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Clin Epigenetics ; 11(1): 192, 2019 12 11.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31829282

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: The epigenome plays a key role in cancer heterogeneity and drug resistance. Hence, a number of epigenetic inhibitors have been developed and tested in cancers. The major focus of most studies so far has been on the cytotoxic effect of these compounds, and only few have investigated the ability to revert the resistant phenotype in cancer cells. Hence, there is a need for a systematic methodology to unravel the mechanisms behind epigenetic sensitization. RESULTS: We have developed a high-throughput protocol to screen non-simultaneous drug combinations, and used it to investigate the reprogramming potential of epigenetic inhibitors. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our protocol by screening 60 epigenetic compounds on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cells. We identified several histone deacetylase (HDAC) and histone methyltransferase (HMT) inhibitors that acted synergistically with doxorubicin and rituximab. These two classes of epigenetic inhibitors achieved sensitization by disrupting DNA repair, cell cycle, and apoptotic signaling. The data used to perform these analyses are easily browsable through our Results Explorer. Additionally, we showed that these inhibitors achieve sensitization at lower doses than those required to induce cytotoxicity. CONCLUSIONS: Our drug screening approach provides a systematic framework to test non-simultaneous drug combinations. This methodology identified HDAC and HMT inhibitors as successful sensitizing compounds in treatment-resistant DLBCL. Further investigation into the mechanisms behind successful epigenetic sensitization highlighted DNA repair, cell cycle, and apoptosis as the most dysregulated pathways. Altogether, our method adds supporting evidence in the use of epigenetic inhibitors as sensitizing agents in clinical settings.


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Doxorubicin/pharmacology , Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/drug effects , Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology , Epigenesis, Genetic/drug effects , Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/genetics , Rituximab/pharmacology , Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/pharmacology , Cell Cycle/drug effects , Cell Line, Tumor , DNA Repair/drug effects , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor , Drug Synergism , Gene Expression Profiling/methods , Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects , High-Throughput Screening Assays , Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors/pharmacology , Histone Methyltransferases/antagonists & inhibitors , Humans , Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/drug therapy , Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/enzymology
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Bioinformatics ; 35(19): 3815-3817, 2019 10 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30793160

ABSTRACT

SUMMARY: Anduril is an analysis and integration framework that facilitates the design, use, parallelization and reproducibility of bioinformatics workflows. Anduril has been upgraded to use Scala for pipeline construction, which simplifies software maintenance, and facilitates design of complex pipelines. Additionally, Anduril's bioinformatics repository has been expanded with multiple components, and tutorial pipelines, for next-generation sequencing data analysis. AVAILABILITYAND IMPLEMENTATION: Freely available at http://anduril.org. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing , Software , Data Analysis , Reproducibility of Results , Workflow
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Bioinformatics ; 34(18): 3078-3085, 2018 09 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29912358

ABSTRACT

Motivation: DNA methylation aberrations are common in many cancer types. A major challenge hindering comparison of patient-derived samples is that they comprise of heterogeneous collection of cancer and microenvironment cells. We present a computational method that allows comparing cancer methylomes in two or more heterogeneous tumor samples featuring differing, unknown fraction of cancer cells. The method is unique in that it allows comparison also in the absence of normal cell control samples and without prior tumor purity estimates, as these are often unavailable or unreliable in clinical samples. Results: We use simulations and next-generation methylome, RNA and whole-genome sequencing data from two cancer types to demonstrate that the method is accurate and outperforms alternatives. The results show that our method adapts well to various cancer types and to a wide range of tumor content, and works robustly without a control or with controls derived from various sources. Availability and implementation: The method is freely available at https://bitbucket.org/anthakki/dmml. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


Subject(s)
DNA Methylation , Neoplasms/genetics , Humans , Neoplasms/metabolism
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