Project description:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is aggressive disease with a dismal five-year survival of 5%. Gene expression profiling has been instrumental for subtype classification in cancer, highlighting fundamental differences in tumors at the molecular level. Over the last years, multiple genomics studies have led to the classification of PDAC into two major subtypes: classical and basal-type. The classical subtype expresses higher levels of endodermal lineage specifiers, including HNF4A, GATA6, FOXA2, FOXA3 than the basal-type. The basal-type confers a worse prognosis, raising the possibility that loss of these lineage specifiers might enhance the malignant potential of PDAC. We found that the lineage specifier HNF4a plays a key role in maintaining a transcriptional network that characterizes the classical subtype, restraining growth in different PDAC models. Additionally, we demonstrated that HNF4a controls PDAC cell identity and proliferation, and represses the expression of SIX family members, two mesodermal lineage specifiers highly expressed in basal-type.
Project description:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is aggressive disease with a dismal five-year survival of 5%. Gene expression profiling has been instrumental for subtype classification in cancer, highlighting fundamental differences in tumors at the molecular level. Over the last years, multiple genomics studies have led to the classification of PDAC into two major subtypes: classical and basal-type. The classical subtype expresses higher levels of endodermal lineage specifiers, including HNF4A, GATA6, FOXA2, FOXA3 than the basal-type. The basal-type confers a worse prognosis, raising the possibility that loss of these lineage specifiers might enhance the malignant potential of PDAC. We found that the lineage specifier HNF4a plays a key role in maintaining a transcriptional network that characterizes the classical subtype, restraining growth in different PDAC models. Additionally, we demonstrated that HNF4a controls PDAC cell identity and proliferation, and represses the expression of SIX family members, two mesodermal lineage specifiers highly expressed in basal-type.
Project description:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an aggressive disease with a dismal five-year survival of 5%. Gene expression profiling has been instrumental for subtype classification in cancer, highlighting fundamental differences in tumors at the molecular level. Over the last years, multiple genomics studies have led to the classification of PDAC into two major subtypes: classical and basal-type. The classical subtype expresses higher levels of endodermal lineage specifiers, including HNF4A, GATA6, FOXA2, FOXA3 than the basal-type. The basal-type confers a worse prognosis, raising the possibility that loss of these lineage specifiers might enhance the malignant potential of PDAC. We found that the lineage specifier HNF4a plays a key role in maintaining a transcriptional network that characterizes the classical subtype, restraining growth in different PDAC models. Additionally, we demonstrated that HNF4a controls PDAC cell identity and proliferation, and represses the expression of SIX family members, two mesodermal lineage specifiers highly expressed in basal-type.
Project description:To determine the ability of HNF4A and GATA6 to drive open chromatin formation, either HNF4A or GATA6 were overexpressed in normal oesophageal Het1A cells and ATAC-seq was performed.
Project description:In this study, we showed chromatin accessibility-based epigenetic landscape in osteoclastogenesis. To reveal chromatin accessibility landscape throughout osteoclastogenesis, we conducted Assay for Transposase Accessible Chromatin with high-throughput sequencing (ATAC-seq) with BMM (D0), OC precursors day 1 (D1), OC precursor day 2 (D2), and OC (D3).
Project description:We analyzed the effect on HNF4A loss on Histone modifications (H3K4me1, H3K27ac) by ChIP-seq and CUT&Tag using control and HNF4A KO livers samples. We also examined chromatin accessibility by ATAC-seq in control and HNF4A KO livers. We also performed CUT&Tag and ATAC-seq of mouse fibroblast cells (NIH 3T3) treated with control or HNF4A expression vector.