TAZ-CAMTA1 and YAP-TFE3 alter the TAZ/YAP transcriptome by recruiting the ATAC histone acetyltransferase complex
- University of Iowa, United States
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
- Washington University, United States
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada
Abstract
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a vascular sarcoma that metastasizes early in its clinical course and lacks an effective medical therapy. The TAZ-CAMTA1 and YAP-TFE3 fusion proteins are chimeric transcription factors and initiating oncogenic drivers of EHE. A combined proteomic/genetic screen in human cell lines identified YEATS2 and ZZZ3, components of the Ada2a-containing histone acetyltransferase (ATAC) complex, as key interactors of both fusion proteins despite the dissimilarity of the C terminal fusion partners CAMTA1 and TFE3. Integrative next generation sequencing approaches in human and murine cell lines showed that the fusion proteins drive a unique transcriptome by simultaneously hyperactivating a TEAD-based transcriptional program and modulating the chromatin environment via interaction with the ATAC complex. Interaction of the ATAC complex with both fusion proteins indicates that it is a key oncogenic driver and unifying enzymatic therapeutic target for this sarcoma. This study presents an approach to mechanistically dissect how chimeric transcription factors drive the formation of human cancers.
Data availability
The accession number for the RNA-Seq data reported in this paper for NIH 3T3 cells is GEO: GSE152736. The accession number for the RNA-Seq data reported in this paper for SW872 cells is GEO: GSE152737. The accession number for the ChIP-Seq data reported in this paper is GEO: GSE152778. The accession number for the ATAC-Seq data reported in this paper is GEO: GSE152733. The accession number for the H3K27ac ChIP-Seq data reported in this paper is GEO: GSE168201. The accession number for the RNA-Seq data after YEATS2 and ZZZ3 knock-down is GEO: GSE168205.
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Anne-Claude Gingras
Funding
Veterans Health Administration Merit Review Program (1 I01 BX003644-01)
- Munir R Tanas
National Institutes of Health (R01 CA237031-01A1)
- Munir R Tanas
National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1078220)
- Kieran F Harvey
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN 144301)
- Anne-Claude Gingras
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to an approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocol (#9052228-008 ) of the University of Iowa. All injections for mouse xenograft experiments were performed under isoflurane anesthesia, and every effort was made to minimize suffering.
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© 2021, Merritt et al.
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TAZ-CAMTA1 and YAP-TFE3 alter the TAZ/YAP transcriptome by recruiting the ATAC histone acetyltransferase complex
eLife 10:e62857.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62857
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