scholarly journals PAICS contributes to gastric carcinogenesis and participates in DNA damage response by interacting with histone deacetylase 1/2

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Huang ◽  
Chang Xu ◽  
Liang Deng ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Zhixuan Bian ◽  
...  

AbstractPhosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase, phosphoribosylaminoimidazole succinocarboxamide synthetase (PAICS), an essential enzyme involved in de novo purine biosynthesis, is connected with formation of various tumors. However, the specific biological roles and related mechanisms of PAICS in gastric cancer (GC) remain unclear. In the present study, we identified for the first time that PAICS was significantly upregulated in GC and high expression of PAICS was correlated with poor prognosis of patients with GC. In addition, knockdown of PAICS significantly induced cell apoptosis, and inhibited GC cell growth both in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistic studies first found that PAICS was engaged in DNA damage response, and knockdown of PAICS in GC cell lines induced DNA damage and impaired DNA damage repair efficiency. Further explorations revealed that PAICS interacted with histone deacetylase HDAC1 and HDAC2, and PAICS deficiency decreased the expression of DAD51 and inhibited its recruitment to DNA damage sites by impairing HDAC1/2 deacetylase activity, eventually preventing DNA damage repair. Consistently, PAICS deficiency enhanced the sensitivity of GC cells to DNA damage agent, cisplatin (CDDP), both in vitro and in vivo. Altogether, our findings demonstrate that PAICS plays an oncogenic role in GC, which act as a novel diagnosis and prognostic biomarker for patients with GC.

2009 ◽  
Vol 284 (24) ◽  
pp. 16066-16070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navasona Krishnan ◽  
Dae Gwin Jeong ◽  
Suk-Kyeong Jung ◽  
Seong Eon Ryu ◽  
Andrew Xiao ◽  
...  

In mammalian cells, the DNA damage-related histone H2A variant H2A.X is characterized by a C-terminal tyrosyl residue, Tyr-142, which is phosphorylated by an atypical kinase, WSTF. The phosphorylation status of Tyr-142 in H2A.X has been shown to be an important regulator of the DNA damage response by controlling the formation of γH2A.X foci, which are platforms for recruiting molecules involved in DNA damage repair and signaling. In this work, we present evidence to support the identification of the Eyes Absent (EYA) phosphatases, protein-tyrosine phosphatases of the haloacid dehalogenase superfamily, as being responsible for dephosphorylating the C-terminal tyrosyl residue of histone H2A.X. We demonstrate that EYA2 and EYA3 displayed specificity for Tyr-142 of H2A.X in assays in vitro. Suppression of eya3 by RNA interference resulted in elevated basal phosphorylation and inhibited DNA damage-induced dephosphorylation of Tyr-142 of H2A.X in vivo. This study provides the first indication of a physiological substrate for the EYA phosphatases and suggests a novel role for these enzymes in regulation of the DNA damage response.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. eaav1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Tang ◽  
Zhiming Li ◽  
Chaohua Zhang ◽  
Xiaopeng Lu ◽  
Bo Tu ◽  
...  

The activation of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) upon DNA damage involves a cascade of reactions, including acetylation by TIP60 and autophosphorylation. However, how ATM is progressively deactivated after completing DNA damage repair remains obscure. Here, we report that sirtuin 7 (SIRT7)–mediated deacetylation is essential for dephosphorylation and deactivation of ATM. We show that SIRT7, a class III histone deacetylase, interacts with and deacetylates ATM in vitro and in vivo. In response to DNA damage, SIRT7 is mobilized onto chromatin and deacetylates ATM during the late stages of DNA damage response, when ATM is being gradually deactivated. Deacetylation of ATM by SIRT7 is prerequisite for its dephosphorylation by its phosphatase WIP1. Consequently, depletion of SIRT7 or acetylation-mimic mutation of ATM induces persistent ATM phosphorylation and activation, thus leading to impaired DNA damage repair. Together, our findings reveal a previously unidentified role of SIRT7 in regulating ATM activity and DNA damage repair.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera M Chesnokova ◽  
Svetlana Zonis ◽  
Nasia Apostolou ◽  
Estrada Q Hannah ◽  
Simon Knott ◽  
...  

