Transcription factor ATMIN facilitates chemoresistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma [ChIP-seq]
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ABSTRACT: Despite the docectaxel-cisplatin-5-fluorouracil (TPF) induction chemotherapy has greatly improved the patients' survival and became the standard of care for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), some patients could not benefit from this therapy. The mechanism underlying the TPF chemoresistance remains unclear. Here, we identified ATMIN as a chemoresistance gene in response to TPF therapy in NPC patients. We found that USP10 deubiquitinates and stabilizes ATMIN protein. Knockdown of ATMIN inhibits the cell proliferation and facilitates the docetaxel-sensitivity of NPC cells in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, RNA-seq combined with ChIP-seq analysis suggests that ATMIN is associated with the cell death signaling. ATMIN transcriptionally activates LCK to facilitate cell proliferation and docetaxel-resistance. Our findings broaden the insight into the mechanism of chemoresistance in NPC and the USP10-ATMIN-LCK axis provides potential therapeutic targets for the management of NPC.
Project description:Despite the docectaxel-cisplatin-5-fluorouracil (TPF) induction chemotherapy has greatly improved the patients' survival and became the standard of care for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), some patients could not benefit from this therapy. The mechanism underlying the TPF chemoresistance remains unclear. Here, we identified ATMIN as a chemoresistance gene in response to TPF therapy in NPC patients. We found that USP10 deubiquitinates and stabilizes ATMIN protein. Knockdown of ATMIN inhibits the cell proliferation and facilitates the docetaxel-sensitivity of NPC cells in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, RNA-seq combined with ChIP-seq analysis suggests that ATMIN is associated with the cell death signaling. ATMIN transcriptionally activates LCK to facilitate cell proliferation and docetaxel-resistance. Our findings broaden the insight into the mechanism of chemoresistance in NPC and the USP10-ATMIN-LCK axis provides potential therapeutic targets for the management of NPC.
Project description:We report the expression anaysis of neural stem cells lacking p53, ATMIN, or both. p53-deficent cells form GBM, which is significanly delayed in the absence of ATMIN.
Project description:The cellular response to replication stress requires the DNA-damage responsive kinase ATM and its co-factor ATMIN, however the roles of this signaling pathway following replication stress are unclear. RNA-seq and subsequent differential expression analyses were utilized to identify the functions of ATM and ATMIN in response to replication stress induced by Aphidcolin (APH). Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs) deleted for ATM or ATMIN were treated with 1µM APH or DMSO as a control. Two different wild-type MEF cell lines (wtATM, wtATMIN) served as controls. RNA-seq was performed in duplicates, in a total of 32 samples, with an average of 31.1M aligned readsobtained per group,with 15.5M reads obtained per replicate.
Project description:The cellular response to replication stress requires the DNA-damage responsive kinase ATM and its co-factor ATMIN, however the roles of this signaling pathway following replication stress are unclear. RNA-seq and subsequent differential expression analyses were utilized to identify the functions of ATM and ATMIN in response to replication stress induced by Aphidcolin (APH).
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.