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Rogava M, Aprati TJ, Chi WY, Melms JC, Hug C, Davis SH, Earlie EM, Chung C, Deshmukh SK, Wu S, Sledge G, Tang S, Ho P, Amin AD, Caprio L, Gurjao C, Tagore S, Ngo B, Lee MJ, Zanetti G, Wang Y, Chen S, Ge W, Melo LMN, Allies G, Rösler J, Gibney GT, Schmitz OJ, Sykes M, Creusot RJ, Tüting T, Schadendorf D, Röcken M, Eigentler TK, Molotkov A, Mintz A, Bakhoum SF, Beyaz S, Cantley LC, Sorger PK, Meckelmann SW, Tasdogan A, Liu D, Laughney AM, Izar B. Loss of Pip4k2c confers liver-metastatic organotropism through insulin-dependent PI3K-AKT pathway activation. Nat Cancer 2024; 5:433-447. [PMID: 38286827 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-023-00704-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
Abstract
Liver metastasis (LM) confers poor survival and therapy resistance across cancer types, but the mechanisms of liver-metastatic organotropism remain unknown. Here, through in vivo CRISPR-Cas9 screens, we found that Pip4k2c loss conferred LM but had no impact on lung metastasis or primary tumor growth. Pip4k2c-deficient cells were hypersensitized to insulin-mediated PI3K/AKT signaling and exploited the insulin-rich liver milieu for organ-specific metastasis. We observed concordant changes in PIP4K2C expression and distinct metabolic changes in 3,511 patient melanomas, including primary tumors, LMs and lung metastases. We found that systemic PI3K inhibition exacerbated LM burden in mice injected with Pip4k2c-deficient cancer cells through host-mediated increase in hepatic insulin levels; however, this circuit could be broken by concurrent administration of an SGLT2 inhibitor or feeding of a ketogenic diet. Thus, this work demonstrates a rare example of metastatic organotropism through co-optation of physiological metabolic cues and proposes therapeutic avenues to counteract these mechanisms.
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- Meri Rogava
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory for Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory for Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Caris Life Sciences, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, NCT West, Campus Essen, German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany
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- Department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, NCT West, Campus Essen, German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany
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- Department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, NCT West, Campus Essen, German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany
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- Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory for Experimental Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, NCT West, Campus Essen, German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
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- Laboratory for Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department for Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Hospital Essen, NCT West, Campus Essen, German Cancer Consortium, Partner Site Essen & University Alliance Ruhr, Research Center One Health, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Gardner EE, Earlie EM, Li K, Thomas J, Hubisz MJ, Stein BD, Zhang C, Cantley LC, Laughney AM, Varmus H. Lineage-specific intolerance to oncogenic drivers restricts histological transformation. Science 2024; 383:eadj1415. [PMID: 38330136 DOI: 10.1126/science.adj1415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
Abstract
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are thought to originate from different epithelial cell types in the lung. Intriguingly, LUAD can histologically transform into SCLC after treatment with targeted therapies. In this study, we designed models to follow the conversion of LUAD to SCLC and found that the barrier to histological transformation converges on tolerance to Myc, which we implicate as a lineage-specific driver of the pulmonary neuroendocrine cell. Histological transformations are frequently accompanied by activation of the Akt pathway. Manipulating this pathway permitted tolerance to Myc as an oncogenic driver, producing rare, stem-like cells that transcriptionally resemble the pulmonary basal lineage. These findings suggest that histological transformation may require the plasticity inherent to the basal stem cell, enabling tolerance to previously incompatible oncogenic driver programs.
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- Eric E Gardner
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Bioinformatics Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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Li J, Hubisz MJ, Earlie EM, Duran MA, Hong C, Varela AA, Lettera E, Deyell M, Tavora B, Havel JJ, Phyu SM, Amin AD, Budre K, Kamiya E, Cavallo JA, Garris C, Powell S, Reis-Filho JS, Wen H, Bettigole S, Khan AJ, Izar B, Parkes EE, Laughney AM, Bakhoum SF. Non-cell-autonomous cancer progression from chromosomal instability. Nature 2023; 620:1080-1088. [PMID: 37612508 PMCID: PMC10468402 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06464-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
Abstract
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a driver of cancer metastasis1-4, yet the extent to which this effect depends on the immune system remains unknown. Using ContactTracing-a newly developed, validated and benchmarked tool to infer the nature and conditional dependence of cell-cell interactions from single-cell transcriptomic data-we show that CIN-induced chronic activation of the cGAS-STING pathway promotes downstream signal re-wiring in cancer cells, leading to a pro-metastatic tumour microenvironment. This re-wiring is manifested by type I interferon tachyphylaxis selectively downstream of STING and a corresponding increase in cancer cell-derived endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response. Reversal of CIN, depletion of cancer cell STING or inhibition of ER stress response signalling abrogates CIN-dependent effects on the tumour microenvironment and suppresses metastasis in immune competent, but not severely immune compromised, settings. Treatment with STING inhibitors reduces CIN-driven metastasis in melanoma, breast and colorectal cancers in a manner dependent on tumour cell-intrinsic STING. Finally, we show that CIN and pervasive cGAS activation in micronuclei are associated with ER stress signalling, immune suppression and metastasis in human triple-negative breast cancer, highlighting a viable strategy to identify and therapeutically intervene in tumours spurred by CIN-induced inflammation.
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- Jun Li
- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Bioinformatics Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Adler FR, Anderson ARA, Bhushan A, Bogdan P, Bravo-Cordero JJ, Brock A, Chen Y, Cukierman E, DelGiorno KE, Denis GV, Ferrall-Fairbanks MC, Gartner ZJ, Germain RN, Gordon DM, Hunter G, Jolly MK, Karacosta LG, Mythreye K, Katira P, Kulkarni RP, Kutys ML, Lander AD, Laughney AM, Levine H, Lou E, Lowenstein PR, Masters KS, Pe'er D, Peyton SR, Platt MO, Purvis JE, Quon G, Richer JK, Riddle NC, Rodriguez A, Snyder JC, Lee Szeto G, Tomlin CJ, Yanai I, Zervantonakis IK, Dueck H. Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation. Cell Syst 2023; 14:252-257. [PMID: 37080161 PMCID: PMC10760508 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2023.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Revised: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023]
Abstract
Collective cell behavior contributes to all stages of cancer progression. Understanding how collective behavior emerges through cell-cell interactions and decision-making will advance our understanding of cancer biology and provide new therapeutic approaches. Here, we summarize an interdisciplinary discussion on multicellular behavior in cancer, draw lessons from other scientific disciplines, and identify future directions.
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- Frederick R Adler
- Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Integrated Mathematical Oncology Department, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
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- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Program, Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA; Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Boston University-Boston Medical Center Cancer Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; University of Florida Health Cancer Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; NSF Center for Cellular Construction, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Laboratory of Immune System Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699, USA
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- Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA; Computational Sciences Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; Department Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; Department Oncological Sciences, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR), Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; Operative Care Division, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Allen Institute for Immunology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Seagen, Bothell, WA 98021, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Institute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA; Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
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- Division of Cancer Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
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Bhardwaj P, Iyengar NM, Zahid H, Carter KM, Byun DJ, Choi MH, Sun Q, Savenkov O, Louka C, Liu C, Piloco P, Acosta M, Bareja R, Elemento O, Foronda M, Dow LE, Oshchepkova S, Giri DD, Pollak M, Zhou XK, Hopkins BD, Laughney AM, Frey MK, Ellenson LH, Morrow M, Spector JA, Cantley LC, Brown KA. Obesity promotes breast epithelium DNA damage in women carrying a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Sci Transl Med 2023; 15:eade1857. [PMID: 36812344 PMCID: PMC10557057 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.ade1857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
Abstract
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30, is an established risk factor for breast cancer among women in the general population after menopause. Whether elevated BMI is a risk factor for women with a germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 is less clear because of inconsistent findings from epidemiological studies and a lack of mechanistic studies in this population. Here, we show that DNA damage in normal breast epithelia of women carrying a BRCA mutation is positively correlated with BMI and with biomarkers of metabolic dysfunction. In addition, RNA sequencing showed obesity-associated alterations to the breast adipose microenvironment of BRCA mutation carriers, including activation of estrogen biosynthesis, which affected neighboring breast epithelial cells. In breast tissue explants cultured from women carrying a BRCA mutation, we found that blockade of estrogen biosynthesis or estrogen receptor activity decreased DNA damage. Additional obesity-associated factors, including leptin and insulin, increased DNA damage in human BRCA heterozygous epithelial cells, and inhibiting the signaling of these factors with a leptin-neutralizing antibody or PI3K inhibitor, respectively, decreased DNA damage. Furthermore, we show that increased adiposity was associated with mammary gland DNA damage and increased penetrance of mammary tumors in Brca1+/- mice. Overall, our results provide mechanistic evidence in support of a link between elevated BMI and breast cancer development in BRCA mutation carriers. This suggests that maintaining a lower body weight or pharmacologically targeting estrogen or metabolic dysfunction may reduce the risk of breast cancer in this population.
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- Priya Bhardwaj
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, College of Applied Medical Science, Taibah University, Medina 42353, Saudi Arabia
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- Center for Advanced Biomolecular Recognition, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Korea
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- Center for Advanced Biomolecular Recognition, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Korea
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- Computational Biology Service Unit of Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Bioregenerative Medicine and Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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Li Z, Low V, Luga V, Sun J, Earlie E, Parang B, Shobana Ganesh K, Cho S, Endress J, Schild T, Hu M, Lyden D, Jin W, Guo C, Dephoure N, Cantley LC, Laughney AM, Blenis J. Tumor-produced and aging-associated oncometabolite methylmalonic acid promotes cancer-associated fibroblast activation to drive metastatic progression. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6239. [PMID: 36266345 PMCID: PMC9584945 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33862-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
The systemic metabolic shifts that occur during aging and the local metabolic alterations of a tumor, its stroma and their communication cooperate to establish a unique tumor microenvironment (TME) fostering cancer progression. Here, we show that methylmalonic acid (MMA), an aging-increased oncometabolite also produced by aggressive cancer cells, activates fibroblasts in the TME, which reciprocally secrete IL-6 loaded extracellular vesicles (EVs) that drive cancer progression, drug resistance and metastasis. The cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF)-released EV cargo is modified as a result of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and activation of the canonical and noncanonical TGFβ signaling pathways. EV-associated IL-6 functions as a stroma-tumor messenger, activating the JAK/STAT3 and TGFβ signaling pathways in tumor cells and promoting pro-aggressive behaviors. Our findings define the role of MMA in CAF activation to drive metastatic reprogramming, unveiling potential therapeutic avenues to target MMA at the nexus of aging, the tumor microenvironment and metastasis.
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- Zhongchi Li
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, and Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, and Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
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Abstract
Most cancer deaths are caused by metastasis: recurrence of disease by disseminated tumour cells at sites distant from the primary tumour. Large numbers of disseminated tumour cells are released from the primary tumour, even during the early stages of tumour growth. However, only a minority survive as potential seeds for future metastatic outgrowths. These cells must adapt to a relatively inhospitable microenvironment, evade immune surveillance and progress from the micro- to macro-metastatic stage to generate a secondary tumour. A pervasive driver of this transition is chronic inflammatory signalling emanating from tumour cells themselves. These signals can promote migration and engagement of stem and progenitor cell function, events that are also central to a wound healing response. In this review, we revisit the concept of cancer as a non-healing wound, first introduced by Virchow in the 19th century, with a new tumour cell-intrinsic perspective on inflammation and focus on metastasis. Cellular responses to inflammation in both wound healing and metastasis are tightly regulated by crosstalk with the surrounding microenvironment. Targeting or restoring canonical responses to inflammation could represent a novel strategy to prevent the lethal spread of cancer.
