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Erschienen in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 1/2015

Open Access 01.12.2015 | Research

PTTG1 expression is associated with hyperproliferative disease and poor prognosis in multiple myeloma

verfasst von: Jacqueline E. Noll, Kate Vandyke, Duncan R. Hewett, Krzysztof M. Mrozik, Rachel J. Bala, Sharon A. Williams, Chung H. Kok, Andrew CW Zannettino

Erschienen in: Journal of Hematology & Oncology | Ausgabe 1/2015

Abstract

Background

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable haematological malignancy characterised by the clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells within the bone marrow. We have previously identified pituitary tumour transforming gene 1 (Pttg1) as a gene that is significantly upregulated in the haematopoietic compartment of the myeloma-susceptible C57BL/KaLwRij mouse strain, when compared with the myeloma-resistant C57BL/6 mouse. Over-expression of PTTG1 has previously been associated with malignant progression and an enhanced proliferative capacity in solid tumours.

Methods

In this study, we investigated PTTG1 gene and protein expression in MM plasma cells from newly diagnosed MM patients. Gene expression profiling was used to identify gene signatures associated with high PTTG1 expression in MM patients. Additionally, we investigated the effect of short hairpin ribonucleic acid (shRNA)-mediated PTTG1 knockdown on the proliferation of the murine myeloma plasma cell line 5TGM1 in vitro and in vivo.

Results

PTTG1 was found to be over-expressed in 36–70 % of MM patients, relative to normal controls, with high PTTG1 expression being associated with poor patient outcomes (hazard ratio 2.49; 95 % CI 1.28 to 4.86; p = 0.0075; log-rank test). In addition, patients with high PTTG1 expression exhibited increased expression of cell proliferation-associated genes including CCNB1, CCNB2, CDK1, AURKA, BIRC5 and DEPDC1. Knockdown of Pttg1 in 5TGM1 cells decreased cellular proliferation, without affecting cell cycle distribution or viability, and decreased expression of Ccnb1, Birc5 and Depdc1 in vitro. Notably, Pttg1 knockdown significantly reduced MM tumour development in vivo, with an 83.2 % reduction in tumour burden at 4 weeks (p < 0.0001, two-way ANOVA).

Conclusions

This study supports a role for increased PTTG1 expression in augmenting tumour development in a subset of MM patients.
Hinweise

Electronic supplementary material

The online version of this article (doi:10.​1186/​s13045-015-0209-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Jacqueline E. Noll and Kate Vandyke equal first author.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ contributions

JN performed and designed experimental work and wrote the paper; KV performed in silico analyses and experimental work and wrote the paper; DH performed experimental work and wrote the paper; RB, SW and KM performed experimental work; CK performed in silico analyses; AZ facilitated research and wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Background

Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterised by the clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells within the bone marrow (BM) and is the second most common haematological malignancy. The key clinical manifestations of MM include the development of painful osteolytic bone lesions, renal insufficiency, suppressed haematopoietic function and increased BM angiogenesis [1]. There are an array of clinical variants of the disease, ranging from the asymptomatic monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smouldering MM, to the more aggressive active MM and plasma cell leukaemia. Numerous genes, pathways and miRNAs have been identified in MM that function as predictive biomarkers of highly proliferative disease and likelihood of response to treatment [26]. Although the introduction of novel therapies has seen a significant improvement in the median survival of some groups of MM patients, the survival for some subgroups of patients, particularly those with highly proliferative disease, remains poor [7]. This highlights the need to identify new genes and pathways that may be involved in the pathophysiology of MM to aid in both prognosis and the development of novel therapeutics.
The C57BL/KaLwRij (KaLwRij) mouse strain, a closely related derivative of the C57BL/6 strain, is one of the best-studied pre-clinical animal models of MM. The KaLwRij strain is susceptible to developing benign monoclonal gammopathy and, in a small proportion of mice, MM at >2 years of age [8, 9]. Additionally, KaLwRij mice exhibit an inherent ability to support the growth of exogenous malignant plasma cells. The intravenous injection of murine myeloma cell lines, such as the KaLwRij-derived lines 5T33MM, 5T2MM and 5TGM1, into KaLwRij mice results in a myeloma-like disease that closely resembles human MM [1014]. The mechanisms responsible for this susceptibility to the development of myeloma in this strain of mice remain largely unknown. Importantly, we [15, 16] and others [17] have previously utilised this model to identify key genes whose expression may play a role in the development of MM disease in these mice.
We have previously identified pituitary tumour transforming gene 1 (Pttg1) (also known as securin, EAP1 and TUTR1) as a gene that displays significantly increased expression in KaLwRij mice compared with C57BL/6 controls [15]. Notably, PTTG1 is over-expressed in a vast array of malignancies including pituitary [18, 19], colorectal [20], thyroid [21] and lung [22] cancer, and high levels of PTTG1 are commonly associated with an enhanced proliferative capacity, increased tumour grade and high invasive potential [23]. PTTG1 is a key regulator of sister chromatid segregation during mitosis and, additionally, is involved in DNA damage repair [23]. An increase in PTTG1 expression has previously been described in up to 63 % of MM patients [24, 25]; however, the role played by PTTG1 in MM disease development has not been determined. In the present study, we confirm up-regulation of PTTG1 in MM plasma cells from a subset of MM patients compared with both MGUS and healthy controls and show that elevated PTTG1 expression is associated with an increase in cell cycle-related gene expression and is associated with poor survival. Furthermore, knockdown of Pttg1 decreases cellular proliferation in vitro and reduces myeloma tumour burden in vivo in the KaLwRij model of MM. Collectively, these data support a role for PTTG1 in promoting MM disease pathogenesis, likely through cell cycle- and proliferation-related pathways.

