ABSTRACT: We performed RNA-Seq on acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells treated with both all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and trichostatin A (TSA) to identify transcriptional changes potentially associated with changes in APL cell mechanical properties. As a control, we performed the same treatments and RNA-Seq analysis on HL-60 cells, which were derived from a patient diagnosed with APL but whose cells lacked the hallmark fusion gene associated with APL. We performed RNA-Seq on these three cell lines (AP-1060, NB4, HL-60) under different conditions (untreated, TSA, ATRA, TSA + ATRA), and identified differentially expressed genes between samples and conditions. This study identified differentially expressed genes and enriched gene sets associated with (1) a resistance to differentiation induced by ATRA or (2) changes in mechanical properties. Overall, we find evidence that ATRA resistance and mechanical properties may be linked by the degree of chromatin condensation in APL cells.
Project description:Searching for new strategies of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treatment is of particular interest. Cell lines, e. g. HL-60 and NB4, represent model systems to study molecular features of leukemic cells. The all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) has proven itself to be an effective treatment for one of AML subtypes, i.e., acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). At the same time, ATRA causes granulocytic differentiation of non-APL leukemic cells in vitro. Combination of new therapeutics with ATRA could improve efficiency of treatment. Studying the proteome perturbation in leukemic cells under the ATRA treatment allows to determine potential regulatory molecules that could be affected pharmacologically. Thus, the TMT-based proteomic profiles of HL-60, NB4, and K562 cell lines under the ATRA treatment were obtained at 0, 3, 12, 24, and 72 h after the ATRA treatment.
Project description:GTF2I-RARA is a newly identified RARA fusion gene in variant acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with t(7;17)(q11;q21). Clinical manifestation in the patient showed that it is a sort of ATRA-insensitive oncogene and is different from the classic PML-RARA in terms of therapeutic reaction. To reveal the functional characteristics and regulating mechanism of the GTF2I-RARA fusion gene, we established a GTF2I-RARA-transfected HL-60 cell model and confirmed its resistance to ATRA. Compared with PML-RARA, GTF2I-RARA has a higher affinity to HDAC3 under the treatment of ATRA. Using the ChIP-sequencing approach, we identified 221 GTF2I-RARA binding sites in model cells, and found that the RING finger protein 8(RNF8) is a target gene of GTF2I-RARA, which participated in the disease progression and therapy resistance in APL with GTF2I-RARA transcript. The elevated RNF8 expression promotes the interaction between RARA and RNF8 and induced RARA ubiquitylation and degradation, resulting in attenuated transcriptional activation of RARA. Our results suggested that RNF8 is a key GTF2I-RARA downstream event. Using the combination of MG132 and ATRA to treat the GTF2I-RARA-HL-60 cells, a synergistic effect leading to GTF2I-RARA-HL-60 cell differentiation was confirmed. Taken together, the targeting of RNF8 may be an alternative choice for treatment in variant APL with GTF2I-RARA fusion.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human leukemia HL-60 cells comparing ATRA treated HL-60 cells with ATRA plus ATO. Goal was to determine the effects of ATO on ATRA induced differentiation of HL-60 cells.
Project description:Differentiation therapy with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) is well established for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). However, the narrow application and tolerance development of ATRA remain to be improved. In this study, we challenged glycosylation inhibitor to obtain better efficiency than ATRA alone. As a result, we found that the combination of fucosylation inhibitor 6-alkynylfucose (6AF) with ATRA have profound effect for differentiation, shown by expression changes of differentiation markers CD11b, CD11c, with significant morphological change in NB4 and HL-60 cells. From lectin blot assay, we found that ATRA or 6AF alone could decrease core fucosylation, the combination of these two agents efficiently decreases the expression of core fucosylation. To reveal molecular mechanisms to reveal 6AF effect for ATRA induced differentiation, we next performed microarray analysis using NB4 cells. From pathway analysis using DAVID software, we found that C-type lectin receptor (CLR) signaling pathway was enriched as high significance. From real time PCR analysis, using NB4 and HL-60 cells, FcRI, CLEC6A, CASP1, IL-1, EGR2/3, the components of CLR, and Akt, were indeed upregulated by 6AF in ATRA induced differentiation. These suggest that the involvement of CLR signaling pathway in 6AF effect of ATRA induced differentiation.
