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Cancer-related epigenome changes associated with reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells (methylation data)

ABSTRACT: he ability to induce pluripotent stem cells from committed, somatic human cells provides tremendous potential for regenerative medicine. However, there is a defined neoplastic potential inherent to such reprogramming that must be understood and may provide a model for understanding key events in tumorigenesis. Using genome-wide assays, we identify cancer-related epigenetic abnormalities that arise early during reprogramming and persist in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) clones. These include hundreds of abnormal gene silencing events, patterns of aberrant responses to epigenetic-modifying drugs resembling those for cancer cells, and presence in iPS and partially reprogrammed cells of cancer-specific gene promoter DNA methylation alterations. Our findings suggest that by studying the process of induced reprogramming, we may gain significant insight into the origins of epigenetic gene silencing associated with human tumorigenesis, and add to means of assessing iPS for safety. Methylation was analyzed using Illumina's 27k Infinium platform for direct detection of methylation after bisulfite conversion. The overall methylation status was determined for several iPS lines and the pool cells from which they are derived. These methylation levels can be compared directly to those of cultured stem cells, differentiated cells and cancer cell lines.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Leander Van Neste

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29872 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Cancer-related epigenome changes associated with reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells.

Ohm Joyce E JE Mali Prashant P Van Neste Leander L Berman David M DM Liang Liang L Pandiyan Kurinji K Briggs Kimberly J KJ Zhang Wei W Argani Pedram P Simons Brian B Yu Wayne W Matsui William W Van Criekinge Wim W Rassool Feyruz V FV Zambidis Elias E Schuebel Kornel E KE Cope Leslie L Yen Jonathan J Mohammad Helai P HP Cheng Linzhao L Baylin Stephen B SB

Cancer research 20100914 19

The ability to induce pluripotent stem cells from committed, somatic human cells provides tremendous potential for regenerative medicine. However, there is a defined neoplastic potential inherent to such reprogramming that must be understood and may provide a model for understanding key events in tumorigenesis. Using genome-wide assays, we identify cancer-related epigenetic abnormalities that arise early during reprogramming and persist in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) clones. These includ ...[more]

PMID: 20841480

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Project description:Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a valuable resource for discovery of epigenetic changes critical to cell type-specific differentiation. Although iPS cells have been generated from other terminally differentiated cells, the reprogramming of normal adult human basal prostatic epithelial (E-PZ) cells to a pluripotent state has not been reported. Here, we attempted to reprogram E-PZ cells by forced expression of Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4 using lentiviral vectors and obtained embryonic stem cell (ESC)-like colonies at a frequency of 0.01%. These E-PZ-iPS-like cells with normal karyotype gained expression of pluripotent genes typical of iPS cells (Tra-1-81, SSEA-3, Nanog, Sox2, and Oct4) and lost gene expression characteristic of basal prostatic epithelial cells (CK5, CK14, and p63). E-PZ-iPS-like cells demonstrated pluripotency by differentiating into ectodermal, mesodermal, and endodermal cells in vitro, although lack of teratoma formation in vivo and incomplete demethylation of pluripotency genes suggested only partial reprogramming. Importantly, E-PZ-iPS-like cells re-expressed basal epithelial cell markers (CD44, p63, MAO-A) in response to prostate-specific medium in spheroid culture. Androgen induced expression of androgen receptor (AR), and co-culture with rat urogenital sinus further induced expression of prostate-specific antigen, a hallmark of secretory cells, suggesting that E-PZ-iPS-like cells have the capacity to differentiate into prostatic basal and secretory epithelial cells. Finally, when injected into mice, E-PZ-iPS-like cells expressed basal epithelial cell markers including CD44 and p63. When co-injected with rat urogenital mesenchyme, E-PZ-iPS-like cells expressed AR and expression of p63 and CD44 was repressed. DNA methylation profiling identified key pathways and regulators of prostatic differentiation including Wnt5a, BPM7, PTEN, and NKx3.1 using E-PZ-iPS-lke cells. Our results suggest that iPS-like cells can be derived from prostatic epithelial cells. These cells are pluripotent and capable of prostatic differentiation, and therefore provide a novel model for investigating epigenetic changes involved in prostate cell lineage specification. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 10 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450K Beadchip v1.2

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Cancer-related epigenome changes associated with reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells (methylation data)

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Cancer-related epigenome changes associated with reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells.

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