Abstract
Mercaptopurine intolerance is an adverse effect of mercaptopurine administration in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Recently, NUDT15 variants were identified as a major determinant of mercaptopurine intolerance. Two NUDT15 variants, c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T, are located on exons 1 and 3, respectively. Patients with heterozygous c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T can be either compound heterozygous with two variants on different alleles or heterozygous with both variants on the same allele. Because patients with biallelic NUDT15 variants are extremely sensitive to mercaptopurine, clinical identification of NUDT15 diplotype would be advantageous. A cohort of 37 patients with c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T NUDT15 variants were selected for haplotyping by targeted sequencing. NUDT15 complementary DNA was amplified and sequenced by 300-bp paired-end sequencing on Illumina MiSeq. Of the 37 patients carrying NUDT15 variants, 35 had heterozygous NUDT15*1/*2 variants and two had compound heterozygous NUDT15*3/*6 and NUDT15*2/*7 variants. These two patients with compound heterozygous variants could only tolerate low doses of mercaptopurine, similar to patients with homozygous NUDT15 variants. Targeted sequencing of NUDT15 cDNA can be used to determine NUDT15 diplotype and identify patients with compound heterozygous NUDT15 variants.
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Introduction
Thiopurines (e.g., 6-mercaptopurine [6-MP], 6-thioguanine [6-TG], and azathioprine [AZA]) are important antimetabolite drugs that are used for different clinical indications. In pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), 6-MP is widely used in the induction, consolidation (with high-dose methotrexate), and maintenance phases. Indeed, 6-MP-based maintenance therapy is one of the most critical components in the treatment regimen for pediatric ALL1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Variants of genes responsible for thiopurine metabolism can directly influence drug toxicity and antileukemic efficacy8,9,10,11,12,13. For example, polymorphisms in the thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) gene have been linked to susceptibility to thiopurine-induced marrow suppression in patients, and preemptive TPMT genotype-guided dosing represents a successful example of genetics-based precision medicine in cancer treatment14,15.
Recent genome-wide association studies have reported a missense variant in NUDT15 (rs116855232, referred to as c.415C > T or p.Arg139Cys) that is strongly associated with thiopurine-related myelosuppression in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in a Korean population16. In a genome-wide association study, Yang et al. identified this variant in association with mercaptopurine intolerance in childhood ALL17. Several NUDT15 variants associated with decreased diphosphatase activity have been reported, and haplotypes with different combinations of the variant(s) have been assigned star allele numbers, which were proposed by Moriyama et al. (Fig. 1)18,19. All haplotypes except for NUDT15*2 have been reported to carry a single coding variant, including NUDT15*3 (rs116855232, c.415C > T), NUDT15*5 (rs186364861, c.52G > A), NUDT15*6 (rs869320766, c.36_37insGGAGTC), and NUDT15*7 (rs766023281, c.101G > C). NUDT15*2 carries both c.415C > T and c.36_37insGGAGTC, which are also present in NUDT15*3 and NUDT15*6, respectively. Numerous studies have established that NUDT15 variants are associated with mercaptopurine intolerance in pediatric ALL in different populations, highlighting the importance of preemptive genetic typing in these patients20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30.
Because of the strong correlation between the number of NUDT15 risk alleles and median 6-MP dosage, accurate determination of diplotypes might allow preemptive dosing31. For example, patients with heterozygous c.415C > T and c.36_37insGGAGTC can be determined to be either heterozygous (NUDT15*1/*2) or compound heterozygous (NUDT15*3/*6), and the tolerated 6-MP dosage by patients with the two diplotypes might be significantly different. In this study, we elucidated the NUDT15 diplotypes in patients with multiple heterozygous variants by next-generation sequencing (NGS) of NUDT15 complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA). Thus, this study will expand our knowledge of NUDT15 variants in patients with pediatric ALL in Taiwan.
Methods
Patients
We selected pediatric patients with ALL younger than 18 years of age treated in the National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, between April 1997 and December 2019. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the National Taiwan University Hospital. Informed consent was obtained from the parents or legal guardians of the patients. This cohort was previously published30, and we selected a subset of patients for this study. There were 22 patients with heterozygous c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants, and 10 patients with known NUDT15 diplotypes (4 with NUDT15*1/*1, 2 with NUDT15*1/*3, 1 with NUDT15*1/*5, 1 with NUDT15*1/*6, and 2 with NUDT15*2/*2) were enrolled in the previous study30. In this study, another 15 patients with heterozygous c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants, 1 patient with NUDT15*1/*5, and 1 patient with NUDT15*2/*3 were enrolled.
