Triplet nucleotide repeat-based siRNAs are highly toxic to cancer cells
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE104552 | GEO | 2018/01/12
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA413038
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Triplet nucleotide repeat-based siRNAs are highly toxic to cancer cells
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Project description:Transcriptional down regulation caused by intronic triplet repeat expansions underlies diseases such as Friedreich?s ataxia. This down regulation of gene expression is coupled with epigenetic changes but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here, we show that an intronic TTC/GAA triplet expansion within the IIL1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana results in accumulation of 24-nt siRNAs and repressive histone marks at the IIL1 locus, which in turn causes its transcriptional down regulation and an associated phenotype. Knocking down DICER LIKE-3 (DCL3), which produces 24-nt siRNAs, suppressed transcriptional down regulation of IIL1 and the expansion-associated phenotype. Furthermore, knocking down additional components of the RNA-dependent DNA Methylation (RdDM) pathway, also suppressed both transcriptional down regulation of IIL1 and the repeat expansion associated phenotype. Thus our results show that triplet repeat expansions can lead to local siRNA biogenesis, which in turn down regulates transcription through an RdDM-dependent epigenetic modification.
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Project description:The inherited neurodegenerative disease Friedreichâ??s ataxia (FRDA) is caused by hyperexpansion of GAAâ?¢TTC trinucleotide repeats within the first intron of the FXN gene, encoding the mitochondrial protein frataxin. Long GAAâ?¢TTC repeats causes heterochromatin-mediated silencing and loss of frataxin in affected individuals. We report the derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from FRDA patient fibroblasts through retroviral transduction of transcription factors. FXN gene repression is maintained in the iPSCs, as are the mRNA and miRNA global expression signatures reflecting the human disease. GAAâ?¢TTC repeats uniquely in FXN in the iPSCs exhibit repeat instability similar to patient families, where they expand and/or contract with discrete changes in length between generations. The mismatch repair enzyme Msh2, implicated in repeat instability in other triplet repeat diseases, is highly expressed in the iPSCs, occupies FXN intron 1, and shRNA silencing of Msh2 impedes repeat expansion, providing a possible molecular explanation for repeat expansion in FRDA. 65 samples from various number of tissue, primary cell lines undifferenatiated human embryonic stem cell lines, induces pluripotent stem cell lines have been run on Illumina HT12 v3 chips.
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