Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University, School of Biomedical Sciences, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
Hunan Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Molecular Medicine, School of Biomedical Sciences, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410082, China.
Cell Mol Life Sci. 2024 Oct 5;81(1):414. doi: 10.1007/s00018-024-05418-6.
Mounting evidence has implicated the RNA mA methylation catalyzed by METTL3 in a wide range of physiological and pathological processes, including tumorigenesis. The detailed mA landscape and molecular mechanism of METTL3 in prostate cancer (PCa) remains ill-defined. We find that METTL3 is overexpressed in PCa and correlates with worse patient survival. Functional studies establish METTL3 as an oncoprotein dependent on its mA enzymatic activity in both AR and AR PCa cells. To dissect the regulatory network of mA pathway in PCa, we map the mA landscape in clinical tumor samples using mA-seq and identify genome-wide METTL3-binding transcripts via RIP-seq. Mechanistically, we discover RRBP1 as a direct METTL3 target in which METTL3 stabilizes RRBP1 mRNA in an mA-dependent manner. RRBP1 positively correlates with METTL3 expression in PCa cohorts and exerts an oncogenic role in aggressive PCa cells. Leveraging the 3D structural protein-protein interaction between METTL3 and METTL14, we successfully develop two potential METTL3 peptide inhibitors (RM3 and RSM3) that effectively suppress cancer cell proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Collectively, our study reveals a novel METTL3/mA/RRBP1 axis in enhancing aggressive traits of PCa, which can be therapeutically targeted by small-peptide METTL3 antagonists.
越来越多的证据表明,METTL3 催化的 RNA mA 甲基化在广泛的生理和病理过程中起作用,包括肿瘤发生。METTL3 在前列腺癌(PCa)中的详细 mA 图谱和分子机制仍不清楚。我们发现 METTL3 在 PCa 中过表达,并与患者生存预后较差相关。功能研究确立了 METTL3 作为一种癌蛋白,其在 AR 和 AR PCa 细胞中均依赖其 mA 酶活性。为了剖析 mA 通路在 PCa 中的调控网络,我们使用 mA-seq 对临床肿瘤样本中的 mA 图谱进行了作图,并通过 RIP-seq 鉴定了全基因组范围内的 METTL3 结合转录本。从机制上讲,我们发现 RRBP1 是 METTL3 的直接靶标,METTL3 以 mA 依赖的方式稳定 RRBP1 mRNA。RRBP1 在 PCa 队列中与 METTL3 表达呈正相关,并在侵袭性 PCa 细胞中发挥致癌作用。利用 METTL3 和 METTL14 之间的 3D 结构蛋白-蛋白相互作用,我们成功开发了两种潜在的 METTL3 肽抑制剂(RM3 和 RSM3),它们可以有效地抑制体外癌细胞增殖和体内肿瘤生长。总之,我们的研究揭示了一个新的 METTL3/mA/RRBP1 轴,增强了 PCa 的侵袭性特征,可通过小分子 METTL3 拮抗剂进行治疗性靶向。
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