Alicja Pacholewska, Matthias Lienhard, Mirko Brueggemann, Heike Haenel, Lorina Bilalli, Anja Koenigs, Felix Hess, Kerstin Becker, Karl Koehrer, Jesko Fabian Kaiser, Holger Gohlke, Norbert Gattermann, Michael Hallek, Carmen Diana Herling, Julian Koenig, Christina Grimm, Ralf Herwig, Kathi Zarnack, Michal R. Schweiger
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Abstract
Mutations in splicing factor 3B subunit 1 (SF3B1) frequently occur in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). These mutations have different effects on the disease prognosis with beneficial effect in MDS and worse prognosis in CLL patients. A full-length transcriptome approach can expand our knowledge on SF3B1 mutation effects on RNA splicing and its contribution to patient survival and treatment options. We applied long-read transcriptome sequencing (LRTS) to 44 MDS and CLL patients, as well as two pairs of isogenic cell lines with and without SF3B1 mutations, and found >60% of novel isoforms. Splicing alterations were largely shared between cancer types and specifically affected the usage of introns and 3’ splice sites. Our data highlighted a constrained window at canonical 3’ splice sites in which dynamic splice site switches occurred in SF3B1-mutated patients. Using transcriptome-wide RNA binding maps and molecular dynamics simulations, we showed multimodal SF3B1 binding at 3’ splice sites and predicted reduced RNA binding at the second binding pocket of SF3B1K700E. Our work presents the hitherto most complete LRTS study of the SF3B1 mutation in CLL and MDS and provides a resource to study aberrant splicing in cancer. Moreover, we showed that different disease prognosis most likely results from the different cell types expanded during carcinogenesis rather than different mechanisms of action of the mutated SF3B1. These results have important implications for understanding the role of SF3B1 mutations in hematological malignancies and other related diseases.
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Launched in 1995, Genome Research is an international, continuously published, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on research that provides novel insights into the genome biology of all organisms, including advances in genomic medicine.
Among the topics considered by the journal are genome structure and function, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, genome-scale quantitative and population genetics, proteomics, epigenomics, and systems biology. The journal also features exciting gene discoveries and reports of cutting-edge computational biology and high-throughput methodologies.
New data in these areas are published as research papers, or methods and resource reports that provide novel information on technologies or tools that will be of interest to a broad readership. Complete data sets are presented electronically on the journal''s web site where appropriate. The journal also provides Reviews, Perspectives, and Insight/Outlook articles, which present commentary on the latest advances published both here and elsewhere, placing such progress in its broader biological context.