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Abstract

Aberrant DNA methylation, dysregulation of chromatin-modifying enzymes, and microRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in haematological malignancies. These epimutations, with an impact on chromatin accessibility and transcriptional output, are often associated with genomic instability and the emergence of drug resistance, disease progression, and poor survival. In order to exert their functions, epigenetic enzymes utilize cellular metabolites as co-factors and are highly dependent on their availability. By affecting the expression of metabolic enzymes, epigenetic modifiers may aid the generation of metabolite signatures that could be utilized as targets and biomarkers in cancer. This interdependency remains often neglected and poorly represented in studies, despite well-established methods to study the cellular metabolome. This review critically summarizes the current knowledge in the field to provide an integral picture of the interplay between epigenomic alterations and the cellular metabolome in haematological malignancies. Our recent findings defining a distinct metabolic signature upon response to enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) inhibition in multiple myeloma (MM) highlight how a shift of preferred metabolic pathways may potentiate novel treatments. The suggested link between the epigenome and the metabolome in haematopoietic tumours holds promise for the use of metabolic signatures as possible biomarkers of response to treatment.

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Title
One Omics Approach Does Not Rule Them All: The Metabolome and the Epigenome Join Forces in Haematological Malignancies
Author
Kalushkova, Antonia 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Nylund, Patrick 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alba Atienza Párraga 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lennartsson, Andreas 2 ; Jernberg-Wiklund, Helena 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75185 Uppsala, Sweden; [email protected] (P.N.); [email protected] (A.A.P.); [email protected] (H.J.-W.) 
 Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, NEO, Karolinska Institutet, 14157 Huddinge, Sweden; [email protected] 
First page
22
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20754655
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2612764424
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.