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Gillis N, Dickey BL, Colin-Leitzinger C, Tang YH, Putney RM, Mesa TE, Yoder SJ, Suneja G, Spivak AM, Patel AB, Extermann M, Giuliano AR, Teng M, Kresovich J, Berglund A, Coghill AE. Clonal hematopoiesis in patients with HIV and cancer. J Infect Dis 2024:jiae212. [PMID: 38657098 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiae212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cancer-related deaths for people living with HIV (PWH) are increasing due to longer life expectancies and disparately poor cancer-related outcomes. We hypothesize that advanced biological aging contributes to cancer-related morbidity and mortality for PWH and cancer. We sought to determine the impact of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) on cancer disparities in PWH. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study to compare the prevalence and clinical outcomes of CH in PWH and people without HIV (PWoH) and cancer. Included in the study were PWH and similar PWoH based on tumor site, age, tumor sequence, and cancer treatment status. Biological aging was also measured using epigenetic methylation clocks. RESULTS In 136 patients with cancer, PWH had twice the prevalence of CH compared to similar PWoH (23% vs 11%, p=0.07). After adjusting for patient characteristics, PWH were four-times more likely to have CH than PWoH (OR 4.1, 95% CI 1.3-13.9, p=0.02). The effect of CH on survival was most pronounced in PWH, who had a 5-year survival rate of 38% if they had CH (vs 59% if no CH), compared to PWoH who had a 5-year survival rate of 75% if they had CH (vs 83% if no CH). CONCLUSION This study provides the first evidence that PWH may have a higher prevalence of CH than PWoH with the same cancers. CH may be an independent biological aging risk factor contributing to inferior survival for PWH and cancer.
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- Nancy Gillis
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Department of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Molecular Genomics Core Facility, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Molecular Genomics Core Facility, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Senior Adult Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Department of Breast Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Liu X, Gillis N, Jiang C, McCofie A, Shaw TI, Tan AC, Zhao B, Wan L, Duckett DR, Teng M. An Epigenomic fingerprint of human cancers by landscape interrogation of super enhancers at the constituent level. PLoS Comput Biol 2024; 20:e1011873. [PMID: 38335222 PMCID: PMC10883583 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Super enhancers (SE), large genomic elements that activate transcription and drive cell identity, have been found with cancer-specific gene regulation in human cancers. Recent studies reported the importance of understanding the cooperation and function of SE internal components, i.e., the constituent enhancers (CE). However, there are no pan-cancer studies to identify cancer-specific SE signatures at the constituent level. Here, by revisiting pan-cancer SE activities with H3K27Ac ChIP-seq datasets, we report fingerprint SE signatures for 28 cancer types in the NCI-60 cell panel. We implement a mixture model to discriminate active CEs from inactive CEs by taking into consideration ChIP-seq variabilities between cancer samples and across CEs. We demonstrate that the model-based estimation of CE states provides improved functional interpretation of SE-associated regulation. We identify cancer-specific CEs by balancing their active prevalence with their capability of encoding cancer type identities. We further demonstrate that cancer-specific CEs have the strongest per-base enhancer activities in independent enhancer sequencing assays, suggesting their importance in understanding critical SE signatures. We summarize fingerprint SEs based on the cancer-specific statuses of their component CEs and build an easy-to-use R package to facilitate the query, exploration, and visualization of fingerprint SEs across cancers.
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- Xiang Liu
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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Wei P, Lamont B, He T, Xue W, Wang PC, Song W, Zhang R, Keyhani AB, Zhao S, Lu W, Dong F, Gao R, Yu J, Huang Y, Tang L, Lu K, Ma J, Xiong Z, Chen L, Wan N, Wang B, He W, Teng M, Dian Y, Wang Y, Zeng L, Lin C, Dai M, Zhou Z, Xiao W, Yan Z. Vegetation-fire feedbacks increase subtropical wildfire risk in scrubland and reduce it in forests. J Environ Manage 2024; 351:119726. [PMID: 38052142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
Abstract
Climate dictates wildfire activity around the world. But East and Southeast Asia are an apparent exception as fire-activity variation there is unrelated to climatic variables. In subtropical China, fire activity decreased by 80% between 2003 and 2020 amid increased fire risks globally. Here, we assessed the fire regime, vegetation structure, fuel flammability and their interactions across subtropical Hubei, China. We show that tree basal area (TBA) and fuel flammability explained 60% of fire-frequency variance. Fire frequency and fuel flammability, in turn, explained 90% of TBA variance. These results reveal a novel system of scrubland-forest stabilized by vegetation-fire feedbacks. Frequent fires promote the persistence of derelict scrubland through positive vegetation-fire feedbacks; in forest, vegetation-fire feedbacks are negative and suppress fire. Thus, we attribute the decrease in wildfire activity to reforestation programs that concurrently increase forest coverage and foster negative vegetation-fire feedbacks that suppress wildfire.
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- P Wei
- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Ecology Section, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
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- College of Science Engineering & Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Xianyang, 712100, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Hubei Forestry Survey and Design Institute, East Lake Science and Technology, District, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
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- Hubei Forestry Survey and Design Institute, East Lake Science and Technology, District, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China.
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- Hubei Forestry Survey and Design Institute, East Lake Science and Technology, District, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
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- Hubei Forestry Survey and Design Institute, East Lake Science and Technology, District, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China.
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- Department of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China.
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He H, Wang JL, Jin M, Yuan ZQ, Teng M. [Study on the current status and relationship between psychological capital and compassion fatigue with work engagement of clinical nurses]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2023; 41:818-824. [PMID: 38073208 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20221017-00495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Objective: To explore the relationship between clinical nurses' psychological capital, compassion fatigue with work engagement, and analyze the mediating effect of psychological capital between compassion fatigue and work engagement, so as to provide scientific evidence for reducing compassion fatigue and improving work engagement of clinical nurses. Methods: From December 2021 to February 2022, 494 clinical nurses from 7 general hospitals in Sichuan Province were selected for the study using convenience sampling. The General Information Questionnaire, the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale, the Work Engagement Short Scale and the Psychological Capital Questionnaire for Nurses were used to conduct the survey. Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between compassion fatigue, work engagement and psychological capital. And stepwise regression analysis and Bootstrap method were used to analyze the effects of compassion fatigue and psychological capital on work engagement as well as the mediating effect of psychological capital between compassion fatigue and work engagement. Results: Of the 494 clinical nurses, 33 (6.7%) were male and 461 (93.3%) were female, with an average age of (31.47±6.89) years old and an average working years (9.87±7.61) years. The average scores of psychological capital, compassion fatigue and work engagement of clinical nurses were (5.01±0.76), (3.19±2.08) and (4.60±1.37) points, respectively. Compassion fatigue was negatively correlated with psychological capital and work engagement (r=-0.608, -0.580, P<0.001), and work engagement was positively correlated with psychological capital (r=0.771, P<0.001). Compassion fatigue and psychological capital together accounted for 61.3% of the variation in work engagement, with the direct effects on work engagement were -0.206 (95%CI: -0.283--0.138, P<0.001) and 0.677 (95%CI: 0.599-0.744, P=0.001), respectively. Psychological capital partially mediated the relationship between compassion fatigue and work engagement, with a mediating effect of -0.397 (95%CI: -0.456--0.340, P<0.001), accounting for 65.8% of the total effect. Conclusion: The work engagement of clinical nurses is at a high level. Managers should take targeted measures to alleviate the symptoms of clinical nurses' compassion fatigue, improve their psychological capital, and then stabilize and improve their level of work engagement.
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- H He
- School of Nursing, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China
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- School of Nursing, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China
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- Operating Room, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu 610014, China
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- Department of Nursing, Sichuan Nursing Vocational College, Deyang 618099, China
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- School of Nursing, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China
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Dickey BL, Putney RM, Suneja G, Kresovich JK, Spivak AM, Patel AB, Teng M, Extermann M, Giuliano AR, Gillis N, Berglund A, Coghill AE. Differences in epigenetic age by HIV status among patients with a non-AIDS defining cancer. AIDS 2023; 37:2049-2057. [PMID: 37467055 PMCID: PMC10538418 DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000003661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE People with HIV (PWH) are living longer and experiencing higher numbers of non-AIDS-defining cancers (NADC). Epigenetic aging biomarkers have been linked to cancer risk, and cancer is now a leading cause of death in PWH, but these biomarkers have not been investigated in PWH and cancer. DESIGN In order to compare epigenetic age by HIV status, HIV-uninfected participants were matched to PWH by reported age, tumor site, tumor sequence number, and cancer treatment status. METHODS DNA from blood was assayed using Illumina MethylationEPIC BeadChip, and we estimated immune cell composition and aging from three epigenetic clocks: Horvath, GrimAge, and epiTOC2. Age acceleration by clock was computed as the residual from the expected value, calculated using linear regression, for each study participant. Comparisons across HIV status used the Wilcoxon rank sum test. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between age acceleration and survival in PWH were estimated with Cox regression. RESULTS Among 65 NADC participants with HIV and 64 without, biological age from epiTOC2 ( P < 0.0001) and GrimAge ( P = 0.017) was significantly higher in PWH. Biological age acceleration was significantly higher in PWH using epiTOC2 ( P < 0.01) and GrimAge ( P < 0.0001), with the difference in GrimAge remaining statistically significant after adjustment for immune cell composition. Among PWH, GrimAge acceleration was significantly associated with increased risk of death (hazard ratio 1.11; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04-1.18). CONCLUSION We observed a higher epigenetic age in PWH with a NADC diagnosis compared with their HIV-uninfected counterparts, as well as a significant association between this accelerated biological aging and survival for patients diagnosed with a NADC.
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- Biostatistics/Bioinformatics Division, Moffitt Cancer Center
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Utah
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology
- Department of Breast Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine
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- Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology
- Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology
- Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Ran X, Zhang X, Teng M, Alawi WB, Nahum S, He H, Lok BH. The Effect of PARP Inhibitor Radiosensitization on the mRNA Translational Regulation of T Cell Chemokines. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:S71-S72. [PMID: 37784561 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) Immunotherapy has modestly improved survival for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. Low response rate and rapid disease progression remain an intractable challenge. One of the factors that contribute to immunotherapy resistance is the lack of cytotoxic T cell infiltration. The expression of chemoattractant cytokines, like CCL5 and CXCL10, are essential for T cell infiltration. The control of chemokine expression is not fully understood, but both transcriptional and translational control pathways could play a major role. Previous studies have shown a correlation between DNA damage and chemokine expression and that PARP inhibitors (PARPi) are radiosensitizers for SCLC that increases DNA damage. The objectives of this study were to define this potential PARPi immunogenic radiosensitizing relationship. MATERIALS/METHODS We identified doses of olaparib+ radiation treatment (RT) that conferred radiosensitization in SCLC cell-lines by cell viability and/or clonogenic assays. Olaparib+RT induced CCL5 and CXCL10 mRNA expression was measured by qPCR across SCLC cell-lines. Protein level of chemokines was assessed by immunoblotting. SBC5 cells were treated with olaparib+RT and submitted for RNA sequencing analysis. Genes with adjusted p value<0.05 were considered significant. Protein level changes and target gene knock-out (KO) were confirmed by immunoblotting. Chemokine CXCL10 mRNA and protein level in wildtype (WT) and KO cells were measured by qPCR and western blot, respectively. A mRNA decay assay and dual-luciferase reporter assay was used to identify the region of CXCL10 mRNA that confers mRNA stability control. In vivo anti-tumor efficacy and tumor T cell infiltration studies were done in B6129F mice bearing KP1 tumors. And the T cell infiltration was measured by immune profiling. RESULTS In vitro, olaparib+RT significantly increased CXCL10 mRNA in all four SCLC subtype cell-lines in comparison to vehicle control. Consistently, the increase of CXCL10 protein levels (3-fold) was observed in SBC5 cells. By RNA-Seq, a top-ranking translational repressor was EIF4E2 (4EHP) mRNA. The downregulation of EIF4E2 protein by olaparib+RT was validated in four SCLC subtypes by western blot. EIF4E2 KO in HEK293 and SBC5 cells increased CXCL10 mRNA and protein level. By mRNA decay assay and western blot, the absence of EIF4E2 stabilized CXCL10 mRNA and increased CXCL10 protein levels. The dual-luciferase assay demonstrated EIF4E2 destabilizes CXCL10 mRNA via the 3'UTR of CXCL10. In vivo, immune profiling showed olaparib+RT significantly increased the total T cell and CD8+ T cell infiltration. Finally, anti-PD-L1 inhibition potentiated olaparib + IR to improve tumor control in KP1 allograft. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrated olaparib + RT increases CXCL10 protein levels through downregulating EIF4E2 to subsequently increase T cell infiltration. Olaparib + RT enhanced anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy efficacy and has therapeutic potential as an immunogenic radiosensitizer.
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- X Ran
- University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, ON, Canada
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- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Gillis N, Padron E, Wang T, Chen K, DeVos JD, Spellman SR, Lee SJ, Kitko CL, MacMillan ML, West J, Tang YH, Teng M, McNulty S, Druley TE, Pidala JA, Lazaryan A. Pilot Study of Donor-Engrafted Clonal Hematopoiesis Evolution and Clinical Outcomes in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients Using a National Registry. Transplant Cell Ther 2023; 29:640.e1-640.e8. [PMID: 37517612 PMCID: PMC10592088 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.07.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Improved treatment options, such as reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC), enable older patients to receive potentially curative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). This progress has led to increased use of older HLA-matched sibling donors. An unintended potential risk associated with older donors is transplantation of donor cells with clonal hematopoiesis (CH) into patients. We aimed to determine the prevalence of CH in older HLA-matched sibling donors pretransplantation and to assess the clinical impact of donor-engrafted CH on HCT outcomes. This was an observational study using donor peripheral blood samples from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research repository, linked with corresponding recipient outcomes. To explore engraftment efficiency and evolution of CH mutations following HCT, recipient follow-up samples available through the Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (Protocol 1202) were included. Older donors and patients (both ≥55 years) receiving first RIC HCT for myeloid malignancies were eligible. DNA from archived donor blood samples was used for targeted deep sequencing to identify CH. The associations between donor CH status and recipient outcomes, including acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD), chronic GVHD (cGVHD), overall survival, relapse, nonrelapse mortality, disease-free survival, composite GVHD-free and relapse-free survival, and cGVHD-free and relapse-free survival, were analyzed. A total of 299 donors were successfully sequenced to detect CH. At a variant allele frequency (VAF) ≥2%, there were 44 CH mutations in 13.7% (41 of 299) of HLA-matched sibling donors. CH mostly involved DNMT3A (n = 27; 61.4%) and TET2 (n= 9; 20.5%). Post-HCT samples from 13 recipients were also sequenced, of whom 7 had CH+ donors. All of the donor CH mutations (n = 7/7; 100%) were detected in recipients at day 56 or day 90 post-HCT. Overall, mutation VAFs remained relatively constant up to day 90 post-HCT (median change, .005; range, -.008 to .024). Doubling time analysis of recipient day 56 and day 90 data showed that donor-engrafted CH mutations initially expand then decrease to a stable VAF; germline mutations had longer doubling times than CH mutations. The cumulative incidence of grade II-IV aGVHD at day 100 was higher in HCT recipients with CH+ donors (37.5% versus 25.1%); however, the risk for aGVHD by donor CH status did not reach statistical significance (hazard ratio, 1.35; 95% confidence interval, .61 to 3.01; P = .47). There were no statistically significant differences in the cumulative incidence of cGVHD or any secondary outcomes by donor CH status. In subset analysis, the incidence of cGVHD was lower in recipients of grafts from DNMT3A CH+ donors versus donors without DNMT3A CH (34.4% versus 57%; P = .035). Donor cell leukemia was not reported in any donor-recipient pairs. CH in older HLA-matched sibling donors is relatively common and successfully engrafts and persists in recipients. In a homogenous population (myeloid malignancies, older donors and recipients, RICr, non-cyclophosphamide-containing GVHD prophylaxis), we did not detect a difference in cGVHD risk or other secondary outcomes by donor CH status. Subgroup analyses suggest potential differential effects by clinical characteristics and CH mutations. Larger prospective studies are needed to robustly determine which subsets of patients and CH mutations elicit meaningful impacts on clinical outcomes.
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- Nancy Gillis
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida; Department of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida.
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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Le Garrec D, Chesnel C, Teng M, Lagnau P, Brouchet M, Chea M, Amarenco G, Hentzen C. [Intermittent catheterization: What are the environmental impacts and how can they be reduced?]. Prog Urol 2023; 33:533-540. [PMID: 37596127 DOI: 10.1016/j.purol.2023.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2023] [Revised: 07/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023]
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INTRODUCTION If the use of intermittent catheterization has revolutionized the prognosis of neuro-urology patients, it seems necessary to question the ecological cost of single-use catheters, in a process of decarbonization of the health sector. The aim of this work is to identify the environmental impact of intermittent catheterization and potential solutions to reduce it. METHODS A review of the literature on the environmental impact of intermittent catheterizations was conducted. Potential solutions to reduce this impact and possible alternatives were then studied based on data from the literature. RESULTS Only two studies were identified. The first estimated the amount of waste generated by intermittent catheterization in the USA to be between 4400 and 38,964 tons per year. The second study showed a higher overall environmental impact of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) catheters than polyvinyl chloride (PVC) catheters and catheters made from polyolefin material. Reuse of catheters would reduce the amount of waste, but the paucity of data does not allow us to determine if the incidence of urinary tract infection would be affected. Alternative micturition methods, in addition to the complications they may cause, require the use of collection bags or pads, which also have an environmental impact. Other treatments for dysuria exist, but the evidence is limited and does not cover all patient populations. CONCLUSION With limited alternatives, it appears essential to develop more environmentally friendly catheters.
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- D Le Garrec
- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France.
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, AP-HP, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne Université, 75020 Paris, France
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Mammadova J, Colin-Leitzinger C, Nguyen D, Mhaskar R, Ganesan S, Tang YH, Teng M, Ismail-Khan R, Gillis N. Clonal Hematopoiesis as a Molecular Risk Factor for Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: A Proof-of-Concept Study. JCO Precis Oncol 2023; 7:e2300208. [PMID: 37738545 PMCID: PMC10581654 DOI: 10.1200/po.23.00208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023] Open
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PURPOSE The main dose-limiting toxicity of anthracyclines is cardiotoxicity. Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), somatic mutations in hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells in patients without hematologic malignancy, is also associated with risk for adverse cardiovascular events and worse outcomes overall. We hypothesize that CH increases risk for doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (DIC). METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study in patients treated with doxorubicin for cancer (N = 100). Patients (n = 25) had incident symptomatic heart failure, decline in left ventricular ejection fraction, or arrhythmia. CH was identified using paired peripheral blood and tumor DNA. RESULTS After adjusting for age at doxorubicin initiation, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and chest radiation, high cumulative dose of doxorubicin (>240 mg/m2; odds ratio [OR], 7.00; 95% CI, 1.77 to 27.74; P = .0056), CH (OR, 8.58; 95% CI, 2.05 to 35.99; P = .0033), and history of smoking (OR, 3.15; 95% CI, 1.00 to 9.93; P = .0495) were associated with DIC. CONCLUSION This study provides preliminary evidence for CH as a predictive risk factor for DIC, which, with further investigation, could serve as an important precision medicine biomarker for the large number of patients with cancer who have CH.
