Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers

Based on transcriptomic analyses of thousands of samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas, we report that expression of constitutive proteasome (CP) genes (PSMB5, PSMB6, PSMB7) and immunoproteasome (IP) genes (PSMB8, PSMB9, PSMB10) is increased in most cancer types. In breast cancer, expression of IP ge...

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Main Authors: Rouette, Alexandre, Trofimov, Assya, Haberl, David, Boucher, Geneviève, Lavallée, Vincent-Philippe, D’Angelo, Giovanni, Hébert, Josée, Sauvageau, Guy, Lemieux, Sébastien, Perreault, Claude
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Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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spelling pubmed-50342842016-09-29 Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers Rouette, Alexandre Trofimov, Assya Haberl, David Boucher, Geneviève Lavallée, Vincent-Philippe D’Angelo, Giovanni Hébert, Josée Sauvageau, Guy Lemieux, Sébastien Perreault, Claude Article Based on transcriptomic analyses of thousands of samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas, we report that expression of constitutive proteasome (CP) genes (PSMB5, PSMB6, PSMB7) and immunoproteasome (IP) genes (PSMB8, PSMB9, PSMB10) is increased in most cancer types. In breast cancer, expression of IP genes was determined by the abundance of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and high expression of IP genes was associated with longer survival. In contrast, IP upregulation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was a cell-intrinsic feature that was not associated with longer survival. Expression of IP genes in AML was IFN-independent, correlated with the methylation status of IP genes, and was particularly high in AML with an M5 phenotype and/or MLL rearrangement. Notably, PSMB8 inhibition led to accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins and cell death in IPhigh but not IPlow AML cells. Co-clustering analysis revealed that genes correlated with IP subunits in non-M5 AMLs were primarily implicated in immune processes. However, in M5 AML, IP genes were primarily co-regulated with genes involved in cell metabolism and proliferation, mitochondrial activity and stress responses. We conclude that M5 AML cells can upregulate IP genes in a cell-intrinsic manner in order to resist cell stress. Nature Publishing Group 2016-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5034284/ /pubmed/27659694 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep34019 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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author Rouette, Alexandre
Trofimov, Assya
Haberl, David
Boucher, Geneviève
Lavallée, Vincent-Philippe
D’Angelo, Giovanni
Hébert, Josée
Sauvageau, Guy
Lemieux, Sébastien
Perreault, Claude
spellingShingle Rouette, Alexandre
Trofimov, Assya
Haberl, David
Boucher, Geneviève
Lavallée, Vincent-Philippe
D’Angelo, Giovanni
Hébert, Josée
Sauvageau, Guy
Lemieux, Sébastien
Perreault, Claude
Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
author_facet Rouette, Alexandre
Trofimov, Assya
Haberl, David
Boucher, Geneviève
Lavallée, Vincent-Philippe
D’Angelo, Giovanni
Hébert, Josée
Sauvageau, Guy
Lemieux, Sébastien
Perreault, Claude
author_sort Rouette, Alexandre
title Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
title_short Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
title_full Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
title_fullStr Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
title_full_unstemmed Expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
title_sort expression of immunoproteasome genes is regulated by cell-intrinsic and –extrinsic factors in human cancers
description Based on transcriptomic analyses of thousands of samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas, we report that expression of constitutive proteasome (CP) genes (PSMB5, PSMB6, PSMB7) and immunoproteasome (IP) genes (PSMB8, PSMB9, PSMB10) is increased in most cancer types. In breast cancer, expression of IP genes was determined by the abundance of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and high expression of IP genes was associated with longer survival. In contrast, IP upregulation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was a cell-intrinsic feature that was not associated with longer survival. Expression of IP genes in AML was IFN-independent, correlated with the methylation status of IP genes, and was particularly high in AML with an M5 phenotype and/or MLL rearrangement. Notably, PSMB8 inhibition led to accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins and cell death in IPhigh but not IPlow AML cells. Co-clustering analysis revealed that genes correlated with IP subunits in non-M5 AMLs were primarily implicated in immune processes. However, in M5 AML, IP genes were primarily co-regulated with genes involved in cell metabolism and proliferation, mitochondrial activity and stress responses. We conclude that M5 AML cells can upregulate IP genes in a cell-intrinsic manner in order to resist cell stress.
publisher Nature Publishing Group
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034284/
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