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ArticleActa neuropathologica communications2024

DNA hypomethylator phenotype reprograms glutamatergic network in receptor tyrosine kinase gene-mutated glioblastoma.

Mio Harachi, Kenta Masui, Erika Shimizu, Kumiko Murakami, Hiromi Onizuka, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Takakazu Kawamata, Hisako Nakayama, Mariko Miyata, Takashi Komori and 4 more

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Article in Acta neuropathologica communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Mio Harachi *Department of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Kenta Masui *Department of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan. masui-kn@twmu.ac.jp.ORCID 0000-0002-5824-6690
Erika ShimizuDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Kumiko MurakamiDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Hiromi OnizukaDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Yoshihiro MuragakiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Takakazu KawamataDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Hisako NakayamaDepartment of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Mariko MiyataDepartment of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Takashi KomoriDepartment of Neuropathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Musashinodai, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan.
Webster K CaveneeLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Paul S MischelDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
Atsushi KurataDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Noriyuki ShibataDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.
Tokyo Women's Medical University · JPKobe Medical Center · JPStanford University · USTokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital · JPUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

Software and algorithms for elucidating the structure, function, and evolution of extrachromosomal DNAU24CA264379 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BAFNA, VINEET, MESIROV, JILL P. · 2021 to 2025
$3.5M
Integrated ligand and target discovery by chemical proteomics for glioblastoma treatment.R01CA238249 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CRAVATT, BENJAMIN F, MISCHEL, PAUL S · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA238249NCI NIH HHS U24 CA264379NIH HHS RO1 CA238249NIH HHS U24CA264379
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA methylation is crucial for chromatin structure and gene expression and its aberrancies, including the global "hypomethylator phenotype", are associated with cancer. Here we show that an underlying mechanism for this phenotype in the large proportion of the highly lethal brain tumor glioblastoma (GBM) carrying receptor tyrosine kinase gene mutations, involves the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 2 (mTORC2), that is critical for growth factor signaling. In this scenario, mTORC2 suppresses the expression of the de novo DNA methyltransferase (DNMT3A) thereby inducing genome-wide DNA hypomethylation. Mechanistically, mTORC2 facilitates a redistribution of EZH2 histone methyltransferase into the promoter region of DNMT3A, and epigenetically represses the expression of DNA methyltransferase. Integrated analyses in both orthotopic mouse models and clinical GBM samples indicate that the DNA hypomethylator phenotype consistently reprograms a glutamate metabolism network, eventually driving GBM cell invasion and survival. These results nominate mTORC2 as a novel regulator of DNA hypomethylation in cancer and an exploitable target against cancer-promoting epigenetics.

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Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaAnimalsCell Line, TumorDNADNA MethylationMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 2MethyltransferasesMicePhenotypeProtein-Tyrosine KinasesDNAMechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 2MethyltransferasesProtein-Tyrosine KinasesDNA hypomethylationDNMT3AEZH2GlioblastomaGlutamate metabolismmTORC2

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PMID38481314
PMCPMC10935831
OpenAlexW4392761340

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