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Hughesman CB, Lu XJD, Liu KYP, Zhu Y, Towle RM, Haynes C, Poh CF. Detection of clinically relevant copy number alterations in oral cancer progression using multiplexed droplet digital PCR. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11855. [PMID: 28928368 PMCID: PMC5605662 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11201-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Copy number alterations (CNAs), a common genomic event during carcinogenesis, are known to affect a large fraction of the genome. Common recurrent gains or losses of specific chromosomal regions occur at frequencies that they may be considered distinctive features of tumoral cells. Here we introduce a novel multiplexed droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) assay capable of detecting recurrent CNAs that drive tumorigenesis of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Applied to DNA extracted from oral cell lines and clinical samples of various disease stages, we found good agreement between CNAs detected by our ddPCR assay with those previously reported using comparative genomic hybridization or single nucleotide polymorphism arrays. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the ability to target specific locations of the genome permits detection of clinically relevant oncogenic events such as small, submicroscopic homozygous deletions. Additional capabilities of the multiplexed ddPCR assay include the ability to infer ploidy level, quantify the change in copy number of target loci with high-level gains, and simultaneously assess the status and viral load for high-risk human papillomavirus types 16 and 18. This novel multiplexed ddPCR assay therefore may have clinical value in differentiating between benign oral lesions from those that are at risk of progressing to oral cancer.
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Affiliation(s)
- Curtis B Hughesman
- Department of Oral Medical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Department of Oral Medical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Department of Oral Medical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Department of Oral Medical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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- Department of Oral Medical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada.
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1L3, Canada.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2B5, Canada.
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Sideridou M, Zakopoulou R, Evangelou K, Liontos M, Kotsinas A, Rampakakis E, Gagos S, Kahata K, Grabusic K, Gkouskou K, Trougakos IP, Kolettas E, Georgakilas AG, Volarevic S, Eliopoulos AG, Zannis-Hadjopoulos M, Moustakas A, Gorgoulis VG. Cdc6 expression represses E-cadherin transcription and activates adjacent replication origins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 195:1123-40. [PMID: 22201124 PMCID: PMC3246883 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201108121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
The Cdc6 replication licensing factor acts as a molecular switch at the E-cadherin locus, leading to E-cadherin transcriptional repression and local activation of replication. E-cadherin (CDH1) loss occurs frequently in carcinogenesis, contributing to invasion and metastasis. We observed that mouse and human epithelial cell lines overexpressing the replication licensing factor Cdc6 underwent phenotypic changes with mesenchymal features and loss of E-cadherin. Analysis in various types of human cancer revealed a strong correlation between increased Cdc6 expression and reduced E-cadherin levels. Prompted by these findings, we discovered that Cdc6 repressed CDH1 transcription by binding to the E-boxes of its promoter, leading to dissociation of the chromosomal insulator CTCF, displacement of the histone variant H2A.Z, and promoter heterochromatinization. Mutational analysis identified the Walker B motif and C-terminal region of Cdc6 as essential for CDH1 transcriptional suppression. Strikingly, CTCF displacement resulted in activation of adjacent origins of replication. These data demonstrate that Cdc6 acts as a molecular switch at the E-cadherin locus, linking transcriptional repression to activation of replication, and provide a telling example of how replication licensing factors could usurp alternative programs to fulfill distinct cellular functions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maria Sideridou
- Molecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece
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Shiau CK, Gu DL, Chen CF, Lin CH, Jou YS. IGRhCellID: integrated genomic resources of human cell lines for identification. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:D520-4. [PMID: 21051335 PMCID: PMC3013678 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cell line identification is emerging as an essential method for every cell line user in research community to avoid using misidentified cell lines for experiments and publications. IGRhCellID (http://igrcid.ibms.sinica.edu.tw) is designed to integrate eight cell identification methods including seven methods (STR profile, gender, immunotypes, karyotype, isoenzyme profile, TP53 mutation and mutations of cancer genes) available in various public databases and our method of profiling genome alterations of human cell lines. With data validation of 11 small deleted genes in human cancer cell lines, profiles of genomic alterations further allow users to search for human cell lines with deleted gene to serve as indigenous knock-out cell model (such as SMAD4 in gene view), with amplified gene to be the cell models for testing therapeutic efficacy (such as ERBB2 in gene view) and with overlapped aberrant chromosomal loci for revealing common cancer genes (such as 9p21.3 homozygous deletion with co-deleted CDKN2A, CDKN2B and MTAP in chromosome view). IGRhCellID provides not only available methods for cell identification to help eradicating concerns of using misidentified cells but also designated genetic features of human cell lines for experiments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cheng-Kai Shiau
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan
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Pateras IS, Apostolopoulou K, Koutsami M, Evangelou K, Tsantoulis P, Liloglou T, Nikolaidis G, Sigala F, Kittas C, Field JK, Kotsinas A, Gorgoulis VG. Downregulation of the KIP family members p27(KIP1) and p57(KIP2) by SKP2 and the role of methylation in p57(KIP2) inactivation in nonsmall cell lung cancer. Int J Cancer 2006; 119:2546-56. [PMID: 16988944 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Knowing the status of molecules involved in cell cycle control in cancer is vital for therapeutic approaches aiming at their restoration. The p27(KIP1) and p57(KIP2) cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors are nodal factors controlling normal cell cycle. Their expression in normal lung raises the question whether they have a mutual exclusive or redundant role in nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A comparative comprehensive analysis was performed in a series of 70 NSCLCs. The majority of cases showed significantly reduced expression of both members compared to normal counterparts. Low KIP protein levels correlated with increased proliferation, which seems to be histological subtype preponderant. At mechanistic level, degradation by SKP2 was demonstrated, in vivo and in vitro, by siRNA-methodology, to be the most important downregulating mechanism of both KIPs in NSCLC. Decreased p57(KIP) (2)-transcription complements the above procedure in lowering p57(KIP2)-protein levels. Methylation was the main cause of decreased p57(KIP) (2)-mRNA levels. Allelic loss and imprinting from LIT1 mRNA contribute also to decreased p57(KIP2) transcription. In vitro recapitulation of the in vivo findings, in A549 lung cells (INK4A-B((-/-))), suggested that inhibition of the SKP2-degradation mechanism restores p27(KIP1) and p57(KIP2) expression. Double siRNA treatments demonstrated that each KIP is independently capable of restraining cell growth. An additional demethylation step is required for complete reconstitution of p57(KIP2) expression in NSCLC.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ioannis S Pateras
- Molecular Carcinogenesis Group, Laboratory of Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Bignone PA, Lee KY, Liu Y, Emilion G, Finch J, Soosay AER, Charnock FML, Beck S, Dunham I, Mungall AJ, Ganesan TS. RPS6KA2, a putative tumour suppressor gene at 6q27 in sporadic epithelial ovarian cancer. Oncogene 2006; 26:683-700. [PMID: 16878154 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We had previously defined by allele loss studies a minimal region at 6q27 (between D6S264 and D6S297) to contain a putative tumour suppressor gene. The p90 ribosomal S6 kinase-3 gene (p90 Rsk-3, RPS6KA2) maps in this interval. It is a serine-threonine kinase that signals downstream of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. It is expressed in normal ovarian epithelium, whereas reduced or absent in tumours or cell lines. We show that RPS6KA2 is monoallelically expressed in the ovary suggesting that loss of a single expressed allele is sufficient to cause complete loss of expression in cancer cells. Further, we have identified two new isoforms of RPS6KA2 with an alternative start codon. Homozygous deletions were identified within the RPS6KA2 gene in two cell lines. Re-expression of RPS6KA2 in ovarian cancer cell lines suppressed colony formation. In UCI101 cells, the expression of RPS6KA2 reduced proliferation, caused G1 arrest, increased apoptosis, reduced levels of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase and altered other cell cycle proteins. In contrast, small interfering RNA against RPS6KA2 showed the opposite effect in 41M cells. The above results suggest that RPS6KA2 is a putative tumour suppressor gene to explain allele loss at 6q27.
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MESH Headings
- Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell/genetics
- Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell/metabolism
- Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell/pathology
- Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous/genetics
- Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous/metabolism
- Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous/pathology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Apoptosis
- Carcinoma, Endometrioid/genetics
- Carcinoma, Endometrioid/metabolism
- Carcinoma, Endometrioid/pathology
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Proliferation
- Chromosome Deletion
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6/genetics
- Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous/genetics
- Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous/metabolism
- Cystadenocarcinoma, Serous/pathology
- DNA Methylation
- DNA, Neoplasm/genetics
- DNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor/physiology
- Humans
- Immunoprecipitation
- Loss of Heterozygosity
- MAP Kinase Signaling System/genetics
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/genetics
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/metabolism
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/pathology
- Ovarian Neoplasms/genetics
- Ovarian Neoplasms/metabolism
- Ovarian Neoplasms/pathology
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- RNA Interference
- Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa/genetics
- Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- P A Bignone
- Cancer Research UK, Molecular Oncology Laboratories, Ovarian Cancer Group, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Grönholm M, Muranen T, Toby GG, Utermark T, Hanemann CO, Golemis EA, Carpén O. A functional association between merlin and HEI10, a cell cycle regulator. Oncogene 2006; 25:4389-98. [PMID: 16532029 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Merlin and ezrin are homologous proteins with opposite effects on neoplastic growth. Merlin is a tumor suppressor inactivated in the neurofibromatosis 2 disease, whereas upregulated ezrin expression is associated with increased malignancy. Merlin's tumor suppressor mechanism is not known, although participation in cell cycle regulation has been suggested. To characterize merlin's biological activities, we screened for molecules that would interact with merlin but not ezrin. We identified the cyclin B-binding protein and cell cycle regulator HEI10 as a novel merlin-binding partner. The interaction is mediated by the alpha-helical domain in merlin and the coiled-coil domain in HEI10 and requires conformational opening of merlin. The two proteins show partial subcellular colocalization, which depends on cell cycle stage and cell adhesion. Comparison of Schwann cells and schwannoma cultures demonstrated that the distribution of HEI10 depends on merlin expression. In transfected cells, a constitutively open merlin construct affected HEI10 protein integrity. These results link merlin to the cell cycle control machinery and may help to understand its tumor suppressor function.
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- M Grönholm
- Neuroscience Program, Biomedicum Helsinki, Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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