperature and EE under cold stress. Interestingly, YAKO mice showed alleviation of HFD-induced obesity and insulin resistance, which can be attributed to a repression of adipose tissue inflammation. Metabolomic analysis revealed that blocking YY1 in adipocytes directs glucose metabolism toward lactate, enhances the uptake of glutamine, and promotes the production of anti-inflammatory spermidine. Blocking spermidine production can reverse the beneficial metabolic effects observed in YAKO mice. In summary, our findings reveal a metabolic reprogramming pathway centered on adipose mitochondria; that is, although blocking YY1 reduced the mitochondria content, it generated spermidine and alleviated adipose inflammation, therefore leads to a thermogenic capacity-metabolic benefits uncoupling phenomenon.
Project description:The tendency of mitochondria to undergo or resist BCL2-controlled apoptosis (so-called mitochondrial priming) is a powerful predictor of response to cytotoxic chemotherapy. To fully exploit this finding, it will be important to understand the molecular genetic contexts responsible for the relative mitochondrial priming of chemotherapy-sensitive versus resistant cell populations. Here, we report that mitochondrial apoptosis resistance in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is mediated by inactivation of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). In T-ALL clinical samples from children with T-ALL treated on recent Dana-Farber Cancer Institute or Children’s Oncology Group clinical trials, we found that loss-of-function mutations in any of three core components of PRC2 (EZH2, EED or SUZ12) were associated with resistance to mitochondrial apoptosis. In human T-ALL cells, PRC2 depletion induced resistance to apoptosis induction by multiple chemotherapeutics with distinct mechanisms of action, including dexamethasone, doxorubicin and vincristine. PRC2 loss induced apoptosis resistance via transcriptional upregulation of the LIM domain transcription factor CRIP2, and subsequent downstream upregulation of the mitochondrial chaperone TRAP1. Importantly, TRAP1 overexpression was necessary to induce resistance to chemotherapy-induced apoptosis downstream of PRC2 inactivation, and pharmacologic inhibition of TRAP1 synergized with dexamethasone and doxorubicin. These findings demonstrate the importance of relative mitochondrial apoptotic priming as a prognostic factor in T-ALL, and implicate mitochondrial chaperone function as a molecular determinant of response to cancer chemotherapy, suggesting a rationale for targeted therapeutic intervention.
Project description:Standard chemotherapy is the only systemic treatment for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Despite the good initial responses, resistance remains a major therapeutic obstacle. Here, we employed a High-Throughput Screen to identify targeted therapies that overcome chemoresistance in TNBC. We applied short-term paclitaxel treatment and screened 320 small-molecule inhibitors of known targets to identify drugs that preferentially and efficiently target paclitaxel-treated TNBC cells. Among these compounds the SMAC mimetics (BV6, Birinapant) and BH3-mimetics (ABT-737/263) were recognized as potent targeted therapy for multiple paclitaxel-residual TNBC cell lines. However, acquired paclitaxel resistance through repeated paclitaxel pulses result in desensitization to BV6, but not to ABT-263, suggesting that short- and long-term paclitaxel resistance are mediated by distinct mechanisms. Gene expression profiling of paclitaxel-residual, -resistant and naïve MDA-MB-231 cells demonstrated that paclitaxel-residual, as opposed to -resistant cells, were characterized by an apoptotic signature, with downregulation of anti-apoptotic genes (BCL2, BIRC5), activation of apoptosis inducers (IL24, PDCD4), and enrichment of TNFα/NF-κB pathway, including upregulation of TNFSF15, coupled with cell-cycle arrest. BIRC5 and FOXM1 downregulation and IL24 induction was also evident in breast cancer patient datasets following taxane treatment. Exposure of naïve and paclitaxel-resistant cells to supernatants of paclitaxel-residual cells sensitized them to BV6, and treatment with TNFα enhanced the potency of BV6, suggesting that sensitization to BV6 is mediated, at least partially, by secreted factor(s). Our results suggest that administration of SMAC or BH3 mimetics following short-term paclitaxel treatment could be an effective therapeutic strategy for TNBC, while only BH3-mimetics could effectively overcome long-term paclitaxel resistance
Project description:Mutant p53 (mtp53) promotes chemotherapy resistance through multiple mechanisms including disabling pro-apoptotic proteins and by regulating gene expression. Analysis of promoter regions identified through CHIP-on-CHIP and CHIP-SEQ platforms reveal that the ETS motif (EBS) is prevalent within predicted mtp53 binding sites. We demonstrate that mtp53 regulates gene expression through EBS in promoters, and that ETS2 mediates the interaction with this motif. Importantly, we identified TDP2, a 5’-tyrosyl DNA phosphodiesterase involved in the repair of DNA damage caused by etoposide, as a transcriptional target of mtp53. We demonstrate that suppression of TDP2 sensitizes mtp53 expressing cells to etoposide, and that mtp53 and TDP2 are frequently overexpressed in human lung cancer; thus, our analysis identifies a potentially “druggable” component of mtp53’s gain-of-function activity. Comparison of two different transcriptional binding analysis (ChIP-on-ChIP and ChIP-Seq) for the identification of novel mutant p53 binding.
Project description:The paper describes a model of resistance of cancer to chemotherapy.
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Modelling chemotherapy resistance in palliation and failed cure
Helen C. Monro, Eamonn A. Gaffney
J Theor Biol. 2009, 257 (2), pp.292
Abstract:
The goal of palliative cancer chemotherapy treatment is to prolong survival and improve quality of life when tumour eradication is not feasible. Chemotherapy protocol design is considered in this context using a simple, robust, model of advanced tumour growth with Gompertzian dynamics, taking into account the effects of drug resistance. It is predicted that reduced chemotherapy protocols can readily lead to improved survival times due to the effects of competition between resistant and sensitive tumour cells. Very early palliation is also predicted to quickly yield near total tumour resistance and thus decrease survival duration. Finally, our simulations indicate that failed curative attempts using dose densification, a common protocol escalation strategy, can reduce survival times.
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