PUBLICATION
Recurrent co-alteration of HDGF and SETDB1 on chromosome 1q drives cutaneous melanoma progression and poor prognosis
- Authors
- Fazio, M., van Rooijen, E., Mito, J.K., Modhurima, R., Weiskopf, E., Yang, S., Zon, L.I.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201020-41
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Pigment cell & melanoma research 34(3): 641-647 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- van Rooijen, Ellen, Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics*
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/genetics*
- Follow-Up Studies
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase/genetics*
- Humans
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics*
- Melanoma/genetics
- Melanoma/mortality*
- Melanoma/pathology
- Mutation*
- Prognosis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/genetics
- Skin Neoplasms/genetics
- Skin Neoplasms/mortality*
- Skin Neoplasms/pathology
- Survival Rate
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 33064882 Full text @ Pigment Cell Melanoma Res.
Citation
Fazio, M., van Rooijen, E., Mito, J.K., Modhurima, R., Weiskopf, E., Yang, S., Zon, L.I. (2020) Recurrent co-alteration of HDGF and SETDB1 on chromosome 1q drives cutaneous melanoma progression and poor prognosis. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 34(3):641-647.
Abstract
A progressive increase in copy number variation (CNV) characterizes the natural history of cutaneous melanoma progression towards later disease stages, but our understanding of genetic drivers underlying chromosomal arm-level CNVs remains limited. To identify candidate progression drivers, we mined the TCGA SKCM dataset and identified HDGF as a recurrently amplified gene whose high mRNA expression correlates with poor patient survival. Using melanocyte specific overexpression in the zebrafish BRAFV600E -driven MiniCoopR melanoma model, we show that HDGF accelerates melanoma development in vivo. Transcriptional analysis of HDGF compared to control EGFP tumors showed the activation of endothelial/angiogenic pathways. We validated this observation using an endothelial kdrl:mCherry reporter line which showed HDGF to increases tumor vasculature. HDGF is frequently co-altered with the established melanoma driver SETDB1. Both genes are located on chromosome 1q and their co-amplification is observed in up to 13% of metastatic melanoma. TCGA patients with both genes amplified and/or overexpressed have a worse melanoma specific survival. We tested co-expression of HDGF and SETDB1 in the MiniCoopR model, which resulted in faster and more aggressive melanoma development than either gene individually. Our work identifies the co-amplification of HDGF and SETDB1 as a functional driver of melanoma progression and poor patient prognosis.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping