Abstract
Over half of the human genome is comprised of transposable elements (TE). Despite large-scale studies of the transcriptome in cancer, a comprehensive look at TE expression and its relationship to various mutations or prognosis has not been performed. We characterized the expression of TE in 178 adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients using transcriptome data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. We characterized mutation specific dysregulation of TE expression using a multivariate linear model. We identified distinct patterns of TE expression associated with specific mutations and transcriptional networks. Genes regulating methylation was not associated with significant change in TE expression. Using an unpenalized cox regression analysis we identified a TE expression signature that predicted prognosis in AML. We identified 14 candidate prognostic TE transcripts (TEP) that classified AML as high/low-risk and this was independent of mutation-based and coding-gene expression based risk-stratification. TEP was able to predict prognosis in independent cohorts of 284 pediatric AML patients and 19 relapsed adult AML patients. This first comprehensive study of TE expression in AML demonstrates that TE expression can serve as a biomarker for prognosis in AML, and provides novel insights into the biology of AML. Studies characterizing its role in other cancers are warranted.
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Introduction
Approximately 50% of the genome is comprised of transposable elements (TE)1. Despite large-scale studies of the genome and transcriptome, the importance of TE in health has not been a focus of intense research until recently. TE have been implicated in cancer pathogenesis, but studies have mostly focused on their deleterious effects2,3,4,5,6. Very recently, beneficial roles of TE have been described. Induction of their expression leads to the activation of the viral recognition pathway and cancer cell death7,8. In addition, TE have been shown to regulate coding gene function9,10,11,12. Hence, they may indirectly alter the transcriptional networks to promote or inhibit cancer cell growth. This suggests that TE have complex and diverse functions in cancer, which has largely remained unexplored.
Prediction of prognosis using coding gene expression in cancer has been widely studied, resulting in development of many clinical assays. The role of TE in cancer prognosis has not been explored comprehensively. Hypomethylation of LINE1 elements in the cancer genome has been associated with prognosis13, however the role of TE expression in predicting prognosis in cancer is not well known.
Regulation of TE expression remains poorly understood. Like coding genes, TE can be regulated both transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally14,15,16,17. The role of coding gene mutations in altering gene regulatory networks is well known18, providing valuable information on the regulation of coding genes. However, how mutations affect transcription of TE has not been well characterized. By understanding the changes in TE expression with respect to specific mutations and chromosomal alterations in cancer, we can gain novel insight into how TE expression is regulated by the genes that are mutated in cancer.
In this study, we performed comprehensive analyses of the expression of TE in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We analyzed mutation specific alterations in TE expression and correlated their expression pattern to transcriptional networks. We identified a TE expression signature that predicts prognosis in AML, paving the way for the development of novel prognostic TE biomarkers in AML.
Methods
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Results
Mutation specific dysregulation of TE expression in AML
Mutations in AML are associated with distinct alterations in the expression of coding genes19, providing novel insight into gene regulation. In order to investigate the effect of mutations on TE expression, we investigated the relationship between specific mutations and expression of TE in AML.
We analyzed the transcriptome of 178 AML patients from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project using Arkas20, an RNA sequence analysis pipeline using detailed annotation information for TE and ENSEMBL non-TE (non-TE) transcripts. We used the multivariate empirical Bayesian linear model to comprehensively study the effect of various mutations on the expression of TE19. Chromosomal translocation PML-RARα was associated with the most number (23) of altered expression of TE transcripts (AE-TE), with most showing upregulation (Hierarchical FDR filtering, q ≤ 0.05) (Fig. 1A). This was followed by MTCO2, NPM1, FLT3 and RUNX1 mutations. Interestingly, the TE transcripts dysregulated with respect to the mutations associated with the most number of AE-TEs showed minimal overlap (Fig. 1B). Although CpG methylation has been shown to regulate the expression of TE7,8,16, DNMT3A and TET2 mutations instead showed some of the lowest number of AE-TE.
TE biotypes exhibited specific alteration patterns with respect to mutational status (Fig. 1C,D). The TE transcripts within most TE biotypes exhibited a mix of both upregulation and down regulation with respect to mutations and chromosomal alterations, suggesting diversity in the regulation of TE transcripts within TE biotypes. PML-RARα, MTC02 and NPM1 were mostly associated with upregulation of TE, whereas FLT3, IDH1 and NRAS were associated predominantly with downregulation of TE.
These findings suggest that the common mutations in AML are associated with a distinct pattern of alteration in TE expression.
Correlating transcriptional networks with TE expression
TE are key regulators of coding-gene expression1,9,10,12,21. In order to gain insight into this in AML, we correlated the expression of TE biotypes with transcript networks. For this, the similarly expressed non-TE transcripts were grouped together, forming transcript modules as previously described by us22 (Y-axis in Fig. 2, Supplementary Table 1). The genes in the modules were likely to be co-regulated and/or functionally related22 (Supplementary Table 1). The modules were then correlated with the expression of specific TE biotypes (X-axis in Fig. 2, Supplementary Table 1). We observed that the TE biotypes formed distinct clusters based on its association with non-TE transcript modules, indicating diversity among TE biotypes.
We then summarized the network by averaging each module’s mutation/chromosomal specific alterations (Supplemental Fig. 2). Significantly altered expression of non-TE transcripts for each module with respect to covariates such as mutations/chromosomal alteration and demographics were measured (Supplementary Figure 1). Interestingly, PML-RARα was associated with the most (4428) alterations in the expression of non-TE transcripts (Supplementary Figure 1). The module alteration averages were clustered indicating dysregulation similarity between modules (Supplementary Figure 2). PML-RARα and RUNX1/RUNX1T1 had similar module dysregulation averages (Supplementary Figure 2). This correlation matrix provided detailed information on the association between mutations, transcript networks, and the expression of various TE biotypes in AML.
Prediction of prognosis using TE expression in AML
Expression of coding genes and non-coding genes such as microRNAs has been shown to predict the survival of many cancers including AML23,24. We investigated whether expression of TE can similarly predict prognosis in AML and if so, which TE are associated with good and bad prognosis.
We identified candidate TE prognosticators (TEP) through nested sampling in TCGA. The nested training cohort was randomly selected on an approximately 60% intra-training and 40% intra-testing split. The training candidates were consistently prognostic TE transcripts and were selected based on an unpenalized univariate Cox proportional hazard model with a significance threshold of 0.0125 and 3-fold cross validation19. The training candidates were validated in the corresponding intra-test cohort using a Kaplan-Meir survival plot (Wald test q.value < 0.05). This identified 14 TE associated with prognosis (TEP) (Fig. 3A). We randomly selected 37 (20%) subjects into the intra validation test cohort and identified the hazard estimates of the 14 TEP using a multivariate Cox proportional hazard model. The estimated hazards of the 14 TEP were able to statistically distinguished patients with good and poor prognosis (Fig. 3B, Wald test = 3.62e-4, N = 37) (Supplementary Figure 3). A 3-fold cross validation yielded a mean correspondence index (c-index)25,26,27 of 0.6156. We examined the effects of age, gender, and ethnicity on TEP expression by comparing the Cox models which included demographical information and 14 TEP to the nested Cox model with 14 TEP covariates. Age, gender, and ethnicity did not significantly affect the 14 TEP in the intra-validation cohort (p. value = 0.12, Supplementary Table 2).
In order to further confirm the validity of the TEP in predicting prognosis in AML, we used 2 independent cohorts: 284 pediatric AML28 patients and 19 relapsed adult AML29 patients. Similar to identifying patient compounded risk scores in TCGA, we generated compound covariate summary values using the TEP expression and the corresponding Cox hazard estimates using pediatric AML patients. The TEP were able to stratify the 284 pediatric AML patients28 into favorable versus poor risk categories (Fig. 4C, Wald test p. value = 1.33e-06, N = 284) (Supplementary Figure 4). Age, gender and ethnicity did not significantly affect TEP (p. value = 0.4038, Supplementary Table 2).
The second independent validation in relapsed AML29 showed that the TEP stratified patients based on the differences in time to relapse between risk groups (Fig. 4D, Wald test p. value = 7.8–03, N = 19) (Supplementary Figure 4F). The age/gender adjusted hazard estimates for the 14 TEP were also examined in relapsed AML patients. Although for this smaller cohort the age/gender features did have an effect on the TEP covariates, the signed averages of the age/gender adjusted TEP hazard estimates were also prognostic (Wald test = 0.023, c-index = 0.646) (Supplementary Table 2). These results indicated the robustness of the discovery algorithm that predicted prognosis using TE expression in a large cancer cohort.
