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SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism and risk of diffuse large B cell lymphoma in a Chinese population

Cancer Cell International volume 18, Article number: 163 (2018) | Download Citation

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Abstract

Background

The aim of the study was to explore the association between the SIRT1 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs3758391 and diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in a Chinese Han population.

Methods

206 patients diagnosed with DLBCL and 219 healthy individuals were recruited in the present study. The genotyping of SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism was detected by polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism. The SIRT1 mRNA expression was detected by the Taqman real-time quantitative PCR.

Results

Our study showed that the genotype TT and allele T frequency were significantly higher in DLBCL patients than that of controls (p = 0.02 and 0.01, respectively). No statistical differences were observed between SIRT1 rs3758391 and clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients. Analysis of the polymorphism revealed an increased risk of DLBCL associated with TC and TT genotype when compared with CC genotype [odds ratio = 2.621 and 3.518, respectively; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.249–5.501 and 1.675–7.390, respectively; p = 0.011 and 0.001, respectively]. The survival analysis indicated that the patients with C allele had higher overall survival rate than those with genotype TT (p = 0.005). Furthermore, multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that the TT genotype of SIRT1 SNP rs3758391 was an independent poor prognostic factor for DLBCL patients (p = 0.006, HR 1.981, 95% CI 1.215–3.231). The SIRT1 mRNA expression was significantly upregulated in DLBCL patients than that of controls (p < 0.001). In addition, the SIRT1 mRNA expression of TT subgroup was upregulated compared with TC/CC subgroup in DLBCL patients (p < 0.001).

Conclusion

These results suggest that the SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism is associated with the risk and survival rate of DLBCL in Chinese Han population.

Background

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). After standard chemoimmunotherapy such as rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP), DLBCL is curable in approximately 60% of patients [1]. It can be classified into three subtypes: activated B-cell-like (ABC), germinal-center B-cell-like (GCB) and type 3 according to gene-expression profiling [2, 3]. The molecular subtypes are associated with overall survival and the ABC type indicates a poor prognosis [4]. The International Prognostic Index (IPI) is a powerful prognostic tool for DLBCL patients based on the clinical characteristics. However, the use of IPI predates the use of rituximab and can be enhanced little by novel prognostic markers [5]. Therefore, there is still a lack of robust prognostic tool for DLBCL patients.

Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) are crucial modifications that regulate gene transcription [6]. HDACs are related to a number of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes which lead to aberrant HDAC activities and in return changing gene expression [7, 8]. Sirtuin1 (SIRT1), the yeast silent information regulator 2 (sir2) ortholog, is a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent histone deacetylase (HADC) [9]. SIRT1 participates in the regulation of diverse cellular processes, including proliferation, differentiation, senescence and apoptosis [10,11,12]. Knockdown or inhibition of SIRT1 leads to cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) cells, which is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection [13]. Overexpression of SIRT1 is also found in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) [14]. Nicotinamide can block proliferation and promote apoptosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells with wild-type p53 via the p53/miR-34a/SIRT1 pathway [14].

rs3758391 (T/C), a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of SIRT1 gene promoter, is located at the p53-binding site of the gene. The C variation of the SNP disrupts the p53-binding sequence and affects SIRT1 expression in vitro, which indicates that it may play a significant role in human pathophysiology [15]. In addition, accumulating evidence suggested an important role of the SIRT1 SNP rs3758391 in diverse diseases, including lung cancer, breast cancer, depressive disorders and autoimmune thyroid disease and systemic lupus erythematosus [16,17,18,19,20].

However, the association between SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism and the risk of DLBCL in the Chinese Han population has not been fully illustrated. Based on the previous observations, we hypothesize that SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism may relate to the susceptibility and prognosis of DLBCL patients. In order to test this hypothesis, we investigated the association between this SNP and DLBCL in Chinese Han people. The results showed that the SIRT1 rs3758391 was associated with the risk and survival rate of DLBCL, indicating its potential use as a biomarker to predict the prognosis of DLBCL patients.

