Identifying colorectal cancer-specific vulnerabilities in the Wnt-driven long-noncoding transcriptome [GRO-seq]
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PROVIDER: GSE206582 | GEO | 2023/07/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Identifying colorectal cancer-specific vulnerabilities in the Wnt-driven long-noncoding transcriptome [GRO-seq]
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Project description:The transactivation of TCF target genes induced by Wnt pathway mutations constitutes the primary transforming event in colorectal cancer (CRC). We show that disruption of beta-catenin/TCF-4 activity in CRC cells induces a rapid G1 arrest and blocks a genetic program that is physiologically active in the proliferative compartment of colon crypts. Coincidently, an intestinal differentiation program is induced. The TCF-4 target gene c-MYC plays a central role in this switch by direct repression of the p21(CIP1/WAF1) promoter. Following disruption of beta-catenin/TCF-4 activity, the decreased expression of c-MYC releases p21(CIP1/WAF1) transcription, which in turn mediates G1 arrest and differentiation. Thus, the beta-catenin/TCF-4 complex constitutes the master switch that controls proliferation versus differentiation in healthy and malignant intestinal epithelial cells.
2005-09-02 | E-SMDB-1723 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:The transactivation of TCF target genes induced by Wnt pathway mutations constitutes the primary transforming event in colorectal cancer (CRC). We show that disruption of beta-catenin/TCF-4 activity in CRC cells induces a rapid G1 arrest and blocks a genetic program that is physiologically active in the proliferative compartment of colon crypts. Coincidently, an intestinal differentiation program is induced. The TCF-4 target gene c-MYC plays a central role in this switch by direct repression of the p21(CIP1/WAF1) promoter. Following disruption of beta-catenin/TCF-4 activity, the decreased expression of c-MYC releases p21(CIP1/WAF1) transcription, which in turn mediates G1 arrest and differentiation. Thus, the beta-catenin/TCF-4 complex constitutes the master switch that controls proliferation versus differentiation in healthy and malignant intestinal epithelial cells. Groups of assays that are related as part of a time series. Computed
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Project description:Dysregulation of the canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is a hallmark of colorectal cancer (CRC). The T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer factor (TCF/LEF; hereafter, TCF) family of transcription factors are critical regulators of canonical Wnt/β-catenin target gene expression. Despite similarity across DNA-binding and protein-binding domains, TCF family members differentially regulate target gene expression in CRC. Of the four TCF family members, TCF7L1 predominantly functions as a transcriptional repressor and it has an oncogenic role in CRC. Despite this role, few target genes regulated by TCF7L1 in CRC have been identified. Through RNA-sequencing of transcripts differentially expressed in control and TCF7L1-overexpressing HCT116 cells, we identified 397 genes that were repressed directly, or indirectly, by TCF7L1. Gene set enrichment analysis found genes associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition amongst those that are differentially expressed. By silencing and overexpressing TCF7L1 in CRC cell lines, we found that TCF7L1 promoted migration, invasion, and adhesion in vitro. Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-sequencing) localized 3661 TCF7L1 binding sites within the CRC genome. Comparison of genes whose expression was downregulated by TCF7L1 and genes with TCF7L1 binding sites revealed 41 novel targets directly regulated by TCF7L1. Among these, we localized a TCF7L1 promoter-proximal binding site within the growth arrest specific 1 (GAS1) gene. We found that ectopic GAS1 expression rescued the TCF7L1-mediated increase in migration and invasion in CRC cells. These findings uncover a novel role for TCF7L1 in repressing GAS1 expression to promote migration and invasion of CRC cells in vitro.
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