Histone Deacetylases

John Powers, Maritza Lienlaf, Patricio Perez-Villarroel, Susan Deng, Tessa Knox, Alejandro Villagra, Eva Sahakian, Powers, John, Lienlaf, Maritza, Perez-Villarroel, Patricio, Deng, Susan, Knox, Tessa, Villagra, Alejandro, Sahakian, Eva

Histone deacetylase 10 (HDAC10) belongs to the class IIb HDAC family and its biological role remains mostly unidentified. A decreased HDAC10 expression has been reported in patients with aggressive solid tumors (Osada et al. Int J Cancer 112: 26-32, 2004; Jin et al. Int J Clin Exp Pathol 7: 5872-5879, 2014), suggesting that loss of HDAC10 expression might confer a survival advantage to malignant cells. Consequently, results from our lab suggests that overexpression of HDAC10 in aggressive mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) Z138c and MEC1 cells, respectively, resulted in a rapid induction of cell death in vitro with only 5 % of cells being alive at 48 h, cell cycle arrest, and up-regulation of co-stimulatory molecules. Here we present several standard methods to study the function of HDAC10 in B cell malignancies.