Abstract Colon polyp and cancer frequency increase with age, yet little is known about age-related mechanisms underlying development of these neoplasms. Defective DNA damage response and accumulation of unrepaired DNA damage can trigger genomic instability and cellular transformation. Patients with acromegaly have a higher prevalence of colon polyps and, arguably, colon adenocarcinoma, while those with GH signaling deficiency do not develop cancer. We showed that APC+/- mice that all develop colon adenomas exhibit a significant decrease in the number and volume of colon tumors with deletion of the GH transcription factor Prop1. Further, DNA damage response triggered GH expression in colon cells, and GH, in turn, altered DNA damage repair, resulting in DNA damage accumulation and cell transformation both in vitro and in vivo. These findings prompted us to hypothesize that accumulated DNA damage in aging colon induces local GH, suppressing DNA damage repair and creating a milieu consistent with genomic instability favoring neoplastic development. In human colon tissue we now show increased expression of γH2AX, a marker of DNA breaks, associated with increased GH transcription (detected by RNA scope) and translation (assessed by immunohistochemistry) as well as GH induction in both human and murine colon after DNA damaging radiotherapy. In vitro studies support these results, showing GH induction in normal human colon epithelial cells, fibroblasts, and 3D human intestinal organoids after DNA damage. Of note, local GH was secreted in the medium, indicating a paracrine effect. Paracrine/autocrine GH expression in these cellular models resulted in suppression of p53, induction of EMT, and attenuation of DNA damage response, and accumulated unrepaired DNA damage in human colon cells and in human intestinal organoids. In vivo, colon cells infected with lentivirus expressing GH generated more metastases than did cells expressing control vector. Co-culturing of human normal colon fibroblasts expressing GH together with normal human colon cells led to increased motility and accumulation of DNA damage as well as increased proliferation of epithelial cells on a gut-on-a-chip microfluidic device, confirming paracrine GH effects. In an in vitro model of aging, culturing human intestinal organoids for up to 2 months resulted in decreased telomere length and increased GH mRNA and protein expression associated with suppressed DNA damage response evident by decreased phosphorylation of ATM and DNA-PKcs, both kinases involved in DNA repair, and DNA damage accumulation assessed by Comet assay. Suppression of GH in these aging organoids led to increased phospho-p53 and reduced DNA damage. Although somatotroph axis endocrine activity decreases with age, local GH induced in response to age-related DNA damage may trigger a “field change,” creating a milieu favorable for colon neoplastic development.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yardena Silas ◽  
Esti Singer ◽  
Norbert Lehming ◽  
Ophry Pines

AbstractClass-II fumarases (Fumarate Hydratase, FH) are dual targeted enzymes, occurring in the mitochondria and cytosol of all eukaryotes. They are essential components in the DNA damage response (DDR) and more specifically, protecting cells from DNA double strand breaks. Similarly, the Gram-positive Bacterium Bacillus subtilis Class-II fumarase, in addition to its role in the TCA cycle, also participates in the DDR. Escherichia coli, harbors three fumarase genes; Class-I fumA and fumB and Class-II fumC. Notably, Class-I fumarases, show no sequence similarity to Class-II fumarases and are of different evolutionary origin. Strikingly, here we show that E. coli fumarase functions are distributed between Class-I fumarases which participate in the DDR, and the Class-II fumarase which participates in respiration. In E. coli, we discover that the signaling molecule, alpha-ketoglutarate (α-KG), has a novel function, complementing DNA damage sensitivity of fum null mutants. Excitingly, we identify the E. coli α-KG dependent DNA repair enzyme AlkB, as the target of this interplay of metabolite signaling. In addition to α-KG, fumarate (fumaric acid) is shown to affect DNA damage repair on two different levels, first by directly inhibiting the DNA damage repair enzyme AlkB demethylase activity, both in vitro and in vivo (countering α-KG). The second is a more global effect on transcription, as fum null mutants exhibit a decrease in transcription of key DNA damage repair genes. Together these results show evolutionary adaptable metabolic signaling of the DDR in which fumarases and different metabolites are recruited regardless of the evolutionary enzyme Class preforming the function.Significance StatementClass-II fumarases have been shown to participate in cellular respiration and the DNA damage response. Here we show, for the first time, that in the model prokaryote,Escherichia coli, which harbors both Class-I and Class-II fumarases, it is the Class-I fumarases that participate in DNA damage repair by a mechanism which is different than those described for other fumarases. Strikingly, this mechanism employs a novel signaling molecule, alpha-ketoglutarate (α-KG), and its target is the DNA damage repair enzyme AlkB. In addition, we show that fumarase precursor metabolites, fumarate and succinate, can inhibit the α-KG-dependent DNA damage repair enzyme, AlkB, both in vitro and in vivo. This study provides a new perspective on the function and evolution of metabolic signaling.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruixue Huang ◽  
Ping-Kun Zhou

AbstractGenomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is typically based on this property of cancers. However, the adverse effects including normal tissues injury are also accompanied by the radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Targeted cancer therapy has the potential to suppress cancer cells’ DNA damage response through tailoring therapy to cancer patients lacking specific DNA damage response functions. Obviously, understanding the broader role of DNA damage repair in cancers has became a basic and attractive strategy for targeted cancer therapy, in particular, raising novel hypothesis or theory in this field on the basis of previous scientists’ findings would be important for future promising druggable emerging targets. In this review, we first illustrate the timeline steps for the understanding the roles of DNA damage repair in the promotion of cancer and cancer therapy developed, then we summarize the mechanisms regarding DNA damage repair associated with targeted cancer therapy, highlighting the specific proteins behind targeting DNA damage repair that initiate functioning abnormally duo to extrinsic harm by environmental DNA damage factors, also, the DNA damage baseline drift leads to the harmful intrinsic targeted cancer therapy. In addition, clinical therapeutic drugs for DNA damage and repair including therapeutic effects, as well as the strategy and scheme of relative clinical trials were intensive discussed. Based on this background, we suggest two hypotheses, namely “environmental gear selection” to describe DNA damage repair pathway evolution, and “DNA damage baseline drift”, which may play a magnified role in mediating repair during cancer treatment. This two new hypothesis would shed new light on targeted cancer therapy, provide a much better or more comprehensive holistic view and also promote the development of new research direction and new overcoming strategies for patients.


NAR Cancer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Statello ◽  
Mohamad M Ali ◽  
Silke Reischl ◽  
Sagar Mahale ◽  
Subazini Thankaswamy Kosalai ◽  
...  

Abstract Despite the rapid improvements in unveiling the importance of lncRNAs in all aspects of cancer biology, there is still a void in mechanistic understanding of their role in the DNA damage response. Here we explored the potential role of the oncogenic lncRNA SCAT7 (ELF3-AS1) in the maintenance of genome integrity. We show that SCAT7 is upregulated in response to DNA-damaging drugs like cisplatin and camptothecin, where SCAT7 expression is required to promote cell survival. SCAT7 silencing leads to decreased proliferation of cisplatin-resistant cells in vitro and in vivo through interfering with cell cycle checkpoints and DNA repair molecular pathways. SCAT7 regulates ATR signaling, promoting homologous recombination. Importantly, SCAT7 also takes part in proteasome-mediated topoisomerase I (TOP1) degradation, and its depletion causes an accumulation of TOP1–cc structures responsible for the high levels of intrinsic DNA damage. Thus, our data demonstrate that SCAT7 is an important constituent of the DNA damage response pathway and serves as a potential therapeutic target for hard-to-treat drug resistant cancers.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Baker ◽  
Christoph Krisp ◽  
Daniel Roden ◽  
Holly Holliday ◽  
Sunny Z. Wu ◽  
...  