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- Jamila Mammadova
- Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Medical Education, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Medical Education, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Medicine, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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Obermayer AN, Chang D, Nobles G, Teng M, Tan AC, Wang X, Chen YA, Eschrich S, Rodriguez PC, Grass GD, Meshinchi S, Tarhini A, Chen DT, Shaw TI. PATH-SURVEYOR: pathway level survival enquiry for immuno-oncology and drug repurposing. BMC Bioinformatics 2023; 24:266. [PMID: 37380943 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-023-05393-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Pathway-level survival analysis offers the opportunity to examine molecular pathways and immune signatures that influence patient outcomes. However, available survival analysis algorithms are limited in pathway-level function and lack a streamlined analytical process. Here we present a comprehensive pathway-level survival analysis suite, PATH-SURVEYOR, which includes a Shiny user interface with extensive features for systematic exploration of pathways and covariates in a Cox proportional-hazard model. Moreover, our framework offers an integrative strategy for performing Hazard Ratio ranked Gene Set Enrichment Analysis and pathway clustering. As an example, we applied our tool in a combined cohort of melanoma patients treated with checkpoint inhibition (ICI) and identified several immune populations and biomarkers predictive of ICI efficacy. We also analyzed gene expression data of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and performed an inverse association of drug targets with the patient's clinical endpoint. Our analysis derived several drug targets in high-risk KMT2A-fusion-positive patients, which were then validated in AML cell lines in the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity database. Altogether, the tool offers a comprehensive suite for pathway-level survival analysis and a user interface for exploring drug targets, molecular features, and immune populations at different resolutions.
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- Alyssa N Obermayer
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Children's Oncology Group, Monrovia, CA, USA
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- Department of Cutaneous Oncology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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Wang C, Liu X, Liang J, Narita Y, Ding W, Li D, Zhang L, Wang H, Leong MML, Hou I, Gerdt C, Jiang C, Zhong Q, Tang Z, Forney C, Kottyan L, Weirauch MT, Gewurz BE, Zeng MS, Jiang S, Teng M, Zhao B. A DNA tumor virus globally reprograms host 3D genome architecture to achieve immortal growth. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1598. [PMID: 36949074 PMCID: PMC10033825 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37347-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/24/2023] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immortalization of resting B lymphocytes (RBLs) to lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) models human DNA tumor virus oncogenesis. RBL and LCL chromatin interaction maps are compared to identify the spatial and temporal genome architectural changes during EBV B cell transformation. EBV induces global genome reorganization where contact domains frequently merge or subdivide during transformation. Repressed B compartments in RBLs frequently switch to active A compartments in LCLs. LCLs gain 40% new contact domain boundaries. Newly gained LCL boundaries have strong CTCF binding at their borders while in RBLs, the same sites have much less CTCF binding. Some LCL CTCF sites also have EBV nuclear antigen (EBNA) leader protein EBNALP binding. LCLs have more local interactions than RBLs at LCL dependency factors and super-enhancer targets. RNA Pol II HiChIP and FISH of RBL and LCL further validate the Hi-C results. EBNA3A inactivation globally alters LCL genome interactions. EBNA3A inactivation reduces CTCF and RAD21 DNA binding. EBNA3C inactivation rewires the looping at the CDKN2A/B and AICDA loci. Disruption of a CTCF site at AICDA locus increases AICDA expression. These data suggest that EBV controls lymphocyte growth by globally reorganizing host genome architecture to facilitate the expression of key oncogenes.
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- Chong Wang
- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, China
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- Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510060, China
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, China
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- Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Obermayer A, Chang D, Nobles G, Teng M, Tan AC, Wang X, Eschrich S, Rodriguez P, Grass GD, Meshinchi S, Tarhini A, Chen DT, Shaw T. DRPPM-PATH-SURVEIOR: Plug-and-Play Survival Analysis of Pathway-level Signatures and Immune Components. Res Sq 2023:rs.3.rs-2688545. [PMID: 36993526 PMCID: PMC10055629 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2688545/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Pathway-level survival analysis offers the opportunity to examine molecular pathways and immune signatures that influence patient outcomes. However, available survival analysis algorithms are limited in pathway-level function and lack a streamlined analytical process. Here we present a comprehensive pathway-level survival analysis suite, DRPPM-PATH-SURVEIOR, which includes a Shiny user interface with extensive features for systematic exploration of pathways and covariates in a Cox proportional-hazard model. Moreover, our framework offers an integrative strategy for performing Hazard Ratio ranked Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and pathway clustering. As an example, we applied our tool in a combined cohort of melanoma patients treated with checkpoint inhibition (ICI) and identified several immune populations and biomarkers predictive of ICI efficacy. We also analyzed gene expression data of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and performed an inverse association of drug targets with the patient's clinical endpoint. Our analysis derived several drug targets in high-risk KMT2A-fusion-positive patients, which were then validated in AML cell lines in the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity database. Altogether, the tool offers a comprehensive suite for pathway-level survival analysis and a user interface for exploring drug targets, molecular features, and immune populations at different resolutions.
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
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Teng M. Statistical Analysis in ChIP-seq-Related Applications. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2629:169-181. [PMID: 36929078 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2986-4_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) has been widely performed to identify protein binding information along the genome. The sequencing protocol is quite flexible and mature to measure different types of protein binding as long as sequencing parameters are properly tailored to accommodate protein features. Two distinct types of protein binding are point-source-like binding by transcription factors and diffused-distribution binding by histone modifications. Consequently, statistical approaches have been proposed to address ChIP-seq-related questions according to different protein features. In this chapter, we briefly summarize statistical principles, approaches, and tools that are widely implemented in modeling ChIP-seq data, from raw data quality control to final result reporting. We discuss the key solutions in addressing eight routine questions in ChIP-seq applications. We also include discussion on approaches fitting unique data features in different ChIP-seq types. We hope this chapter will serve as a brief guide, especially for ChIP-seq beginners, to provide them with a high-level overview to understand and design processing plans for their ChIP-seq experiments.
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
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Jiang C, Ward NP, Prieto-Farigua N, Kang YP, Thalakola A, Teng M, DeNicola GM. A CRISPR screen identifies redox vulnerabilities for KEAP1/NRF2 mutant non-small cell lung cancer. Redox Biol 2022; 54:102358. [PMID: 35667246 PMCID: PMC9168196 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2022.102358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The redox regulator NRF2 is hyperactivated in a large percentage of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases, which is associated with chemotherapy and radiation resistance. To identify redox vulnerabilities for KEAP1/NRF2 mutant NSCLC, we conducted a CRISPR-Cas9-based negative selection screen for antioxidant enzyme genes whose loss sensitized cells to sub-lethal concentrations of the superoxide (O2•-) -generating drug β-Lapachone. While our screen identified expected hits in the pentose phosphate pathway, the thioredoxin-dependent antioxidant system, and glutathione reductase, we also identified the mitochondrial superoxide dismutase 2 (SOD2) as one of the top hits. Surprisingly, β-Lapachone did not generate mitochondrial O2•- but rather SOD2 loss enhanced the efficacy of β-Lapachone due to loss of iron-sulfur protein function, loss of mitochondrial ATP maintenance and deficient NADPH production. Importantly, inhibition of mitochondrial electron transport activity sensitized cells to β-Lapachone, demonstrating that these effects may be translated to increase ROS sensitivity therapeutically.
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- Chang Jiang
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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Jiang C, Ward NP, Prieto-Farigua N, Kang YP, Thalakola A, Teng M, DeNicola GM. Corrigendum to “A CRISPR screen identifies redox vulnerabilities for KEAP1/NRF2 mutant non-small cell lung cancer” [Redox Biol. 54 (2022) 102358]. Redox Biol 2022; 54:102393. [PMID: 35794066 PMCID: PMC9287741 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2022.102393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Guo R, Zhang Y, Teng M, Jiang C, Schineller M, Zhao B, Doench JG, O'Reilly RJ, Cesarman E, Giulino-Roth L, Gewurz BE. Author Correction: DNA methylation enzymes and PRC1 restrict B-cell Epstein-Barr virus oncoprotein expression. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:928. [PMID: 35505195 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01137-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Rui Guo
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. .,Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. .,Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Jin QY, Feng LL, Wang YB, Li P, Yang JF, Teng M, Chai SJ, Xing GX, Zhang GP. Rapid screening of monoclonal antibodies against porcine circovirus type 2 using colloidal gold-based paper test. Pol J Vet Sci 2022; 25:27-34. [PMID: 35575997 DOI: 10.24425/pjvs.2022.140837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A proof of concept for using paper test as a suitable method in the production of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) is reported. The paper test which detects antibodies against porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) using colloidal gold-labelled capsid protein as the antigen probe was applied exclusively in the screening of anti-PCV2 MAbs. It allowed the detection of 118 single cell clones within 30 min using naked eyes. MAbs with specific binding to authentic epitopes on the virus were selected using a blocking strategy in which the antibody was pre-incubated with PCV2 viral sample before applying to the test paper. Five hybridomas secreting MAbs against the capsid protein were obtained, with only three of them capable of binding to PCV2. The results were validated and confirmed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunofluorescence assay. The paper test is simple, rapid, and independent on professional technicians and proves to be an excellent approach for the screening of MAbs against specific targets.
