Project description:EZH2 inhibitors have been developed to treat certain cancers. To maximize the anticancer acttivity of EZH2 inhibition, we combined an EZH2 inhibitor EPZ6438 with YM155, which leads to dramatic cell death. We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profiles.
Project description:We used microarrays to detail the gene expression profiles of KYSE410 cell line to identify distinct up and down-regulated genes during treatment with cisplatin. KYSE410 cell line were treated with 20 nM YM155 for 6 hrs and selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to gene expression profiles of KYSE 410 cell line treated with cisplatin.
Project description:Tumor heterogeneity is a major challenge to the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Recently, a transcriptome-based classification was developed, segregating CRC into four consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) with distinct biological and clinical characteristics. Here, we applied the CMS classification on CRC cell lines to identify novel subtype-specific drug vulnerabilities. We combined publicly available transcriptome data from multiple resources to assign 159 CRC cell lines to CMS. By integrating results from large scale drug screens, we discovered that CMS1 cancer is highly vulnerable to the survivin suppressor YM155. We confirmed our results using an independent panel of CRC cell lines and demonstrate a 100-fold higher sensitivity of CMS1 lines. This vulnerability was specific to YM155 and not observed for commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. In CMS1 cancer, low concentrations of YM155 induced apoptosis and expression signatures associated with NFkappaB and ER stress mediated apoptosis signaling. Using a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen, we discovered a novel role of genes involved in LDL-receptor recycling as modulators of YM155 response in CMS1 CRC. Our work shows that combining drug response data with CMS classification in cell lines can reveal specific vulnerabilities and propose YM155 as novel CMS1 specific drug.
Project description:Tumor heterogeneity is a major challenge to the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC). Recently, a transcriptome-based classification was developed, segregating CRC into four consensus molecular subtypes (CMS) with distinct biological and clinical characteristics. Here, we applied the CMS classification on CRC cell lines to identify novel subtype-specific drug vulnerabilities. We combined publicly available transcriptome data from multiple resources to assign 159 CRC cell lines to CMS. By integrating results from large scale drug screens, we discovered that CMS1 cancer is highly vulnerable to the survivin suppressor YM155. We confirmed our results using an independent panel of CRC cell lines and demonstrate a 100-fold higher sensitivity of CMS1 lines. This vulnerability was specific to YM155 and not observed for commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. In CMS1 cancer, low concentrations of YM155 induced apoptosis and expression signatures associated with NFkappaB and ER stress mediated apoptosis signaling. Using a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen, we discovered a novel role of genes involved in LDL-receptor recycling as modulators of YM155 response in CMS1 CRC. Our work shows that combining drug response data with CMS classification in cell lines can reveal specific vulnerabilities and propose YM155 as novel CMS1 specific drug. We performed expression profiling experiments in order to validate molecular subtypes for selected cell lines
Project description:Sepantronium bromide (YM155), a transcriptional inhibitor of anti-apoptotic protein survivin, is considered as a potential drug candidate for triple negative breast cancers (TNBC). Regardless of its excellent performance in pre-clinical models of TNBC, in patients, this drug was unable to outperform the standard chemotherapy docetaxel. The goal of this study was to identify the pathways/molecules affected by YM155 in TNBC cell lines. Detailed biochemical analysis of the paired YM155-sensitive and resistant cell lines indicates that induction of mitochondrial oxidative stress is a first-line response to the drug, ultimately leading to growth inhibition and induction of cell death. Multiple pathways involved in dampening oxidative stress-induced damages are differentially regulated in YM155-resistant cells. Furthermore, the emergence of YM155 resistance is associated with an extensive transcriptional reprogramming and alteration of many more biological pathways in addition to those identified by biochemical assays. Molecules associated with these biological pathways will potentially serve as biomarkers predicting YM155 sensitivity in TNBC cells.
Project description:In order to better understand the effects of combination treatment with EZH2 inhibitor and STING agonist in human melanoma cells, RNA sequencing was performed to explore transcriptome alteration.
Project description:SLC35F2 was identified as a transporter of DNA damage inducing agent YM155. We then did a comparative transcriptomics experiment comparing wild-type and SLC35F2 knock-out KBM7 cells.
Project description:Overexpression of EZH2 in estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast cancer promotes metastasis. EZH2 has been mainly studied as the catalytic component of the Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) that mediates gene repression by trimethylating histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3). However, how EZH2 drives metastasis despite the low H3K27me3 levels observed in ER- breast cancer is unknown. We have shown that in human invasive carcinomas and distant metastases, cytoplasmic EZH2 phosphorylated at T367 is significantly associated with ER- disease and low H3K27me3 levels. Here, we explore the interactome of EZH2 and of a phosphodeficient mutant EZH2_T367A. We identified novel interactors of EZH2, and identified interactions that are dependent on the phosphorylation and cellular localization of EZH2 that may play a role in EZH2 dependent metastatic progression.