AbstractBasal-like breast cancer (BLBC) is a poorly characterised, heterogeneous disease. Patients are diagnosed with aggressive, high-grade tumours and often relapse with chemotherapy resistance. Detailed understanding of the molecular underpinnings of this disease is essential to the development of personalised therapeutic strategies. Inhibitor of Differentiation 4 (ID4) is a helix-loop-helix transcriptional regulator required for mammary gland development. ID4 is overexpressed in a subset of BLBC patients, associating with a stem-like poor prognosis phenotype, and is necessary for the growth of cell line models of BLBC, through unknown mechanisms. Here, we have defined a molecular mechanism of action for ID4 in BLBC and the related disease highgrade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOV), by combining RIME proteomic analysis and ChIP-Seq mapping of genomic binding sites. Remarkably, these studies have revealed novel interactions with DNA damage response proteins, in particular, mediator of DNA damage checkpoint protein 1 (MDC1). Through MDC1, ID4 interacts with other DNA repair proteins (γH2AX and BRCA1) at fragile chromatin sites. ID4 does not affect transcription at these sites, instead binding to chromatin following DNA damage and regulating DNA damage signalling. Clinical analysis demonstrates that ID4 is amplified and overexpressed at a higher frequency in BRCA1-mutant BLBC compared with sporadic BLBC, providing genetic evidence for an interaction between ID4 and DNA damage repair pathways. These data link the interactions of ID4 with MDC1 to DNA damage repair in the aetiology of BLBC and HGSOV.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e15640-e15640
Author(s):  
Ruby Yun-Ju Huang ◽  
Xun Hui Yeo ◽  
Wai Leong Tam

e15640 Background: AXL is a receptor tyrosine kinase that is often overexpressed in many cancers. It contributes to tumor progression, metastasis and drug resistance through activating downstream signaling cascades, making it an emerging therapeutic target. The first-in-class AXL inhibitor R428 (BGB321) was approved by the FDA for the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia. R428 (BGB321) was also reported to show selective sensitivity towards ovarian cancers (OC) with a Mesenchymal (Mes) molecular subtype. Recently, a novel role of AXL in the regulation of DNA damage responses has been described. In this study, we explored further the role of AXL in mediating DNA damage responses by using OC as a disease model. Methods: OC cell lines were treated with R428. Accumulation of γH2AX positive foci was assessed for DNA damage response. Western blotting for γH2AX, ATM and ATR levels were performed. Dose response curves of ATR inhibitors were generated by treating OC cells with the fixed dose of R428 (IC20 concentration of each cell line). Results: AXL inhibition by using R428 resulted in the increase of DNA damage foci in Mes OC cells SKOV3 and HeyA8. This occurred concurrently with the up-regulation of classic DNA damage response signaling molecules such as γH2AX, ATM and ATR. The IC50 of the ATR inhibitor significantly decreased for 2-3 folds in all OC cell lines tested. AXL inhibitor R428 sensitized both BRCA-mutated and non-BRCA-mutated OC cells to a potent and highly selective ATR inhibitor. Conclusions: Our results showed that AXL inhibition rendered cells more sensitive to the inhibition of ATR, a crucial mediator for replication stress, paving ways to the rationale for potential combinatory use of AXL and DNA damage repair inhibitors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 418-418
Author(s):  
Jingyuan Wang ◽  
Joanne Xiu ◽  
Yasmine Baca ◽  
Richard M. Goldberg ◽  
Philip Agop Philip ◽  
...  