Methods

Subjects

Patients pathologically diagnosed with DLBCL and healthy individuals were recruited in the study. 206 peripheral blood specimens were collected from DLBCL patients diagnosed at Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital and Ningbo No. 2 Hospital before initial therapy. 219 healthy people with the same geographical and ethnic background as patients were recruited as controls. The expression of SIRT1 mRNA was determined in 58 patients with DLBCL and 30 patients with reactive hyperplasia lymphoid. The clinical and pathological characteristics of the patients were acquired from medical record review. The general data of the patients enrolled in this study were presented in Table 1. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant, and the entire study was approved by the local Institutional Review Board.

Table 1 The clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients
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Extraction of DNA

Peripheral blood samples were collected in vacuum tubes containing 5% EDTA. Genomic DNA was isolated from whole blood with the TIANamp Genomic DNA Kit (TianGen Biotech, Beijing, China) to the manufacturer’s instruction. The genomic DNA was diluted in buffer TE and stored at − 20 °C.

SIRT1 rs3758391 genotyping by polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP)

SIRT1 rs3758391 was analyzed through PCR–RFLP, as previously described [19]. The primer for rs3758391 was forward 5′-ACGCAGGTAATTGATGCAGT-3′ and reverse 5′-CGTGAGCTATCTAGCCGTTT-3′. The total reaction system was 50 μl, including 25 μl of Premix Taq (Takara, Dalian, China), 2 μl (0.2 mM) of upstream and downstream primers, respectively, 1 μg of DNA template, and 16 μl of ddH2O. PCR conditions were programmed on an ABI 9700 thermal cycler (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, CA, USA) as follows: initial denaturation at 94 °C for 5 min, followed by 30 cycles of 94 °C for 30 s, 58 °C for 30 s, 72 °C for 30 s, followed by 72 °C for 7 min. The PCR product was digested by addition of NcoI (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA). The enzyme-digested products were analyzed by gel electrophoresis on 2.5% agarose gels. To confirmed our results, randomly selected amplified DNA samples were examined by direct sequencing method, and the results were 100% concordant.

RNA isolation

Total RNA was extracted from the DLBCL sample and reactive hyperplasia lymphoid node tissue by Trizol reagent (Invitrogen). The absorbance and purity of RNA were determined by Nanodrop2000 (Thermo Scientific, Wilmington, DE). The ratio of optical density (OD) 260/OD280 between 1.8 and 2.0 was used in subsequent experiments.

SIRT1 mRNA expression detected by TaqMan real-time PCR

The expression of SIRT1 mRNA was detected by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) experiment on an ABI PRISM-7500 Sequence Detection System (ABI Company, Oyster Bay, NY, USA). The relative expression of glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was used as control, and 2−ΔΔCt indicated the quantification of gene expression. The primer sequences for SIRT1 were: forward 5′-ATGCAAGCTCTAGTGACTGGACT-3′, reverse 5′-CTCAGGTGGAGGTATTGTTTCC-3′. The primer sequences for GAPDH were: forward 5′-CCACATCGCTCAGACACCAT-3′, reverse 5′-CCAGGCGCCCAATACG-3′.

Statistical analysis

All statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 20.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium Test was estimated by a goodness-of-fit χ2 test. The allelic frequency and genotype distributions between patients and controls were compared using Chi-square tests. The association between polymorphism and the clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients were analyzed by χ2 test. The association between polymorphism and the risk for DLBCL was calculated by unconditional logistic regression. The survival curves were constructed by Kaplan–Meier method and compared between groups by the log-rank tests. Association between the genotypes of patients and the overall survival was estimated by univariate Cox regression analysis. The differences in the levels of SIRT1 mRNA expression were analyzed by Student’s t-test. All tests were two-sided, and p < 0.05 was considered to indicate statistically significant.

