scholarly journals Large-scale genome-wide screening of circulating microRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinoma reveals specific signatures in late-stage disease

2017 ◽  
Vol 141 (9) ◽  
pp. 1730-1740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Chanudet ◽  
Magdalena B. Wozniak ◽  
Liacine Bouaoun ◽  
Graham Byrnes ◽  
Anush Mukeriya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Circulating Micrornas ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Stage Disease ◽  
Late Stage Disease

Exploiting Synthetic Lethal Network for Precision Treatment of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhicheng Liu ◽  
Dongxu Lin ◽  
Linmeng Zhang ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Bin Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Synthetic Lethality ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Abstract Background The emerging of targeted therapies has revolutionized the treatment modalities of advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) over the past fifteen years. However, lack of personalized treatment limits the development of effective clinical guidelines and improvement of patient prognosis. In this study, large-scale genomic profiles of ccRCC cohorts were exploited for conducting an integrative analysis. Method Based on synthetic lethality (SL), a concept that simultaneous losses of two genes cause cell death while a single loss does not, we sought to develop a computational pipeline to infer potential SL partners of ccRCC. Drug response prediction were received from three pharmacological databases to select agents which are likely to be effective in precisely treating patients with target gene mutation. Results We developed a credible method to identify SL pairs and determined a list of 72 candidate pairs which might be utilized to selectively eliminate tumors with genetic aberrations through SL partners of specific mutations. Further analysis identified BRD4 and PRKDC as novel medicine targets for patients with BAP1 mutations. After mapping these target genes to comprehensive drug datasets, two agents (BI-2536 and PI-103) were found to have considerable therapeutic potential in BAP1 mutant tumors. Conclusion Overall, our findings provide insight into the overview of ccRCC mutation patterns and offer novel opportunities for improving individualized cancer treatment.

Association of genome-wide copy number alterations with metastasis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 428-428
Author(s):  
Banumathy Gowrishankar ◽  
Venkata Jaganmohan Thodima ◽  
Ana M. Molina ◽  
Charles Ma ◽  
Asha Guttapalli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Copy Number ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Rank Statistic ◽  
Copy Number Alterations ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Metastatic Lesions ◽  
Genome Wide

428 Background: About one-third of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibit metastasis at the time of diagnosis and show poor prognosis. The genetic and epigenetic alterations associated with metastasis in ccRCC have variably been studied, and their role in the metastatic process is unclear. The goals of the current study were to identify genomic copy number alterations (CNAs) associated with ccRCC metastasis and examine their clinical utility. Methods: In this IRB-approved study, genome-wide copy number profiling was performed on DNA from 144 ccRCC (81 primary and 63 metastatic lesions). Differential CNAs between primary and metastatic lesions and between different metastatic sites were identified using Fisher’s exact test. Associations between CNAs and overall survival (OS) were tested using the log rank statistic and Kaplan-Meier method. Genomic profiling data of 437 and 240 primary ccRCC (TCGA and PMID: 23797736, respecitively) were used for verification. Results: Between primary and metastatic lesions, 25 CNAs were significantly different (p<0.05). Of the 11 more frequent in metastatic lesions, nine retained significance when comparing stage IV and stage I TCGA ccRCC. For 368 TCGA locally-invasive tumors (stages I, II, and III), three CNAs (loss of 9p24.3-p13.3, 9p12-q11, and 9q21.12-q21.33) were associated with inferior survival (p=0.002). In the second dataset of 214 locally-invasive lesions, loss of 18q11.2-q23 correlated with shorter OS (p=0.025). Across metastatic lesions, nine CNAs were found to be significantly enriched in lung lesions and three in bone. In a subset of 127 ccRCC with known metastatic status at 5 years after diagnosis, two of these CNAs (gain of 7q36.1-36.3 in lung and loss of 22q13.2 in bone) were significantly enriched in the corresponding primary specimens. Conclusions: This study identified CNAs associated with ccRCC metastasis and common sites of metastasis that have the potential to serve as biomarkers to assist in better risk stratification of patients with this disease. Integrated analyses of genes mapping to the loci of genomic imbalance would further our understanding of the biology of metastasis in renal cancer.

scholarly journals Genome-Wide Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes and Splicing Isoforms in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. e78452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessio Valletti ◽  
Margherita Gigante ◽  
Orazio Palumbo ◽  
Massimo Carella ◽  
Chiara Divella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Differentially Expressed Genes ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Differentially Expressed ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Genome Wide Analysis ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Splicing Isoforms

scholarly journals The epigenetic landscape of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kluzek ◽  
Hans Antonius Bluyssen ◽  
Joanna Wesoly
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Kidney Tumors ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Chromosome 3P ◽  
Recurrent Mutations ◽  
Novel Therapeutic Strategies

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common subtype of all kidney tumors. During the last few years, epigenetics has emerged as an important mechanism in ccRCC pathogenesis. Recent reports, involving large-scale methylation and sequencing analyses, have identified genes frequently inactivated by promoter methylation and recurrent mutations in genes encoding chromatin regulatory proteins. Interestingly, three of detected genes (PBRM1, SETD2 and BAP1) are located on chromosome 3p, near the VHL gene, inactivated in over 80% ccRCC cases. This suggests that 3p alterations are an essential part of ccRCC pathogenesis. Moreover, most of the proteins encoded by these genes cooperate in histone H3 modifications. The aim of this review is to summarize the latest discoveries shedding light on deregulation of chromatin machinery in ccRCC. Newly described ccRCC-specific epigenetic alterations could potentially serve as novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and become an object of novel therapeutic strategies.

scholarly journals A Proteogenomic Atlas of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma in a Chinese Population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Ding ◽  
Yuan-Yuan Qu ◽  
Jinwen Feng ◽  
Xiaohui Wu ◽  
Lin Bai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Renal Cell ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Clear Cell ◽  
Genomic Analysis ◽  
Genomic Alterations ◽  
Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Genetic Features ◽  
One Carbon Metabolism

Abstract Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is among the top 10 malignant carcinomas1. Clear cell (cc)RCC, accounting for ~ 75% of RCC cases, is an aggressive histological RCC subtype. In the last decade, large-scale multiomics studies have profoundly enhanced our understanding of this disease2,3. However, despite the differences of genomic alterations between Western and Eastern ccRCC4,5, these studies mostly focused on patients in Western populations. Here we conducted a comprehensive proteogenomic analysis of 232 tumor and adjacent non-tumor tissue pairs from Chinese ccRCC patients. Genomic analysis revealed unique genetic features of Chinese ccRCC and distinct mutation patterns associated with copy number alterations. Based on proteomic profiles, ccRCC showed extensive metabolic dysregulation, especially in one-carbon metabolism. We classified ccRCC into three subtypes (GP1–3), among which the most aggressive GP1 exhibited dominant immune response, metastasis, and metabolic imbalance, linking the proteomic features, genomic alterations, and clinical outcomes of ccRCC. Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) and NNMT mediated protein homocysteinylation were identified as a poor prognosis indicator and a drug target for GP1, respectively. We demonstrated that NNMT induces DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) homocysteinylation, increases DNA repair, and promotes tumor growth in ccRCC. Treatment of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), an inhibitor of homocysteinylation, markedly reduced the NNMT overexpression induced radioresistance of tumor cells. This study provided valuable insights into the biological underpinnings and prognosis assessment of ccRCC, revealing a targetable metabolic vulnerability.

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