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Generation of Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines via CRISPR/Cas9
Published on: January 3, 2015
Charting host structural variations in cervical cancer by long-read sequencing pinpoints a functional deletion in
Shijia Hao1, Shuaibing Yang1, Qianqian Zhao2
1Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China; Laboratory of Human Virology and Oncology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China.
Abstract:
Host structural variations (SVs) are critical in cancer development but their landscape and interaction with HPV integration in cervical carcinogenesis remain unclear. In this study, we performed Nanopore long-read sequencing on five HPV-positive cervical cancer tissues and two cell lines to profile host SVs. We identified thousands of SVs and statistically demonstrated their significant enrichment in genomic windows ±25 to ±50 kb from HPV integration sites. Cross-sample analysis revealed 60 shared SVs, including a recurrent deletion within the PIAS1 gene. Multi-omics integration (Hi-C, H3K27ac ChIP-seq, and TCGA data) showed that this deletion is associated with reduced PIAS1 expression, disruption of local topologically associating domains, advanced pathological tumor stage, and poorer overall survival. Functional assays confirmed that PIAS1 deficiency inhibits cervical cancer cell proliferation and migration. Our findings identify a PIAS1 deletion as a candidate driver event, and underscore the pivotal role of host genomic instability in HPV-associated oncogenesis.
