Journal
CHEMICO-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS
Volume 356, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2022.109847
Keywords
BAs homeostasis; HCC; BSEP; Epigenetics
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81720108033, 82022074, 81874367]
- State-Commission of Science Technology of China [2017YFE0119900]
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for translational Cancer research of Chinese Medicine [2018B030322011]
- Nat-ural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar of Guangdong Province [2017A030306033]
- Project of Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Province of China [20201085]
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This study found that alcohol consumption could disturb the homeostasis of bile acids (BAs) and promote hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression by activating oncogenes and suppressing tumor suppressor genes. The study also revealed a decrease in BSEP and an increase in certain histone methyltransferases in alcohol-exposed liver cancer cells, indicating the impact of alcohol on BAs homeostasis.
Bile acids (BAs), the most important components of bile, attribute predominately to maintain metabolic ho-meostasis. In hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, the BAs homeostasis was seriously disturbed, especially in those patients with alcohol-intake history. However, whether alcohol consumption could promote HCC pro-gression via influencing BAs homeostasis and the precise mechanism underlying are still unclear. In our study, by collecting HCC specimens from both alcohol-drinkers (n = 15) and non-alcohol drinkers (n = 22), we found that compared to non-alcohol intake HCC patients, BAs homeostasis was disturbed in HCC patients who drank alcohol. Furthermore, ethanol treatment was also found to promote HCC progression by markedly activating oncogenes (RAS, MYC, MET, and HER2), while remarkably suppressing tumor suppressor genes (BRCA2 and APC). We evaluated 14 key functional genes that maintain the homeostasis of BAs and found that either in alcohol-intake HCC patients (n = 15), or in ethanol-treated mice, BSEP, rate-limiting transporter governing excreting BAs from liver into bile duct, was remarkably decreased when exposed to alcohol. Moreover, by screening for changes in the epigenetic landscape of liver cancer cells exposed to alcohol, we strikingly found that histone methyltransferases (RBBP-5, Suv39h1, ASH2L, and SET7/9) were increased, and KMT3B, KMT4, and KMT7 gene expression was also elevated, while histone demethyltransferases (JARID1a, JARID1b, JARID1c) were decreased. In summary, we found that alcohol could trigger BAs disequilibrium to initiate and promote HCC progression. Our study provided a novel and supplementary mechanism to determine the important role of alcohol-intake in HCC development regarding from the perspective of BAs homeostasis.
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