Project description:N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C), a conserved chemical modification in eukaryotic prokaryotes that is catalyzed by the N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10) enzyme, plays a crucial role in promoting mRNA stability and translation. However, the biological function and mechanisms of NAT10-mediated ac4C in human cancer were poorly defined. In order to investigate the regulatory mechanism of NAT10 in gastric cancer, we performed ac4C RIP-seq(acRIP-seq) analysis in AGS cells with NAT10 knockout compared with control in two repeats.
Project description:NAT10-catalyzed N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) has emerged as a vital post-transcriptional modulator on the coding transcriptome by promoting mRNA stability. To explore the transcriptome-wide profile of ac4C modification, we mapped the locations of ac4C modification on wild-type (WT) hESCs and NAT10 KD hESCs by high-throughput ac4C RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (ac4C-RIP-seq).
Project description:We show that non-toxic exogenous palmitate uptake in MCF7 cells promotes NAT10 expression and NAT10-dependent ac4C RNA modification. It was previously reported that NAT10 modulates the addition of ac4C on RNA transcripts in normal and cancer conditions. However, no study report the impact of NAT10 in palmitate driven cells. Here we performed RNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (RIP-seq) in palmitate loaded MCF7 knockdown with NAT10 siRNA. Based on the pathways and enrichment landscape identified. We found that ac4C peaks of fatty acid metabolic genes including ELOVL6, ACSL1, ACSL3, ACSL4, ACADSB and ACAT1 were significantly decreased upon knockdown with NAT10 siRNA. Overall, our results revealed the impact of NAT10 as a regulator of fatty acid metabolism in ac4C-dependent manner
Project description:RNA modification represents an important post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), however the function and mechanism of RNA acetylation ac4C in AML remains elusive. Here, we report that NAT10, as the ac4C writing enzyme, plays a critical oncogenic function in AML and represents a promising therapeutic target for AML. To understand the mechanisms underlying the function of NAT10 as an RNA ac4C writer in AML, we profiled ac4C modification in the transcriptome of MOLM13 cells using a refined ac4C RNA immunoprecipitation and high throughput sequencing (RacRIP-seq) protocol, and performed systematic calibration with a modification-free control library generated from the in vitro- transcribed MOLM13 transcriptome (referred to as IVT control) to eliminate most of the false- positive signals. We also applied the RacRIP-seq in NAT10 knockdown and control MOLM13 cells to characterize NAT10 targets.
Project description:Background: Heart failure (HF), characterized by cardiac remodeling, is associated with abnormal epigenetic processes and aberrant gene expression. Here, we aimed to elucidate the effects and mechanisms of N-acetyltransferase 10 (NAT10)-mediated N4?acetylcytidine (ac4C) acetylation during cardiac remodeling. Methods: NAT10 and ac4C expression were detected in both human and mouse subjects with cardiac remodeling through multiple assays. Subsequently, acetylated RNA immunoprecipitation and sequencing (acRIP-seq), thiol (SH)-linked alkylation for the metabolic sequencing of RNA (SLAM-seq), and ribosome sequencing (Ribo-seq) were employed to elucidate the role of ac4C-modified post-transcriptional regulation in cardiac remodeling. Additionally, functional experiments involving the overexpression or knockdown of NAT10 were conducted in mice models challenged with Ang II and transverse aortic constriction (TAC). Results: NAT10 expression and RNA ac4C levels were increased in in vitro and in vivo cardiac remodeling models, as well as in patients with cardiac hypertrophy. Silencing and inhibiting NAT10 attenuated Ang II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and cardio-fibroblast activation. Next-generation sequencing revealed ac4C changes in both mice and humans with cardiac hypertrophy were associated with changes in global mRNA abundance, stability and translation efficiency. Mechanistically, NAT10 could enhance the stability and translation efficiency of CD47 and ROCK2 transcripts by upregulating their mRNA ac4C modification, thereby resulting in an increase in their protein expression during cardiac remodeling. Furthermore, the administration of Remodelin, a NAT10 inhibitor, has been shown to prevent cardiac functional impairments in mice subjected to TAC by suppressing cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy, and inflammatory responses, while also regulating the expression levels of CD47 and ROCK2. Conclusions: Therefore, our data suggest that modulating epitranscriptomic processes, such as ac4C acetylation through NAT10, may be a promising therapeutic target against cardiac remodeling.
Project description:We performedacRIP-seq between control CRC cells and CRC cells with NAT10 knockdown to identify NAT10 mediates mRNA ac4C modification
Project description:NAT10-catalyzed N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) has emerged as a vital post-transcriptional modulator on the coding transcriptome by promoting mRNA stability. To explore the transcriptome-wide profile of ac4C modification, we mapped the locations of ac4C modification on wild-type (WT) hESCs and NAT10 KD hESCs by NaCNBH3-based chemical ac4C sequencing (ac4C-seq).
Project description:To identify potential mRNAs that are acetylated by NAT10, RIP with a NAT10 antibody and acRIP with a ac4C antibody were conducted in DLD-1 and SW480 cells
Project description:The diverse RNA modifications play essential functions in gene expression regulation. Aberrant RNA modifications are frequently associated with cancers, while the underlying mechanisms and clinical significance remain poorly understood. Here we revealed that the ac4C RNA acetyltransferase NAT10 is significantly upregulated in esophageal cancers (ESCA) and associated with poor ESCA prognosis. In addition, using cancer cell lines, xenograft tumor models, Nat10 conditional knockin and conditional knockout mice, in vivo ESCA tumorigenesis model and chemical inhibition approaches, we uncovered the critical physiological functions of NAT10 in promoting esophageal cancer tumorigenesis and progression in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NAT10 depletion reduced the abundance of ac4C-modified tRNAs and significantly decreased the translation efficiencies of mRNAs enriched for ac4C-modified-tRNA decoded codons. We further identified EGFR as a key downstream target that facilitates NAT10’s oncogenic functions in promoting esophageal cancer progression. In terms of clinical significance, we demonstrated that NAT10 promotes esophageal cancer resistance to EGFR inhibitor gefitinib, and combination of NAT10 depletion and gefitinib treatment synergistically inhibits esophageal cancer progression in vitro and in vivo. Our data uncovered novel molecular mechanisms underlying esophageal cancer progression at the layer of mRNA translation control and provided molecular insights for development of effective cancer therapeutic strategies.