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El ARN HOTAIR largo no codificante reprograma el estado de la cromatina para promover la metástasis del cáncer
Rajnish A Gupta1, Nilay Shah, Kevin C Wang
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Program in Epithelial Biology, California 94305, USA.
Nature
|April 16, 2010
Resumen
Los grandes ARN no codificantes de intervención (ARN linc) están desregulados en el cáncer de mama. El lincRNA HOTAIR promueve la metástasis al alterar la cromatina, sugiriéndola como un objetivo diagnóstico y terapéutico.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La epigenética es la epigenética.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Oncología Oncología.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los grandes ARN no codificantes intermedios (ARN linc) se transcriben en todo el genoma, pero su papel en las enfermedades humanas sigue sin estar claro.
- La evidencia emergente sugiere que los lincRNAs interactúan con los complejos de remodelación de la cromatina.
- La desregulación de HOX loci lincRNAs está implicada en la progresión del cáncer.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar el papel de los lincRNAs, específicamente HOTAIR, en la progresión del cáncer de mama.
- Para determinar si la expresión HOTAIR predice la metástasis y la supervivencia del paciente.
- Para dilucidar los mecanismos moleculares por los cuales HOTAIR influye en el comportamiento de las células cancerosas.
Principales métodos:
- Análisis de la expresión de lincRNA en tumores primarios de mama y metástasis.
- Correlación de los niveles de expresión de HOTAIR con los resultados clínicos.
- Estudios funcionales que involucran la expresión forzada de HOTAIR o la eliminación de HOTAIR en las células cancerosas.
- Secuenciación de inmunoprecipitación de cromatina (ChIP-seq) para evaluar la unión del complejo 2 (PRC2) represivo de Polycomb.
- Análisis de la metilación de la histona (H3K27me3) y perfiles de expresión génica.
Principales resultados:
- La expresión de HOTAIR es elevada en los tumores de mama y las metástasis, lo que se correlaciona con un pronóstico más pobre.
- La expresión forzada de HOTAIR en las células cancerosas conduce a la redistribución de PRC2 en todo el genoma.
- Esta redistribución de PRC2 altera la metilación de las histonas y la expresión génica, promoviendo la invasividad y la metástasis.
- Los efectos pro-metastásicos de HOTAIR dependen de la actividad de la PRC2.
- La pérdida de HOTAIR inhibe la invasividad, especialmente en las células con alta actividad de PRC2.
Conclusiones:
- lincRNAs, ejemplificado por HOTAIR, juegan un papel activo en la configuración del epigenoma del cáncer.
- HOTAIR promueve la metástasis del cáncer de mama a través de modificaciones epigenéticas mediadas por PRC2.
- HOTAIR representa un biomarcador potencial para la metástasis del cáncer de mama y un objetivo terapéutico.
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