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An integrative genomics approach for identifying novel functional consequences of PBRM1 truncated mutations in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)

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Title
An integrative genomics approach for identifying novel functional consequences of PBRM1 truncated mutations in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)
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BMC Genomics, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-2906-9
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Yuanyuan Wang, Xingyi Guo, Michael J. Bray, Zhiyong Ding, Zhongming Zhao

Abstract

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer. Recent large-scale next-generation sequencing analyses reveal that PBRM1 is the second most frequently mutated gene harboring many truncated mutations and has a suspected tumor suppressor role in ccRCC. However, the biological consequences of PBRM1 somatic mutations (e.g., truncated mutations) that drive tumor progression in ccRCC remain unclear. In this study, we proposed an integrative genomics approach to explore the functional consequences of PBRM1 truncated mutations in ccRCC by incorporating somatic mutations, mRNA expression, DNA methylation, and microRNA (miRNA) expression profiles from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We performed a systematic analysis to detect the differential molecular features in a total of 11 ccRCC samples harboring PBRM1 truncated mutations from the 33 "pan-negative" ccRCC samples. We excluded the samples that had any of the five high-confidence driver genes (VHL, BAP1, SETD2, PTEN and KDM5C) reported in ccRCC to avoid their possible influence in our results. We identified 613 differentially expressed genes (128 up-regulated and 485 down-regulated genes using cutoff |log2FC| < 1 and p < 0.05) in PBRM1 mutated group versus "pan-negative" group. The gene function enrichment analysis revealed that down-regulated genes were significantly enriched in extracellular matrix organization (adjusted p = 2.05 × 10(-7)), cell adhesion (adjusted p = 2.85 × 10(-7)), and ion transport (adjusted p = 9.97 × 10(-6)). Surprisingly, 26 transcriptional factors (TFs) genes including HOXB9, PAX6 and FOXC1 were found to be significantly differentially expressed (23 over expressed TFs and three lower expressed TFs) in PBRM1 mutated group compared with "pan-negative" group. In addition, we identified 1405 differentially methylated CpG sites (targeting 1308 genes, |log2FC| < 1, p < 0.01) and 185 significantly altered microRNAs (|log2FC| < 1, p < 0.05) associated with truncated PBRM1 mutations. Our integrative analysis suggested that methylation and miRNA alterations were likely the downstream events associated with PBRM1 truncation mutations. In summary, this study provided some important insights into the understanding of tumorigenesis driven by PBRM1 truncated mutations in ccRCC. The approach may be applied to many driver genes in various cancers.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 40%
Other 4 16%
Student > Bachelor 4 16%
Researcher 2 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 2 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 20%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 12%
Computer Science 2 8%
Engineering 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 3 12%
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