418 Background: Alteration of histone modifications participating in transcription and genomic instability, has been recognized as an important role in tumorigenesis. Aberrant expression of histone-lysine N-methyltransferase 2 ( KMT2) family, which methylate histone H3 on lysine 4, is significantly correlated with poor survival in GC. Understanding how gene mutations of KMT2 family interact to affect cancer progression could lead to new treatment strategies. Methods: A total of 1,245 GC were analyzed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and immunohistochemistry (IHC; Caris Life Sciences, Phoenix, AZ). Tumor mutational burden (TMB) was calculated based on somatic nonsynonymous mutations, and MSI status was evaluated by a combination of IHC, fragment analysis and NGS. PD-L1 status was analyzed by IHC (SP142). Gene fusions were detected by Archer (N = 59) or whole-transcriptome sequencing (N = 129). Results: The overall mutation rate of genes in KMT2 family was 10.6% ( KMT2A: 1.7 %, KMT2C: 4.7%, KMT2D: 7.1%). Overall, the mutation rates were significantly higher in KMT2-mutated (MT) GC than KMT2-wild type (WT) GC, except for TP53 (43% vs 63%, p < .0001). Interestingly, among the genes with significant higher mutation rates in KMT2-MT GC, 28% (21/76) of them were related to DNA damage repair (including BRCA1/ 2, RAD50) and 33% (25/76) of them were related to chromatin remodeling (including ARID1A/ 2, SMARCA4). Overexpression of HER2, amplifications of KRAS, CDK6 and HER2 were significant lower, while PCM1 and BCL3 amplifications were significant higher in KMT2-MT, compared to KMT2-WT GC ( p < .05). Significantly higher prevalence of TMB-high ( > 17mut/MB) (49% vs 3%), MSI-H (53% vs 2%), and PD-L1 overexpression (20% vs 7%) were present in KMT2-MT GC, compared to KMT2-WT GC ( p < .001). The rates of fusions involving ARHGAP26 (19% vs 3%, p < .01)and RELA (29% vs 0%, p < .0001) were significantly higher in KMT2-MT than those in KMT2-WT GC. Conclusions: This is the largest study to investigate the distinct genomic landscape between KMT2-MT and WT GC. Our data indicates that KMT2-MT GC patients could potentially benefit from agents targeting DNA damage repair and immunotherapy, which warrants further in-vitro and in-vivo investigation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (23) ◽  
pp. e2026595118
Author(s):  
Yardena Silas ◽  
Esti Singer ◽  
Koyeli Das ◽  
Norbert Lehming ◽  
Ophry Pines

Class-II fumarases (fumarate hydratase, FH) are dual-targeted enzymes occurring in the mitochondria and cytosol of all eukaryotes. They are essential components in the DNA damage response (DDR) and, more specifically, protect cells from DNA double-strand breaks. Similarly, the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis class-II fumarase, in addition to its role in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, participates in the DDR. Escherichia coli harbors three fumarase genes: class-I fumA and fumB and class-II fumC. Notably, class-I fumarases show no sequence similarity to class-II fumarases and are of different evolutionary origin. Strikingly, here we show that E. coli fumarase functions are distributed between class-I fumarases, which participate in the DDR, and the class-II fumarase, which participates in respiration. In E. coli, we discover that the signaling molecule, alpha-ketoglutarate (α-KG), has a function, complementing DNA damage sensitivity of fum-null mutants. Excitingly, we identify the E. coli α-KG–dependent DNA repair enzyme AlkB as the target of this interplay of metabolite signaling. In addition to α-KG, fumarate (fumaric acid) is shown to affect DNA damage repair on two different levels, first by directly inhibiting the DNA damage repair enzyme AlkB demethylase activity, both in vitro and in vivo (countering α-KG). The second is a more global effect on transcription, because fum-null mutants exhibit a decrease in transcription of key DNA damage repair genes. Together, these results show evolutionary adaptable metabolic signaling of the DDR, in which fumarases and different metabolites are recruited regardless of the evolutionary enzyme class performing the function.


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