Browsing by Author "Lee, Joanna"

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    Molecular classification and biomarkers of clinical outcome in breast ductal carcinoma in situ: Analysis of TBCRC 038 and RAHBT cohorts
    (Elsevier, 2022-12-12) Strand, Siri H.; Rivero-Gutiérrez, Belén; Houlahan, Kathleen E.; Seoane, Jose A.; King, Lorraine M.; Risom, Tyler; Simpson, Lunden A.; Vennam, Sujay; Khan, Aziz; Cisneros, Luis; Hardman, Timothy; Harmon, Bryan; Couch, Fergus; Gallagher, Kristalyn; Kilgore, Mark; Wei, Shi; DeMichele, Angela; King, Tari; McAuliffe, Priscilla F.; Nangia, Julie; Lee, Joanna; Tseng, Jennifer; Storniolo, Anna Maria; Thompson, Alastair M.; Gupta, Gaorav P.; Burns, Robyn; Veis, Deborah J.; DeSchryver, Katherine; Zhu, Chunfang; Matusiak, Magdalena; Wang, Jason; Zhu, Shirley X.; Tappenden, Jen; Ding, Daisy Yi; Zhang, Dadong; Luo, Jingqin; Jiang, Shu; Varma, Sushama; Anderson, Lauren; Straub, Cody; Srivastava, Sucheta; Curtis, Christina; Tibshirani , Rob; Angelo, Robert Michael; Hall , Allison; Owzar , Kouros; Polyak , Kornelia; Maley, Carlo; Marks, Jeffrey R.; Colditz, Graham A.; Hwang, E. Shelley; West , Robert B.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is the most common precursor of invasive breast cancer (IBC), with variable propensity for progression. We perform multiscale, integrated molecular profiling of DCIS with clinical outcomes by analyzing 774 DCIS samples from 542 patients with 7.3 years median follow-up from the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium 038 study and the Resource of Archival Breast Tissue cohorts. We identify 812 genes associated with ipsilateral recurrence within 5 years from treatment and develop a classifier that predicts DCIS or IBC recurrence in both cohorts. Pathways associated with recurrence include proliferation, immune response, and metabolism. Distinct stromal expression patterns and immune cell compositions are identified. Our multiscale approach employed in situ methods to generate a spatially resolved atlas of breast precancers, where complementary modalities can be directly compared and correlated with conventional pathology findings, disease states, and clinical outcome.
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    Recessive Rare Variants in Deoxyhypusine Synthase, an Enzyme Involved in the Synthesis of Hypusine, Are Associated with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder
    (Elsevier, 2019-02-07) Ganapathi, Mythily; Padgett, Leah R.; Yamada, Kentaro; Devinsky, Orrin; Willaert, Rebecca; Person, Richard; Au, Ping-Yee Billie; Tagoe, Julia; McDonald, Marie; Karlowicz, Danielle; Wolf, Barry; Lee, Joanna; Shen, Yufeng; Okur, Volkan; Deng, Liyong; LeDuc, Charles A.; Wang, Jiayao; Hanner, Ashleigh; Mirmira, Raghavendra G.; Park, Myung Hee; Mastracci, Teresa L.; Chung, Wendy K.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Hypusine is formed post-translationally from lysine and is found in a single cellular protein, eukaryotic translation initiation factor-5A (eIF5A), and its homolog eIF5A2. Biosynthesis of hypusine is a two-step reaction involving the enzymes deoxyhypusine synthase (DHPS) and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase (DOHH). eIF5A is highly conserved throughout eukaryotic evolution and plays a role in mRNA translation, cellular proliferation, cellular differentiation, and inflammation. DHPS is also highly conserved and is essential for life, as Dhps-null mice are embryonic lethal. Using exome sequencing, we identified rare biallelic, recurrent, predicted likely pathogenic variants in DHPS segregating with disease in five affected individuals from four unrelated families. These individuals have similar neurodevelopmental features that include global developmental delay and seizures. Two of four affected females have short stature. All five affected individuals share a recurrent missense variant (c.518A>G [p.Asn173Ser]) in trans with a likely gene disrupting variant (c.1014+1G>A, c.912_917delTTACAT [p.Tyr305_Ile306del], or c.1A>G [p.Met1?]). cDNA studies demonstrated that the c.1014+1G>A variant causes aberrant splicing. Recombinant DHPS enzyme harboring either the p.Asn173Ser or p.Tyr305_Ile306del variant showed reduced (20%) or absent in vitro activity, respectively. We co-transfected constructs overexpressing HA-tagged DHPS (wild-type or mutant) and GFP-tagged eIF5A into HEK293T cells to determine the effect of these variants on hypusine biosynthesis and observed that the p.Tyr305_Ile306del and p.Asn173Ser variants resulted in reduced hypusination of eIF5A compared to wild-type DHPS enzyme. Our data suggest that rare biallelic variants in DHPS result in reduced enzyme activity that limits the hypusination of eIF5A and are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder.