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GENOME RESEARCH
卷 32, 期 4, 页码 629-642出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.276313.121
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- RNA BiologyCenter at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS under the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 3 grant [MOE2014-T3-1-006]
- NRF Singapore
- Singapore Ministry of Education under its Research Centres of Excellence initiative and a Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 grant [MOET2EP30120-0009]
The MYC oncogene is frequently dysregulated in various cancer cell types, making it an attractive target for cancer therapy. This study found that MYC overexpression leads to MYC binding at super-enhancers and alters the chromatin landscape of the cancer genome. These findings have implications for understanding and targeting MYC-driven cancers.
The MYC oncogene encodes for the MYC protein and is frequently dysregulated across multiple cancer cell types, making it an attractive target for cancer therapy. MYC overexpression leads to MYC binding at active enhancers, resulting in a global transcriptional amplification of active genes. Because super-enhancers are frequently dysregulated in cancer, we hypothesized that MYC preferentially invades into super-enhancers and alters the cancer genome organization. To that end, we performed ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, circular chromosome conformation capture (4C-seq), and Spike-in Quantitative Hi-C (SIQHiC) on the U2OS osteosarcoma cell line with tetracycline-inducible MYC. MYC overexpression in U2OS cells modulated histone acetylation and increased MYC binding at super-enhancers. SIQHiC analysis revealed increased global chromatin contact frequency, particularly at chromatin interactions connecting MYC binding sites at promoters and enhancers. Immunofluorescence staining showed that MYC molecules formed punctate foci at these transcriptionally active domains after MYC overexpression. These results demonstrate the accumulation of overexpressed MYC at promoter-enhancer hubs and suggest that MYC invades into enhancers through spatial proximity. At the same time, the increased protein-protein interactions may strengthen these chromatin interactions to increase chromatin contact frequency. CTCF siRNA knockdown in MYC-overexpressed U2OS cells demonstrated that removal of architectural proteins can disperse MYC and abrogate the increase in chromatin contacts. By elucidating the chromatin landscape of MYC-driven cancers, we can potentially target MYC-associated chromatin interactions for cancer therapy.
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