Don’t miss Nicolas A. Giraldo (John Hopkins, USA) talk tomorrow in Paris. He’s a former post Dc from the CRC. It’s free and it will be an excellent talk.
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We are proud to share you our last publication in Nature Communications. Quentin Bayard from Eric Letouzé group identifies a new hepatocellular carcinoma subclass with a rearrangement signature of replication stress and defined by Cyclin A2/E1 activation.
Cyclins A2 and E1 regulate the cell cycle by promoting S phase entry and progression. Here, we identify a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) subgroup exhibiting cyclin activation through various mechanisms including hepatitis B virus (HBV) and adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) insertions, enhancer hijacking and recurrent CCNA2 fusions. Cyclin A2 or E1 alterations define a homogenous entity of aggressive HCC, mostly developed in non-cirrhotic patients, characterized by a transcriptional activation of E2F and ATR pathways and a high frequency of RB1 and PTEN inactivation. Cyclin-driven HCC display a unique signature of structural rearrangements with hundreds of tandem duplications and templated insertions frequently activating TERT promoter. These rearrangements, strongly enriched in early- replicated active chromatin regions, are consistent with a break-induced replication mechanism. Pan-cancer analysis reveals a similar signature in BRCA1-mutated breast and ovarian cancers. Together, this analysis reveals a new poor prognosis HCC entity and a rearrangement signature related to replication stress.
Jie Yang, PhD student in the lab just published a work in International Journal of Cancer.
Few single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been reproducibly associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our aim was to test the association between nine SNPs and HCC occurrence. SNPs in genes linked to HCC (DEPDC5, GRIK1, KIF1B, STAT4, MICA, DLC1, DDX18) or to liver damage (PNPLA3-rs738409, TM6SF2-rs58542926) in GWAS were genotyped in discovery cohorts including 1,020 HCC, 2,021 controls with chronic liver disease and 2,484 healthy individuals and replication was performed in prospective cohorts of cirrhotic patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD, n = 249) and hepatitis C (n = 268). In the discovery cohort, PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 SNPs were associated with HCC (OR = 1.67 [CI95%:1.16-2.40], p = 0.005; OR = 1.45 [CI95%:1.08-1.94], p = 0.01) after adjustment for fibrosis, age, gender and etiology. In contrast, STAT4-rs7574865 was associated with HCC only in HBV infected patients (p = 0.03) and the other tested SNP were not linked with HCC risk. PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 variants were independently associated with HCC in patients with ALD (OR = 3.91 [CI95%:2.52-6.06], p = 1.14E-09; OR = 1.79 [CI95%:1.25-2.56], p = 0.001) but not with other etiologies. PNPLA3 SNP was also significantly associated with HCC developed on a nonfibrotic liver (OR = 2.19 [CI95%:1.22-3.92], p = 0.007). The association of PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 with HCC risk was confirmed in the prospective cohort with ALD. A genetic score including PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 minor alleles showed a progressive significant increased risk of HCC in ALD patients. In conclusion, PNPLA3-rs738409 and TM6SF2-rs58542926 are inherited risk variants of HCC development in patients with ALD in a dose dependent manner. The link between PNPLA3 and HCC on nonfibrotic liver suggests a direct role in liver carcinogenesis.
We are very proud of our director, Jessica Zucman-Rossi, who has just been awarded the “Legion d’Honneur” for her career. The ceremony toke place last Monday and the medal was given to her by Hervé W Friedman. It was a beautiful torchlight passing between the creator of Cordeliers Research Centre & Jessica who takes over the management of CRC in 2019 after the very good direction of Pascal Ferré these last years.
Congrats Jessica!
The laboratory will be very well represented during this first symposium organized by SIRIC CARPEM, Paris Descartes university and the prestigious Mayo Clinic next November.
Organized by Pr Gérard Friedlander, Pr Pierre Laurent-Puig & Pr Jessica Zucman-Rossi the symposium will focused on Digestive Oncology and will be an opportunity to promote and set up new collaborations between international digestive oncology experts.
The event is sponsors by Inserm, APHP, CRC and HetColi consortium from HTE Program.