Results

PTTG1 is over-expressed in the C57BL/KaLwRij mouse model of myeloma

In order to identify genes that may play a role in the development of myeloma, we previously compared the transcriptome of the bone/BM of KaLwRij mice to that of the genetically related C57BL/6 strain using microarray [15]. Using this approach, we identified Pttg1 as a gene with significantly increased expression (2.9-fold; p = 0.00037, LIMMA) within the bone/BM of KaLwRij mice compared with C57BL/6 controls [15]. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was subsequently used to assess the relative messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression levels of Pttg1 in a range of tissues derived from the C57BL/6 and KaLwRij mice (n = 3/group). As seen in Fig. 1a, Pttg1 mRNA levels were significantly increased in the bone, BM, peripheral blood and spleen of KaLwRij mice, when compared with those of C57BL/6 controls (p < 0.05, t test). Although an increase in Pttg1 expression was also noted in the thymus, this did not reach significance (p = 0.11, t test). Furthermore, there was a significant increase in Pttg1 expression in CD138+ plasma cells derived from KaLwRij mice compared with those from C57BL/6 controls (Fig. 1b; p = 0.045, t test). Together, these data confirm that Pttg1 expression levels are up-regulated in the bone, haematopoietic tissues and plasma cells of KaLwRij mice.

PTTG1 is over-expressed in MM patients and is associated with poor survival

To examine whether MM patients display increased PTTG1 expression, we performed in silico analyses in three independent publically available microarray datasets (E-GEOD-6477; E-GEOD-16122; E-MTAB-363) comparing the gene expression profiles of CD138+-isolated plasma cells from newly diagnosed MGUS and MM patients and normal controls. In E-GEOD-6477 and E-MTAB-363, PTTG1 expression was significantly increased in the MM patient cohort compared with the normal controls (p < 0.05) and MGUS patients (p < 0.05; Fig. 2a, b). In E-GEOD-16122, PTTG1 expression was significantly increased in MM patients compared with MGUS patients (p < 0.05; Fig. 2c). Approximately 38–70 % (38.4 % [28/73], E-GEOD-6477; 70.3 % [109/155], E-MTAB-363; 68.4 % [66/133], E-GEOD-16122) of MM patients expressed PTTG1 at levels higher than the normal range (mean + 2SD of the normal cohort expression). We subsequently isolated CD138+ plasma cells from diagnostic MM patient BM (n = 11) using CD138-MACS, total RNA was isolated and PTTG1 mRNA expression examined by qRT-PCR. Four of the 11 patients (36.4 %) were found to express PTTG1 in the purified plasma cells (Additional file 1: Figure S1). Using dual-colour immunohistochemistry, we also confirmed PTTG1 protein expression within CD138+ plasma cells in BM trephines from two PTTG1-expressing MM patients (Fig. 2d). Consistent with previous reports [24, 26], PTTG1 protein was predominantly cytoplasmic.
Collectively, these data suggest that over-expression of PTTG1 is a feature of MM disease in approximately 36–70 % of MM patients. In order to determine whether the increased expression of PTTG1 in MM patients was related to patient survival, newly diagnosed MM patients enrolled in the total therapy 2 (TT2) trial, from publically available microarray dataset GSE4581, were stratified based on PTTG1 expression levels. The quartile with the highest PTTG1 expression was classified as PTTG1 high (n = 71 patients), while the remaining patients (n = 214) were classified as PTTG1 low. Subsequent analysis of overall survival identified a significantly poorer survival in the PTTG1 high group (hazard ratio 2.49; 95 % CI 1.28 to 4.86; p = 0.0075; log-rank [Mantel-Cox] test; Fig. 2e).
When MM patients in dataset GSE4581 were partitioned into gene expression profiling-defined subgroups (UAMS classifications) [4], elevated PTTG1 was found to be associated with specific disease subtypes (Fig. 2f). Specifically, PTTG1 expression was elevated in the PR subgroup, characterised by expression of proliferation-related genes, when compared with the subgroups characterised by chromosomal translocations involving cyclin D1 and D3 (CD1 and CD2), MAF (MF) or MMSET (MS), by hyperdiploidy (HY) or by a decreased prevalence of lytic bone disease (LB) (Fig. 2f). Additionally, significantly elevated PTTG1 was observed in the HY group, when compared with the CD2, LB, MF and MS subgroups.

PTTG1 expression in MM patients is associated with an increase in expression of cell cycle-associated genes

As elevated PTTG1 expression was shown to be associated with poor outcomes in MM patients, we next compared MM plasma cell gene expression between PTTG1 high and PTTG1 low MM patients in four independent microarray datasets. Twenty-nine genes were found to be significantly down-regulated, and 1459 genes significantly up-regulated (excluding PTTG1) in at least one dataset (Fisher’s p value <0.05). Of these, 155 genes were significantly up-regulated, and no genes were down-regulated, in all four datasets. Of the 119 of these genes that were classified in DAVID, there was an enrichment for cell cycle-related genes, with 82/119 (68.9 %) being genes associated with mitosis. Genes up-regulated by more than twofold, all with a strong (p < 0.0001) positive correlation (Spearman) with PTTG1 expression, included key cell cycle regulators (eg. CCNB1, CCNB2, CDK1, CKS2), genes associated with DNA replication (eg. MCM2, GINS1, RRM2), response to DNA damage (eg. CHEK1, PBK), mitotic spindle and microtubule organisation (eg. AURKA, NEK1, PRC1), chromosome segregation during mitosis (eg. CENPA, CENPH, PENPK, BIRC5) and ubiquitin ligase activity and protein catabolism (eg. UBE2C, CDC20, MAD2L1, DTL) (Table 1; Fig. 3). Other non-cell cycle genes associated with high PTTG1 include DEPDC1 and the histone demethylase EZH2.
Table 1
Gene significantly upregulated more than twofold in PTTG1 high MM patients
Probeset IDa
Gene symbol
Fisher’s p valueb
Fold changec [mean (95 % CI)]
Regulation Of cell cycle
 213226_at
CCNA2
2.20 × 10−31
2.32 (1.84–2.80)
 214710_s_at
CCNB1
2.18 × 10−40
4.07 (2.61–5.53)
 202705_at
CCNB2
1.98 × 10−41
3.54 (1.93–5.14)
 203213_at
CDK1
9.11 × 10−37
3.91 (2.44–5.39)
 1555758_a_at
CDKN3
1.63 × 10−40
2.90 (1.68–4.13)
 204170_s_at
CKS2
2.02 × 10−35
2.88 (2.69–3.07)
 218350_s_at
GMNN
1.03 × 10−32
2.32 (1.71–2.93)
 204825_at
MELK
5.20 × 10−35
2.67 (1.88–3.47)
DNA replication
 206102_at
GINS1
6.74 × 10−29
2.99 (1.91–4.07)
 202107_s_at
MCM2
1.04 × 10−33
2.33 (1.79–2.87)
 201930_at
MCM6
5.41 × 10−20
2.03 (1.32–2.74)
 201202_at
PCNA
1.74 × 10−22
2.36 (1.81–2.91)
 204127_at
RFC3
3.82 × 10−17
2.12 (1.27–2.97)
 209773_s_at
RRM2
2.80 × 10−36
4.15 (2.38–5.92)
 1554696_s_at
TYMS
7.15 × 10−41
2.47 (0.95–4.00)
Response to DNA damage
 205394_at
CHEK1
1.33 × 10−36
2.74 (1.88–3.61)
 213007_at
FANCI
2.04 × 10−24
2.25 (1.04–3.47)
 202503_s_at
KIAA0101
1.34 × 10−38
3.59 (2.23–4.96)
 223700_at
MND1
9.45 × 10−41
2.03 (1.44–2.92)
 219148_at
PBK
3.18 × 10−38
3.62 (1.60–5.64)
 205909_at
POLE2
5.33 × 10−25
2.08 (1.49–2.67)
 204146_at
RAD51AP1
2.74 × 10−26
2.41 (1.56–3.26)
 219258_at
TIPIN
2.66 × 10−33
2.06 (1.70–2.41)
 204033_at
TRIP13
4.71 × 10−38
2.45 (1.87–3.04)
Mitotic spindle and microtubule organisation
 208079_s_at
AURKA
4.49 × 10−35
2.74 (2.22–3.26)
 204162_at
NDC80
1.96 × 10−32
3.23 (1.85–4.62)
 204641_at
NEK2
1.24 × 10−29
2.84 (1.65–4.03)
 218039_at
NUSAP1
9.20 × 10−37
3.47 (1.29–5.66)
 218009_s_at
PRC1
4.37 × 10−31
2.54 (1.69–3.39)
 222077_s_at
RACGAP1
5.24 × 10−31
3.01 (1.90–4.13)
 209891_at
SPC25
3.04 × 10−40
2.84 (2.62–3.06)
 200783_s_at
STMN1
1.27 × 10−34
2.33 (1.73–2.94)
 204822_at
TTK
1.30 × 10−34
2.66 (1.03–4.28)
 204026_s_at
ZWINT
4.49 × 10−29
3.09 (1.01–5.17)
Sister chromatid segregation
 202095_s_at
BIRC5
8.63 × 10−38
2.60 (1.94–3.26)
 204962_s_at
CENPA
7.33 × 10−38
2.97 (2.14–3.81)
 231772_x_at
CENPH
2.98 × 10−32
2.12 (1.76–2.47)
 222848_at
CENPK
5.40 × 10−31
2.90 (1.86–3.94)
 219555_s_at
CENPN
1.53 × 10−33
2.06 (1.45–2.67)
 226936_at
CENPW
2.43 × 10−39
2.40 (1.39–3.41)
 218663_at
NCAPG
2.21 × 10−34
2.61 (1.44–3.79)
 213599_at
OIP5
6.22 × 10−41
2.99 (2.39–3.59)
Ubiquitin ligase activity
 202870_s_at
CDC20
1.02 × 10−36
2.43 (2.28–2.58)
 222680_s_at
DTL
4.43 × 10−29
2.88 (1.22–4.55)
 203362_s_at
MAD2L1
1.01 × 10−32
3.07 (1.92–4.23)
 202954_at
UBE2C
2.48 × 10−37
2.20 (1.15–3.24)
 223229_at
UBE2T
4.11 × 10−30
2.30 (0.82–3.78)
Chromatin modification
 203358_s_at
EZH2
1.21 × 10−24
2.41 (1.63–3.20)
 227212_s_at
PHF19
1.18 × 10−29
2.38 (1.59–3.17)
Other
 222958_s_at
DEPDC1
2.47 × 10−25
2.32 (1.31–3.32)
 226980_at
DEPDC1B
2.52 × 10−33
2.37 (2.00–2.74)
 225834_at
FAM72A/FAM72B/FAM72C/FAM72D
1.10 × 10−29
3.31 (1.01–5.62)
 228069_at
MTFR2
1.36 × 10−31
2.07 (1.62–2.53)
 235113_at
PPIL5
3.17 × 10−27
2.08 (1.53–2.63)
 229551_x_at
ZNF367
1.30 × 10−20
2.20 (1.48–2.93)
aGenes are shown for which statistically significant differences were observed in all of the four datasets analysed. Data is shown for the Affymetrix probeset with the lowest p value for each gene
bFisher’s method was used to combine the p values across the four datasets
cMean fold change observed for PTTG1 high vs PTTG1 low patients across the four datasets