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- Matthew Deyell
- grid.5386.8000000041936877XInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.5386.8000000041936877XDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.5386.8000000041936877XSandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282Chimie Biologie et Innovation, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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- grid.5386.8000000041936877XInstitute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.5386.8000000041936877XDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.5386.8000000041936877XSandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY USA
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Ganesh K, Basnet H, Kaygusuz Y, Laughney AM, He L, Sharma R, O'Rourke KP, Reuter VP, Huang YH, Turkekul M, Er EE, Masilionis I, Manova-Todorova K, Weiser MR, Saltz LB, Garcia-Aguilar J, Koche R, Lowe SW, Pe'er D, Shia J, Massagué J. Author Correction: L1CAM defines the regenerative origin of metastasis-initiating cells in colorectal cancer. Nat Cancer 2020; 1:1128. [PMID: 35122071 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-020-00130-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Karuna Ganesh
- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- New York Genome Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Cytology Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Cytology Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Wang R, Sharma R, Shen X, Laughney AM, Funato K, Clark PJ, Shpokayte M, Morgenstern P, Navare M, Xu Y, Harbi S, Masilionis I, Nanjangud G, Yang Y, Duran-Rehbein G, Hemberg M, Pe'er D, Tabar V. Adult Human Glioblastomas Harbor Radial Glia-like Cells. Stem Cell Reports 2020; 15:275-277. [PMID: 32668221 PMCID: PMC7363934 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/30/2022] Open
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Wang R, Sharma R, Shen X, Laughney AM, Funato K, Clark PJ, Shpokayte M, Morgenstern P, Navare M, Xu Y, Harbi S, Masilionis I, Nanjangud G, Yang Y, Duran-Rehbein G, Hemberg M, Pe'er D, Tabar V. Adult Human Glioblastomas Harbor Radial Glia-like Cells. Stem Cell Reports 2020; 14:338-350. [PMID: 32004492 PMCID: PMC7014025 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2019] [Revised: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Radial glia (RG) cells are the first neural stem cells to appear during embryonic development. Adult human glioblastomas harbor a subpopulation of RG-like cells with typical RG morphology and markers. The cells exhibit the classic and unique mitotic behavior of normal RG in a cell-autonomous manner. Single-cell RNA sequencing analyses of glioblastoma cells reveal transcriptionally dynamic clusters of RG-like cells that share the profiles of normal human fetal radial glia and that reside in quiescent and cycling states. Functional assays show a role for interleukin in triggering exit from dormancy into active cycling, suggesting a role for inflammation in tumor progression. These data are consistent with the possibility of persistence of RG into adulthood and their involvement in tumor initiation or maintenance. They also provide a putative cellular basis for the persistence of normal developmental programs in adult tumors.
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- Rong Wang
- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA; New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgshire CB10 1SA, UK; ShaoYang University, Shaoyang, Hunan, China
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, PA 64742, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Developmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Cytology Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgshire CB10 1SA, UK
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- Program for Computational and Systems Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Laughney AM, Hu J, Campbell NR, Bakhoum SF, Setty M, Lavallée VP, Xie Y, Masilionis I, Carr AJ, Kottapalli S, Allaj V, Mattar M, Rekhtman N, Xavier JB, Mazutis L, Poirier JT, Rudin CM, Pe'er D, Massagué J. Regenerative lineages and immune-mediated pruning in lung cancer metastasis. Nat Med 2020; 26:259-269. [PMID: 32042191 PMCID: PMC7021003 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0750-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Developmental processes underlying normal tissue regeneration have been implicated in cancer, but the degree of their enactment during tumor progression and under the selective pressures of immune surveillance, remain unknown. Here, we show that human primary lung adenocarcinomas are characterized by the emergence of regenerative cell types typically seen in response to lung injury, and by striking infidelity amongst transcription factors specifying most alveolar and bronchial epithelial lineages. In contrast, metastases are enriched for key endoderm and lung-specifying transcription factors, SOX2 and SOX9, and recapitulate more primitive transcriptional programs spanning stem-like to regenerative pulmonary epithelial progenitor states. This developmental continuum mirrors the progressive stages of spontaneous outbreak from metastatic dormancy in a mouse model and exhibits SOX9-dependent resistance to Natural Killer (NK) cells. Loss of developmental stage-specific constraint in macrometastases triggered by NK cell depletion suggests a dynamic interplay between developmental plasticity and immune-mediated pruning during metastasis.
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- Ashley M Laughney
- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller University/Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller University/Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,The Alan and Sandra Gerry Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,The Alan and Sandra Gerry Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,The Alan and Sandra Gerry Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. .,Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Ganesh K, Basnet H, Kaygusuz Y, Laughney AM, He L, Sharma R, O'Rourke KP, Reuter VP, Huang YH, Turkekul M, Emrah E, Masilionis I, Manova-Todorova K, Weiser MR, Saltz LB, Garcia-Aguilar J, Koche R, Lowe SW, Pe'er D, Shia J, Massagué J. L1CAM defines the regenerative origin of metastasis-initiating cells in colorectal cancer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 1:28-45. [PMID: 32656539 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-019-0006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Metastasis-initiating cells with stem-like properties drive cancer lethality, yet their origins and relationship to primary-tumor-initiating stem cells are not known. We show that L1CAM+ cells in human colorectal cancer (CRC) have metastasis-initiating capacity, and we define their relationship to tissue regeneration. L1CAM is not expressed in the homeostatic intestinal epithelium, but is induced and required for epithelial regeneration following colitis and in CRC organoid growth. By using human tissues and mouse models, we show that L1CAM is dispensable for adenoma initiation but required for orthotopic carcinoma propagation, liver metastatic colonization and chemoresistance. L1CAMhigh cells partially overlap with LGR5high stem-like cells in human CRC organoids. Disruption of intercellular epithelial contacts causes E-cadherin-REST transcriptional derepression of L1CAM, switching chemoresistant CRC progenitors from an L1CAMlow to an L1CAMhigh state. Thus, L1CAM dependency emerges in regenerative intestinal cells when epithelial integrity is lost, a phenotype of wound healing deployed in metastasis-initiating cells.
