Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of blood and bone marrow of Pediatric Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia. The Illumina Infinium EPIC Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across over 860,000 CpGs.
Project description:tRNA related fragments(tRF) and tRNA halves(tiRNA) are novel class of short non-coding RNA derived from tRNAs. Using RNA sequencing, we evaluated the tRFs/tiRNAs expression profiles in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and multiple myeloma patients. Bioinformatics analyses indicated that tRFs/tiRNAs may be involved in the progression and drug-resistance of multiple myeloma.
Project description:Rituximab/chemotherapy relapsed and refractory B cell lymphoma patients have a poor overall prognosis, and it is urgent to develop novel drugs for improving the therapies of these patients. A new oral histone deacetylase inhibitor, chidamide shows anti-tumor activity by activating the pro-apoptosis pathway in some other hematological malignancies, suggesting its potential application to the relapsed and refractory B cell lymphoma. In this study, we examined the therapeutic effects of chidamide on the cell and mouse models of the rituximab/chemotherapy resistant B cell lymphoma, as well as the primary B cell lymphoma cells. In Raji-4RH and RL-4RH cells, the rituximab/chemotherapy resistant B cell lymphoma cell lines (RRCL), chidamide treatment induced growth inhibition and G0/G1 cell cycle arrest, which were associated with E2F1/2 inactivation and CDK2 degradation. The primary B cell lymphoma cells from Rituximab/chemotherapy relapsed and refractory patients were also very sensitive to chidamide treatment. Interestingly, chidamide triggered the cell death via the autophagy pathway instead of the activation of apoptosis in Raji-4RH and RL-4RH cells, likely due to the lack of the pro-apoptotic proteins in these resistant cells. In the RNA-seq and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis, we identified BTG1 and FOXO1 as the direct target genes of chidamide, which control the autophagy and cell cycle respectively in RRCL treated with chidamide. Moreover, the combination of chidamide with the chemotherapy drug Cisplatin sensitized the RRCL to growth inhibition in a synergistic manner. Chidamide-Cisplatin combination significantly reduced the tumor burden of a mouse lymphoma model established with engraftment of RRCL. Taken together, our studies provides a theoretic and mechanistic basis for further evaluation of the chidamide-based clinical trial for rituximab/chemotherapy relapsed and refractory B cell lymphoma patients.
Project description:Reversing gene expression signatures in relapsed patient may restore chemosensitivity. We demonstrate that the histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat not only reprograms the aberrant gene expression profile of relapsed blasts but is synergistic when applied prior to chemotherapy in primary patient samples and leukemia cell lines