TEP expression offers independent prognostic value
We then wanted to identify whether the TEP would independently improve the cytogenetics/mutation based and/or coding-gene expression based risk stratification. For this, we first used a Cox regression analysis and stratified the good-risk (N = 96) and poor-risk (N = 82) AML cohort using only the mutational signature. The TEP were then used to sub-stratify the low-risk (Fig. 4A) and high-risk groups (Fig. 4B) identified by mutational status. In the mutation based low-risk group TEP signature re-classified 48/96 patients to a higher-risk group (Fig. 4A, Kaplan-Meier Wald test p. value = 6.426e-05,3 fold cross-validated c-index = 0.58, N = 96). The TEP expression signature independently sub-stratified the mutational ‘higher-risk cohort’ into better-risk (41/82) groups (Fig. 4B, Kaplan-Meier Wald test p. value = 2.4e-04).
The TEP further classified cytogenetics and coding gene expression survival hazard categorizations. The 14 TEP identified 68 poorer risk patients from a pool of 137 good-risk patients identified based on cytogenetics (Fig. 4C, Kaplan-Meier Wald test p. value = 0.00284). And, the 14 TEP identified 21 better risk patients from a pool of 41 poor-risk patients identified by cytogenetics (Fig. 4D) (Kaplan-Meier Wald test p. value = 4.91e-05). Likewise, the TEP identified 45 poorer risk patients from a pool of 99 good-risk patients identified based on gene expression (Fig. 4E, KM Wald test p. value = 1.58e-04). The TEP identified 45 better risk patients from a pool of 99 poor-risk patients identified by gene expression (Fig. 4F) (KM Wald test p. value = 1.97e-03).
Overall, this indicated that the TEP could provide robust independent prognostic value and can improve the prognostic ability obtained by mutational status, cytogenetics or coding gene expression in AML.
TEP associated coding gene expression and gene networks
TEs constitute diverse transcripts that fall within several TE biotypes. However, the functional roles of individual TE transcripts are yet to be characterized. In order to gain insight into the potential functional role of the TEPs in AML, we analyzed the coding genes that appear highly correlated in expression to TEPs. A majority of the coding genes (Supplementary Table 3), which are associated to TEPs such as AluJo, L1MB2, LTR56, MER11A, MER44C, and Tigger5a, were members of the network module 3 (ME3) (Figs 2 and 5). A functional pathway analysis of the coding genes in ME 3 using DAVID30, revealed that the genes in ME3 were enriched in biological processes such as regulation of transcription (GO:0006355, GO:0006351), detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception of taste (GO: 0001580, GO:0050909), nucleic acid binding, metal ion binding, and ATP binding (GO:0003676, GO:0046872, GO:0005524 respectively).
Risk-stratification of AML based on a combination of mutations and TEP expression
We developed a composite model combining the prognostic value of both the mutations, cytogenetics, non-TE expression and TEP expression to understand the relative effect of mutations and TEP in various mutational sub-categories of AML. We identified that non-TE transcript expression profile, TEP and mutational status were the primary contributors of risk prediction in adult AML (Fig. 6) (Supplementary Table 4).
Using mutations alone the 178 AML patients were classified in to 96 low-risk and 82 high-risk patients. This risk stratification based placed most of DNMT3A, TP53, RUNX1 and FLT3 mutations into high-risk category and NPM1 mutation, PML-RARα and inv (16) into low-risk category (Fig. 7A). We then re-classified all 178 adult AML patients using a combination of mutational status, cytogenetics, non-TE expression and TEP expression. The comprehensive model re-classified 48/96 mutation based low-risk and 41/82 mutation based high-risk patients to worse and better prognosis respectively (Fig. 4A/B). We analyzed the mutational categories of patients that were reclassified in these groups (Fig. 7B). In the mutation based high-risk group, the TEP model re-classified a large majority of patients with DNMT3A, DNMT3A plus NPM1, FLT3 plus NPM1, and RUNX1 mutations as low-risk. Only one of the TP53-mutated AML patients identified as high-risk from the mutational based model was reclassified as low-risk using TEP (Fig. 7A/B). This suggested that AML patients with DNMT3A, RUNX1, NPM1 and FLT3, mutations constitute a diverse group with regards to their prognosis. These findings demonstrate that by incorporating the expression of the 14 TEP in a comprehensive model that includes mutational status, cytogenetics and non-TE expression pattern, we can improve the ability to predict prognosis in AML.