Pttg1 knockdown in 5TGM1 cells inhibits cell proliferation in vitro

Consistent with the elevated expression of Pttg1 in KaLwRij-derived plasma cells and the KaLwRij mouse tumour origin of the 5TGM1 cell line [27, 28], 5TGM1 cells express high levels of Pttg1 (data not shown). Using lentiviral transduction, we stably introduced a short hairpin ribonucleic acid (shRNA) within an mCherry-tagged vector to specifically knockdown Pttg1 in luciferase-expressing 5TGM1 cells. Pttg1 expression levels, as assessed by qRT-PCR (Fig. 4a) and Western blot (Fig. 4b), were reduced by 70 % in the knockdown cell line (denoted 5TGM1-PTTG-kd) when compared with a scrambled shRNA control line (5TGM1-SCRAM). These cell lines were used for subsequent in vivo and in vitro experiments.
As high PTTG1 expression in MM patients correlates with increased expression of cell cycle- and proliferation-associated genes, we next examined whether Pttg1 may play a role in modulating cell cycle progression and proliferation in murine myeloma plasma cells. After 3 days of culture, cell number, as determined by water-soluble tetrazolium salt (WST-1) assay, was significantly decreased by 75 % in the 5TGM1-PTTG-kd cells when compared with the 5TGM1-SCRAM controls (Fig. 4c, p < 0.01, two-way ANOVA with Sidak’s multiple comparison tests). Furthermore, the proliferative capacity of the 5TGM1-PTTG-kd line in vitro was decreased by 83 % compared with the 5TGM1-SCRAM control, as determined by bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation over 2 h (Fig. 4d, p = 0.018, t test). However, there was no effect of Pttg1 knockdown on cell cycle distribution, as determined by propidium iodide (PI) staining (Fig. 4e, p = 0.998, two-way ANOVA). Furthermore, cell viability, as assessed by trypan blue exclusion, was not affected by Pttg1 knockdown (data not shown). Taken together, these results suggest that elevated expression of Pttg1 in the malignant 5TGM1 cells may be associated with increased cell proliferation.

Pttg1 knockdown reduces the expression of proliferation-related genes in the 5TGM1 mouse myeloma cell line

In order to elucidate a potential mechanism through which loss of Pttg1 inhibits proliferation, we examined the expression of a selection of proliferation-related genes identified in the human patient datasets (see Table 1) in the 5TGM1-PTTG1-kd cell line compared with the 5TGM1-SCRAM control. Our findings show that expression of genes encoding the cell cycle regulator Ccnb1 (p = 0.0039, t test) and the kinetochore-associated protein Birc5 (p = 0.0008, t test) were decreased by 52 and 48 %, respectively, in the PTTG1-kd cells, compared with the scramble control cells (Fig. 5). In contrast, expression of genes encoding the cell cycle regulator Cdk1 and the deoxyribonucleotide synthesis enzyme Rrm2 were not affected by Pttg1 knockdown (p = 0.2391, t test). Additionally, expression of Depdc1, which has previously been implicated in MM [29], was decreased by 38 % (p = 0.0055, t test) in the PTTG1-kd cells.

Pttg1 knockdown in 5TGM1 cells reduces tumour burden in vivo

To ascertain whether the observed decrease in proliferation in the 5TGM1-PTTG-kd cells corresponded with reduced tumour growth in vivo, the 5TGM1-PTTG-kd and 5TGM1-SCRAM cell lines were injected i.v. into C57BL/KaLwRij mice and tumour burden was monitored at weekly intervals by bioluminescent imaging. As seen in Fig. 6, tumour burden was decreased by 83 % in the Pttg1 knockdown group compared with the control group at 4 weeks (p < 0.0001, two-way ANOVA with Sidak’s post-test), suggesting that high basal expression of Pttg1 in 5TGM1 cells is important for in vivo tumour growth.