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- Q Y Jin
- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- School of Public Health, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453003, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences and Basic Medicine, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang 453003, PR China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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- Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China
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Obermayer A, Dong L, Hu Q, Golden M, Noble JD, Rodriguez P, Robinson TJ, Teng M, Tan AC, Shaw TI. DRPPM-EASY: A Web-Based Framework for Integrative Analysis of Multi-Omics Cancer Datasets. Biology (Basel) 2022; 11:biology11020260. [PMID: 35205126 PMCID: PMC8869715 DOI: 10.3390/biology11020260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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High-throughput transcriptomic and proteomic analyses are now routinely applied to study cancer biology. However, complex omics integration remains challenging and often time-consuming. Here, we developed DRPPM-EASY, an R Shiny framework for integrative multi-omics analysis. We applied our application to analyze RNA-seq data generated from a USP7 knockdown in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) cell line, which identified upregulated expression of a TAL1-associated proliferative signature in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines. Next, we performed proteomic profiling of the USP7 knockdown samples. Through DRPPM-EASY-Integration, we performed a concurrent analysis of the transcriptome and proteome and identified consistent disruption of the protein degradation machinery and spliceosome in samples with USP7 silencing. To further illustrate the utility of the R Shiny framework, we developed DRPPM-EASY-CCLE, a Shiny extension preloaded with the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) data. The DRPPM-EASY-CCLE app facilitates the sample querying and phenotype assignment by incorporating meta information, such as genetic mutation, metastasis status, sex, and collection site. As proof of concept, we verified the expression of TP53 associated DNA damage signature in TP53 mutated ovary cancer cells. Altogether, our open-source application provides an easy-to-use framework for omics exploration and discovery.
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- Alyssa Obermayer
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (A.O.); (M.T.); (A.-C.T.)
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- Computational Biology Department, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA;
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.D.N.); (T.J.R.)
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- Department of Immunology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.D.N.); (T.J.R.)
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (A.O.); (M.T.); (A.-C.T.)
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (A.O.); (M.T.); (A.-C.T.)
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (A.O.); (M.T.); (A.-C.T.)
- Correspondence:
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Wei G, Teng M, Rosa M, Wang X. Unique ER PR expression pattern in breast cancers with CHEK2 mutation: a hormone receptor and HER2 analysis based on germline cancer predisposition genes. Breast Cancer Res 2022; 24:11. [PMID: 35135604 PMCID: PMC8822747 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-022-01507-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Purpose Estrogen-receptor (ER) and progesterone-receptor (PR) expression levels in breast cancer, which have been principally compared via binomial descriptors, can vary widely across tumors. We sought to characterize ER and PR expression levels using semi-quantitative analyses of receptor staining in germline pathogenic variant (PV) carriers of cancer predisposition genes. Methods We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients who underwent germline genetic testing for cancer predisposition genes at a tertiary cancer center genetics clinic. We performed comparisons of semi-quantitative ER and PR percentage staining levels across carriers and non-carriers of cancer predisposition genes. Results Breast cancers from BRCA1 PV carriers expressed significantly lower ER (15.2% vs 78.2%, p < 0.001) and lower PR (6.8% vs 41.1%, p < 0.001) staining compared to non-PV carriers. Similarly, breast cancers of BRCA2 (66.7% vs 78.2%, p = 0.005) and TP53 (50.6% vs 78.2%, p = 0.015) PV tumors also displayed moderate decreases in ER staining. Conversely, CHEK2 tumors displayed higher ER (93.1% vs 78.2%, p = 0.005) and PR (72% vs 48.8%, p = 0.001) staining when compared to non-PV carriers. We observed a wide range of dispersion across the ER and PR staining levels of the carriers and noncarriers. ER and PR ranges of dispersion of CHEK2 tumors were uniquely narrower than all other groups. Conclusion The findings of our study suggest that precise expression levels of ER and PR in breast cancers can vary widely. These differences are further augmented when comparing expression staining across PV and non-PV carriers, suggesting potentially unique tumorigenesis and progression pathways influenced by germline cancer predisposition genes.
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Liu X, Zhao B, Shaw TI, Fridley BL, Duckett DR, Tan A, Teng M. OUP accepted manuscript. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:3115-3127. [PMID: 35234924 PMCID: PMC8989535 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Super enhancers (SEs) are broad enhancer domains usually containing multiple constituent enhancers that hold elevated activities in gene regulation. Disruption in one or more constituent enhancers causes aberrant SE activities that lead to gene dysregulation in diseases. To quantify SE aberrations, differential analysis is performed to compare SE activities between cell conditions. The state-of-art strategy in estimating differential SEs relies on overall activities and neglect the changes in length and structure of SEs. Here, we propose a novel computational method to identify differential SEs by weighting the combinatorial effects of constituent-enhancer activities and locations (i.e. internal dynamics). In addition to overall activity changes, our method identified four novel classes of differential SEs with distinct enhancer structural alterations. We demonstrate that these structure alterations hold distinct regulatory impact, such as regulating different number of genes and modulating gene expression with different strengths, highlighting the differentiated regulatory roles of these unexplored SE features. When compared to the existing method, our method showed improved identification of differential SEs that were linked to better discernment of cell-type-specific SE activity and functional interpretation.
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- Xiang Liu
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Drug Discovery, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 813 745 7734; Fax: +1 813 745 6107;
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Huang J, Soupir AC, Schlick BD, Teng M, Sahin IH, Permuth JB, Siegel EM, Manley BJ, Pellini B, Wang L. Cancer Detection and Classification by CpG Island Hypermethylation Signatures in Plasma Cell-Free DNA. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13225611. [PMID: 34830765 PMCID: PMC8616264 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13225611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Simple Summary The detection of DNA methylation changes in blood has emerged as a promising approach for cancer diagnosis and management. Our group has previously optimized a blood DNA methylation profiling technology that is based on affinity capture of methylated DNA, termed cfMBD-seq. The aim of this study was to assess the potential clinical feasibility of cfMBD-seq. We applied cfMBD-seq to the blood samples of cancer patients and identified methylation signatures that can not only discriminate cancer patients from cancer-free individuals but can also enable accurate multi-cancer classification. Our findings will help to expand on existing blood-based molecular diagnostic tests and identify novel methylation biomarkers for early cancer detection and classification. Abstract Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) methylation has emerged as a promising biomarker for early cancer detection, tumor type classification, and treatment response monitoring. Enrichment-based cfDNA methylation profiling methods such as cfMeDIP-seq have shown high accuracy in the classification of multiple cancer types. We have previously optimized another enrichment-based approach for ultra-low input cfDNA methylome profiling, termed cfMBD-seq. We reported that cfMBD-seq outperforms cfMeDIP-seq in the enrichment of high-CpG-density regions, such as CpG islands. However, the clinical feasibility of cfMBD-seq is unknown. In this study, we applied cfMBD-seq to profiling the cfDNA methylome using plasma samples from cancer patients and non-cancer controls. We identified 1759, 1783, and 1548 differentially hypermethylated CpG islands (DMCGIs) in lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer patients, respectively. Interestingly, the vast majority of DMCGIs were overlapped with aberrant methylation changes in corresponding tumor tissues, indicating that DMCGIs detected by cfMBD-seq were mainly driven by tumor-specific DNA methylation patterns. From the overlapping DMCGIs, we carried out machine learning analyses and identified a set of discriminating methylation signatures that had robust performance in cancer detection and classification. Overall, our study demonstrates that cfMBD-seq is a powerful tool for sensitive detection of tumor-derived epigenomic signals in cfDNA.
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- Jinyong Huang
- Department of Tumor Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.H.); (A.C.S.)
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- Department of Tumor Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.H.); (A.C.S.)
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
- Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.B.P.); (E.M.S.)
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.B.P.); (E.M.S.)
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
- Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
- Correspondence: (B.P.); (L.W.)
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- Department of Tumor Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; (J.H.); (A.C.S.)
- Correspondence: (B.P.); (L.W.)
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Xie M, Lee K, Lockhart JH, Cukras SD, Carvajal R, Beg AA, Flores ER, Teng M, Chung CH, Tan AC. TIMEx: tumor-immune microenvironment deconvolution web-portal for bulk transcriptomics using pan-cancer scRNA-seq signatures. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:3681-3683. [PMID: 33901274 PMCID: PMC11025676 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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SUMMARY The heterogeneous cell types of the tumor-immune microenvironment (TIME) play key roles in determining cancer progression, metastasis and response to treatment. We report the development of TIMEx, a novel TIME deconvolution method emphasizing on estimating infiltrating immune cells for bulk transcriptomics using pan-cancer single-cell RNA-seq signatures. We also implemented a comprehensive, user-friendly web-portal for users to evaluate TIMEx and other deconvolution methods with bulk transcriptomic profiles. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION TIMEx web-portal is freely accessible at http://timex.moffitt.org. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Mengyu Xie
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Immunology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Head and Neck-Endocrine Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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Teng M, Du D, Chen D, Irizarry RA. Characterizing batch effects and binding site-specific variability in ChIP-seq data. NAR Genom Bioinform 2021; 3:lqab098. [PMID: 34661103 PMCID: PMC8515842 DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqab098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Multiple sources of variability can bias ChIP-seq data toward inferring transcription factor (TF) binding profiles. As ChIP-seq datasets increase in public repositories, it is now possible and necessary to account for complex sources of variability in ChIP-seq data analysis. We find that two types of variability, the batch effects by sequencing laboratories and differences between biological replicates, not associated with changes in condition or state, vary across genomic sites. This implies that observed differences between samples from different conditions or states, such as cell-type, must be assessed statistically, with an understanding of the distribution of obscuring noise. We present a statistical approach that characterizes both differences of interests and these source of variability through the parameters of a mixed effects model. We demonstrate the utility of our approach on a CTCF binding dataset composed of 211 samples representing 90 different cell-types measured across three different laboratories. The results revealed that sites exhibiting large variability were associated with sequence characteristics such as GC-content and low complexity. Finally, we identified TFs associated with high-variance CTCF sites using TF motifs documented in public databases, pointing the possibility of these being false positives if the sources of variability are not properly accounted for.
