Project description:Patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs) have few therapeutic options. Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5), an anticancer target, has been extensively investigated in recent years in epithelial tumors. To date, no data related to the biological role of PRMT5 inhibition and its potential effect as a treatment in STS have been reported. To investigate the therapeutic potential of PRMT5 targeting in STS, we first evaluated the prognostic value of PRMT5 expression in 2 different cohorts of patients with STS. We then used the potent and selective GSK3326595 (GSK595) compound to investigate the antitumor effect of the pharmacological inhibition of PRMT5 in vitro via MTT, apoptosis, cell cycle, clonogenicity and proliferation assays. In vivo studies were performed with two animal models to evaluate the effects of GSK595 on tumor growth. The mechanisms of action were investigated by RNA sequencing, metabolic pathway analysis, Western blotting and glucose uptake/lactate production assays. High PRMT5 gene expression levels were significantly associated with worsened metastasis-free survival of STS patients. GSK595 decreased the global symmetric dimethylarginine level, the proliferation rate and clonogenicity of STS cell lines in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Moreover, PRMT5 inhibition regulated aerobic glycolysis through downregulation of key enzymes of glycolysis as well as glucose uptake and lactate production. The present study demonstrated that PRMT5 regulates STS cell metabolism and thus represents a potential therapeutic target for STS. Additional studies in diverse sarcoma subtypes will be essential to confirm and expand upon these findings.
Project description:Patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs) have few therapeutic options. Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5), an anticancer target, has been extensively investigated in recent years in epithelial tumors. To date, no data related to the biological role of PRMT5 inhibition and its potential effect as a treatment in STS have been reported. To investigate the therapeutic potential of PRMT5 targeting in STS, we first evaluated the prognostic value of PRMT5 expression in 2 different cohorts of patients with STS. We then used the potent and selective GSK3326595 (GSK595) compound to investigate the antitumor effect of the pharmacological inhibition of PRMT5 in vitro via MTT, apoptosis, cell cycle, clonogenicity and proliferation assays. In vivo studies were performed with two animal models to evaluate the effects of GSK595 on tumor growth. The mechanisms of action were investigated by RNA sequencing, metabolic pathway analysis, Western blotting and glucose uptake/lactate production assays. High PRMT5 gene expression levels were significantly associated with worsened metastasis-free survival of STS patients. GSK595 decreased the global symmetric dimethylarginine level, the proliferation rate and clonogenicity of STS cell lines in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Moreover, PRMT5 inhibition regulated aerobic glycolysis through downregulation of key enzymes of glycolysis as well as glucose uptake and lactate production. The present study demonstrated that PRMT5 regulates STS cell metabolism and thus represents a potential therapeutic target for STS. Additional studies in diverse sarcoma subtypes will be essential to confirm and expand upon these findings.
Project description:Patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs) have few therapeutic options. Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5), an anticancer target, has been extensively investigated in recent years in epithelial tumors. To date, no data related to the biological role of PRMT5 inhibition and its potential effect as a treatment in STS have been reported. To investigate the therapeutic potential of PRMT5 targeting in STS, we first evaluated the prognostic value of PRMT5 expression in 2 different cohorts of patients with STS. We then used the potent and selective GSK3326595 (GSK595) compound to investigate the antitumor effect of the pharmacological inhibition of PRMT5 in vitro via MTT, apoptosis, cell cycle, clonogenicity and proliferation assays. In vivo studies were performed with two animal models to evaluate the effects of GSK595 on tumor growth. The mechanisms of action were investigated by RNA sequencing, metabolic pathway analysis, Western blotting and glucose uptake/lactate production assays. High PRMT5 gene expression levels were significantly associated with worsened metastasis-free survival of STS patients. GSK595 decreased the global symmetric dimethylarginine level, the proliferation rate and clonogenicity of STS cell lines in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Moreover, PRMT5 inhibition regulated aerobic glycolysis through downregulation of key enzymes of glycolysis as well as glucose uptake and lactate production. The present study demonstrated that PRMT5 regulates STS cell metabolism and thus represents a potential therapeutic target for STS. Additional studies in diverse sarcoma subtypes will be essential to confirm and expand upon these findings.
Project description:Aberrant protein arginine methylation has been observed in multiple cancer types, making it an attractive drug target. Proteins can undergo asymmetric arginine methylation by type I protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), predominately by PRMT1 and to a lesser extent PRMT4, or symmetric arginine methylation by type II PRMTs, predominately PRMT5. Here, we performed targeted proteomics following inhibition of PRMT1, PRMT4, and PRMT5 across cancer cell lines. We found that inhibition of both type I and type II PRMTs suppressed levels of total and phosphorylated ATR protein in cancer cell lines, and down-regulated expression of the ATR gene. Loss of ATR from PRMT inhibition resulted in defective DNA replication stress response activation in following exogenous replication stress. Since PARP inhibitors are known to induce replication stress, we next combined PRMT inhibition with PARP inhibition and found inhibition of PRMT1 or PRMT5 greatly exacerbated PARP inhibitor induced DNA damage. Based on this observation, we assessed the combination of PARP and PRMT inhibition in a panel of cell lines. While inhibition of both type I and type II PRMTs were synergistic with PARP inhibition in both cells with intact and deficient homologous recombination, type I PRMT inhibition resulted in higher toxicity in non-malignant cells. Therefore, we validated the synergy of combined PARP/PRMT5 inhibition in primary patient-derived organoids. Finally, we demonstrate that the combination of PARP and PRMT5 inhibition improves overall survival in both BRCA-mutant and wild-type patient-derived xenograft models without any detectable hematological toxicities typically associated with PARPi combination therapies. Taken together, these results demonstrate that PRMT5 inhibition may be a well-tolerated approach to improve tumor sensitivity to PARP inhibition. .
Project description:To identify the mechanistic underpinning of the anti-tumor activity of PRMT5 inhibition in MCL, we explored transcriptomic profiles of PDX-AA cells treated in vivo for 2 weeks with PRT-382, ibrutinib, or vehicle control (n=3/group).
Project description:H3K27-altered Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG) is a universally fatal paediatric brainstem tumour. The prevalent driver mutation H3K27M creates a unique epigenetic landscape that may also establish therapeutic vulnerabilities to epigenetic inhibitors. From a wider screen of an epigenetic inhibitor library, we identified PRMT5 inhibitors as amongst the top hits reducing DMG cell viability. Here, we treated HSJD-DIPG-007 +/- the PRMT5 inhibitor LLY-283. RNA-sequencing was performed at 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 10 days to assess the changes in gene expression following PRMT5 inhibition in DMG cells. This shows that PRMT5 inhibition changes expression in genes associated with multiple disease relevant phenotypes, including sterol metabolism, differentiation, and the extracellular matrix. By characterising the changes in the transcriptome following PRMT5 inhibition this provides crucial insights into the potential of PRMT5 inhibitors as a treatment for H3K27-altered DMG.
Project description:To investigate the full effects of inhibition of CDK4/6 on splicing events in melanoma and the extent to which they are dependent on PRMT5 . We performed full-length mRNA sequencing on CHL1 and A375 melanoma cell lines treated with the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib and the PRMT5 inhibitor GSK3326595 and CTX085 and analysed data for differential gene expression and differential pre-mRNA splicing induced by these agents.