Discussion

Over-expression of PTTG1 has previously been linked to neoplastic transformation in a wide range of cell types [23, 3032]. Increased expression of PTTG1 has been extensively studied in pituitary adenomas, as well as a range of other endocrine cancers (reviewed by [33]). By comparison, little is known about the role PTTG1 may play in haematological malignancies. Early studies demonstrated that PTTG1 was highly expressed in approximately 70 % of patients with leukaemia, lymphoma or other myelodysplastic diseases but not in healthy donors [26, 34]. More recently, high PTTG1 protein expression has been observed in 63 % of MM patients [24, 25]; however, the biological and prognostic significance of PTTG1 over-expression was not investigated in these studies. In the current study, we show a significant increase in PTTG1 expression in human MM patients, with approximately 36–70 % of patients showing increased expression of PTTG1 above that seen in healthy controls, findings which were subsequently confirmed by analysis of our own MM patient specimens. Importantly, increased PTTG1 expression was associated with poor overall survival, suggesting that high PTTG1 expression may be implicated in MM disease severity and poor patient outcome. Additionally, our analyses show that PTTG1 is upregulated in MM patients, but not in the asymptomatic precursor MGUS, suggesting an association with disease progression.
Chromosomal rearrangements and duplications are early events in the development of myeloma with the presence of genomic instability being associated with poor prognosis [35]. In this study, elevated PTTG1 was specifically observed in a subgroup of MM patients displaying a hyperdiploid phenotype (HY group). This is consistent with the role of PTTG1 in regulating sister chromatid separation during mitosis [36, 37] as dysregulation of this key function commonly leads to genomic instability [3842]. Over-expression of PTTG1 promotes dysregulated chromosome segregation resulting in aneuploidy in human cancer cell lines [40, 41, 43]. The chromosomal instability induced by PTTG1 over-expression has been proposed as a mechanism whereby PTTG1 drives malignant transformation [44]. Interestingly, gene expression profiling studies have shown that the presence of chromosomal instability in newly diagnosed myeloma patients is associated with a gene expression profile that includes upregulation of PTTG1 [35]. These data suggest that expression of PTTG1 in MM patients may contribute to the development of chromosome duplications characteristic of the HY group.
In addition to its association with hyperdiploidy, we found a significant increase in PTTG1 expression in subset of patients with a proliferation-related gene expression profile (PR group), which is associated with high-risk disease and poor prognosis [4]. Elevated PTTG1 has previously been identified as part of a gene signature that is associated with increased proliferative index and is an independent predictor of poor prognosis in newly diagnosed MM patients [45]. The increase in PTTG1 in MM patients with highly proliferative disease is consistent with data from other systems which show that increased expression of PTTG1 correlates with high levels of cellular proliferation [4648]. While, in the short term, over-expression of PTTG1 prevents exit from mitosis, leading to cell cycle arrest and increased cell death [49, 50], sustained; stable over-expression of PTTG1 generally leads to enhanced cellular proliferation [32, 51, 52]. Notably, our Pttg1 knockdown studies in the KaLwRij-derived 5TGM1 myeloma plasma cell line resulted in a reduction in cellular proliferation in vitro, as well as decreased tumour development in vivo. This is consistent with a number of animal knockout and knockdown studies in a range of different cell types, which show that reduction of PTTG1 expression inhibits cell proliferation [5259]. Taken together, these data are consistent with increased expression of Pttg1 being a core requirement for the growth of malignant plasma cells in some patients.
In support of the pro-proliferative role of PTTG1 in myeloma, analysis of four independent MM patient gene expression datasets revealed that the majority (68.9 %) of genes significantly up-regulated in PTTG1 high patients had proliferation-related functions, specifically cell cycle regulation, DNA replication, mitotic spindle formation, chromosome segregation and DNA damage pathways. These included 20 of the top 50 genes originally identified as being upregulated in the PR subgroup [4]. Notable exclusions include the cancer/testis antigens MAGEA1, MAGEA3, MAGEA6, GAGE1, GAGE2, GAGE4 and GAGE5, which were originally identified as being strongly upregulated in the PR subgroup [4] but are not upregulated in our PTTG1 high patients. This, combined with the strength of the association between PTTG1 expression and the expression of cell cycle-associated genes, suggests that the upregulation of proliferation-related genes with high PTTG1 expression is not simply due to an increased representation of PR patients in this group.
Indeed, we found that knockdown of Pttg1 was associated with downregulation of cell cycle regulatory genes in the 5TGM1 cell line, suggesting a potential mechanism for the decreased proliferation observed in these cells. Cell cycle genes CcnB1 (cyclin B1) and Birc5 (survivin), which were among the most highly up-regulated genes identified in our patient analysis, were down-regulated by approximately 50 % by Pttg1 knockdown in the 5TGM1 cells. Both CCNB1 and BIRC5 have been identified as part of gene expression signatures predictive of high-risk disease and poor prognosis in MM patients in several studies [4, 5, 45, 6063]. PTTG1, CCNB1 and BIRC5 expression are under tight transcriptional control during cell cycle progression, being switched on during G2/M phase [46, 49, 64, 65]. While this suggests that downregulation of Ccnb1 and Birc5 expression following Pttg1 could be a consequence of a decrease in G2/M phase cells, we saw no change in cell cycle distribution in the PTTG1-kd cells to support this. Cyclin B1, an essential regulator of cell cycle transition during mitosis, has previously been identified as a PTTG1-regulated gene whose up-regulation is associated with enhanced proliferation in keratinocytes [52]. BIRC5 is an inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAP) family member which regulates microtubule dynamics and chromosomal segregation during mitosis. Over-expression and knockdown studies in human myeloma cell lines have implicated BIRC5 in proliferation and protection of MM cells from apoptosis [62, 64, 66]. Taken together, these data suggest a potential role for cyclin B1 and BIRC5 in PTTG1-mediated tumour growth.
In addition to its role as a securin during chromatid segregation, PTTG1 can directly regulate gene expression. PTTG1 has been shown to physically interact with p53, repressing its transcriptional activity [36]. Additionally, p53 expression can be transcriptionally and translationally repressed by transient over-expression of PTTG1 [67]. Notably, some of the genes found to strongly correlate with PTTG1 expression in this study, including CDK1, CCNB1, CCNB2 and BIRC5 are known to be inhibited downstream of p53 [6870]; p53-mediated regulation of gene expression down stream of PTTG1 could be a focus of future studies. However, we found no correlation between PTTG1 and p53 expression in MM patients in any of the datasets examined (data not shown), suggesting that PTTG1 is unlikely to transcriptionally downregulate p53 expression in plasma cells from MM patients. Additionally, our data suggests that PTTG1 upregulation in MM patients is not a consequence of deletion of the p53 locus 17p13, or associated TP53 mutations [71], which is observed in approximately 10 % of patients and is itself associated with poor prognosis [7274].
In addition to cell cycle genes, we found that expression of DEPDC1 (Dishevelled, EGL-10, Pleckstrin domain containing 1) was significantly up-regulated in PTTG1 high patients. Importantly, Pttg1 knockdown in myeloma cells leads to a 40 % reduction in DEPDC1 expression. While the function of DEPDC1 is unknown, its expression has been associated with poor prognosis in lung cancer [75] and advanced disease in breast cancer [76]. Knockdown of DEPDC1 or inhibition using a specific peptide results in decreased cell proliferation and apoptosis in bladder cancer cell lines [77, 78]. In myeloma, DEPDC1 expression has been associated with poor prognosis [29]. In addition, shRNA-mediated DEPCD1 knockdown in human myeloma cell lines was shown to significantly inhibit cell proliferation and induce accumulation in G2/M in TP53 wild-type cells and marked apoptosis in TP53 mutant cells [29]. These data suggest that regulation of DEPDC1 expression may be a mechanism whereby PTTG1 regulates cell proliferation in myeloma.
Although studies have identified a role for PTTG1 in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) [7981] and recent studies by Azab and colleagues [82] have identified a role for the EMT processes in the dissemination and homing of MM plasma cells to the BM, we showed no association between the expression of EMT-related genes and high PTTG1 expression in MM patients. In addition, PTTG1 has previously been shown to directly mediate pro-angiogenic pathways through regulation of secreted factors VEGF and FGF-2 [19, 83, 84], which in turn are commonly expressed in MM and associated with increased disease severity [8587]. However, our analyses did not identify an increase in these, or other, secreted pro-angiogenic factors in the presence of increased PTTG1 expression in MM patients. These data suggest that PTTG1 is unlikely to function through EMT or angiogenic pathways in modulating MM disease.