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- Karuna Ganesh
- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,These authors contributed equally: Harihar Basnet, Yasemin Kaygusuz, Ashley M. Laughney
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,These authors contributed equally: Harihar Basnet, Yasemin Kaygusuz, Ashley M. Laughney
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Present address: Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,These authors contributed equally: Harihar Basnet, Yasemin Kaygusuz, Ashley M. Laughney
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.,Present address: New York Genome Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Cytology Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,Present address: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Cytology Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Santos CP, Lapi E, Martínez de Villarreal J, Álvaro-Espinosa L, Fernández-Barral A, Barbáchano A, Domínguez O, Laughney AM, Megías D, Muñoz A, Real FX. Urothelial organoids originating from Cd49f high mouse stem cells display Notch-dependent differentiation capacity. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4407. [PMID: 31562298 PMCID: PMC6764959 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12307-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Understanding urothelial stem cell biology and differentiation has been limited by the lack of methods for their unlimited propagation. Here, we establish mouse urothelial organoids that can be maintained uninterruptedly for >1 year. Organoid growth is dependent on EGF and Wnt activators. High CD49f/ITGA6 expression features a subpopulation of organoid-forming cells expressing basal markers. Upon differentiation, multilayered organoids undergo reduced proliferation, decreased cell layer number, urothelial program activation, and acquisition of barrier function. Pharmacological modulation of PPARγ and EGFR promotes differentiation. RNA sequencing highlighted genesets enriched in proliferative organoids (i.e. ribosome) and transcriptional networks involved in differentiation, including expression of Wnt ligands and Notch components. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq) analysis of the organoids revealed five clusters with distinct gene expression profiles. Together, with the use of γ-secretase inhibitors and scRNA-Seq, confirms that Notch signaling is required for differentiation. Urothelial organoids provide a powerful tool to study cell regeneration and differentiation.
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- Catarina P Santos
- Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
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- Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain
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- Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain
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- Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM and IdiPAZ, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM and IdiPAZ, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomics Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
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- Confocal Microscopy Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM and IdiPAZ, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Epithelial Carcinogenesis Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre-CNIO, Madrid, Spain.
- CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain.
- Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Elizalde S, Laughney AM, Bakhoum SF. A Markov chain for numerical chromosomal instability in clonally expanding populations. PLoS Comput Biol 2018; 14:e1006447. [PMID: 30204765 PMCID: PMC6150543 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 08/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Cancer cells frequently undergo chromosome missegregation events during mitosis, whereby the copies of a given chromosome are not distributed evenly among the two daughter cells, thus creating cells with heterogeneous karyotypes. A stochastic model tracing cellular karyotypes derived from clonal populations over hundreds of generations was recently developed and experimentally validated, and it was capable of predicting favorable karyotypes frequently observed in cancer. Here, we construct and study a Markov chain that precisely describes karyotypic evolution during clonally expanding cancer cell populations. The Markov chain allows us to directly predict the distribution of karyotypes and the expected size of the tumor after many cell divisions without resorting to computationally expensive simulations. We determine the limiting karyotype distribution of an evolving tumor population, and quantify its dependency on several key parameters including the initial karyotype of the founder cell, the rate of whole chromosome missegregation, and chromosome-specific cell viability. Using this model, we confirm the existence of an optimal rate of chromosome missegregation probabilities that maximizes karyotypic heterogeneity, while minimizing the occurrence of nullisomy. Interestingly, karyotypic heterogeneity is significantly more dependent on chromosome missegregation probabilities rather than the number of cell divisions, so that maximal heterogeneity can be reached rapidly (within a few hundred generations of cell division) at chromosome missegregation rates commonly observed in cancer cell lines. Conversely, at low missegregation rates, heterogeneity is constrained even after thousands of cell division events. This leads us to conclude that chromosome copy number heterogeneity is primarily constrained by chromosome missegregation rates and the risk for nullisomy and less so by the age of the tumor. This model enables direct integration of karyotype information into existing models of tumor evolution based on somatic mutations. Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer and it results from persistent chromosome segregation errors during cell division. CIN has been shown to play a key role in drug resistance and tumor metastasis. While our understanding of CIN on the cellular level has grown over the past decade, our ability to predict the behavior of tumors containing billions of cells remains limited due to the paucity of adequate mathematical models. Here, we develop a Markov-chain model that is capable of providing exact solutions for long-term chromosome copy number distributions during tumor growth. Using this model we confirm the presence of optimal chromosome missegregation rates that balance genomic heterogeneity required for tumor evolution and survival. Interestingly, we show that chromosome copy number heterogeneity is primarily influenced by the rate of chromosome segregation errors rather than the age of the tumor. At chromosome missegregation rates frequently observed in cancer, tumors can acquire maximal genomic heterogeneity after a few hundred cell divisions. This model enables the integration of selection imparted by CIN into existing models of tumor evolution based on somatic mutations to explore their mutual effects.
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- Sergi Elizalde
- Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ganesh K, Basnet H, O'Rourke KP, Laughney AM, He L, Batlle E, Lowe SW, Pe'er D, Shia J, Massague J. Abstract 4990: Regenerative origin of colorectal metastasis stem cells. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-4990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Metastatic cancers invariably relapse due to the emergence of resistant tumor clones capable of self-renewal, entry into and exit from quiescence, tumor re-initiation and therapy resistance. The origins of such metastasis propagating cells (MPCs), which ultimately cause cancer death, are not well-understood.
To directly scrutinize MPCs in patient metastases, we established ex vivo organoid cultures from surgically resected, chemoresistant residual colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases. We show that the neuronal cell-adhesion molecule L1CAM, which is ectopically expressed in many cancer types and strongly associated with poor prognosis, is a marker of MPCs. L1CAM+ cells are largely quiescent in structured neoplastic glands in tumors, but when dissociated from their epithelial niche, proliferate to regenerate heterogeneous organoids or xenografts containing both L1CAM+ and L1CAM- progeny.
To define the relationship between L1CAM+ MPCs and Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells, we performed single cell mRNA sequencing on ~15,000 CRC organoid-derived cells from four patients. We identified only partial overlap between Lgr5+ and L1CAM+ cells. Lgr5high cells consistent with homeostatic stem cells, have low L1CAM levels, while Lgr5low transit amplifying progenitor-like cells have high L1CAM levels. In addition, we identify a separate population of L1CAMhighLgr5- cells. The data suggest that human CRC metastases are derived from an L1CAM+ population of transit-amplifying, partially differentiated cells.
L1CAM is not expressed in intact human or mouse intestinal crypts during homeostasis. However, when the intestinal epithelium is disrupted by dextran sodium sulfate-mediated colitis, L1CAM is strongly induced in cells in the middle of regenerating crypts. Intestinal epithelium specific deletion of L1CAM causes profound weight loss, poor tissue healing and reduces survival in DSS-treated mice. In turn, L1CAM knockdown/knockout in mouse or human CRC cells inhibits regeneration of organoids in vitro, subcutaneous tumors and orthotopic liver metastases in vivo. Mechanistically, L1CAM RNA expression is normally silenced in non-neuronal cells by the transcriptional repressor REST. We show that disruption of epithelial integrity by organoid dissociation or E-cadherin knockdown reduces REST binding to an L1CAM intronic enhancer, thus inducing L1CAM expression.
Our results suggest that L1CAM is dispensable for epithelial homeostasis, but is required for normal and neoplastic epithelial regeneration when tissue integrity is disrupted. During cancer progression, disseminated tumor cells at the invasion front of primary tumors, in the circulation, or in isolated residual disease following therapy, induce and depend on L1CAM for survival and eventual regrowth. Thus, L1CAM represents a crucial vulnerability of disseminated and residual MPCs that could be exploited therapeutically to treat patients with metastatic cancer.
Citation Format: Karuna Ganesh, Harihar Basnet, Kevin P. O'Rourke, Ashley M. Laughney, Lan He, Eduard Batlle, Scott W. Lowe, Dana Pe'er, Jinru Shia, Joan Massague. Regenerative origin of colorectal metastasis stem cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4990.
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- Karuna Ganesh
- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 2Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Xie XP, Laks DR, Sun D, Poran A, Laughney AM, Belenguer G, Massague J, Zhou X, Farinas I, Elemento O, Parada LF. Abstract 3015: Precise investigation of cancer stem cells in mouse glioblastoma. Cancer Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2018-3015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this study, we employ mouse models to investigate features and roles of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in glioblastoma (GBM). A nestin-TK-GFP transgene is firstly used to label CSCs in a fully penetrant mouse model of GBM (M7: hGFAP-Cre; Nf1fl/+; p53fl/fl; Ptenfl/+). Food-mediated ganciclovir (GCV) delivery kills proliferative transgene positive cells and significantly prolongs the lives of the transgene bearing mice. Isolation and transplantation of the tumor cells indicates the GFP+ cells are more tumorigenic than the GFP- cells. We then generate and characterize a novel transgene (CGD: nestin-CreERT2-H2BeGFP-hDTR) that labels all the neural stem/progenitor cells in the subventricular zone (SVZ). This transgene efficiently promotes brain tumors by eliminating tumor suppressor genes (CGD-M4: CGD; Nf1fl/+; p53fl/+; Ptenfl/+) in the corresponding cells. The CGD-GFP+ tumor cells are quiescent in vivo, yet form more spheres in vitro than the GFP- cells. The GFP+ cells are competent to develop tumors in a serial transplantation assay and constantly maintain a quiescent subpopulation pool in the newly formed tumors. Diphtheria toxin treatment ablates the CGD-GFP+ tumor cells and greatly reduces the tumor bulk. Temozolomide, the conventional chemotherapy for human GBM patients, benefits only mice transplanted with GFP- but not CGD-GFP+ tumor cells. Our study demonstrates the essential role of CSCs in GBM initiation, recurrence, and drug resistance. Further analysis of the CGD-GFP+ cells might delineate novel treatments for this deadly disease.
Citation Format: Xuanhua P. Xie, Dan R. Laks, Daochun Sun, Asaf Poran, Ashley M. Laughney, German Belenguer, Joan Massague, Xiuping Zhou, Isabel Farinas, Olivier Elemento, Luis F. Parada. Precise investigation of cancer stem cells in mouse glioblastoma [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3015.
