Tumor suppressor genes in normal and malignant hematopoiesis

Krug, Utz; Ganser, Arnold; Koeffler, H. Phillip

doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1205322

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“…When the damage cannot be repaired, p53 then activates a series of events leading to apoptosis. Several aberrations of p53 have been previously reported in different types of leukemia including mutations, deletions and decrease of expression levels (Krug et al, 2002). Thus, p53 might be a potential target for methylation in cancer.…”

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DNA Hypermethylation of Cell Cycle (p15 and p16) and Apoptotic (p14, p53, DAPK and TMS1) Genes in Peripheral Blood of Leukemia Patients

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Haddad

Alkhateeb

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Aberrant DNA methylation of tumor suppressor genes has been reported in all major types of leukemia with potential involvement in the inactivation of regulatory cell cycle and apoptosis genes. However, most of the previous reports did not show the extent of concurrent methylation of multiple genes in the four leukemia types. Here, we analyzed six key genes (p14, p15, p16, p53, DAPK and TMS1) for DNA methylation using methylation specific PCR to analyze peripheral blood of 78 leukemia patients (24 CML, 25 CLL, 12 AML, and 17 ALL) and 24 healthy volunteers. In CML, methylation was detected for p15 (11%), p16 (9%), p53 (23%) and DAPK (23%), in CLL, p14 (25%), p15 (19%), p16 (12%), p53 (17%) and DAPK (36%), in AML, p14 (8%), p15 (45%), p53 (9%) and DAPK (17%) and in ALL, p15 (14%), p16 (8%), and p53 (8%). This study highlighted an essential role of DAPK methylation in chronic leukemia in contrast to p15 methylation in the acute cases, whereas TMS1 hypermethylation was absent in all cases. Furthermore, hypermethylation of multiple genes per patient was observed, with obvious selectiveness in the 9p21 chromosomal region genes (p14, p15 and p16). Interestingly, methylation of p15 increased the risk of methylation in p53, and vice versa, by five folds (p=0.03) indicating possible synergistic epigenetic disruption of different phases of the cell cycle or between the cell cycle and apoptosis. The investigation of multiple relationships between methylated genes might shed light on tumor specific inactivation of the cell cycle and apoptotic pathways.

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DNA Hypermethylation of Cell Cycle (p15 and p16) and Apoptotic (p14, p53, DAPK and TMS1) Genes in Peripheral Blood of Leukemia Patients

Bodoor

Haddad

Alkhateeb

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…It is well established that alteration in the epigenome of the cell through promoter hypermethylation and histone deacetylation is a common facet of tumorigenesis. Indeed, previous studies have reported that the promoters of tumor suppressor genes, such as p16 INK4A and p15 INK4B frequently show increases in DNA methylation and/or histone deacetylation, thereby leading to gene silencing (1). However, emerging evidence also suggests that the role of acetylation as a protein posttranslational modification, independent of histone modification, may also play a critical role in cell fate and thus tumorigenesis.…”

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SIRT Inhibitors Induce Cell Death and p53 Acetylation through Targeting Both SIRT1 and SIRT2

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Chen

et al. 2010

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

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SIRT proteins play an important role in the survival and drug resistance of tumor cells, especially during chemotherapy. In this study, we investigated the potency, specificity, and cellular targets of three SIRT inhibitors, Sirtinol, Salermide, and EX527. Cell proliferative and cell cycle analyses showed that Sirtinol and Salermide, but not EX527, were effective in inducing cell death at concentrations of 50 μmol/L or over in MCF-7 cells. Instead, EX527 caused cell cycle arrest at G 1 at comparable concentrations. In vitro SIRT assays using a p53 peptide substrate showed that all three compounds are potent SIRT1/2 inhibitors, with EX527 having the highest inhibitory activity for SIRT1. Computational docking analysis showed that Sirtinol and Salermide have high degrees of selectivity for SIRT1/2, whereas EX527 has high specificity for SIRT1 but not SIRT2. Consistently, Sirtinol and Salermide, but not EX527, treatment resulted in the in vivo acetylation of the SIRT1/2 target p53 and SIRT2 target tubulin in MCF-7 cells, suggesting that EX527 is ineffective in inhibiting SIRT2 and that p53 mediates the cytotoxic function of Sirtinol and Salermide. Studies using breast carcinoma cell lines and p53-deficient mouse fibroblasts confirmed that p53 is essential for the Sirtinol and Salermideinduced apoptosis. Further, we showed using small interfering RNA that silencing both SIRTs, but not SIRT1 and SIRT2 individually, can induce cell death in MCF-7 cells. Together, our results identify the specificity and cellular targets of these novel inhibitors and suggest that SIRT inhibitors require combined targeting of both SIRT1 and SIRT2 to induce p53 acetylation and cell death. Mol Cancer Ther; 9(4); 844-55. ©2010 AACR.

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“…During normal hematopoiesis, PLZF is expressed in CD34 þ immature cells and declines when cells are induced to erythroid, granulocytic and monocytic differentiation, indicating that PLZF might play a role in the maintenance of the quiescent state of stem/progenitor cells; conversely, PLZF expression is initially unaffected and then upmodulated during megakaryocytic maturation (Krug et al, 2002;Labbaye et al, 2002).…”

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Role of PLZF in melanoma progression

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The promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger (PLZF) protein has been described as a transcriptional repressor of homeobox (HOX)-containing genes during embryogenesis. As we previously demonstrated a functional link between overexpression of HOXB7 and melanoma progression, we investigated the lack of PLZF as the possible cause of HOXB7 constitutive activation in these neoplastic cells. Accordingly, we found PLZF expression in melanocytes, but not in melanoma cells, a pattern inversely related to that of HOXB7. PLZF retroviral gene transduction was then performed in a panel of melanoma cell lines, and tumorigenicity was compared with that of empty vector-transduced control cell lines. Evaluation of in vitro migration, invasion and adhesion indicated that PLZF gene transduction induced a less malignant phenotype, as confirmed through in vivo studies performed in athymic nude mice. This reduced tumorigenicity was not coupled with HOXB7 repression. In order to find more about the molecular targets of PLZF, the gene expression profiles of PLZF-and empty vector-transduced A375 melanoma cells were analysed by Atlas Cancer macroarray. Among several genes modulated by PLZF enforced expression, of particular interest were integrin avb3, osteonectin/SPARC and matrix metalloprotease-9 that were downmodulated, and the tyrosinase-related protein-1 that was upregulated in all the analysed samples. This profile confirms the reduced tumorigenic phenotype with reversion to a more differentiated, melanocyte like, pattern, thus suggesting a suppressor role for PLZF in solid tumors. Moreover, these results indicate that PLZF and HOXB7 are functionally independent and that their coupled deregulation may account for most of the alterations described in melanomas.

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Tumor suppressor genes in normal and malignant hematopoiesis

Cited by 213 publications

References 376 publications

DNA Hypermethylation of Cell Cycle (p15 and p16) and Apoptotic (p14, p53, DAPK and TMS1) Genes in Peripheral Blood of Leukemia Patients

DNA Hypermethylation of Cell Cycle (p15 and p16) and Apoptotic (p14, p53, DAPK and TMS1) Genes in Peripheral Blood of Leukemia Patients

SIRT Inhibitors Induce Cell Death and p53 Acetylation through Targeting Both SIRT1 and SIRT2

Role of PLZF in melanoma progression

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