HUWE1 cooperates with RAS activation to control leukemia cell proliferation and human hematopoietic stem cells differentiation fate
- 10 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cancer Gene Therapy
- Vol. 27 (10-11), 830-833
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41417-020-0198-3
Abstract
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a poor prognosis hematopoietic malignance characterized by abnormal proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Although advances in treatment have greatly improved survival rates in young patients, in the elderly population, ~70% of patients present poor prognosis. A pan-cancer analysis on the TCGA cohort showed that AML has the second higher HUWE1 expression in tumor samples among all cancer types. In addition, pathway enrichment analysis pointed to RAS signaling cascade as one of the most important pathways associated to HUWE1 expression in this particular AML cohort. In silico analysis for biological processes enrichment also revealed that HUWE1 expression is correlated with 13 genes involved in myeloid differentiation. Therefore, to understand the role of HUWE1 in human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) we constitutively expressed KRASG12V oncogene concomitantly to HUWE1 knockdown in stromal co-cultures. The results showed that, in the context of KRASG12V, HUWE1 significantly reduces cell cumulative growth and changes myeloid differentiation profile of HSPCs. Overall, these observations suggest that HUWE1 might contribute to leukemic cell proliferation and impact myeloid differentiation of human HSCs, thus providing new venues for RAS-driven leukemia targeted therapy approach.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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