Methylomic analysis identifies C11orf87 as a novel epigenetic biomarker for GI cancers
Autor: | Kun-Tu Yeh, Himani Kumari, Jie-Ting Low, Yu-Ming Chuang, Yin-Chen Chen, Yu-Ting Lee, Shu-Hui Lin, Wan-Hong Huang, Hongchuan Jin, Mita T. M. T. Tran, Po-Yen Hsu, Michael W.Y. Chan |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Microarrays Biochemistry Epigenesis Genetic Epigenome Medicine and Health Sciences Promoter Regions Genetic Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Aged 80 and over Multidisciplinary DNA methylation Liver Diseases Chemical Reactions Methylation Esophageal cancer Middle Aged Prognosis Chromatin Nucleic acids Chemistry Bioassays and Physiological Analysis Oncology Physical Sciences Medicine Biomarker (medicine) Female Epigenetics DNA modification Chromatin modification Research Article Chromosome biology Adult STAT3 Transcription Factor Cell biology Esophageal Cancer Science Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research and Analysis Methods Disease-Free Survival Causes of cancer Open Reading Frames Cell Line Tumor Gastrointestinal Tumors medicine Biomarkers Tumor Genetics Humans Aged Biology and life sciences business.industry Carcinoma Cancer Cancers and Neoplasms DNA Hepatocellular Carcinoma medicine.disease Gastric Cancer Head and Neck Cancers Cancer research Ectopic expression Gene expression business Biomarkers |
Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0250499 (2021) |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Popis: | Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide. Previous studies demonstrated that activation of STAT3 is crucial for the development and progression of gastric cancer. However, the role of STAT3 in neuronal related gene methylation in gastric cancer has never been explored. In this study, by using DNA methylation microarray, we identified a potential STAT3 target, C11orf87, showing promoter hypomethylation in gastric cancer patients with lower STAT3 activation and AGS gastric cancer cell lines depleted with STAT3 activation. Although C11orf87 methylation is independent of its expression, ectopic expression of a constitutive activated STAT3 mutant upregulated its expression in gastric cancer cell line. Further bisulfite pyrosequencing demonstrated a progressive increase in DNA methylation of this target in patient tissues from gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, to gastric cancer. Intriguingly, patients with higher C11orf87 methylation was associated with better survival. Furthermore, hypermethylation of C11orf87 was also frequently observed in other GI cancers, as compared to their adjacent normal tissues. These results suggested that C11orf87 methylation may serve as a biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of GI cancers, including gastric cancer. We further postulated that constitutive activation of STAT3 might be able to epigenetically silence C11orf87 as a possible negative feedback mechanism to protect the cells from the overactivation of STAT3. Targeted inhibition of STAT3 may not be appropriate in gastric cancer patients with promoter hypermethylation of C11orf87. |
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