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Cheng L, Deng L, Teng M. Editorial: System Biology Methods and Tools for Integrating Omics Data. Front Genet 2020; 11:563108. [PMID: 33281868 PMCID: PMC7689002 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.563108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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- Liang Cheng
- NHC Key Laboratory of Molecular Probe and Targeted Theranostics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
- *Correspondence: Liang Cheng
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Central South University, Changsha, China
- Lei Deng
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- Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States
- Mingxiang Teng
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Jiang C, Trudeau SJ, Cheong TC, Guo R, Teng M, Wang LW, Wang Z, Pighi C, Gautier-Courteille C, Ma Y, Jiang S, Wang C, Zhao B, Paillard L, Doench JG, Chiarle R, Gewurz BE. CRISPR/Cas9 Screens Reveal Multiple Layers of B cell CD40 Regulation. Cell Rep 2020; 28:1307-1322.e8. [PMID: 31365872 PMCID: PMC6684324 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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CD40 has major roles in B cell development, activation, and germinal center responses. CD40 hypoactivity causes immunodeficiency whereas its overexpression causes autoimmunity and lymphomagenesis. To systematically identify B cell autonomous CD40 regulators, we use CRISPR/Cas9 genome-scale screens in Daudi B cells stimulated by multimeric CD40 ligand. These highlight known CD40 pathway components and reveal multiple additional mechanisms regulating CD40. The nuclear ubiquitin ligase FBXO11 supports CD40 expression by targeting repressors CTBP1 and BCL6. FBXO11 knockout decreases primary B cell CD40 abundance and impairs class-switch recombination, suggesting that frequent lymphoma monoallelic FBXO11 mutations may balance BCL6 increase with CD40 loss. At the mRNA level, CELF1 controls exon splicing critical for CD40 activity, while the N6-adenosine methyltransferase WTAP negatively regulates CD40 mRNA abundance. At the protein level, ESCRT negatively regulates activated CD40 levels while the negative feedback phosphatase DUSP10 limits downstream MAPK responses. These results serve as a resource for future studies and highlight potential therapeutic targets. CD40 is critical for B cell development, germinal center formation, somatic hypermutation, and class-switch recombination. Increased CD40 abundance is associated with autoimmunity and cancer, whereas CD40 hypoactivity causes immunodeficiency. Jiang et al. performed a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen to reveal key B cell factors that control CD40 abundance and that regulate CD40 responses.
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- Chang Jiang
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Graduate Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Biosit, Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 6290, Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, 35043 Rennes, France
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Graduate Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Biosit, Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 6290, Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, 35043 Rennes, France
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Vena F, Bayle S, Nieto A, Quereda V, Aceti M, Frydman SM, Sansil SS, Grant W, Monastyrskyi A, McDonald P, Roush WR, Teng M, Duckett D. Targeting Casein Kinase 1 Delta Sensitizes Pancreatic and Bladder Cancer Cells to Gemcitabine Treatment by Upregulating Deoxycytidine Kinase. Mol Cancer Ther 2020; 19:1623-1635. [PMID: 32430484 PMCID: PMC7415672 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-19-0997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Although gemcitabine is the cornerstone of care for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), patients lack durable responses and relapse is inevitable. While the underlying mechanisms leading to gemcitabine resistance are likely to be multifactorial, there is a strong association between activating gemcitabine metabolism pathways and clinical outcome. This study evaluated casein kinase 1 delta (CK1δ) as a potential therapeutic target for PDA and bladder cancer, in which CK1δ is frequently overexpressed. We assessed the antitumor effects of genetically silencing or pharmacologically inhibiting CK1δ using our in-house CK1δ small-molecule inhibitor SR-3029, either alone or in combination with gemcitabine, on the proliferation and survival of pancreatic and bladder cancer cell lines and orthotopic mouse models. Genetic studies confirmed that silencing CK1δ or treatment with SR-3029 induced a significant upregulation of deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), a rate-limiting enzyme in gemcitabine metabolite activation. The combination of SR-3029 with gemcitabine induced synergistic antiproliferative activity and enhanced apoptosis in both pancreatic and bladder cancer cells. Furthermore, in an orthotopic pancreatic tumor model, we observed improved efficacy with combination treatment concomitant with increased dCK expression. This study demonstrates that CK1δ plays a role in gemcitabine metabolism, and that the combination of CK1δ inhibition with gemcitabine holds promise as a future therapeutic option for metastatic PDA as well as other cancers with upregulated CK1δ expression.
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- Francesca Vena
- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Translational Research Core, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Drug Discovery, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida.
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Guo R, Zhang Y, Teng M, Jiang C, Schineller M, Zhao B, Doench JG, O'Reilly RJ, Cesarman E, Giulino-Roth L, Gewurz BE. DNA methylation enzymes and PRC1 restrict B-cell Epstein-Barr virus oncoprotein expression. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:1051-1063. [PMID: 32424339 PMCID: PMC7462085 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-020-0724-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
To accomplish the remarkable task of lifelong infection, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) switches between four viral genome latency and lytic programmes to navigate the B-cell compartment and evade immune responses. The transforming programme, consisting of highly immunogenic EBV nuclear antigen (EBNA) and latent membrane proteins (LMPs), is expressed in newly infected B lymphocytes and in post-transplant lymphomas. On memory cell differentiation and in most EBV-associated Burkitt's lymphomas, all but one viral antigen are repressed for immunoevasion. To gain insights into the epigenetic mechanisms that restrict immunogenic oncoprotein expression, a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen was performed in EBV and Burkitt's lymphoma cells. Here, we show that the ubiquitin ligase ubiquitin-like PHD and RING finger domain-containing protein 1 (UHRF1) and its DNA methyltransferase partner DNA methyltransferase I (DNMT1) are critical for the restriction of EBNA and LMP expression. All UHRF1 reader and writer domains were necessary for silencing and DNMT3B was identified as an upstream viral genome CpG methylation initiator. Polycomb repressive complex I exerted a further layer of control over LMP expression, suggesting a second mechanism for latency programme switching. UHRF1, DNMT1 and DNMT3B are upregulated in germinal centre B cells, the Burkitt's lymphoma cell of origin, providing a molecular link between B-cell state and the EBV latency programme. These results suggest rational therapeutic targets to manipulate EBV oncoprotein expression.
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- Rui Guo
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Vander Velde R, Yoon N, Marusyk V, Durmaz A, Dhawan A, Miroshnychenko D, Lozano-Peral D, Desai B, Balynska O, Poleszhuk J, Kenian L, Teng M, Abazeed M, Mian O, Tan AC, Haura E, Scott J, Marusyk A. Resistance to targeted therapies as a multifactorial, gradual adaptation to inhibitor specific selective pressures. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2393. [PMID: 32409712 PMCID: PMC7224215 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16212-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite high initial efficacy, targeted therapies eventually fail in advanced cancers, as tumors develop resistance and relapse. In contrast to the substantial body of research on the molecular mechanisms of resistance, understanding of how resistance evolves remains limited. Using an experimental model of ALK positive NSCLC, we explored the evolution of resistance to different clinical ALK inhibitors. We found that resistance can originate from heterogeneous, weakly resistant subpopulations with variable sensitivity to different ALK inhibitors. Instead of the commonly assumed stochastic single hit (epi) mutational transition, or drug-induced reprogramming, we found evidence for a hybrid scenario involving the gradual, multifactorial adaptation to the inhibitors through acquisition of multiple cooperating genetic and epigenetic adaptive changes. Additionally, we found that during this adaptation tumor cells might present unique, temporally restricted collateral sensitivities, absent in therapy naïve or fully resistant cells, suggesting the potential for new therapeutic interventions, directed against evolving resistance. Acquired resistance to cancer therapies reflects the ability of cancers to adapt to therapy-imposed selective pressures. Here, the authors elucidate the dynamics of developing resistance to ALK inhibitors in an ALK+ lung cancer cell line showing that resistance originates from drug-specific tolerant cancer cells and it develops as a gradual adaptation.
