Low expression of miR-182 caused by DNA hypermethylation accelerates acute lymphocyte leukemia development by targeting PBX3 and BCL2 : miR-182 promoter methylation is a predictive marker for hypomethylation agents + BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax

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BACKGROUND: miR-182 promoter hypermethylation frequently occurs in various tumors, including acute myeloid leukemia, and leads to low expression of miR-182. However, whether adult acute lymphocyte leukemia (ALL) cells have high miR-182 promoter methylation has not been determined.

METHODS: To assess the methylation status of the miR-182 promoter, methylation and unmethylation-specific PCR analysis, bisulfite-sequencing analysis, and MethylTarget™ assays were performed to measure the frequency of methylation at the miR-182 promoter. Bone marrow cells were isolated from miR-182 knockout (182KO) and 182 wild type (182WT) mice to construct BCR-ABL (P190) and Notch-induced murine B-ALL and T-ALL models, respectively. Primary ALL samples were performed to investigate synergistic effects of the hypomethylation agents (HMAs) and the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax (Ven) in vitro.

RESULTS: miR-182 (miR-182-5P) expression was substantially lower in ALL blasts than in normal controls (NCs) because of DNA hypermethylation at the miR-182 promoter in ALL blasts but not in normal controls (NCs). Knockout of miR-182 (182KO) markedly accelerated ALL development, facilitated the infiltration, and shortened the OS in a BCR-ABL (P190)-induced murine B-ALL model. Furthermore, the 182KO ALL cell population was enriched with more leukemia-initiating cells (CD43+B220+ cells, LICs) and presented higher leukemogenic activity than the 182WT ALL population. Furthermore, depletion of miR-182 reduced the OS in a Notch-induced murine T-ALL model, suggesting that miR-182 knockout accelerates ALL development. Mechanistically, overexpression of miR-182 inhibited proliferation and induced apoptosis by directly targeting PBX3 and BCL2, two well-known oncogenes, that are key targets of miR-182. Most importantly, DAC in combination with Ven had synergistic effects on ALL cells with miR-182 promoter hypermethylation, but not on ALL cells with miR-182 promoter hypomethylation.

CONCLUSIONS: Collectively, we identified miR-182 as a tumor suppressor gene in ALL cells and low expression of miR-182 because of hypermethylation facilitates the malignant phenotype of ALL cells. DAC + Ven cotreatment might has been applied in the clinical try for ALL patients with miR-182 promoter hypermethylation. Furthermore, the methylation frequency at the miR-182 promoter should be a potential biomarker for DAC + Ven treatment in ALL patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Clinical epigenetics - 16(2024), 1 vom: 26. März, Seite 48

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Danyang [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Yigang [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Zihan [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Min [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Liuzhi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Min [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Daijiao [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Yue [VerfasserIn]
He, Xiaofei [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Haige [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Shujuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Haixia [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Shenmeng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

146150-81-4
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Antineoplastic Agents
BCL2
BCL2 protein, human
Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic
DNA hypermethylation
Homeodomain Proteins
Hypomethylation agents
Journal Article
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
Mirn182 microRNA, human
N54AIC43PW
Proto-Oncogene Proteins
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
Proto-oncogene protein Pbx3
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sulfonamides
Venetoclax

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Date Completed 27.03.2024

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13148-024-01658-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM37018193X