Project description:Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) sequencing with an anti-acetyl-H3K27 antibody showed an enhancer region rearranged to the TERT gene, and ChIP sequencing with an anti-BRD4 antibody showed BRD4 protein binding to the enhancer in TERT-rarranged neuroblasstoma PDX CCI-NB07-RMT cells
Project description:Whole genome sequencing detected structural rearrangements of TERT in 17/75 high stage neuroblastoma with 5 cases resulting from chromothripsis. Rearrangements were associated with increased TERT expression and targeted immediate up- and down-stream regions of TERT, placing in 7 cases a super-enhancer close to the breakpoints. TERT rearrangements (23%), ATRX deletions (11%) and MYCN amplifications (37%) identify three almost non-overlapping groups of high stage neuroblastoma, each associated with very poor prognosis
Project description:Determine changes in genomic copy across the entire genome for isolated strains with selected gross chromosomal rearrangements relative to the wild-type strain.
Project description:We investigated the effects of the ploidy on cellular response in strains carrying various types of gross chromosomal rearrangements.
Project description:Determine changes in genomic copy across the entire genome for isolated strains with selected gross chromosomal rearrangements relative to the wild-type strain.
Project description:Chromosomal rearrangements are essential events in the pathogenesis of both malignant and nonmalignant disorders, yet the factors affecting their formation are incompletely understood. We developed a zinc finger nuclease translocation reporter (ZITR) and screened for factors that modulate rearrangements in human cells. We identified UBC9 and RAD50 as suppressors and 53BP1, DDB1, and PARP3 as promoters of chromosomal rearrangements across human cell types. We focused on poly(ADP)ribose polymerase 3 (PARP3) as it is dispensable for murine viability and has druggable catalytic activity. We found that PARP3 regulated G quadruplex (G4) DNA in response to DNA damage, which suppressed repair by nonhomologous end-joining and homologous recombination. Chemical stabilization of G4 DNA in PARP3-/- cells led to widespread DNA double-strand breaks and synthetic lethality. We propose a model in which PARP3 suppresses G4 DNA and facilitates DNA repair by multiple pathways.
Project description:Whole genome sequencing detected structural rearrangements of TERT in 17/75 high stage neuroblastoma with 5 cases resulting from chromothripsis. Rearrangements were associated with increased TERT expression and targeted immediate up- and down-stream regions of TERT, placing in 7 cases a super-enhancer close to the breakpoints. TERT rearrangements (23%), ATRX deletions (11%) and MYCN amplifications (37%) identify three almost non-overlapping groups of high stage neuroblastoma, each associated with very poor prognosis. This submission contains all newly sequenced samples only.