Project description:Although there are plenty of researches about nucleic acid in small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), properties of proteins identified as sEVs’ cargos and the mechanism of their action in recipient cell are poorly understood. Here, we show that lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), the first identified histone demethylase in 2004, existed in the cell cultured medium of gastric cancer cells. Further investigation confirmed the presence of LSD1 in sEVs from gastric cancer cells and gastric cancer patient plasma, which is the first identified histone demethylase in sEVs. By shuttling from donor cells to recipient gastric cancer cells, sEVs-delivered LSD1 promoted the cancer cell stemness by positively regulating the expression of Nanog, OCT4, SOX2 and CD44, and suppressed the oxaliplatin response of the recipient cells in vitro and in vivo, while LSD1 depleted sEVs failed to suppress the oxaliplatin response. Collectively, our findings give an evidence for LSD1 as a sEVs protein to promote stemness and suppress oxaliplatin response for the first time and constitute a future avenue to predict oxaliplatin response in gastric cancer clinically.
Project description:Although there are plenty of researches about nucleic acid in small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), properties of proteins identified as sEVs’ cargos and the mechanism of their action in recipient cell are poorly understood. Here, we show that lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1), the first identified histone demethylase in 2004, existed in the cell cultured medium of gastric cancer cells. Further investigation confirmed the presence of LSD1 in sEVs from gastric cancer cells and gastric cancer patient plasma, which is the first identified histone demethylase in sEVs. By shuttling from donor cells to recipient gastric cancer cells, sEVs-delivered LSD1 promoted the cancer cell stemness by positively regulating the expression of Nanog, OCT4, SOX2 and CD44, and suppressed the oxaliplatin response of the recipient cells in vitro and in vivo, while LSD1 depleted sEVs failed to suppress the oxaliplatin response. Collectively, our findings give an evidence for LSD1 as a sEVs protein to promote stemness and suppress oxaliplatin response for the first time and constitute a future avenue to predict oxaliplatin response in gastric cancer clinically.
Project description:Lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is an important histone demethylase that mediates metastasis in luminal breast cancer. Exosomes play a major role in cell-to-cell communication. Thus, the characterization of miRNAs of exosome in MCF7 cells regulated by LSD1 is imperative in clarifying intercellular signaling.
Project description:Lysine specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is an important histone demethylase that mediates metastasis in luminal breast cancer. Thus, the characterization of miRNAs in MCF7 cells regulated by LSD1 is imperative in clarifying intercellular signaling.
Project description:Metazoan enhancers are decorated by mono-methylation (me1) of the lysine 4 residue on histone H3 (H3K4), a mark deposited by methyltransferases MLL3/MLL4 and removed by the lysine-specific histone demethylase 1A (LSD1 or KDM1A) via its flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent amine oxidase activity. As a component of histone deacetylases HDAC1/2-containing complex CoREST, LSD1 is required for animal development, and is implicated in Kabuki Syndrome-like congenital diseases and multiple types of cancer. Although prior research has investigated the demethylase function of LSD1 extensively, the mechanisms underlying LSD1’s role in development and diseases remain enigmatic. Here, we have utilized genetic, epigenetic, genomic, and cell biology approaches to dissect the role of LSD1 and its demethylase activity in gene regulation and cell fate transition. Surprisingly, the catalytic inactivation of LSD1 only has a mild impact on gene expression whereas the loss of LSD1 protein de-represses enhancers globally. Moreover, LSD1 deletion, rather than its catalytic inactivation, causes defects in spontaneous differentiation, the transition from naive to primed pluripotency, embryoid body formation, and cardiomyocyte differentiation. Interestingly, deletion of LSD1 increases H3K27ac levels and binding of P300 to LSD1-targeted enhancers. We further show that the gain in the level of H3K27ac catalyzed by P300/CBP, not the loss of CoREST complex components from chromatin, contributes to the transcription de-repression of LSD1 targets and differentiation defects caused by LSD1 loss. Taken together, our study demonstrates a demethylase-independent role of LSD1 in regulating enhancers and cell fate transition, providing insight into the treatment of diseases driven by LSD1 mutations and misregulation.
Project description:LSD1 (also known as KDM1A) is a histone demethylase and a key regulator of gene expression in embryonic stem cells and cancer.1,2 LSD1 was initially identified as a transcriptional repressor via its demethylation of active histone H3 marks (di-methyl lysine 4 [2MK4]).1 In prostate cancer, specifically, LSD1 also co-localizes with the AR and demethylates repressive 2MK9 histone marks from androgen-responsive AR target genes, facilitating androgen-mediated induction of AR-regulated gene expression and androgen-induced proliferation in androgen-dependent cancers. We report here that the LSD1 protein is universally upregulated in human CRPC and promotes survival of CRPC cell lines. This effect is explained in part by LSD1-induced activation of cell cycle and embryonic stem cell gene setsâgene sets enriched in transcriptomal studies of lethal human tumors. Importantly, despite the fact that many of these genes are direct LSD1 targets, we did not observe histone methylation changes at the LSD1-bound regions, demonstrating non-canonical histone demethylation-independent mechanisms of gene regulation. This ChIP-seq dataset included H3K4me2 and H3K9me2 ChIP-seq data for siRNA target against LSD1 and non-targeting control, as well as SP2509 inhibition of LSD1 and mock treatment 4 conditions: siRNA against LSD1, siRNA against luciferase (non-targeting control); SP2509 inhibition of LSD1, mock treatment. There are 2 replicates per condition.
Project description:Lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) is a histone demethylase that promotes stemness and cancer cell survival, including in prostate cancer. LSD1 has been shown to perfrom catalytic independent function sto promote prostate cancer survival. Here, we tested the levels of LSD1's canonical target H3K4me2 upon LSD1 inhibition with SP2509 across the genome using CUT and RUN analysis.