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- Robert Vander Velde
- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.,Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.,Supercomputer and Bioinnovation Center, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.,University of South Florida Cancer Biology PhD Program, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Biostatistic and Bioinformatics, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Biostatistic and Bioinformatics, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. .,Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Physiology, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA. .,Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
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Guo R, Jiang C, Zhang Y, Govande A, Trudeau SJ, Chen F, Fry CJ, Puri R, Wolinsky E, Schineller M, Frost TC, Gebre M, Zhao B, Giulino-Roth L, Doench JG, Teng M, Gewurz BE. MYC Controls the Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Switch. Mol Cell 2020; 78:653-669.e8. [PMID: 32315601 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with multiple human malignancies. To evade immune detection, EBV switches between latent and lytic programs. How viral latency is maintained in tumors or in memory B cells, the reservoir for lifelong EBV infection, remains incompletely understood. To gain insights, we performed a human genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen in Burkitt lymphoma B cells. Our analyses identified a network of host factors that repress lytic reactivation, centered on the transcription factor MYC, including cohesins, FACT, STAGA, and Mediator. Depletion of MYC or factors important for MYC expression reactivated the lytic cycle, including in Burkitt xenografts. MYC bound the EBV genome origin of lytic replication and suppressed its looping to the lytic cycle initiator BZLF1 promoter. Notably, MYC abundance decreases with plasma cell differentiation, a key lytic reactivation trigger. Our results suggest that EBV senses MYC abundance as a readout of B cell state and highlights Burkitt latency reversal therapeutic targets.
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- Rui Guo
- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Danvers, MA 01923, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Wang C, Li D, Zhang L, Jiang S, Liang J, Narita Y, Hou I, Zhong Q, Zheng Z, Xiao H, Gewurz BE, Teng M, Zhao B. RNA Sequencing Analyses of Gene Expression during Epstein-Barr Virus Infection of Primary B Lymphocytes. J Virol 2019; 93:e00226-19. [PMID: 31019051 PMCID: PMC6580941 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00226-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection of human primary resting B lymphocytes (RBLs) leads to the establishment of lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) that can grow indefinitely in vitro EBV transforms RBLs through the expression of viral latency genes, and these genes alter host transcription programs. To globally measure the transcriptome changes during EBV transformation, primary human resting B lymphocytes (RBLs) were infected with B95.8 EBV for 0, 2, 4, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days, and poly(A) plus RNAs were analyzed by transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq). Analyses of variance (ANOVAs) found 3,669 protein-coding genes that were differentially expressed (false-discovery rate [FDR] < 0.01). Ninety-four percent of LCL genes that are essential for LCL growth and survival were differentially expressed. Pathway analyses identified a significant enrichment of pathways involved in cell proliferation, DNA repair, metabolism, and antiviral responses. RNA-seq also identified long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) differentially expressed during EBV infection. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) interference (CRISPRi) and CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) found that CYTOR and NORAD lncRNAs were important for LCL growth. During EBV infection, type III EBV latency genes were expressed rapidly after infection. Immediately after LCL establishment, EBV lytic genes were also expressed in LCLs, and ∼4% of the LCLs express gp350. Chromatin immune precipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-seq) and POLR2A chromatin interaction analysis followed by paired-end tag sequencing (ChIA-PET) data linked EBV enhancers to 90% of EBV-regulated genes. Many genes were linked to enhancers occupied by multiple EBNAs or NF-κB subunits. Incorporating these assays, we generated a comprehensive EBV regulome in LCLs.IMPORTANCE Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immortalization of resting B lymphocytes (RBLs) is a useful model system to study EBV oncogenesis. By incorporating transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq), chromatin immune precipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP-seq), chromatin interaction analysis followed by paired-end tag sequencing (ChIA-PET), and genome-wide clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) screen, we identified key pathways that EBV usurps to enable B cell growth and transformation. Multiple layers of regulation could be achieved by cooperations between multiple EBV transcription factors binding to the same enhancers. EBV manipulated the expression of most cell genes essential for lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) growth and survival. In addition to proteins, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) regulated by EBV also contributed to LCL growth and survival. The data presented in this paper not only allowed us to further define the molecular pathogenesis of EBV but also serve as a useful resource to the EBV research community.
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- Chong Wang
- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Wang C, Jiang S, Ke L, Zhang L, Li D, Liang J, Narita Y, Hou I, Chen CH, Wang L, Zhong Q, Ling Y, Lv X, Xiang Y, Guo X, Teng M, Tsao SW, Gewurz BE, Zeng MS, Zhao B. Genome-wide CRISPR-based gene knockout screens reveal cellular factors and pathways essential for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:9734-9745. [PMID: 31073033 PMCID: PMC6597810 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.008793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Early diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is difficult because of a lack of specific symptoms. Many patients have advanced disease at diagnosis, and these patients respond poorly to treatment. New treatments are therefore needed to improve the outcome of NPC. To better understand the molecular pathogenesis of NPC, here we used an NPC cell line in a genome-wide CRISPR-based knockout screen to identify the cellular factors and pathways essential for NPC (i.e. dependence factors). This screen identified the Moz, Ybf2/Sas3, Sas2, Tip60 histone acetyl transferase complex, NF-κB signaling, purine synthesis, and linear ubiquitination pathways; and MDM2 proto-oncogene as NPC dependence factors/pathways. Using gene knock out, complementary DNA rescue, and inhibitor assays, we found that perturbation of these pathways greatly reduces the growth of NPC cell lines but does not affect growth of SV40-immortalized normal nasopharyngeal epithelial cells. These results suggest that targeting these pathways/proteins may hold promise for achieving better treatment of patients with NPC.
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- Chong Wang
- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- the Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida 33612, and
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- the School of Biomedical Sciences and Center for Cancer Research, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- the State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, China,
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- From the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115,
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Korthauer K, Kimes PK, Duvallet C, Reyes A, Subramanian A, Teng M, Shukla C, Alm EJ, Hicks SC. A practical guide to methods controlling false discoveries in computational biology. Genome Biol 2019; 20:118. [PMID: 31164141 PMCID: PMC6547503 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1716-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In high-throughput studies, hundreds to millions of hypotheses are typically tested. Statistical methods that control the false discovery rate (FDR) have emerged as popular and powerful tools for error rate control. While classic FDR methods use only p values as input, more modern FDR methods have been shown to increase power by incorporating complementary information as informative covariates to prioritize, weight, and group hypotheses. However, there is currently no consensus on how the modern methods compare to one another. We investigate the accuracy, applicability, and ease of use of two classic and six modern FDR-controlling methods by performing a systematic benchmark comparison using simulation studies as well as six case studies in computational biology. RESULTS Methods that incorporate informative covariates are modestly more powerful than classic approaches, and do not underperform classic approaches, even when the covariate is completely uninformative. The majority of methods are successful at controlling the FDR, with the exception of two modern methods under certain settings. Furthermore, we find that the improvement of the modern FDR methods over the classic methods increases with the informativeness of the covariate, total number of hypothesis tests, and proportion of truly non-null hypotheses. CONCLUSIONS Modern FDR methods that use an informative covariate provide advantages over classic FDR-controlling procedures, with the relative gain dependent on the application and informativeness of available covariates. We present our findings as a practical guide and provide recommendations to aid researchers in their choice of methods to correct for false discoveries.
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- Keegan Korthauer
- Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
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- Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
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- Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02215 USA
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- Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, 33612 USA
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- Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Harvard University, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
- Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, USA
- Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, 21205 USA
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Miget G, Moutounaick M, Kervinio F, Teng M, Chesnel C, Charlanes A, Le Breton F, Amarenco G. [Absorbent products for urinary incontinence management]. Prog Urol 2018; 28:953-961. [PMID: 30361139 DOI: 10.1016/j.purol.2018.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Despite therapeutic strategies of female and male urinary incontinence (UI) are currently well defined, there is no precise indication of the real place or strategy use of absorbent products regardless of the etiology of the incontinence or the clinical context. METHODS We performed a research from the PubMed database using the following keywords: (urinary incontinence [MESH Terms]) AND absorbent pad [MeSH Terms]; allowing us to isolate 362 articles. RESULTS Many protections designs are available over-the-counter without prescription and without reimbursement in France. For "light UI", disposable insert pads are the design that seems to be the most suitable for women, compared to disposable menstrual pads, OR=0.27 [0.14, 0.52], washable pants with integral pad OR=0.12 [0.06, 0.26] or washable insert pads OR=0.05 [0.02, 0.26]. For moderate to severe UI, there is no "best universal product". There are differences between the gender and the use of a panel of protections seems the most appropriate. Both women and men prefer pull-ups to disposable insert pads, OR=0.41 [0.20, 0.87] and OR=0.39 [0.22, 0.68] respectively. In men, a preference in 70 % of subjects for urisheats is observed compared to the protections they usually use (P=0.02). The use of protections improves independence in daily OR activities=0.102 [0.046, 0.158] and quality of life related to UI OR=4.40 [1.74, 7.07] compared to patients not using protections. Despite this, their use must remain cautious because of the potential infectious urinary complications, more frequent in particular in institutional people, with 41 % of users developing at least one urinary infection over an evaluation period of 12 months vs. 11 % of non-users (P=0.001), or immuno-allergic with the "dermatitis associated incontinence" whose prevalence can reach a rate of 50 %. CONCLUSION Comparative analyzes of risk-benefit, economic costs, patient satisfaction, protections vs. other measures are lacking. It is necessary to continue the development of these products and to compare more precisely their intrinsic characteristics, to best support patients choices.
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- G Miget
- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France.
