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Histone Modifications in Development and Malignancy

Oricchio, Elisa  
November 13, 2019
Blood
61st Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American-Society-of-Hematology (ASH)

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) development is driven by the accumulations of multiple genetic, epigenetic, and chromosomal alterations. These lesions can lead to modifications of the chromatin architecture. To identify novel oncogenic interactions driven by modifications of the chromatin 3D organization, we combined high-throughput chromatin conformation capture data (Hi-C) in lymphoma cells with whole genome sequencing (WGS) and epigenetic and transcriptional profiles of primary patient samples and cell lines. Recently, we found that a significant interplay exists between the compartmentalization of the genome into topologically associating domains (TADs) and epigenetic and transcriptional changes mediated by mutated EZH2. Indeed, EZH2 mutations drive aberrant increase of H3K27me3 within specific TADs, resulting in loss of promoter-promoter interactions, synergistic silencing of multiple tumor suppressors and, thus, increased B-cell proliferation and tumor aggressiveness1. Now, we are further investigating how chromosomal amplifications and translocations forms new long-range interactions between enhancers and promoters to support oncogene expression. Importantly, we observed that epigenetic editing of enhancers and pharmacological depletion of H3K27Ac reduces the number of interactions between specific enhancers and promoters and this loss of interactions directly affects gene expression and cell differentiation. These results indicate that is possible to block the oncogenic effect of chromosomal alterations by targeting epigenetic modification in enhancer regions and preventing the formation of oncogenic chromatin interactions. Overall, our results demonstrate that it is important to contextualize the effects of genomic alterations in the 3D organization of the chromatin, to uncover new oncogenic mechanisms and improve the design of new therapeutic approaches.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1182/blood-2019-121289
Web of Science ID

WOS:000518218500973

Author(s)
Oricchio, Elisa  
Date Issued

2019-11-13

Publisher

AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY

Publisher place

Washington

Published in
Blood
Volume

134

Subjects

Hematology

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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UPORICCHIO  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
61st Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American-Society-of-Hematology (ASH)

Orlando, FL

Dec 07-10, 2019

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September 13, 2020
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