The β-catenin/CBP-antagonist ICG-001 inhibits pediatric glioma tumorigenicity in a Wnt-independent manner
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ABSTRACT: In pediatric glioma cell lines, treatment with ICG-001 had no inhibitory effect on canonical Wnt-target genes but induced significant up regulation of various known β-catenin target genes in both cell lines and top 20 GO-annotations of down-regulated genes by ICG-001 were associated with biosynthetic and metabolic processes and cell cycle division processes.
Project description:In pediatric glioma cell lines, treatment with ICG-001 had no inhibitory effect on canonical Wnt-target genes but induced significant up regulation of various known β-catenin target genes in both cell lines and top 20 GO-annotations of down-regulated genes by ICG-001 were associated with biosynthetic and metabolic processes and cell cycle division processes. Pediatric cell lines were treated with ICG-001 or DMSO for 48h
Project description:We examined the effects of ICG-001 on gene expression in Mel202 uveal melanoma (UM) cells. ICG-001 exerted strong antiproliferative activity against UM cells, leading to cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and inhibition of migration. Global gene expression profiling revealed strong suppression of genes associated with cell cycle proliferation, DNA replication, and G1/S transition. Gene set enrichment analysis revealed that ICG-001 suppressed Wnt, mTOR, and MAPK signaling. Strikingly, ICG-001 suppressed the expression of genes associated with UM aggressiveness, including CDH1, CITED1, EMP1, EMP3, SDCBP, and SPARC. Notably, the transcriptomic footprint of ICG-001, when applied to a UM patient dataset, was associated with better clinical outcome. Lastly, ICG-001 exerted anticancer activity against a UM tumor xenograft in mice.
Project description:The CREB binding protein inhibitor ICG-001 suppresses pancreatic cancer growth We used microarrays to detail global gene expression changes in the pancreatic cancer cell line AsPC1 following treatment with ICG-001 or siRNA-mediated knockdown of CTNNB1 (beta-catenin)
Project description:The CREB binding protein inhibitor ICG-001 suppresses pancreatic cancer growth We used microarrays to detail global gene expression changes in the pancreatic cancer cell line AsPC1 following treatment with ICG-001 or siRNA-mediated knockdown of CTNNB1 (beta-catenin) AsPC1 cells were treated with 10uM ICG-001 or vehicle control (DMSO) for either 6 hours or 24 hours. AsPC-1 cells were also separately transfected with 20nM control siRNA or CTNNB1 siRNA for 48 hours. RNA was extracted at these time points for hybridization to Affymetrix microarrays
Project description:By screening a target-focused Wnt-sgnaling small compound library we identified the Wnt-modulator ICG-001 as inihibitory for activating the mitochondrial fission protein Drp1. To explore how ICG-001 might act we undertook gene expression profiling in iCG-001 treated primary macrophages.
Project description:This study aims to characterize gene expression changes upon treatment with JQ1, ICG-001, and combined treatment. The general goal is to identify the mechanism for high efficacy of combinatorial treatment of BET and CBP inhibition in DIPG cells.
Project description:Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pedHGG) belong to the most aggressive cancers in children with a poor prognosis due to a lack of efficient therapeutic strategies. The β-catenin/Wnt-signaling pathway was shown to hold promising potential as a treatment target in adult high-grade gliomas by abrogating tumor cell invasion and the acquisition of stem cell-like characteristics. Since pedHGG differ from their adult counterparts in genetically and biologically we aimed to investigate the effects of β-catenin/Wnt-signaling pathway-inhibition by the β-catenin/CBP antagonist ICG-001 in pedHGG cell lines. In contrast to adult HGG, pedHGG cells displayed minimal detectable canonical Wnt-signaling activity. Nevertheless, low doses of ICG-001 inhibited cell migration/invasion, tumorsphere- and colony formation, proliferation in vitro as well as tumor growth in vivo/ovo, suggesting that ICG-001 affects pedHGG tumor cell characteristics independent of β-catenin/Wnt-signaling. RNA-sequencing analyses support a Wnt/β-catenin-independent effect of ICG-001 on target gene transcription, revealing strong effects on genes involved in cellular metabolic/biosynthetic processes and cell cycle progression. Among these, high mRNA expression of cell cycle regulator JDP2 was found to confer a better prognosis for pedHGG patients. In conclusion, ICG-001 might offer an effective treatment option for pedHGG patients functioning to regulate cell phenotype and gene expression programs in absence of Wnt/β-catenin signaling-activity.
Project description:Metabolic gene expression analysis to explore ICG-001’s impact on metabolic changes associated with glioma differentiation after disrupting the CBP/β-Catenin interaction by treating patient-derived GBM cell lines PBT147 and PBT030 with ICG-001 (0, 5, or 10 µM) for 24 and 72 h using Nanostring nCounter platform