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- GRC 01, GREEN - Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie, hôpital Tenon, Sorbonne universités, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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Hicks SC, Townes FW, Teng M, Irizarry RA. Missing data and technical variability in single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments. Biostatistics 2018; 19:562-578. [PMID: 29121214 PMCID: PMC6215955 DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxx053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 270] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Until recently, high-throughput gene expression technology, such as RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) required hundreds of thousands of cells to produce reliable measurements. Recent technical advances permit genome-wide gene expression measurement at the single-cell level. Single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-seq) is the most widely used and numerous publications are based on data produced with this technology. However, RNA-seq and scRNA-seq data are markedly different. In particular, unlike RNA-seq, the majority of reported expression levels in scRNA-seq are zeros, which could be either biologically-driven, genes not expressing RNA at the time of measurement, or technically-driven, genes expressing RNA, but not at a sufficient level to be detected by sequencing technology. Another difference is that the proportion of genes reporting the expression level to be zero varies substantially across single cells compared to RNA-seq samples. However, it remains unclear to what extent this cell-to-cell variation is being driven by technical rather than biological variation. Furthermore, while systematic errors, including batch effects, have been widely reported as a major challenge in high-throughput technologies, these issues have received minimal attention in published studies based on scRNA-seq technology. Here, we use an assessment experiment to examine data from published studies and demonstrate that systematic errors can explain a substantial percentage of observed cell-to-cell expression variability. Specifically, we present evidence that some of these reported zeros are driven by technical variation by demonstrating that scRNA-seq produces more zeros than expected and that this bias is greater for lower expressed genes. In addition, this missing data problem is exacerbated by the fact that this technical variation varies cell-to-cell. Then, we show how this technical cell-to-cell variability can be confused with novel biological results. Finally, we demonstrate and discuss how batch-effects and confounded experiments can intensify the problem.
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- Stephanie C Hicks
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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Moutounaïck M, Miget G, Teng M, Kervinio F, Chesnel C, Charlanes A, Le Breton F, Amarenco G. [Coital incontinence]. Prog Urol 2018; 28:515-522. [PMID: 29866492 DOI: 10.1016/j.purol.2018.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Revised: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Urinary incontinence may seriously impact quality of life, self-image and subsequently the sexual life. Beside this fact, urinary leakage can specifically occur during sexual intercourse, formally named coital incontinence, and thus lead to specific alteration of the sexual life. AIM To analyse the prevalence, pathophysiological mechanisms and possible therapeutic options for coital urinary incontinence. METHODS Related terms to urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction were search on PubMed database. RESULTS Whereas at least a quarter of incontinent women have a coital incontinence, this symptom was rarely spontaneously reported. Some women had only coital incontinence (7.6 to 20% of cases). In men, urinary incontinence during sexual intercourse was mainly observed after prostatectomy in 20 to 64% of cases. Coital incontinence requires precise assessment. Indeed, it can occur whatever the phase of coitus: local stimulation (20-30%), excitement (13-18%), penetration (62.9-68%), movements back and forth, orgasm (27-37.1%). Cervico-urethral hypermobility, sphincter incompetence, urethral instability, detrusor overactivity could be the principal physiopathological mechanisms. In men, the main cause was a stress incontinence secondary to sphincter deficiency. Specific therapeutic strategies have proved their effectiveness. The rehabilitative approach (RR=0.25, CI [0.06-1.01]), medicinal (anticholinergic were effective in 59% of cases) or surgical therapeutic (slings with an efficiency of 87%) was proposed to patients. CONCLUSION Coital incontinence is a common and troublesome symptom. Its precise assessment may suggest a specific mechanism and thus a specific treatment.
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- M Moutounaïck
- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France.
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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- Groupe de recherche clinique en neuro-urologie (GREEN), GRC 01, Sorbonne universités, 75006 Paris, France; Service de neuro-urologie et d'explorations périnéales, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020 Paris, France
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BACKGROUND Somatic copy number alternations (SCNAs) can be utilized to infer tumor subclonal populations in whole genome seuqncing studies, where usually their read count ratios between tumor-normal paired samples serve as the inferring proxy. Existing SCNA based subclonal population inferring tools consider the GC bias of tumor and normal sample is of the same fature, and could be fully offset by read count ratio. However, we found that, the read count ratio on SCNA segments presents a Log linear biased pattern, which influence existing read count ratios based subclonal inferring tools performance. Currently no correction tools take into account the read ratio bias. RESULTS We present Pre-SCNAClonal, a tool that improving tumor subclonal population inferring by correcting GC-bias at SCNAs level. Pre-SCNAClonal first corrects GC bias using Markov chain Monte Carlo probability model, then accurately locates baseline DNA segments (not containing any SCNAs) with a hierarchy clustering model. We show Pre-SCNAClonal's superiority to exsiting GC-bias correction methods at any level of subclonal population. CONCLUSIONS Pre-SCNAClonal could be run independently as well as serving as pre-processing/gc-correction step in conjuntion with exsiting SCNA-based subclonal inferring tools.
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- Yanshuo Chu
- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
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Teng M, Irizarry RA. Accounting for GC-content bias reduces systematic errors and batch effects in ChIP-seq data. Genome Res 2017; 27:1930-1938. [PMID: 29025895 PMCID: PMC5668949 DOI: 10.1101/gr.220673.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The main application of ChIP-seq technology is the detection of genomic regions that bind to a protein of interest. A large part of functional genomics’ public catalogs is based on ChIP-seq data. These catalogs rely on peak calling algorithms that infer protein-binding sites by detecting genomic regions associated with more mapped reads (coverage) than expected by chance, as a result of the experimental protocol's lack of perfect specificity. We find that GC-content bias accounts for substantial variability in the observed coverage for ChIP-seq experiments and that this variability leads to false-positive peak calls. More concerning is that the GC effect varies across experiments, with the effect strong enough to result in a substantial number of peaks called differently when different laboratories perform experiments on the same cell line. However, accounting for GC content bias in ChIP-seq is challenging because the binding sites of interest tend to be more common in high GC-content regions, which confounds real biological signals with unwanted variability. To account for this challenge, we introduce a statistical approach that accounts for GC effects on both nonspecific noise and signal induced by the binding site. The method can be used to account for this bias in binding quantification as well to improve existing peak calling algorithms. We use this approach to show a reduction in false-positive peaks as well as improved consistency across laboratories.
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Chu Y, Wang Z, Wang R, Zhang N, Li J, Hu Y, Teng M, Wang Y. WDNfinder: A method for minimum driver node set detection and analysis in directed and weighted biological network. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2017; 15:1750021. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219720017500214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Structural controllability is the generalization of traditional controllability for dynamical systems. During the last decade, interesting biological discoveries have been inferred by applied structural controllability analysis to biological networks. However, false positive/negative information (i.e. nodes and edges) widely exists in biological networks that documented in public data sources, which can hinder accurate analysis of structural controllability. In this study, we propose WDNfinder, a comprehensive analysis package that provides structural controllability with consideration of node connection strength in biological networks. When applied to the human cancer signaling network and p53-mediate DNA damage response network, WDNfinder shows high accuracy on essential nodes prediction in these networks. Compared to existing methods, WDNfinder can significantly narrow down the set of minimum driver node set (MDS) under the restriction of domain knowledge. When using p53-mediate DNA damage response network as illustration, we find more meaningful MDSs by WDNfinder. The source code is implemented in python and publicly available together with relevant data on GitHub: https://github.com/dustincys/WDNfinder .
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- Yanshuo Chu
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. R. China
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Li X, Teng M, Wang J. F-021IS ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY HELPFUL OR HARMFUL IN R0 RESECTED STAGE IB NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivx280.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nakayama RT, Pulice JL, Valencia AM, McBride MJ, McKenzie ZM, Gillespie MA, Ku WL, Teng M, Cui K, Williams RT, Cassel SH, Qing H, Widmer CJ, Demetri GD, Irizarry RA, Zhao K, Ranish JA, Kadoch C. SMARCB1 is required for widespread BAF complex-mediated activation of enhancers and bivalent promoters. Nat Genet 2017; 49:1613-1623. [PMID: 28945250 PMCID: PMC5803080 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Perturbations to mammalian SWI/SNF (BAF) complexes contribute to over 20% of human cancers, with driving roles first identified in malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT), an aggressive pediatric cancer characterized by biallelic inactivation of the core BAF complex subunit SMARCB1 (BAF47). However, the mechanism by which this alteration contributes to tumorigenesis remains poorly understood. We find that BAF47 loss destabilizes BAF complexes on chromatin, absent significant changes in intra-complex integrity. Rescue of BAF47 in BAF47-deficient sarcoma cell lines results in increased genome-wide BAF complex occupancy, facilitating widespread enhancer activation and opposition of polycomb-mediated repression at bivalent promoters. We demonstrate differential regulation by BAF and PBAF complexes at enhancers and promoters, respectively, suggesting distinct functions of each complex which are perturbed upon BAF47 loss. Our results demonstrate collaborative mechanisms of mSWI/SNF-mediated gene activation, identifying functions that are coopted or abated to drive human cancers and developmental disorders.
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- Robert T Nakayama
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard and Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Program in Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Program in Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Systems Biology Center, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Systems Biology Center, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Medical Scientist Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard and Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Systems Biology Center, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Teng M, Love MI, Davis CA, Djebali S, Dobin A, Graveley BR, Li S, Mason CE, Olson S, Pervouchine D, Sloan CA, Wei X, Zhan L, Irizarry RA. Erratum to: A benchmark for RNA-seq quantification pipelines. Genome Biol 2016; 17:203. [PMID: 27716375 PMCID: PMC5045616 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1060-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, MC-5477, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. .,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Nakayama R, Williams RT, Cassel SH, Teng M, Irizarry RA, Demetri GD, Kadoch C. Abstract 2658: Genome-wide mistargeting of oncogenic SWI/SNF(BAF) complexes in SMARCB1(BAF47)-deficient sarcomas. Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-2658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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SMARCB1/BAF47/INI1 is a core subunit of the mammalian SWI/SNF (BAF) family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes, which remodel nucleosome architecture to achieve coordinated regulation of gene expression. Genetic loss of SMARCB1 has been identified in several cancer types, including malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT, 98%) and epithelioid sarcoma (EpS, 90%), strongly implicating this event as the oncogenic driver in these malignancies. However, the precise mechanism underpinning the tumor suppressive function of BAF47 to date remains unclear. In order to elucidate the underlying mechanism and to identify direct genetic targets of aberrant BAF complexes in this context, we comprehensively evaluated the effects of BAF47 reintroduction in BAF47-deficient sarcomas with respect to complex subunit and associated protein factor composition and stability, global chromatin structure, and gene regulation.