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Bakhoum SF, Ngo B, Laughney AM, Cavallo JA, Murphy CJ, Ly P, Shah P, Sriram RK, Watkins TBK, Taunk NK, Duran M, Pauli C, Shaw C, Chadalavada K, Rajasekhar VK, Genovese G, Venkatesan S, Birkbak NJ, McGranahan N, Lundquist M, LaPlant Q, Healey JH, Elemento O, Chung CH, Lee NY, Imielenski M, Nanjangud G, Pe’er D, Cleveland DW, Powell SN, Lammerding J, Swanton C, Cantley LC. Chromosomal instability drives metastasis through a cytosolic DNA response. Nature 2018; 553:467-472. [PMID: 29342134 PMCID: PMC5785464 DOI: 10.1038/nature25432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 873] [Impact Index Per Article: 145.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Chromosomal instability is a hallmark of cancer that results from ongoing errors in chromosome segregation during mitosis. Although chromosomal instability is a major driver of tumour evolution, its role in metastasis has not been established. Here we show that chromosomal instability promotes metastasis by sustaining a tumour cell-autonomous response to cytosolic DNA. Errors in chromosome segregation create a preponderance of micronuclei whose rupture spills genomic DNA into the cytosol. This leads to the activation of the cGAS-STING (cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon genes) cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway and downstream noncanonical NF-κB signalling. Genetic suppression of chromosomal instability markedly delays metastasis even in highly aneuploid tumour models, whereas continuous chromosome segregation errors promote cellular invasion and metastasis in a STING-dependent manner. By subverting lethal epithelial responses to cytosolic DNA, chromosomally unstable tumour cells co-opt chronic activation of innate immune pathways to spread to distant organs.
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- Samuel F. Bakhoum
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering & Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Institute for Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland
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- Molecular Cytogenetics Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Molecular Cytogenetics Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
- UCL Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
- UCL Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Molecular Cytogenetics Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Computational Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering & Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
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- The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK
- UCL Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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Miller MA, Gadde S, Pfirschke C, Engblom C, Sprachman MM, Kohler RH, Yang KS, Laughney AM, Wojtkiewicz G, Kamaly N, Bhonagiri S, Pittet MJ, Farokhzad OC, Weissleder R. Predicting therapeutic nanomedicine efficacy using a companion magnetic resonance imaging nanoparticle. Sci Transl Med 2016; 7:314ra183. [PMID: 26582898 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac6522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Therapeutic nanoparticles (TNPs) have shown heterogeneous responses in human clinical trials, raising questions of whether imaging should be used to identify patients with a higher likelihood of NP accumulation and thus therapeutic response. Despite extensive debate about the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect in tumors, it is increasingly clear that EPR is extremely variable; yet, little experimental data exist to predict the clinical utility of EPR and its influence on TNP efficacy. We hypothesized that a 30-nm magnetic NP (MNP) in clinical use could predict colocalization of TNPs by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To this end, we performed single-cell resolution imaging of fluorescently labeled MNPs and TNPs and studied their intratumoral distribution in mice. MNPs circulated in the tumor microvasculature and demonstrated sustained uptake into cells of the tumor microenvironment within minutes. MNPs could predictably demonstrate areas of colocalization for a model TNP, poly(d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid)-b-polyethylene glycol (PLGA-PEG), within the tumor microenvironment with >85% accuracy and circulating within the microvasculature with >95% accuracy, despite their markedly different sizes and compositions. Computational analysis of NP transport enabled predictive modeling of TNP distribution based on imaging data and identified key parameters governing intratumoral NP accumulation and macrophage uptake. Finally, MRI accurately predicted initial treatment response and drug accumulation in a preclinical efficacy study using a paclitaxel-encapsulated NP in tumor-bearing mice. These approaches yield valuable insight into the in vivo kinetics of NP distribution and suggest that clinically relevant imaging modalities and agents can be used to select patients with high EPR for treatment with TNPs.
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- Miles A Miller
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Laughney AM, Malladi S, Macalinao D, Massagué J. Abstract A01: Investigating clonal heterogeneity and transcriptional vulnerabilities in latent metastasis. Mol Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1557-3125.devbiolca15-a01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Most cancer deaths are due to the poorly understood process of metastasis, which is seeded by disseminated tumor cells (DTCs). DTCs exhibit exceedingly variable latency, outgrowing immediately or lying dormant for months to years in a viable state of mass dormancy or replicative quiescence. The mechanisms enabling DTCs to survive and resist therapy are poorly understood. We have recently derived several models of latent metastasis that default to a slow-cycling state under stress, reserve the capacity for tumor-initiation, and evade immune surveillance. These DTCs resemble progenitor stem cell populations at the molecular level, actively inhibiting the pro-differentiation Wnt pathway and over-expressing Sox transcriptional factors. Tissue immunofluorescence demonstrates that latent DTCs typically manifest as solitary or clusters of infiltrating cancer cells without forming overt metastasis within several months after hematogenous dissemination in mice. This compelling observation begs the question, are these bursts truly monoclonal?
Recent studies have shown that rapidly cycling DTCs occasionally migrate in groups and this improves their likelihood of establishing polyclonal metastases; however, we hypothesize that colonization in the context of delayed metastasis may in fact be monoclonal. To address this question, unique and heritable fluorescent markers were integrated into the host genome of isolated DTCs to interrogate the clonal dynamics of apparent proliferative bursts and to enable lineage tracing. A tricolor-marking strategy was employed, whereby latent derivatives were simultaneously transduced with three vectors encoding Cerulean, Venus and mCherry fluorescent proteins at equal multiplicities of infection. Transduced cells were stably marked by an extensive color palette, which was created by variations in vector copy number and insertion sites. An automated strategy for segmenting and analyzing tissue immunofluorescence was developed to measure the size and number of subclones present in indolent micro-metastases. Fluorescent lesions were represented by their angular polar hue distribution and the Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H) was used as an estimate of clonal complexity. Lineage tracing revealed latent DTCs give rise to largely monoclonal metastases, in stark contrast to their aggressive counterparts. The dynamic behavior of latent populations was analyzed according to variations in the morphology, topological growth patterns, proliferation rates and drug response of > 300 single-cell-derived subclones within latent and aggressive metastatic derivatives. Both intra- and inter-clonal heterogeneity was enriched in DTCs derived from latent populations. The most heterogeneous clones were also the most resistant to taxol. Our results support the hypothesis that DTCs undergo short bursts of proliferation followed by elimination, growth arrest and quiescence. Consequently, long-term latency may represent the sum of multiple distinct, but balanced, states.
