title: Microarray-based transcriptional and epigenetic profiling of matrix metalloproteinases, collagens, and related genes in cancer.
abstract: Epigenetic parameters (DNA methylation, histone modifications, and miRNAs) play a significant role in cancer. To identify the common epigenetic signatures of both the individual matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the additional genes, the function of which is also linked to proteolysis, migration, and tumorigenesis, we performed epigenetic profiling of 486 selected genes in unrelated non-migratory MCF-7 breast carcinoma and highly migratory U251 glioma cells. Genome-wide transcriptional profiling, quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, and microRNA analyses were used to support the results of our epigenetic studies. Transcriptional silencing in both glioma and breast carcinoma cells predominantly involved the repressive histone H3 Lys-27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) mark. In turn, epigenetic stimulation was primarily performed through a gain in the histone H3 Lys-4 dimethylation (H3K4me2) and H3 hyperacetylation and by a global reduction of H3K27me3. Inactive pro-invasive genes in MCF-7 cells but not in U251 cells frequently exhibited a stem cell-like bivalent mark (enrichment in both H3K27me3 and H3K4me2), a characteristic of developmental genes. In contrast with other MMPs, MMP-8 was epigenetically silenced in both cell types, thus providing evidence for the strict epigenetic control of this anti-tumorigenic proteinase in cancer. Epigenetic stimulation of multiple collagen genes observed in cultured glioma cells was then directly confirmed using orthotopic xenografts and tumor specimens. We suggest that the epigenetic mechanisms allow gliomas to deposit an invasion-promoting collagen-enriched matrix and then to use this matrix to accomplish their rapid migration through the brain tissue.
authors.affiliation: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Andrei V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Chernov
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baranovskaya
authors.forename: Vladislav S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Golubkov
authors.forename: Dustin R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Wakeman
authors.forename: Evan Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.forename: Roy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Alex Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Strongin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D019175:DNA Methylation; D019281:Dimerization; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D006801:Humans; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D016513:Mice, SCID; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
chemical_list: D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases
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