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Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma.
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Nature [Nature] 2022 Jul; Vol. 607 (7920), pp. 808-815. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 06. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and remains incurable in around 40% of patients. Efforts to sequence the coding genome identified several genes and pathways that are altered in this disease, including potential therapeutic targets <superscript>1-5</superscript> . However, the non-coding genome of DLBCL remains largely unexplored. Here we show that active super-enhancers are highly and specifically hypermutated in 92% of samples from individuals with DLBCL, display signatures of activation-induced cytidine deaminase activity, and are linked to genes that encode B cell developmental regulators and oncogenes. As evidence of oncogenic relevance, we show that the hypermutated super-enhancers linked to the BCL6, BCL2 and CXCR4 proto-oncogenes prevent the binding and transcriptional downregulation of the corresponding target gene by transcriptional repressors, including BLIMP1 (targeting BCL6) and the steroid receptor NR3C1 (targeting BCL2 and CXCR4). Genetic correction of selected mutations restored repressor DNA binding, downregulated target gene expression and led to the counter-selection of cells containing corrected alleles, indicating an oncogenic dependency on the super-enhancer mutations. This pervasive super-enhancer mutational mechanism reveals a major set of genetic lesions deregulating gene expression, which expands the involvement of known oncogenes in DLBCL pathogenesis and identifies new deregulated gene targets of therapeutic relevance.<br /> (© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)
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- Down-Regulation
Humans
Positive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1 metabolism
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 genetics
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6 genetics
Receptors, CXCR4 genetics
Receptors, Glucocorticoid metabolism
Repressor Proteins metabolism
Enhancer Elements, Genetic genetics
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse genetics
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse metabolism
Mutation
Oncogenes genetics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1476-4687
- Volume :
- 607
- Issue :
- 7920
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35794478
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04906-8