Discussion
This is the first study to comprehensively characterize the expression of TE expression at the transcript level, demonstrating novel roles for TE in cancer. PML-RARα chromosomal translocation was identified to be associated with the most dysregulation of TE expression, with majority of the dysregulated TEs exhibiting upregulation of expression in AML. PML-RARα fusion protein has been shown to be a transcriptional repressor through its role regulating DNA methylation and chromatin modification31 Its specific role in regulating TEs has not been previously known. Whether treatment with ATRA (All-trans retinoic acid), or arsenic trioxide, in PML-RARa translocated AML leads to changes in TE expression and their role in the pathogenesis of PML-RARa translocated AML needs to be investigated.
Although methylation has been previously shown to regulate the expression of TE7,8, our study showed very little association between mutations in methylation regulating genes (DNMT3A and TET2) and dysregulation of TE expression. However, we found strong association between mutations in NPM1, MTCO2, and SMC1A. Interestingly FLT3 mutation was largely associated with suppression of TE, and IDH1, and TP53 were the only mutational features showing complete uniform suppression. Studies investigating the mechanism of how these genes regulate TE expression will be needed. Recent report suggested that TP53-mutated AML are highly susceptible to treatment with hypomethylating agents32, which have been shown to activate the expression of TE and the downstream interferon cascade, leading to cancer cell death7,8,33. The mechanism high responsive rate to hypomethylating agents in TP53-mutated AML is not completely characterized. Our study does not show a high level of dysregulation of TE in TP53-mutated AML, but the dysregulated TEs were all downregulated. The relation of this finding to the mechanism of action of hypomethylating agents in TP53-mutated AML needs to be investigated.
TE constitutes a diverse group of transcripts, which likely have diverse function, as demonstrated by our network analysis. Interestingly, AluJo, AluSq2, L1MB2, LTR24C, LTR56, MER101B, MER11A, MER31-I, MER44C, and Tigger5a transcripts were associated with low hazards and LTR14A, LTR45B, MER77 and Tigger9b were classified as hazardous. Interestingly, L1MB2, a LINE-1 element, was calculated as low hazardous which contrasts other studies describing the re-activation of LINE-1 elements as associated with increased genomic instability and hence hazardous in cancer. This indicates that LINE-1 may play a diverse role of the development of cancer. Additionally, the other TE transcripts within the same class/type were associated with varying hazard estimates, further indicating diversity within TE. We predict that individual TE transcripts are as diverse as coding genes in their function. It is likely that some of the TE that have active transposition activity promoting tumorigenesis6, and others that have defective transposase activity performing other functions such as activating tumor immunogenicity via interferon activity. In this context, we recently showed that leukemic stem cells in AML, which are the most resilient to treatment, have suppressed TE expression22. A recent study also reported that TE is suppressed in chemotherapy resistant cancer cells34. These findings demonstrate that suppression of TE in cancer could possibly play a role in cancer evolution by protecting the cells from immune mediated cell death.
Further understanding disease pathogenesis requires a closer investigation of the regulation mechanisms of the 14 TEP transcripts. This study is limited in its ability to characterize short interspersed nuclear elements (SINE), since most of them do not contain polyA tail and that the sequencing libraries were generated using polyA selection method. The SINE TEs identified using our pipeline were a sub-group of SINEs that have polyA tail. Future large scale studies could include non-polyA selection protocols which would provide opportunities for examining SINEs in better detail.
Our comprehensive model suggests that the expression of 14 TEP transcripts contributes significantly to the prognostication. We propose an improved prognostic algorithm in AML utilizing a comprehensive model that includes mutational status, cytogenetic status, coding gene expression and TEP expression. The utility of TEP in risk stratifying AML needs to be further validated using orthogonal assays in future studies.
This is the first study demonstrating the utility of TE expression signature in predicting outcomes in cancer. This study establishes the analytical foundation to investigate the role of TE in other cancers. Whether the prognostic TEP identified in AML overlaps with other cancer needs to be investigated.
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This project was funded by grants from the Leukemia Lymphoma Society-Quest for Cures #0863-15, STOP Cancer, Tower Cancer Research Foundation, and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases, University of Southern California.
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A.C. performed the analysis, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. T.T. designed, analyzed and interpreted the study and G.R. designed, interpreted and wrote the manuscript. The study was performed using publically available RNA sequencing data from AML patients in accordance with guidelines and regulations for use of publically available genomic sequence data.
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Colombo, A.R., Triche, T. & Ramsingh, G. Transposable Element Expression in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Transcriptome and Prognosis. Sci Rep 8, 16449 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34189-x
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