scholarly journals Differential effects of two HDAC inhibitors with distinct concomitant DNA hypermethylation or hypomethylation in breast cancer cells

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arunasree M. Kalle ◽  
Zhibin Wang

AbstractDNA methylation and histone acetylation are the two important epigenetic phenomena that control the status of X-chromosome inactivation (XCI), a process of dosage compensation in mammals resulting in active X chromosome (Xa) and inactive X chromosome (Xi) in females. While DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) are known to maintain the DNA hypermethylation of Xi, it remains to be determined how one or a few of 18 known histone deacetylases (HDACs) contribute(s) to Xi maintenance. Herein we found that HDAC1/2/4/6 were overexpressed in breast cancer cells, MDA-MB-231, with Xa/Xa status compared to normal breast epithelial cells, MCF10A, with Xa/Xi status. Inhibition of these overexpressed HDACs with two different drugs, sodium butyrate (SB) and Trichostatin A (TSA), caused surprisingly distinct effects on global DNA methylation: hypermethylation and hypomethylation, respectively, as well as distinct effects on a repressing histone mark H3K27me3 for heterochromatin and an active mark H3K56ac for DNA damage. Surveying three DNMTs through immunoblot analyses for insights revealed the up- or down-regulation of DNMT3A upon drug treatments in a concentration-dependent manner. These results correlated with the decreased XIST and increased TSIX expression in MDA-MB 231 as a possible mechanism of Xi loss and were reversed with SB treatment. Further RNA-seq analysis indicated differential gene expression correlating with the promoter methylation status of a few genes. Collectively, our results demonstrate a crosstalk between HDACs and DNMTs and the novel involvement of HDACs in skewed Xi in breast cancer.

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byungtak Kim ◽  
Hansol Bae ◽  
Hyunkyung Lee ◽  
Seungyeon Lee ◽  
Jeong Chan Park ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Xin Ding ◽  
Ya Li ◽  
Jinhui Lü ◽  
Qian Zhao ◽  
Yuefan Guo ◽  
...  

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are believed to be the main source of cancer relapse and metastasis. PIWI-interacting small non-coding RNAs (piRNAs) have been recently recognized to be relevant to cancer biology. Whether and how piRNAs regulate human CSCs remain unknown. Herein, upregulation of piR-823 was identified in tested luminal breast cancer cells, especially in the luminal subtype of breast CSCs. Enforced expression or targeted knockdown of piR-823 demonstrated its oncogenic function in regulating cell proliferation and colony formation in MCF-7 and T-47D breast cancer cells. In addition, piR-823 induced ALDH (+) breast CSC subpopulation promoted the expression of stem cell markers including OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, NANOG, and hTERT, and increased mammosphere formation. Tail vein injection of magnetic nanoparticles carrying anti-piR-823 into the mammary gland of tumor-burdened mice significantly inhibited tumor growth in vivo. DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) including DNMT1, DNMT3A, and DNMT3B were demonstrated to be the downstream genes of piR-823, which regulate gene expression by maintaining DNA methylation. piR-823 increased the expression of DNMTs, promoted DNA methylation of gene adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), thereby activating Wnt signaling and inducing cancer cell stemness in the luminal subtype of breast cancer cells. The current study not only revealed a novel mechanism through which piRNAs contribute to tumorigenesis in breast cancer by regulating CSCs, but also provided a therapeutic strategy using non-coding genomes in the suppression of human breast cancer.


Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 789
Author(s):  
Li-Ming Liu ◽  
Qiang Tang ◽  
Xin Hu ◽  
Jing-Jing Zhao ◽  
Yuan Zhang ◽  
...  

The protein p53 is one of the most important tumor suppressors, responding to a variety of stress signals. Mutations in p53 occur in about half of human cancer cases, and dysregulation of the p53 function by epigenetic modifiers and modifications is prevalent in a large proportion of the remainder. PRMT1 is the main enzyme responsible for the generation of asymmetric-dimethylarginine, whose upregulation or aberrant splicing has been observed in many types of malignancies. Here, we demonstrate that p53 function is regulated by PRMT1 in breast cancer cells. PRMT1 knockdown activated the p53 signal pathway and induced cell growth-arrest and senescence. PRMT1 could directly bind to p53 and inhibit the transcriptional activity of p53 in an enzymatically dependent manner, resulting in a decrease in the expression levels of several key downstream targets of the p53 pathway. We were able to detect p53 asymmetric-dimethylarginine signals in breast cancer cells and breast cancer tissues from patients, and the signals could be significantly weakened by silencing of PRMT1 with shRNA, or inhibiting PRMT1 activity with a specific inhibitor. Furthermore, PRMT1 inhibitors significantly impeded cell growth and promoted cellular senescence in breast cancer cells and primary tumor cells. These results indicate an important role of PRMT1 in the regulation of p53 function in breast tumorigenesis.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akihiko Fukagawa ◽  
Hiroki Ishii ◽  
Keiji Miyazawa ◽  
Masao Saitoh

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e80590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui-Jin Kim ◽  
Alzbeta Godarova ◽  
Kari Seedle ◽  
Min-Ho Kim ◽  
Tan A. Ince ◽  
...  

Neoplasma ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (06) ◽  
pp. 901-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. SMOLKOVA ◽  
S. MIKLIKOVA ◽  
V. HORVATHOVA KAJABOVA ◽  
A. BABELOVA ◽  
N. EL YAMANI ◽  
...  

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 4293
Author(s):  
Xiaowen Liu ◽  
Manuel A. Riquelme ◽  
Yi Tian ◽  
Dezhi Zhao ◽  
Francisca M. Acosta ◽  
...  

ATP released by bone osteocytes is shown to activate purinergic signaling and inhibit the metastasis of breast cancer cells into the bone. However, the underlying molecular mechanism is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate the important roles of the CXCR4 and P2Y11 purinergic receptors in mediating the inhibitory effect of ATP on breast cancer cell migration and bone metastasis. Wound-healing and transwell migration assays showed that non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, ATPγS, inhibited migration of bone-tropic human breast cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner. BzATP, an agonist for P2X7 and an inducer for P2Y11 internalization, had a similar dose-dependent inhibition on cell migration. Both ATPγS and BzATP suppressed the expression of CXCR4, a chemokine receptor known to promote breast cancer bone metastasis, and knocking down CXCR4 expression by siRNA attenuated the inhibitory effect of ATPγS on cancer cell migration. While a P2X7 antagonist A804598 had no effect on the impact of ATPγS on cell migration, antagonizing P2Y11 by NF157 ablated the effect of ATPγS. Moreover, the reduction in P2Y11 expression by siRNA decreased cancer cell migration and abolished the impact of ATPγS on cell migration and CXCR4 expression. Similar to the effect of ATPγS on cell migration, antagonizing P2Y11 inhibited bone-tropic breast cancer cell migration in a dose-dependent manner. An in vivo study using an intratibial bone metastatic model showed that ATPγS inhibited breast cancer growth in the bone. Taken together, these results suggest that ATP inhibits bone-tropic breast cancer cells by down-regulating the P2Y11 purinergic receptor and the down-regulation of CXCR4 expression.


2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 8259-8272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumiyo Morita ◽  
Ryou-u Takahashi ◽  
Riu Yamashita ◽  
Atsushi Toyoda ◽  
Takuro Horii ◽  
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