Results

Association between the SIRT1 rs3758391 and the risk of DLBCL

To determine the association between SIRT1 rs3758391 and DLBCL, a case–control study including 206 DLBCL patients and 219 control subjects was performed. The sequence of rs3758391 polymorphism and the location of the p53-binding site were shown in Fig. 1. The genotype distributions in both groups agreed with the predicted distribution under the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (χ2 = 2.473, p = 0.290; χ2 = 0.070, p = 0.965, respectively). No significant difference between patients and controls was observed regarding gender and age (χ2 = 0.011, p = 0.916; χ2 = 0.680, 0.410, respectively), indicating that the frequency matching is sufficient. The genotype and allele frequency were significantly different between patients and controls for SIRT1 rs3758391 (p = 0.02, 0.01, respectively) as shown in Table 2, suggesting that the difference was statistically significant. However, the percentage of TC genotypes in the case group was only slightly lower than that of the control group (44.17% versus 46.12%). No statistical differences were observed between SIRT1 rs3758391 and clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients as shown in Table 3. Further investigation showed that the TC and TT genotype were statistically significantly associated with increased risk of DLBCL [odds ratio (OR) = 2.621 and 3.518, respectively; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.249–5.501 and 1.675–7.390, respectively; p = 0.011 and 0.001, respectively, shown in Table 4].

Fig. 1
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The sequence of rs3758391 polymorphism in the human SIRT1 promoter and the location of the p53-binding site [15]

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Table 2 SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism in DLBCL patients and the controls
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Table 3 Association between SIRT1 rs3758391 and clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients
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Table 4 Association between SIRT1 rs3758391 polymorphism and the risk of DLBCL
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Association between the SIRT1 rs3758391 and the survival rate of DLBCL

All 206 DLBCL patients were included in the survival analysis. The effect of SIRT1 rs3758391 on the overall survival rate of DLBCL patients was investigated using Kaplan–Meier curve and log-rank test. The subjects with CC genotype in our study population were small (n = 115.34%, shown in Table 2). Therefore, the CC genotype was combined with the TC genotype for survival analysis of DLBCL. As expected, the survival analysis showed that the patients with C allele had higher 5-year overall survival rate than those with genotype TT (p = 0.005, Fig. 2). Furthermore, multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that patients with C allele displayed better survival rate compared with those with TT genotype (p = 0.006, HR 1.981, 95% CI 1.215–3.231).

Fig. 2
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Kaplan–Meier analyses of overall survival for DLBCL patients. a Overall survival for 206 DLBCL patients according to genotype of SIRT1 rs3758391. Comparison among CC, TC and TT genotypes (p = 0.016). b Overall survival for 206 DLBCL patients according to genotype of SIRT1 rs3758391. Comparison between TT genotype and combined CC/TC genotypes (p = 0.005). c Overall survival for 58 DLBCL patients according to SIRT1 mRNA level. The overall survival of the low-SIRT1 subgroup was significantly higher than that of the high-SIRT1 subgroup (p = 0.032). Log-rank p values were indicated. Tick marks represent censored data

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Association between the SIRT1 mRNA level and the survival of DLBCL

Further investigation focused on the association between the SIRT1 mRNA level and the survival rate of DLBCL. 58 DLBCL patients were included in the analysis. According to the SIRT1 mRNA levels, the patients were divided into high-SIRT1 group (above the median) and low-SIRT1 group (below the median). The survival analysis showed that the patients with lower SIRT1 mRNA level had higher 5-year overall survival rate than those with high SIRT1 mRNA level (p = 0.032, Fig. 2c). Multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that patients with low SIRT1 level displayed better survival rate compared with those high SIRT1 level (p = 0.043, HR 2.661, 95% CI 1.029–6.880).

Association between the SIRT1 rs3758391 and SIRT1 mRNA expression levels

The SIRT1 mRNA expression of 58 DLBCL patients and 30 controls were detected by Student’s t-test. It was shown that the SIRT1 mRNA expression was significantly upregulated in DLBCL patients than that of controls (p < 0.001, Fig. 3a). Subsequently, we analyzed the SIRT1 mRNA expression between different genotypes in DLBCL patients. The SIRT1 mRNA expression of TT subgroup was upregulated compared with TC/CC subgroup in DLBCL patients (p < 0.001, Fig. 3b).

