ArticleCancer genomics & proteomics
Extent and Instability of Trimethylation of Histone H3 Lysine Increases With Degree of Malignancy and Methionine Addiction.
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- The Combination of Methionine Restriction and Docetaxel Synergistically Arrests Androgen-independent Prostate Cancer But Not Normal Cells.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Synergy of Rapamycin and Methioninase on Colorectal Cancer Cells Requires Simultaneous and Not Sequential Administration: Implications for mTOR Inhibition.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Extensive DNA Damage and Loss of Cell Viability Occur Synergistically With the Combination of Recombinant Methioninase and Paclitaxel on Pancreatic Cancer Cells which Report DNA-Damage Response in Real Time.Cancer genomics & proteomicsArticle
- Synergistic Eradication of Fibrosarcoma With Acquired Ifosfamide Resistance Using Methionine Restriction Combined With Ifosfamide in Nude-mouse Models.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
- Elevated-c-MYC-expressing Fibrosarcoma Cells With Acquired Gemcitabine Resistance Remain Sensitive to Recombinant Methioninase: A Potential Clinical Strategy for a Recalcitrant Disease.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Complete Response (CR) in a Previously-progressing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Patient Treated With Methionine Restriction in Combination With First-line Chemotherapy.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Prostate Cancer Patient With Lymph-node Metastasis Treated Only With Methionine Restriction Has Stable Disease for Two Years Demonstrated With PET/CT and PSMA-PET Scanning and PSA Testing.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
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Abstract
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aimMethionine addiction is a fundamental and general hallmark of cancer, termed the Hoffman effect. Methionine addiction is due to excessive use of and dependence on methionine by cancer cells. In the present report, we correlated the extent of methionine addiction and degree of malignancy with the amount and stability of methylated histone H3 lysine marks. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe established low- and high-malignancy variants from a parental human pancreatic-cancer cell line and compared their sensitivity to methionine restriction and histone H3 lysine methylation status.
resultsA low-malignancy, low-methionine-addiction revertant of the parental pancreatic-cancer cell line had less methylated H3K9me3 and was less sensitive to methionine restriction effected by recombinant methioninase (rMETase) than the parental cell line. A high-malignancy variant of the pancreatic cancer cell line had increased methylated H3K9me3 and was more sensitive to methionine restriction by rMETase with regard to inhibition of proliferation and to instability of histone H3 lysine methylation than the parental cell line. Orthotopic malignancy in nude mice was reduced in the low-methionine-addiction revertant and greater in the high-malignancy variant than in the parental cell line.
conclusionThe present study indicates that the degree of malignancy is linked to the extent of methionine addiction and the level and instability of trimethylation of histone H3, suggesting these phenomena are linked as a fundamental basis of oncogenic transformation.
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