The Role of FAS Receptor Methylation in Osteosarcoma Metastasis.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-29-2023
Original Citation
Sun J,
Chow W,
Xu G,
Hicks M,
Nakka M,
Shen J,
Ng P,
Taylor A,
Yu A,
Farrar J,
Barkauskas D,
Gorlick R,
Guidry Auvil J,
Gerhard D,
Meltzer P,
Guerra R,
Man T,
Lau C,
.
The Role of FAS Receptor Methylation in Osteosarcoma Metastasis. Int J Mol Sci. 2023;24(15).
Keywords
JGM, Mice, Animals, fas Receptor, Bone Neoplasms, Osteosarcoma, Azacitidine, DNA Methylation, CpG Islands, Cell Line, Tumor
JAX Source
Int J Mol Sci. 2023;24(15).
ISSN
1422-0067
PMID
37569529
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512155
Grant
This work was supported by the Training Program in Biomedical Informatics, National Library of Medicine (T15LM007093), National Cancer Institute (NCI) Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments Osteosarcoma (CA98543-07S6), and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) MIRA (RP101335).
Abstract
Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary malignant bone tumor with an annual incidence of about 400 cases in the United States. Osteosarcoma primarily metastasizes to the lungs, where FAS ligand (FASL) is constitutively expressed. The interaction of FASL and its cell surface receptor, FAS, triggers apoptosis in normal cells; however, this function is altered in cancer cells. DNA methylation has previously been explored as a mechanism for altering FAS expression, but no variability was identified in the CpG island (CGI) overlapping the promoter. Analysis of an expanded region, including CGI shores and shelves, revealed high variability in the methylation of certain CpG sites that correlated significantly with FAS mRNA expression in a negative manner. Bisulfite sequencing revealed additional CpG sites, which were highly methylated in the metastatic LM7 cell line but unmethylated in its parental non-metastatic SaOS-2 cell line. Treatment with the demethylating agent, 5-azacytidine, resulted in a loss of methylation in CpG sites located within the FAS promoter and restored FAS protein expression in LM7 cells, resulting in reduced migration. Orthotopic implantation of 5-azacytidine treated LM7 cells into severe combined immunodeficient mice led to decreased lung metastases. These results suggest that DNA methylation of CGI shore sites may regulate FAS expression and constitute a potential target for osteosarcoma therapy, utilizing demethylating agents currently approved for the treatment of other cancers.
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