Conclusions

In summary, we have identified PTTG1 as a gene which is over-expressed in the MM-susceptible KalwRij mouse and in MM patients with hyperdiploidy or with hyperproliferative disease, suggesting a role in MM disease development. Knockdown of Pttg1 significantly inhibited the proliferation of myeloma cells in vitro, with an associated decrease in the expression of mitosis-related genes, and slowed tumour development in vivo. While expression of PTTG1 has previously been noted in gene expression signatures defining myeloma patients with highly proliferative disease [4] and chromosomal instability [35] and, by association, poor outcomes, this is the first study to show that PTTG1 expression alone is sufficient to identify a subset of patients with poor overall survival. Collectively, our data suggest that the poor prognosis associated with PTTG1 expression is due to a hyperproliferative state in these patients, which may result from the PTTG1-mediated upregulation of key drivers of cell cycle progression.

Materials and methods

Mouse tissue and plasma cell isolation

C57BL/6 mice were obtained from the Animal Resources Centre (Perth, Australia). C57BL/KaLwRij mice, originally kindly provided by Prof. Andrew Spencer (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), were bred and housed at the SA Pathology Animal Care Facility (Adelaide, Australia). Tissues from C57BL/6 and C57BL/KaLwRij mice were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and homogenised in TRIzol (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA). Blood was obtained from mice by cardiac puncture, collected in microfuge tubes containing 50 μL 0.5 M EDTA and centrifuged for 10 min at 500g and the cell pellet resuspended in TRIzol by vigorous vortexing. Femora and tibiae from age- and sex-matched C57BL/6 and C57BL/KaLwRij mice were extracted and cleaned thoroughly. A 21-gauge needle was inserted into the BM cavity, and the BM was flushed with ice-cold PFE (PBS/2 %FCS/2 mM EDTA). The resulting cell suspension was subjected to Ficoll density gradient separation and collected in 10 mL PFE, followed by centrifugation at 300g for 5 min at 4 °C. BM cells were immediately lysed in TRIzol, or CD138+ plasma cells were isolated by FACS. Briefly, cells were resuspended at 1 × 107 cells/mL in PFE and blocked with 110 μg/mL murine gamma globulin (Jackson Laboratories, Bar Harbor, ME) for 30 min at 4 °C. Cells were stained for 30 min at 4 °C protected from light with rat anti-mouse CD138 (R & D Systems, Minneapolis, MN) or an isotype control, washed twice with PFE and stained with secondary goat anti-rat IgG PE (Southern Biotech, Birmingham, AL) for 30 min at 4 °C protected from light. Cells were washed three times with PFE, followed by sorting for CD138+ cells on a FACSAria II (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA). Total RNA was isolated from sorted cells using an RNAqueous Micro kit (Life Technologies).

Microarray analysis

For comparison of PTTG1 expression in CD138+ BM plasma cells, isolated by CD138-MACS, from newly diagnosed MM or MGUS patients or normal controls, three independent datasets were used: E-GEOD-6477 (normal, n = 5; MGUS, n = 11; MM, n = 133 [61]), E-GEOD-16122 (normal, n = 15; MGUS, n = 22; MM, n = 73 [88]) and E-MTAB-363 (normal, n = 5; MGUS, n = 5; MM, n = 156 [89]). Analysis of PTTG1 expression in different gene expression-defined (UAMS) patient subsets was conducted in GSE4581 (n = 414) [4]. Analysis of patient survival in PTTG1 high and PTTG1 low newly diagnosed MM patients was carried out using GSE4581 analysing patients included in the total therapy 2 (TT2) trial (n = 256). Four independent datasets were used for analysis of gene expression in PTTG1 high (quartile 4) and PTTG1 low (quartiles 1–3) patient subsets in CD138-selected BM plasma cells from newly diagnosed MM patients: E-GEOD-19784 (n = 328) [90], E-GEOD-26863 (n = 304) [91], E-MTAB-317 (n = 226) [45] and E-MTAB-363 (n = 156). E-MTAB-363, E-GEOD-26863, E-MTAB-317 and GSE4581 were conducted on Affymetrix GeneChip Human Genome U133 plus 2.0 arrays; E-GEOD-6477 and E-GEOD-16122 were conducted on Affymetrix GeneChip Human Genome U133A arrays. For all datasets except GSE4581, raw microarray data (CEL files) were downloaded from ArrayExpress (EMBL-EBI) and were normalised by RMA using the bioconductor package (affy) [92] and R (version 3.03) and log2 transformed. One patient in E-MTAB-363 (V0681) failed quality control (normalised unscaled standard error [NUSE] >1.05) and was excluded, and the remaining 165 files were re-normalised. For GSE4581, MAS5-normalised data were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and were log2 normalised prior to analysis. GO annotation (http://​www.​geneontology.​org) and DAVID [93, 94] were used to classify genes by related function.