Citation Format: Ashley M. Laughney, Srinivas Malladi, Danilo Macalinao, Joan Massagué. Investigating clonal heterogeneity and transcriptional vulnerabilities in latent metastasis. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference: Developmental Biology and Cancer; Nov 30-Dec 3, 2015; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Mol Cancer Res 2016;14(4_Suppl):Abstract nr A01.
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Laughney AM, Kim E, Sprachman MM, Miller MA, Kohler RH, Yang KS, Orth JD, Mitchison TJ, Weissleder R. Single-cell pharmacokinetic imaging reveals a therapeutic strategy to overcome drug resistance to the microtubule inhibitor eribulin. Sci Transl Med 2015; 6:261ra152. [PMID: 25378644 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Eribulin mesylate was developed as a potent microtubule-targeting cytotoxic agent to treat taxane-resistant cancers, but recent clinical trials have shown that it eventually fails in many patient subpopulations for unclear reasons. To investigate its resistance mechanisms, we developed a fluorescent analog of eribulin with pharmacokinetic (PK) properties and cytotoxic activity across a human cell line panel that are sufficiently similar to the parent drug to study its cellular PK and tissue distribution. Using intravital imaging and automated tracking of cellular dynamics, we found that resistance to eribulin and the fluorescent analog depended directly on the multidrug resistance protein 1 (MDR1). Intravital imaging allowed for real-time analysis of in vivo PK in tumors that were engineered to be spatially heterogeneous for taxane resistance, whereby an MDR1-mApple fusion protein distinguished resistant cells fluorescently. In vivo, MDR1-mediated drug efflux and the three-dimensional tumor vascular architecture were discovered to be critical determinants of drug accumulation in tumor cells. We furthermore show that standard intravenous administration of a third-generation MDR1 inhibitor, HM30181, failed to rescue drug accumulation; however, the same MDR1 inhibitor encapsulated within a nanoparticle delivery system reversed the multidrug-resistant phenotype and potentiated the eribulin effect in vitro and in vivo in mice. Our work demonstrates that in vivo assessment of cellular PK of an anticancer drug is a powerful strategy for elucidating mechanisms of drug resistance in heterogeneous tumors and evaluating strategies to overcome this resistance.
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- Ashley M Laughney
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Bakhoum SF, Kabeche L, Wood MD, Laucius CD, Qu D, Laughney AM, Reynolds GE, Louie RJ, Phillips J, Chan DA, Zaki BI, Murnane JP, Petritsch C, Compton DA. Numerical chromosomal instability mediates susceptibility to radiation treatment. Nat Commun 2015; 6:5990. [PMID: 25606712 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The exquisite sensitivity of mitotic cancer cells to ionizing radiation (IR) underlies an important rationale for the widely used fractionated radiation therapy. However, the mechanism for this cell cycle-dependent vulnerability is unknown. Here we show that treatment with IR leads to mitotic chromosome segregation errors in vivo and long-lasting aneuploidy in tumour-derived cell lines. These mitotic errors generate an abundance of micronuclei that predispose chromosomes to subsequent catastrophic pulverization thereby independently amplifying radiation-induced genome damage. Experimentally suppressing whole-chromosome missegregation reduces downstream chromosomal defects and significantly increases the viability of irradiated mitotic cells. Further, orthotopically transplanted human glioblastoma tumours in which chromosome missegregation rates have been reduced are rendered markedly more resistant to IR, exhibiting diminished markers of cell death in response to treatment. This work identifies a novel mitotic pathway for radiation-induced genome damage, which occurs outside of the primary nucleus and augments chromosomal breaks. This relationship between radiation treatment and whole-chromosome missegregation can be exploited to modulate therapeutic response in a clinically relevant manner.
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- Samuel F Bakhoum
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- 1] Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA [2] Norris-Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- 1] Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA [2] Norris-Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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- 1] Department of Neurological Surgery and the Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA [2] Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- 1] Department of Neurological Surgery and the Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA [2] Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Section of Radiation Oncology, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- 1] Department of Neurological Surgery and the Brain Tumor Research Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA [2] Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- 1] Department of Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA [2] Norris-Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
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Laughney AM, Krishnaswamy V, Rizzo EJ, Schwab MC, Barth RJ, Cuccia DJ, Tromberg BJ, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW, Wells WA. Spectral discrimination of breast pathologies in situ using spatial frequency domain imaging. Breast Cancer Res 2014; 15:R61. [PMID: 23915805 PMCID: PMC3979079 DOI: 10.1186/bcr3455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2012] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Introduction Nationally, 25% to 50% of patients undergoing lumpectomy for local management of breast cancer require a secondary excision because of the persistence of residual tumor. Intraoperative assessment of specimen margins by frozen-section analysis is not widely adopted in breast-conserving surgery. Here, a new approach to wide-field optical imaging of breast pathology in situ was tested to determine whether the system could accurately discriminate cancer from benign tissues before routine pathological processing. Methods Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) was used to quantify near-infrared (NIR) optical parameters at the surface of 47 lumpectomy tissue specimens. Spatial frequency and wavelength-dependent reflectance spectra were parameterized with matched simulations of light transport. Spectral images were co-registered to histopathology in adjacent, stained sections of the tissue, cut in the geometry imaged in situ. A supervised classifier and feature-selection algorithm were implemented to automate discrimination of breast pathologies and to rank the contribution of each parameter to a diagnosis. Results Spectral parameters distinguished all pathology subtypes with 82% accuracy and benign (fibrocystic disease, fibroadenoma) from malignant (DCIS, invasive cancer, and partially treated invasive cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy) pathologies with 88% accuracy, high specificity (93%), and reasonable sensitivity (79%). Although spectral absorption and scattering features were essential components of the discriminant classifier, scattering exhibited lower variance and contributed most to tissue-type separation. The scattering slope was sensitive to stromal and epithelial distributions measured with quantitative immunohistochemistry. Conclusions SFDI is a new quantitative imaging technique that renders a specific tissue-type diagnosis. Its combination of planar sampling and frequency-dependent depth sensing is clinically pragmatic and appropriate for breast surgical-margin assessment. This study is the first to apply SFDI to pathology discrimination in surgical breast tissues. It represents an important step toward imaging surgical specimens immediately ex vivo to reduce the high rate of secondary excisions associated with breast lumpectomy procedures.
