M6A-seq and RNA-seq of 4 pairs NPC tissues with or without metastasis
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ABSTRACT: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which arises from the nasopharyngeal pharynx, is a metastasis-prone malignancy highly prevalent in East and Southeast Asia, especially southern China. Despite progress in chemo-radiotherapeutic strategies, about 20% of NPC patients still suffer from distant metastasis, thus developing new therapeutic strategies for NPC is of vital importance. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification, the most abundant epitranscriptomic modification in eukaryotic mRNA, has attracted great attention in cancer research because of its vital biological functions. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms between m6A modification and NPC progression. We aimed to identified differential m6A peaks by analyzing the m6A modification profile in NPC with paired tissues with or without metastasis using m6A-seq. For RNA-seq and ChIP-seq, we aimed to identified the downstream targets of CBX1 in NPC.
Project description:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which arises from the nasopharyngeal pharynx, is a metastasis-prone malignancy highly prevalent in East and Southeast Asia, especially southern China. Despite progress in chemo-radiotherapeutic strategies, about 20% of NPC patients still suffer from distant metastasis, thus developing new therapeutic strategies for NPC is of vital importance. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification, the most abundant epitranscriptomic modification in eukaryotic mRNA, has attracted great attention in cancer research because of its vital biological functions. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms between m6A modification and NPC progression. We aimed to identified differential m6A peaks by analyzing the m6A modification profile in NPC with paired tissues with or without metastasis using m6A-seq. For RNA-seq and ChIP-seq, we aimed to identified the downstream targets of CBX1 in NPC.
Project description:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignant tumor originating from the nasopharyngeal epithelium and has the highest metastatic rate among head and neck cancers, NPC metastasis has become the main cause of treatment failure. The molecular basis regulating NPC metastasis remains obscure. Here we discovered a gene named LACTB Highly expressed in NPC tissues and aimed to investigate its role and regulatory mechanism in the metastasis of NPC.LACTB was found to promote NPC cellular motility in vitro and metastasis in vivo via the activation of the ERBB3/EGFR-ERK pathway on a histone H3 depending manner. Also, the elevated expression of LACTB in the primary NPC correlated with patient poor survival, indicating LACTB as a potential prognostic predictor and an anti-metastasis therapeutic target.
Project description:N(6)-methyladenosine (m6A) plays an important role in the tumorigenesis and progression of cancers. However, the clinical significance of m6A and their regulatory mechanisms in nasopharyngeal carcinogenesis (NPC) remain largely unknown. In this study, we used the microarray analysis to study WTAP-mediated m6A modification profiles in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line, HONE-1, by comparing 3 pairs of samples with or without WTAP knockdown.
Project description:According to the evolution of the NPC, with normal time series, we identified microRNAs (miRNAs) showing robust differential expression between nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPCs) and normal healthy nasopharyngeal epithelial samples. This research use miRNA chip testing at different stages in 12 cases of NPC (TNM Ⅰ - II, III, IV each stage 4 cases), 4 patients matched sample and transfer lymphoma 6 samples. Analysis the difference miRNA distribution of in the NPC development, adopt modern bioinformatics methods selection differentially expressed genes. we study the miRNA dynamic expression profiles in different clinical stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and NPC lymphoid node metastasis. Samples were taken from a range of tumors of different stages. 6 cases of normal, 4 respective cases of stage I or II, III, IV and lymph node metastasis. The microdissection was performed with Methyl Green staining to separate tumor cells to non-tumor cells.
Project description:Several studies revealed an underlying disordered m6A regulatory network in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, the roles of m6A regulators and sequential m6A dysregulation in NPC remain largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the role of VIRMA and its underlying mechanisms in NPC. We performed methylated RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeRIP-seq) to identify the potential downstream targets of VIRMA that might be essential in NPC using HONE-1 cells with or without VIRMA silenced (two biological replicates).
Project description:Dysregulations of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) contribute to tumorigenesis by modulating specific cancer-related pathways, but the roles of m6A-enriched lncRNAs and underlying mechanisms remain elusive in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Here, we reanalyzed the previous genome-wide analysis of lncRNA profile, and discerned that an oncogenic m6A-enriched lncRNA, LINC00839, which was substantially upregulated in NPC and correlated with poor clinical prognosis, promoted NPC growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, LINC00839 interacted directly with transcription factor, TATA-box binding protein associated factor (TAF15), and coordinated its recruitment to promoter region of amine oxidase copper-containing 1 (AOC1), thereby activating AOC1 transcription in trans. Ectopic expression of AOC1 partially rescued the inhibitory effect of downregulation of LINC00839 in NPC. Furthermore, silencing vir like m6A methyltransferase associated (VIRMA) and insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding proteins 1 (IGF2BP1) were found to attenuate the expression level and RNA stability of LINC00839 in an m6A-dependent manner. This study unveils a novel oncogenic VIRMA/IGF2BP1–LINC00839–TAF15–AOC1 axis, and highlights significance and prognostic value of LINC00839 in NPC carcinogenesis.
Project description:Dysregulations of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) contribute to tumorigenesis by modulating specific cancer-related pathways, but the roles of m6A-enriched lncRNAs and underlying mechanisms remain elusive in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Here, we reanalyzed the previous genome-wide analysis of lncRNA profile, and discerned that an oncogenic m6A-enriched lncRNA, LINC00839, which was substantially upregulated in NPC and correlated with poor clinical prognosis, promoted NPC growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, LINC00839 interacted directly with transcription factor, TATA-box binding protein associated factor (TAF15), and coordinated its recruitment to promoter region of amine oxidase copper-containing 1 (AOC1), thereby activating AOC1 transcription in trans. Ectopic expression of AOC1 partially rescued the inhibitory effect of downregulation of LINC00839 in NPC. Furthermore, silencing vir like m6A methyltransferase associated (VIRMA) and insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding proteins 1 (IGF2BP1) were found to attenuate the expression level and RNA stability of LINC00839 in an m6A-dependent manner. This study unveils a novel oncogenic VIRMA/IGF2BP1–LINC00839–TAF15–AOC1 axis, and highlights significance and prognostic value of LINC00839 in NPC carcinogenesis.
Project description:Treatment selections are very limited for patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) experiencing disease progression. Uncovering the potential mechanism underlying NPC progression is crucial for identify novel treatments. Here we show that N7-methylguanosine (m7G) tRNA modification enzyme METTL1 and its partner WDR4 are significantly elevated in NPC and associated with poor prognosis. Loss-of-function and gain-of-function assays demonstrated that METTL1/WDR4 mediated m7G tRNA modification promotes NPC growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, m7G tRNA modification selectively regulates the translation of transcripts with higher percentage of m7G tRNA decoded codons. Moreover, further analysis revealed that METTL1-mediated m7G tRNA modification activates WNT/β-Catenin signaling pathway to promote NPC cell epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and chemoresistance to cisplatin and docetaxel in vitro and in vivo. Our work uncovers a novel layer of mRNA translation regulation mechanism at codon recognition step mediated by tRNA modification and reveals the critical function of tRNA modification in cancer progression.
Project description:High metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line 5-8F expression patterns against low metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line 6-10B. This study was done to screen genes related with metastasis in NPC. The microarray analyses were done in a same batch. 6-10B cells are cultured and harvested at three different time points.