MM patient samples

BM trephines and aspirates were collected, with informed consent, from patients with MM at the time of diagnosis and prior to initiation of therapy. This study was approved by the Royal Adelaide Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (application # RAH 030206 and 131133).

CD138+ plasma cell isolation from MM patients

CD138+ plasma cells were isolated from diagnostic MM patient BM samples using CD138 microbeads (Miltenyi Biotech, Auburn, CA) as previously described [15]. Briefly, cryopreserved human BM samples were thawed into 10 mL DMEM (high glucose) with 15 % FCS and DNase I (80 U/mL). Samples were centrifuged at 300g for 10 min and supernatant removed. The cell pellet was resuspended in MACS buffer (2 mM EDTA, 0.5 % deionised BSA in PBS) and CD138 microbeads added, followed by incubation on ice for 15 min. Cell-bead conjugates were washed in 1 mL MACS buffer and centrifuged at 300g for 10 min. Cells were resuspended in MACS buffer, applied to a pre-rinsed MS column and washed three times with MACS buffer and eluted in 1 mL. Subsequent FACS analysis confirmed >85 % CD138+ following MACS. Total RNA was isolated using an All Prep DNA/RNA Micro Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA).

Dual colour staining BM trephines

Paraffin-embedded BM trephine sections were mounted on silicane-coated slides and dried. Endogenous peroxidase was blocked with 0.5 % H2O2 in methanol at room temperature for 30 min, followed by blocking with 3 % normal horse serum (NHS) for 30 min. Slides were incubated with anti-PTTG1 antibody (diluted 1:50; DCS-280; Abcam) at room temperature overnight. Slides were washed twice in PBS and incubated with biotinylated anti-mouse IgG (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) diluted 1:250 for 30 min at room temperature, washed in PBS and incubated with streptavidin Alexa Fluor 488 (diluted 1:500; Life Technologies) diluted 1:500 for 1 h at room temperature. Slides were re-blocked with 3 % NHS for 30 min and incubated with mouse anti-human CD138 (diluted 1:40; MI15, Dako, Denmark) overnight. Slides were washed twice with PBS followed by incubation for 1 h at room temperature with anti-mouse Alexa Fluor 594 (diluted 1:500, Life Technologies) and mounted in aqueous mounting solution. Images were taken on a Zeiss LSM 700 confocal system (Zeiss, Oberkocken, Germany) at ×40 magnification.

Cell lines

The murine myeloma plasma cell line 5TGM1 was kindly provided by Ass. Prof. Claire Edwards (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), and was maintained in Iscove’s modified Dulbecco’s medium (Sigma) with 20 % FCS. Unless otherwise specified, all culture medium was supplemented with 2 mM l-glutamine, 100 U/mL penicillin, 100 μg/mL streptomycin, 10 mM HEPES buffer (Life Technologies) and 1 mM sodium pyruvate.

Generation of stable PTTG1 knockdown lines

To generate stable knockdown cell lines, an RNA duplex targeting murine Pttg1 (GGGAAATTGCAGGTTTCAACG) was cloned into the pFIV-H1-mCherry vector. A scrambled sequence was used as a control. pFIV-H1-mCherry was created by excising the GFP cassette from pFIV-H1-GFP (System Biosciences, Mountain View, CA) using XbaI and SalI and replacing it with the mCherry cassette from pMSCV-mCherry. Following lentiviral infection of 5TGM1-luc cells (expressing a dual GFP and luciferase reporter construct [16, 96, 97]), single-cell clones were generated from the top 10 % GFP- and mCherry-expressing cells using preparative cell sorting and the automatic cell deposition unit on a Beckman Coulter Epics Altra HyperSort, using Expo MultiComp Software version 1.2B (Beckman Coulter, Miami, FL). Clonal 5TGM1-PTTG-kd and 5TGM1-SCRAM lines were used for subsequent in vitro and in vivo assays.

Real-time PCR

Total RNA was isolated using TRIzol (Life Technologies) as per the standard protocol (unless otherwise specified). For mouse and human CD138+ plasma cells, RNA was reverse transcribed using Sensiscript (Qiagen). For all other tissues and cell lines, RNA (1 μg) was reverse transcribed with Superscript III (Life Technologies) as per the manufacturer’s protocol. Real-time PCR was conducted on the Corbett Rotorgene using the following primers: human β-actin (F: 5'-TTGCTGACAGGATGCAGAAG-3' and R: 5'-AAGGGTGTAAAACGCAGCTC-3'), human PTTG1 (F: 5'-CGGCCTCAGATGAATGCGGCT-3' and R: 5'-TTGATTGAAGGTCCAGACCCCAGC-3'), mouse Gapdh (F: 5'- ACCCAGAAGACTGTGGATGG-3' and R: 5'-CAGTGAGCTTCCCGTTCAG-3'), mouse β-actin (F: 5'-TTG CTGACAGGATGCAGAAG-3' and R: 5'-CAGTGAGCTTCCCGTTCA-3'), mouse Pttg1 (F: 5'-GCTCCTGATGATGCCTACCC-3' and R: 5'-CGCCATTCAAGGGGAGAAGT-3'), mouse Ccnb1 (F: 5'-GATGATGGGGCTGACCCAAA-3' and R: 5'-ACATGGTCTCCTGAAGCAGC-3'), mouse Cdk1 (F: 5'-GTCCGTCGTAACCTGTTGAG-3' and R: 5'-TGACTATATTTGGATGTCGAAG-3') [98], mouse Rrm2 (F: 5'-GATTTAGCCAAGAAGTTCAAGTTACAG-3' and R: 5'-TCACACAAGGCATAGTTTCAATAGC-3') [99], mouse Birc5 (F: 5'-GAACCCGATGACAACCCGAT–3' and R: 5'-TGGTCTCCTTTGCAATTTTGTTCT-3') and mouse Depcd1 (F: 5'-AGCTGCAGTGGAGAAACATCT-3' and R: 5'-TGGTCTCCTTTGCAATTTTGTTCT-3'). Gene expression was represented relative to β-actin or Gapdh expression, calculated using the 2-ΔCT method.