Targeted sequencing-based haplotyping
Forty-nine patient samples were selected for haplotyping by targeted sequencing, including 37 patients with heterozygous c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants. Samples from 12 patients with known NUDT15 diplotypes (NUDT15*1/*1, NUDT15*1/*3, NUDT15*1/*5, NUDT15*1/*6, NUDT15*2/*2, and NUDT15*2/*3) were included as experimental controls. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Invitrogen, Waltham, MA, USA). We synthesized cDNA from germline total RNA using the Maxima First-Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA). NUDT15 cDNA was amplified using the Phusion Hot Start II High-Fidelity PCR Master Mix (Thermo Fisher Scientific) with barcoded primers (Tables S1 and S2). The barcoded amplicons were purified using AMPure XP beads (Beckman Coulter, Brea, CA, USA) and quantified using Qubit reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Equimolar amounts of each amplicon were pooled and sequenced by 300-bp paired-end sequencing using the MiSeq Reagent Kit v3 (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). Raw sequencing data were further analyzed to discriminate the NUDT15 haplotypes. The barcoded primers used for the targeted sequencing of cDNA are listed in Supplementary Table 1.
FastQC (v0.11.7) was performed to evaluate the quality and adaptor contamination of the sequencing reads. Adaptor sequences and low-quality bases were trimmed (average quality score of a four-base wide sliding window < 20) using Trimmomatic (v0.33). The trimmed reads were further aligned to NUDT15 cDNA (NM_018283) using bowtie2 (v2.3.3.1). The average insert length of the reads was 562 bp. Reads with specific variants were extracted from the total aligned reads and used to determine the two alleles of NUDT15. Finally, IGV tool (v2.7.2) was used to check the read alignment results and the two alleles of the samples.
Cloning of NUDT15 cDNA
The NUDT15 cDNA amplicons were purified using the FavorPrep GEL/PCR Purification Kit (Favorgen Biotech, Ping-Tung, Taiwan), cloned into a vector using the Zero Blunt TOPO PCR Cloning Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific), and transformed into TOP10 competent cells (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Single colonies were cultured in LB broth (50 µg/mL kanamycin) at 37 °C for 16 h, and plasmids were extracted using the FavorPrep Plasmid DNA Extraction Mini Kit (Favorgen Biotech). Sanger sequencing was performed using the SP6 or T7 primer (Supplementary Table 1). At least 20 plasmids from a single colony were sequenced to determine the NUDT15 diplotypes.
Statistical analyses
Mann–Whitney U test was used to evaluate differences in median 6-MP dosages between patients with a heterozygous variant (NUDT15*1/*2) and homozygous/compound heterozygous variant (NUDT15*2/*2, NUDT15*2/*3, NUDT15*2/*7, and NUDT15*3/*6).
Results
Next-generation sequencing of cDNA
To resolve the diplotypes of patients with multiple heterozygous variants, we sequenced NUDT15 cDNA by paired-end sequencing. Thirty-seven patients had multiple heterozygous variants. We also included the cDNA of 12 patients with known diplotypes (4 with NUDT15*1/*1, 2 with NUDT15*1/*3, 2 with NUDT15*1/*5, 1 with NUDT15*1/*6, 2 with NUDT15*2/*2, and 1 with NUDT15*2/*3) as experimental controls30. The reads were phased, and the results showed that all but two samples could be classified as NUDT15*1/*2 (Fig. 2a). The two samples with different allele combinations were classified as NUDT15*3/*6 (Fig. 2b) and NUDT15*2/*7 (Fig. 2c).
cDNA sequencing of the NUDT15*3/*6 patient
To validate the targeted sequencing result for the patient with NUDT15*3/*6, the NUDT15 cDNA was cloned into a vector, and the haplotypes were resolved by Sanger sequencing of the vector. The results showed that the c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T alleles were located in trans; thus, the genome of this patient was determined to harbor a compound heterozygous NUDT15*3/*6 variant (Figure S1). We also genotyped the biological parents of this patient and found that the genomes of the parents harbored NUDT15*1/*6 and NUDT15*1/*3. The genotyping of the biological parents of patients provides an additional line of evidence to determine the diplotypes (Fig. 3).
cDNA sequencing of the NUDT15*2/*7 patient
We also validated the result of the patient with NUDT15*2/*7 by cDNA cloning and showed that c.101G > C was located in trans with c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T (Figure S2). The biological parents of the patients were genotyped, and we found that the father was homozygous for c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T (NUDT15*2/*2), whereas the mother was heterozygous for the c.36_37insGGAGTC, c.415C > T, and c.101G > C variants, which matched the genotype of the patient. Because the patient must have had an NUDT15*2 allele from the father, the c.101G > C allele should have been inherited from the mother; we can posit that the diplotype of the mother is NUDT15*2/*7.
Tolerated doses of 6-MP among patients with the NUDT15 variant
We evaluated the median tolerated 6-MP dose in patients with the NUDT15 variants. The median tolerated 6-MP dose among all 35 patients with the NUDT15*1/*2 genotype was 12.5 mg/m2 (5.0–42.5 mg/m2), and the doses were extremely low for the patients with NUDT15*2/*2 or NUDT15*2/*3 (1, 2.2, and 4.3 mg/m2). The two patients with compound heterozygous variants, NUDT15*3/*6 and NUDT15*2/*7, tolerated only 2.5 and 6.7 mg/m2/day mercaptopurine, respectively, and this was similar to the patients with homozygous variants. We observed that patients with homozygous and compound heterozygous NUDT15 variants tolerated a significantly lower median 6-MP dose than patients with heterozygous variants (Fig. 4).
Discussion
Our study and that of Tsujimoto et al.32 showed that most patients with the NUDT15 c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants harbored heterozygous NUDT15*1/*2. Tsujimoto et al. defined the diplotypes of 14 patients carrying the two variants (i.e., c.415C > T and c.36_37insGGAGTC) by droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) and restriction enzyme-PCR (RE-PCR)32. We developed another method using NUDT15 cDNA-targeted sequencing. The NUDT15 cDNA was sequenced by paired-end sequencing using Illumina MiSeq, and our results were confirmed by cloning. Compared with ddPCR and RE-PCR, targeted sequencing of NUDT15 cDNA can help determine the diplotypes without genotyping information of a patient.
Currently, NUDT15 genotyping is indicated before mercaptopurine administration for pediatric ALL31. Poor metabolizers are defined as individuals carrying two nonfunctioning alleles (NUDT15*2/*2, NUDT15*2/*3, and NUDT15*3/*3). Potential intermediate metabolizers are individuals carrying one allele of uncertain function plus one nonfunctioning allele, such as NUDT15*2/*5 and NUDT15*3/*631. Our patient with the NUDT15*3/*6 combination tolerated only 2.5 mg/m2/day mercaptopurine, and this was similar to the dose for poor metabolizers. Another patient with NUDT15*2/*7 could also tolerate very low daily doses of mercaptopurine. The c.101G > C variant of NUDT15 is also very rare in Asians, and its function was confirmed by Moriyama et al19. From our experience with these two patients, any combination of two mutant alleles with known functional roles might be classified as compound heterozygous, and the mercaptopurine dose should be the same as that administered to homozygous patients. Because mercaptopurine is widely administered for other diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease33,34, its clinical significance has also been validated in this subgroup of patients. The identification of these two compound heterozygous patients suggests that testing laboratories should be cautious while interpreting the c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants of NUDT15 in genetic testing of pediatric patients with ALL taking mercaptopurine or other related drugs, rather than only considering these genotypes.
There was a major limitation to this study. From a cost and benefit perspective, it might be difficult to use cDNA NGS to determine the diplotype of NUDT15 in clinical practice; moreover, the incidence of compound heterozygous mutations, such as NUDT15*3/*6, is very rare18. Sanger sequencing remains the most convenient and cost-effective method for the analysis of genetic variants of NUDT1517,18,20,25,27,28,31,32,35. However, to improve clinical outcomes and reduce adverse effects in pediatric patients with ALL, appropriate preemptive diagnosis of pharmacogenetic variants might be warranted31,36,37. There were other genetic polymorphisms related to some common adverse effects of chemotherapy, such as vincristine neuropathy, asparaginase hypersensitivity, hypertension, and osteonecrosis due to steroid use37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,−45. NGS cDNA targeted therapy might have some advantages, including sequencing multiple genes simultaneously and identifying the diplotype of NUDT15 variants if complex variants are present. If multiple genetic variants can be sequenced simultaneously, the cost might be reduced for individual SNPs and avoid tedious multiple Sanger sequencing. Although NUDT15 variants are very rare, identifying compound homozygous patients before the administration of mercaptopurine might largely reduce the initial dose of mercaptopurine to avoid profound marrow suppression. Thus, the infectious adverse effect might be decreased in this small subset of patients.
In conclusion, most c.36_37insGGAGTC and c.415C > T variants in NUDT15 are located on the same allele and can be classified as monoallelic variants. Although very rare, there are patients with compound heterozygous NUDT15 variants. Patients with any combination of functionally verified NUDT15 alleles might be considered to be poor mercaptopurine metabolizers, and these patients should be administered a relatively low dose of this drug. An appropriate definition of compound heterozygous variants in NUDT15 might require genotyping of the biological parents of the patient or other molecular methods, such as targeted sequencing, ddPCR, RE-PCR, and cloning.
Ethics declaration
This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines. Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants or their guardians. The study was approved by the Institutional Research Board of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH IRB number 201510016RIND).
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Data availability
Data of cDNA sequencing of NUDT15 have been deposited at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA655987.
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The authors express their gratitude to all patients who participated in this study and their parents. The authors also acknowledge the efforts of the TPOG and the Childhood Cancer Foundation in Taiwan.
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This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST-103-2314-B-002-199- and MOST-107-2314-B-002-173-MY2 to YLY) and from the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH.105-N03 to YLY).
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C.-H.Y. and Y.-L.Y. designed the study, analyzed data, and wrote the manuscript. C.-H.Y., D.-S.W., Y.-L.N. and S.-W.L. acquired and processed patient specimens and performed experiments. C.-Y.L., Y-H.C. L.R. and H.-Y C. performed the analysis. K.-H.L., S.-T.J., M.-Y.L., K.-H.W., H.-H.C., S.-W.C. and D.-T.L. provided clinical samples and data. The manuscript was written by C.-H.Y. and Y.-L.Y. and was reviewed and edited by all authors.
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Yu, CH., Chang, YH., Wang, DS. et al. Determination of NUDT15 variants by targeted sequencing can identify compound heterozygosity in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. Sci Rep 10, 14400 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71468-y
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