MYCN-driven de-differentiation profile identifies a subgroup of aggressive retinoblastoma
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Project description:MYCNOS (MYCN opposite strand) is co-amplified with MYCN in pediatric cancers including retinoblastoma. MYCNOS encodes several RNA variants whose functions have not been elucidated in retinoblastoma. Here, we attempted to decipher the role of MYCNOS variant 1 (MYCNOS1) on the activity of MYCN-amplified retinoblastoma. We observed that MYCNOS1 supports progression of retinoblastoma. Inhibition of MYCNOS1 expression may be needed to suppress MYCN activity when treating MYCN-amplified cancers without RB1 mutation.
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Project description:Retinoblastoma (RB) is a common malignancy that primarily affects pediatric populations. Although a well-known cause of RB is RB1 mutation, MYCN amplification can also lead to the disease, which is a poor prognosis factor. Studies conducted in various tumor types have shown that MYCN inhibition is an effective approach to impede tumor growth. Various indirect approaches have been developed to overcome the difficulty of directly targeting MYCN, such as modulating the super enhancer (SE) upstream of MYCN. The drug used in this study to treat MYCN-amplified RB was THZ1, a CDK7 inhibitor that can effectively suppress transcription by interfering with the activity of SEs. The study findings confirmed the anticancer activity of THZ1 against RB in both in vitro and in vivo experiments. Therapy with THZ1 was found to affect numerous genes in RB according to the RNA-seq analysis. Moreover, the gene expression changes induced by THZ1 treatment were enriched in ribosome, endocytosis, cell cycle, apoptosis, etc. Furthermore, the combined analysis of ChIP-Seq and RNA-seq data suggested a potential role of SEs in regulating the expression of critical transcription factors, such as MYCN, OTX2, and SOX4. Moreover, ChIP‒qPCR experiments were conducted to confirm the interaction between MYCN and SEs. In conclusion, THZ1 caused substantial changes in gene transcription in RB, resulting in inhibited cell proliferation, interference with the cell cycle, and increased apoptosis. The efficacy of THZ1 is positively correlated with the degree of MYCN amplification and is likely exerted by interfering with MYCN upstream SEs.
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Project description:Here we sought metabolic alterations specifically associated with amplified MYCN as nodes to indirectly target the MYCN oncogene. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based proteomics identified 7 proteins consistently correlated with MYCN in proteomes from 49 neuroblastoma biopsies and 13 cell lines. Among these were phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH), the rate-limiting enzyme in de novo serine synthesis. MYCN associated with two regions in the PHGDH promoter, supporting transcriptional PHGDH regulation by MYCN. Pulsed stable isotope-resolved metabolomics utilizing 13C-glucose labeling demonstrated higher de novo serine synthesis in MYCN-amplified cells compared to cells with diploid MYCN. An independence of MYCN-amplified cells from exogenous serine and glycine was demonstrated by serine and glycine starvation, which attenuated nucleotide pools and proliferation only in cells with diploid MYCN but did not diminish these endpoints in MYCN-amplified cells. Proliferation was attenuated in MYCN-amplified cells by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PHGDH knockout or treatment with PHGDH small molecule inhibitors without affecting cell viability. PHGDH inhibitors administered as single-agent therapy to NMRI-Foxn1nu/nu mice harboring patient-derived MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma xenografts slowed tumor growth. However, combining a PHGDH inhibitor with the standard-of-care chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, revealed antagonism of chemotherapy efficacy in vivo. Emergence of chemotherapy resistance was confirmed in the genetic PHGDH knockout model in vitro. Altogether, PHDGH knockout and inhibition by small molecules consistently slows proliferation, but stops short of killing the cells, which then establish resistance to classical chemotherapy. Although PHGDH inhibition with small molecules has produced encouraging results in other preclinical cancer models, this approach must be considered with caution in patients with neuroblastoma.
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Project description:Purpose: Clinical courses of neuroblastomas (NBs) range from rapid progression with fatal outcome despite intensive multimodality therapies to spontaneous regression. Amplified MYCN oncogene defines a subgroup with poor outcome. However, a substantial number of MYCN single-copy NBs exhibits an aggressive phenotype similar to that of MYCN-amplified NBs even in the absence of high MYCN mRNA and/or protein levels. Experimental Design: To identify shared molecular mechanisms that mediate the aggressive phenotype in MYCN amplified and single-copy high-risk NBs, we defined genetic programs evoked by ectopically expressed MYCN in vitro and analyzed them in high-risk versus low-risk NB tumors (n=49) using cDNA microarrays. Candidate gene and protein expression was validated in a separate cohort of 117 patients using quantitative PCR (QPCR) and in a panel of NB tumors using immunohistochemistry. Results: We identified a genetic signature characterized by Skp2, encoding the F-box protein of the SCFSkp2 E3-ligase, and a subset of MYCN and of E2F targets to be highly expressed in high-risk NBs. We validated the findings for Skp2 and analyzed its expression in relation to MYCN and E2F-1 expression in a separate cohort (n=117) using QPCR. Most importantly, high Skp2 expression proved to be a highly significant marker of dire prognosis independent of both MYCN status and disease stage, on the basis of multivariate analysis of event-free survival (hazard ratio, 3.54
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