Western blot analysis

Cells were lysed in lysis buffer (1 % NP-40, 20 mM HEPES, 150 mM NaCl, 10 % glycerol, 2 mM Na3VO4, 10 mM Na4P2O7, 2 mM NaF and Complete EDTA-free Protease Inhibitor Cocktail (Roche, Mannheim, Germany)). Total lysate (10 μg) was loaded on an 11 % acrylamide gel and subjected to SDS-PAGE. Proteins were transferred to PVDF membrane overnight. Membrane was incubated for 1 h in blocking buffer (Tris-buffered saline containing 0.1 % Tween20 and 2.5 % ECL Blocking Agent (GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, UK)) and for 2 h at RT with mouse monoclonal anti-PTTG1 antibody (DCS-280; Abcam; Cambridge, MA) diluted 1:1000 in blocking buffer, followed by alkaline phosphate-conjugated anti-mouse IgG (Millipore, Billerica, MA) diluted 1:4000 in blocking buffer for 1 h at RT. Proteins were visualised using ECL detection reagent (GE Healthcare) on a Typhoon FLA 7000 IP2 (GE Healthcare).

Proliferation assays

For WST-1 assays, 5TGM1 cells (PTTG-kd or SCRAM controls) were seeded at 1 × 105 cells/well in triplicate in 96-well plates and were incubated at 37 °C with 5 % CO2. At 24-h intervals, WST-1 reagent (Roche) was added to the cells and incubated for 2 h prior to reading absorbance at 450 nm.
For BrdU assays, 5TGM1 cells were seeded at 4 × 105 cells/well in triplicate in a 96-well plate. BrdU (Roche) was immediately added to the cells and incubated for 2 h at 37 °C with 5 % CO2. BrdU incorporation was measured using a BrdU Cell Proliferation ELISA kit (Roche) as per manufacturer’s protocol and absorbance measured at 370 nm.
For cell cycle analysis, cells were seeded at 4 × 105 cells/well in a six-well plate and incubated for 24 h at 37 °C with 5 % CO2. Cells were fixed in ice-cold 70 % (v/v) ethanol, washed twice in PBS and stained with propidium iodide (PI; 40 μg/mL; Sigma) containing 20 μg/mL RNase A (Qiagen) for 30 min prior to analysis on a Gallios flow cytometer (Beckman Coulter). Cell cycle distribution was analysed using FCS Express version 4.

Animals

Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the SA Pathology/Adelaide Health Service Animal Ethics Committee (application # 136/10). C57BL/KaLwRij mice at 6–8 weeks of age were injected with 5 × 105 luciferase-expressing 5TGM1-luc cells (5TGM1-SCRAM or 5TGM1-PTTG-kd) in 100-μl sterile PBS via the tail vein. At weekly intervals, mice were administered luciferin (150 mg/kg) i.p. and imaged using the Xenogen IVIS 100 bioluminescence imaging system (Caliper Life Sciences, Hopkinton, MA) until termination of the experiment at day 28, prior to the development of lethal disease (hind limb paralysis) [16, 96]. Total tumour burden was measured as total flux (photons/second) for each animal using Living Image software (PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA), as described previously [15, 16, 97, 100103].

Statistical analyses

Statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism version 6.03 for Windows (GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA). Variance between patient groups was assessed using Kruskal-Wallis tests with Dunn’s multiple comparison tests. In each of the E-GEOD-19784, E-GEOD-26863, E-MTAB-317 and E-MTAB-363 datasets, gene expression was compared in PTTG1 high and PTTG1 low patients, using t tests with Bonferroni’s correction for multiple testing and p values from the four datasets were combined using Fisher’s method. Survival curves were compared using the log-rank (Mantel-Cox) test with hazard ratios calculated using the Mantel-Haenszel calculation. In vivo data, WST-1 assays and cell cycle distribution were analysed by two-way ANOVA with Sidak’s multiple comparison tests. qRT-PCR data and BrdU incorporation were compared between groups using unpaired two-tailed t tests. A p value of 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Unless otherwise described, all plots depict mean + SEM of three independent experiments.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Beat Cancer Project of the Cancer Council of South Australia (AZ). JN was supported by a Veronika Sacco Clinical Cancer Research Fellowship (Florey Medical Research Foundation, University of Adelaide); KV was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation; KV and CK were supported by Mary Overton Early Career Research Fellowships (Royal Adelaide Hospital).
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Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ contributions

JN performed and designed experimental work and wrote the paper; KV performed in silico analyses and experimental work and wrote the paper; DH performed experimental work and wrote the paper; RB, SW and KM performed experimental work; CK performed in silico analyses; AZ facilitated research and wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Metadaten
Titel
PTTG1 expression is associated with hyperproliferative disease and poor prognosis in multiple myeloma
verfasst von
Jacqueline E. Noll
Kate Vandyke
Duncan R. Hewett
Krzysztof M. Mrozik
Rachel J. Bala
Sharon A. Williams
Chung H. Kok
Andrew CW Zannettino
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Journal of Hematology & Oncology / Ausgabe 1/2015
Elektronische ISSN: 1756-8722
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-015-0209-2

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