Project description:All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-based differentiation therapy has achieved success with the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a unique subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, other subtypes of AML display resistance to ATRA-based treatment. Here, we demonstrate that a novel natural vibsane-type diterpenoid vibsanine A promotes the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cell lines and primary AML blasts. To reveal how vibsanine A function on promoting myeloid leukemia cell differentiation, we analyzed and compared the gene expression profiles in myeloid leukemia HL-60 cells treated with vibsanine A, PMA, and ATRA. HL-60 cells were treated with vibsanine A, PMA and ATRA for 6 hours or longer up to 24 hours. Gene expression profiling was conducted
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of human leukemia?HL-60 cells comparing ATRA treated HL-60 cells with ATRA plus ATO. Goal was to determine the effects of ATO on ATRA induced differentiation of HL-60 cells. Two-condition experiment, ATRA vs. ATRA plus ATO treated HL-60 cells.
Project description:All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)-based differentiation therapy has achieved success with the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a unique subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, other subtypes of AML display resistance to ATRA-based treatment. Here, we demonstrate that a novel natural vibsane-type diterpenoid vibsanin A promotes the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cell lines and primary AML blasts. To reveal how vibsanin A function on promoting myeloid leukemia cell differentiation, we analyzed and compared the gene expression profiles in myeloid leukemia HL-60 cells treated with vibsanin A, PMA, and ATRA.
Project description:All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) has been successfully used in therapy of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a cytogenetically distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but the response of non-APL AML cases to ATRA-based treatment has been poor. Here we show that, via epigenetic reprogramming, inhibitors of LSD1/KDM1 demethylase including tranylcypromine (TCP) unlocked the ATRA-driven therapeutic response in non-APL AML. LSD1 inhibition did not lead to an increase in genome-wide H3 lysine4 dimethylation (H3K4me2) but did increase H3K4me2 and expression of myeloid differentiation-associated genes. Importantly, treatment with ATRA plus TCP dramatically diminished engraftment of primary human AML cells in vivo in NOD.SCID mice, suggesting that ATRA in combination with TCP may target leukemia-initiating cells. Furthermore, initiation of ATRA plus TCP co-treatment 15 days post-engraftment of human AML cells in NOD.SCID gamma mice also revealed the ATRA plus TCP drug combination to have a potent anti-leukemic effect, which was superior to treatment with either drug alone. These data identify LSD1 as a therapeutic target and strongly suggest that it may contribute to AML pathogenesis by inhibiting the normal pro-differentiative function of ATRA, paving the way for novel combinatorial therapies of AML. Overall, 30 specimens derived from HL-60 or TEX cell line were treated with drugs and hybridized to Illumina HumanHT-12 gene expression arrays.
Project description:ATRA-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells was studied using targeted mass-spectrometry including selected reaction monitoring (SRM) and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) approach. PRM experiment was performed in time-course manner, without peptide standards usage. PRM data was inspected in Skyline 3.1 software. In order to check peptide identity we developed spectrum library based on shotgun mass-spectrometry data, which has been obtained for HL-60 cells protein samples at 0, 3, 24, 48 and 96h after ATRA treatment.
Project description:All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) has been successfully used in therapy of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a cytogenetically distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) but the response of non-APL AML cases to ATRA-based treatment has been poor. Here we show that, via epigenetic reprogramming, inhibitors of LSD1/KDM1 demethylase including tranylcypromine (TCP) unlocked the ATRA-driven therapeutic response in non-APL AML. LSD1 inhibition did not lead to an increase in genome-wide H3 lysine4 dimethylation (H3K4me2) but did increase H3K4me2 and expression of myeloid differentiation-associated genes. Importantly, treatment with ATRA plus TCP dramatically diminished engraftment of primary human AML cells in vivo in NOD.SCID mice, suggesting that ATRA in combination with TCP may target leukemia-initiating cells. Furthermore, initiation of ATRA plus TCP co-treatment 15 days post-engraftment of human AML cells in NOD.SCID gamma mice also revealed the ATRA plus TCP drug combination to have a potent anti-leukemic effect, which was superior to treatment with either drug alone. These data identify LSD1 as a therapeutic target and strongly suggest that it may contribute to AML pathogenesis by inhibiting the normal pro-differentiative function of ATRA, paving the way for novel combinatorial therapies of AML. ChIP-seq was used to study the effects of ATRA, TCP and ATRA/TCP treatment on H3K4 dimethylation. In addition to the three treatment samples, two reference samples were processed: (i) An untreated sample using the same anti-H3K4me2 antibody and an untreated sample using IgG. These five sequencing experiments were conducted using HL-60 cells and TEX cells, leading to 10 ChIP-seq samples in total.