Fig. 3
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SIRT1 mRNA expression DLBCL patients and reactive hyperplasia lymphoid patients as controls. The SIRT1 mRNA expression was detected by the TaqMan RT-PCR and calculated by Student’s t-test. a SIRT1 mRNA expression in DLBCL patients and was notably upregulated than that of controls (p < 0.001). b SIRT1 mRNA expression in DLBCL patients with TT genotype was significantly upregulated than that with TC/CC genotype (p < 0.001). *p < 0.001

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Discussion

The balance between the complex activities of histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases is associated with gene expression [21, 22]. In addition to histones, other substrates can also be deacetylated by HDACs, such as p53 [23]. SIRT1 is a highly conserved protein deacetylase. Accumulating evidence indicates that SIRT1 is a key regulator of diverse life events, including life span extension, inflammation, and cancer [24]. In cancer, the role of SIRT1 is controversial since it can function as both a tumor promoter and tumor suppressor [25,26,27]. SIRT1 can deacetylate histone H4 lysine 16 (H4K16) [28], whose hypoacetylation is a hallmark of human cancer [29]. SIRT1 can also deacetylate p53 at lysine 382 and decrease its transcription, resulting in an obstruction of p53-dependent apoptosis in response to DNA damage signals [30, 31].

SIRT1 rs3758391 (T/C) was located at the p53-binding site of the SIRT1 gene [15]. In the present study, we explored the relationship between the polymorphism and DLBCL in Chinese Han people. Unfortunately, no significant differences were observed between the genotypes and clinical characteristics such as age, sexual, subtype and clinical stage. We found that the T allele carriers were statistically significantly associated with the increased risk of DLBCL. SIRT1 mRNA expression was upregulated in DLBCL patients with TT genotype. Moreover, patients with TT genotypes displayed worse survival. These results suggest that the SIRT1 rs3758391 may be used as a biomarker for the prediction of susceptibility and survival of DLBCL.

SIRT1 rs3758391 was reported to be common with an overall average heterozygosity frequency of 50% in the HapMap Project. In white Americans of Northern and Western European ancestry and African–Americans, the frequency of T allele was 25–35%, whereas in Japanese and Chinese, the frequency was 80–90% [15]. However, our data showed a minor difference in distribution of allele frequency compared to those in Han Chinese from HapMap data. Our analysis indicated that the frequency of allele T in DLBCL patients and controls was 72.57% and 62.33%, respectively. This difference in allele frequency may due to the sample size.

In summary, our results suggest that the SIRT1 rs3758391 is associated with the risk and survival rate of DLBCL in Chinese Han people. The DLBCL patients with genotype CC of SIRT1 SNP rs3758391 show better survival rate than those with allele T. Clearly, additional investigations are necessary to confirm our findings. Therefore, SIRT1 SNP rs3758391 could be considered as an independent biomarker to predict the prognosis in DLBCL patients.

Conclusion

This study reveals a key role of SIRT1 rs3758391 in the risk and survival rate of DLBCL in Chinese Han people. Therefore, SIRT1 could be a potential biomarker and therapeutic target in the prognosis and treatment of DLBCL.

Abbreviations

DLBCL:

diffuse large B cell lymphoma

NHL:

non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

GCB:

germinal center B-cell

ABC:

activated B-cell

IPI:

International Prognostic Index

HAT:

histone acetyltransferase

HDAC:

histone deacetylase

SNP:

single nucleotide polymorphism

ECOG:

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group

LDH:

lactate dehydrogenase

β2-MG:

β2 macroglobulin

HBV:

hepatitis-B virus

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Authors’ contributions

ZHF designed the study and review the final manuscript. KYT performed the experiment, analyzed the experimental data and wrote the manuscript. GP and WXY helped to performed the experiment, collected the clinical information of the patients and collected the specimens. XGF helped to collect the specimens. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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