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ArticleScientific reports2019

Altered splicing and cytoplasmic levels of tRNA synthetases in SF3B1-mutant myelodysplastic syndromes as a therapeutic vulnerability.

Fabio Giuseppe Liberante, Katrina Lappin, Eliana M Barros, Jekaterina Vohhodina, Florian Grebien, Kienan I Savage, Kenneth Ian Mills

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fabio Giuseppe LiberanteCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom. fliberante01@qub.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0192-5385
Katrina LappinCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Eliana M BarrosCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Jekaterina VohhodinaCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Florian GrebienLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria.
Kienan I SavageCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Kenneth Ian MillsCentre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6362-4481
Queen's University Belfast · GBUniversity of Veterinary Medicine Vienna · AT

Funding

European Research Council 636855Medical Research Council MR/K018965/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are haematopoietic malignancies that are characterised by a heterogeneous clinical course. In recent years, sequencing efforts have uncovered recurrent somatic mutations within RNA splicing factors, including SF3B1, SRSF2, U2AF1 and ZRSR2. The most frequently mutated gene is SF3B1, mutated in 17% of MDS patients. While SF3B1 mutations and their effects on splicing have been well characterised, much remains to be explored about their more far-reaching effects on cellular homeostasis. Given that mRNA splicing and nuclear export are coordinated processes, we hypothesised that SF3B1 mutation might also affect export of certain mRNAs and that this may represent a targetable pathway for the treatment of SF3B1-mutant MDS. We used CRISPR/Cas9-genome editing to create isogenic cellular models. Comprehensive transcriptome and proteome profiling of these cells identified alterations in the splicing and export of components of the translational machinery, primarily tRNA synthetases, in response to the SF3B1 K700E mutation. While steady-state protein synthesis was unaffected, SF3B1 mutant cells were more sensitive to the clinically-relevant purine analogue, 8-azaguanine. In this study, we also demonstrated that 8-azaguanine affects splicing. Our results suggest that the simultaneous targeting of RNA metabolism and splicing by 8-azaguanine represents a therapeutic opportunity for SF3B1-mutant myelodysplastic syndromes.

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MutationRNA SplicingAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesCell Line, TumorCytoplasmGene EditingGene Expression ProfilingHEK293 CellsHumansK562 CellsMyelodysplastic SyndromesPhosphoproteinsProtein BiosynthesisProteomeProteomicsRNA Splicing FactorsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesPhosphoproteinsProteomeRNA Splicing FactorsSF3B1 protein, human

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