The curious case of Merkel cell carcinoma: epigenetic youth and lack of pluripotency
| Autor: | Emil Chteinberg, Julia Vogt, Julia Kolarova, Felix Bormann, Joost van den Oord, Ernst Jan Speel, Véronique Winnepenninckx, Anna Kordelia Kurz, Martin Zenke, Reiner Siebert, Axel zur Hausen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Epigenetics, Vol 15, Iss 12, Pp 1319-1324 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1559-2294 1559-2308 15592294 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15592294.2020.1773096 |
| Popis: | Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a very rare, but highly aggressive skin cancer which occurs mainly in elderly patients. MCC cells show an expression pattern of three cell lineages: epithelial, neuroendocrine, and B-cell progenitor. This trilinear expression pattern suggests stemness activity in MCC. The etiopathogenesis of MCC is either linked to the Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) or in a smaller proportion (20%) to high levels of UV-induced somatic mutations. Both viral presence and accumulation of mutations have been shown to be associated with accelerated DNA methylation Age (DNAmAge) compared to chronological age. The MCC DNAmAge was significantly lower compared to the chronological age, which was irrespective of the viral presence or mutational burden. Although these features indicate some aspects of stemness in MCC cells, gene-expression-based pluripotency testing did not provide evidence for pluripotency of MCC cells. |
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