State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China and Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Liver Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 6;14(1):1932. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37542-5.
Although oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy has been effective in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), primary or acquired resistance to oxaliplatin remains a major challenge in the clinic. Through functional screening using CRISPR/Cas9 activation library, transcriptomic profiling of clinical samples, and functional validation in vitro and in vivo, we identify PRMT3 as a key driver of oxaliplatin resistance. Mechanistically, PRMT3-mediated oxaliplatin-resistance is in part dependent on the methylation of IGF2BP1 at R452, which is critical for the function of IGF2BP1 in stabilizing the mRNA of HEG1, an effector of PRMT3-IGF2BP1 axis. Also, PRMT3 overexpression may serve as a biomarker for oxaliplatin resistance in HCC patients. Collectively, our study defines the PRTM3-IGF2BP1-HEG1 axis as important regulators and therapeutic targets in oxaliplatin-resistance and suggests the potential to use PRMT3 expression level in pretreatment biopsy as a biomarker for oxaliplatin-resistance in HCC patients.
虽然基于奥沙利铂的化疗在治疗肝细胞癌(HCC)方面已显示出疗效,但原发性或获得性奥沙利铂耐药仍是临床治疗中的主要挑战。本研究通过使用 CRISPR/Cas9 激活文库进行功能筛选、对临床样本进行转录组分析,以及在体外和体内进行功能验证,鉴定出 PRMT3 是奥沙利铂耐药的关键驱动因素。在机制上,PRMT3 介导的奥沙利铂耐药部分依赖于 IGF2BP1 在 R452 处的甲基化,这对于 IGF2BP1 稳定 PRMT3-IGF2BP1 轴的效应因子 HEG1 的 mRNA 功能至关重要。此外,PRMT3 的过表达可能是 HCC 患者奥沙利铂耐药的一个生物标志物。总之,本研究定义了 PRTM3-IGF2BP1-HEG1 轴作为奥沙利铂耐药的重要调节因子和治疗靶点,并提示可以将预处理活检中的 PRMT3 表达水平用作 HCC 患者奥沙利铂耐药的生物标志物。