Reintroduced BAF47 stably integrated into BAF complexes, and remarkably, stabilized a highly specific set of BAF subunits, resulting in an increased complex molecular weight and stoichiometric nuclear abundance. These biochemical changes inducing the formation of wild-type complexes in MRT and EpS cell settings were directly linked to reproducible changes in BAF complex localization genome-wide, particularly, in the targeting to H3K4me3-marked promoter regions of direct target genes to establish DNA accessibility. Importantly, changes in BAF47-dependent BAF complex targeting between oncogenic and induced wild-type conditions were reproducibly associated with differential chromatin architecture and gene expression signatures hallmark to both MRT and EpS, and uniformly resulted in proliferative senescence of MRT and EpS cell lines in culture.
These studies highlight, for the first time, the full spectrum of structural and functional contributions of the BAF47 subunit, implicating its role as a keystone in heteromorphic BAF complex assembly; BAF47 is required for the stable integration of several BAF subunits and novel interacting factors, which we determine govern specific genome-wide targeting mechanisms and chromatin-templated activities. These results reveal the mechanisms underlying the oncogenesis of BAF47-deficient sarcomas and point toward novel therapeutic strategies for this group of human sarcomas.
Citation Format: Robert Nakayama, Robert T. Williams, Seth H. Cassel, Mingxiang Teng, Rafael A. Irizarry, George D. Demetri, Cigall Kadoch. Genome-wide mistargeting of oncogenic SWI/SNF(BAF) complexes in SMARCB1(BAF47)-deficient sarcomas. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 2658.
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Teng M, Love MI, Davis CA, Djebali S, Dobin A, Graveley BR, Li S, Mason CE, Olson S, Pervouchine D, Sloan CA, Wei X, Zhan L, Irizarry RA. Erratum to: A benchmark for RNA-seq quantification pipelines. Genome Biol 2016; 17:107. [PMID: 27215799 PMCID: PMC4877800 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0986-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, MC-5477, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. .,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Teng M, Love MI, Davis CA, Djebali S, Dobin A, Graveley BR, Li S, Mason CE, Olson S, Pervouchine D, Sloan CA, Wei X, Zhan L, Irizarry RA. A benchmark for RNA-seq quantification pipelines. Genome Biol 2016; 17:74. [PMID: 27107712 PMCID: PMC4842274 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0940-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Obtaining RNA-seq measurements involves a complex data analytical process with a large number of competing algorithms as options. There is much debate about which of these methods provides the best approach. Unfortunately, it is currently difficult to evaluate their performance due in part to a lack of sensitive assessment metrics. We present a series of statistical summaries and plots to evaluate the performance in terms of specificity and sensitivity, available as a R/Bioconductor package (http://bioconductor.org/packages/rnaseqcomp). Using two independent datasets, we assessed seven competing pipelines. Performance was generally poor, with two methods clearly underperforming and RSEM slightly outperforming the rest.
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- Mingxiang Teng
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Functional Genomics Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and UPF, Doctor Aiguader, 88, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, MC-5477, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Institute for System Genomics, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. .,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Dave E, Ozbek U, Gupta V, Genden E, Miles B, Teng M, Demicco E, Posner M, Misiukiewicz K, Bakst R. Patterns of Failure in Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-Positive Versus HPV-Negative Oropharyngeal Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.12.240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Kass J, Pool C, Teng M, Miles B, Genden E. Initial Experience Using Transoral Robotic Surgery for Advanced-Stage (T3) Tumors of the Head and Neck. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.12.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Khan N, Kass J, Teng M, Miles B, Genden E. Transoral Robotic-Assisted Resection Approach for Identifying Unknown Primaries of the Head and Neck. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.12.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Liu B, Guan D, Teng M, Wang Y. rHAT: fast alignment of noisy long reads with regional hashing. Bioinformatics 2015; 32:1625-31. [PMID: 26568628 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Single Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing has been widely applied in cutting-edge genomic studies. However, it is still an expensive task to align the noisy long SMRT reads to reference genome by state-of-the-art aligners, which is becoming a bottleneck in applications with SMRT sequencing. Novel approach is on demand for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of SMRT read alignment. RESULTS We propose Regional Hashing-based Alignment Tool (rHAT), a seed-and-extension-based read alignment approach specifically designed for noisy long reads. rHAT indexes reference genome by regional hash table (RHT), a hash table-based index which describes the short tokens within local windows of reference genome. In the seeding phase, rHAT utilizes RHT for efficiently calculating the occurrences of short token matches between partial read and local genomic windows to find highly possible candidate sites. In the extension phase, a sparse dynamic programming-based heuristic approach is used for reducing the cost of aligning read to the candidate sites. By benchmarking on the real and simulated datasets from various prokaryote and eukaryote genomes, we demonstrated that rHAT can effectively align SMRT reads with outstanding throughput. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION rHAT is implemented in C++; the source code is available at https://github.com/HIT-Bioinformatics/rHAT CONTACT: ydwang@hit.edu.cn SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Bo Liu
- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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Teng M, Khoo AL, Zhao YJ, Lin L, Lim BP, Wu TS, Dan YY. Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of esomeprazole in gastroesophageal reflux disease and Helicobacter pylori infection. J Clin Pharm Ther 2015; 40:368-75. [PMID: 25893507 DOI: 10.1111/jcpt.12277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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WHAT IS KNOWN AND OBJECTIVE Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are one of the most widely used classes of drugs. However, the quantum clinical benefit of newer and more expensive PPIs over the older generation PPIs remains uncertain. This meta-analysis sought to assess the clinical and safety profiles of esomeprazole versus omeprazole at pharmacologically equivalent doses in healing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), peptic ulcer disease and eradicating Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. METHODS PubMed and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomized controlled trials comparing esomeprazole with omeprazole at all doses up to February 2015. Trials were assessed by two reviewers for eligibility according to predefined study inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis was conducted using a random effects model, and heterogeneity in the estimated effects was investigated using meta-regression. Sensitivity analysis was performed to test the robustness of the findings. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Fifteen trials were included and none of which compared esomeprazole with omeprazole in peptic ulcer disease. The included studies had not evaluated esomeprazole 20 mg versus omeprazole 40 mg. In GERD, esomeprazole 40 mg (relative risk (RR) = 1·07; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·02 to 1·12) and 20 mg (RR=1·04; 95% CI 1·01 to 1·08) significantly improved esophagitis healing when compared with omeprazole 20 mg at week 8. The corresponding numbers needed to treat were 17 and 30, respectively. No significant difference was observed between esomeprazole 20 mg and omeprazole 20 mg at week 4. In H. pylori eradication, there was no difference in the treatment effects between esomeprazole 20 mg and omeprazole 20 mg (RR = 1·01;95% CI 0·96 to 1·05). Their safety profiles were comparable. WHAT IS NEW AND CONCLUSION Esomeprazole demonstrated better esophagitis healing rate in patients with GERD than omeprazole at week 8. However, this clinical advantage diminished when both drugs were given at the same doses at week 4. Superiority of esomeprazole was not observed in the H. pylori eradication rates.
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- M Teng
- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Office, Group Corporate Development, National Healthcare Group, Singapore
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- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Office, Group Corporate Development, National Healthcare Group, Singapore
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- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Office, Group Corporate Development, National Healthcare Group, Singapore
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- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Office, Group Corporate Development, National Healthcare Group, Singapore
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- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Office, Group Corporate Development, National Healthcare Group, Singapore
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- Department of Pharmacy, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore.,Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Juan L, Liu Y, Wang Y, Teng M, Zang T, Wang Y. Family genome browser: visualizing genomes with pedigree information. Bioinformatics 2015; 31:2262-8. [PMID: 25788626 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Families with inherited diseases are widely used in Mendelian/complex disease studies. Owing to the advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, family genome sequencing becomes more and more prevalent. Visualizing family genomes can greatly facilitate human genetics studies and personalized medicine. However, due to the complex genetic relationships and high similarities among genomes of consanguineous family members, family genomes are difficult to be visualized in traditional genome visualization framework. How to visualize the family genome variants and their functions with integrated pedigree information remains a critical challenge. RESULTS We developed the Family Genome Browser (FGB) to provide comprehensive analysis and visualization for family genomes. The FGB can visualize family genomes in both individual level and variant level effectively, through integrating genome data with pedigree information. Family genome analysis, including determination of parental origin of the variants, detection of de novo mutations, identification of potential recombination events and identical-by-decent segments, etc., can be performed flexibly. Diverse annotations for the family genome variants, such as dbSNP memberships, linkage disequilibriums, genes, variant effects, potential phenotypes, etc., are illustrated as well. Moreover, the FGB can automatically search de novo mutations and compound heterozygous variants for a selected individual, and guide investigators to find high-risk genes with flexible navigation options. These features enable users to investigate and understand family genomes intuitively and systematically. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The FGB is available at http://mlg.hit.edu.cn/FGB/.
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- Liran Juan
- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
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