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Agasti SS, Laughney AM, Kohler RH, Weissleder R. A photoactivatable drug-caged fluorophore conjugate allows direct quantification of intracellular drug transport. Chem Commun (Camb) 2014; 49:11050-11052. [PMID: 24135896 DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46089d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We report here a method that utilizes a photoactivatable drug-caged fluorophore conjugate to quantify intracellular drug trafficking processes at single cell resolution. Photoactivation is performed in labeled cellular compartments to visualize intracellular drug exchange under physiological conditions, without the need for washing, facilitating its translation into in vivo cancer models.
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- Sarit S Agasti
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114 (USA)
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114 (USA)
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114 (USA)
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- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 185 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114 (USA).,Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Alpert 536, Boston, MA 02115 (USA)
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Cellular up-regulation of multidrug resistance protein 1 (MDR1) is a common cause for resistance to chemotherapy; development of third generation MDR1 inhibitors-several of which contain a common 6,7-dimethoxy-2-phenethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline substructure-is underway. Efficacy of these agents has been difficult to ascertain, partly due to a lack of pharmacokinetic reporters for quantifying inhibitor localization and transport dynamics. Some of the recent third generation inhibitors have a pendant heterocycle, for example, a chromone moiety, which we hypothesized could be converted to a fluorophore. Following synthesis and teasing of a small set of analogues, we identified one lead compound that can be used as a cellular imaging agent that exhibits structural similarity and behavior akin to the latest generation of MDR1 inhibitors.
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- Melissa M Sprachman
- Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital , 185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5206, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
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Eguizabal A, Laughney AM, García-Allende PB, Krishnaswamy V, Wells WA, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW, Lopez-Higuera JM, Conde OM. Direct identification of breast cancer pathologies using blind separation of label-free localized reflectance measurements. Biomed Opt Express 2013; 4:1104-18. [PMID: 23847736 PMCID: PMC3704092 DOI: 10.1364/boe.4.001104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2013] [Revised: 05/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/21/2013] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Breast tumors are blindly identified using Principal (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) of localized reflectance measurements. No assumption of a particular theoretical model for the reflectance needs to be made, while the resulting features are proven to have discriminative power of breast pathologies. Normal, benign and malignant breast tissue types in lumpectomy specimens were imaged ex vivo and a surgeon-guided calibration of the system is proposed to overcome the limitations of the blind analysis. A simple, fast and linear classifier has been proposed where no training information is required for the diagnosis. A set of 29 breast tissue specimens have been diagnosed with a sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 95% when discriminating benign from malignant pathologies. The proposed hybrid combination PCA-ICA enhanced diagnostic discrimination, providing tumor probability maps, and intermediate PCA parameters reflected tissue optical properties.
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- Alma Eguizabal
- Photonics Engineering Group, Dep. TEISA, University of Cantabria, Plaza de la Ciencia sn, 39005 Santander, Spain
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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- Photonics Engineering Group, Dep. TEISA, University of Cantabria, Plaza de la Ciencia sn, 39005 Santander, Spain
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- Photonics Engineering Group, Dep. TEISA, University of Cantabria, Plaza de la Ciencia sn, 39005 Santander, Spain
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Laughney AM, Krishnaswamy V, Rice TB, Cuccia DJ, Barth RJ, Tromberg BJ, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW, Wells WA. System analysis of spatial frequency domain imaging for quantitative mapping of surgically resected breast tissues. J Biomed Opt 2013; 18:036012. [PMID: 23525360 PMCID: PMC3605471 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.18.3.036012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The feasibility of spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) for breast surgical margin assessment was evaluated in tissue-simulating phantoms and in fully intact lumpectomy specimens at the time of surgery. Phantom data was evaluated according to contrast-detail resolution, quantitative accuracy and model-data goodness of fit, where optical parameters were estimated by minimizing the residual sum of squares between the measured modulation amplitude and its solutions, modeled according to diffusion and scaled-Monte Carlo simulations. In contrast-detail phantoms, a 1.25-mm-diameter surface inclusion was detectable for scattering contrast >28%; a fraction of this scattering contrast (7%) was detectable for a 10 mm surface inclusion and at least 33% scattering contrast was detected up to 1.5 mm below the phantom surface, a probing depth relevant to breast surgical margin assessment. Recovered hemoglobin concentrations were insensitive to changes in scattering, except for overestimation at visible wavelengths for total hemoglobin concentrations <15 μM. The scattering amplitude increased linearly with scattering concentration, but the scattering slope depended on both the particle size and number density. Goodness of fit was comparable for the diffusion and scaled-Monte Carlo models of transport in spatially modulated, near-infrared reflectance acquired from 47 lumpectomy tissues, but recovered absorption parameters varied more linearly with expected hemoglobin concentration in liquid phantoms for the scaled-Monte Carlo forward model. SFDI could potentially reduce the high secondary excision rate associated with breast conserving surgery; its clinical translation further requires reduced image reconstruction time and smart inking strategies.
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- Ashley M. Laughney
- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
- Address all correspondence to: Ashley M. Laughney, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755. E-mail: or Brian W. Pogue, Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756. E-mail:
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- University of California Irvine, Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, California 92617
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- Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756
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- University of California Irvine, Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, California 92617
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
- Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756
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- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
- Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756
- Address all correspondence to: Ashley M. Laughney, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755. E-mail: or Brian W. Pogue, Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756. E-mail:
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- Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756
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Krishnaswamy V, Laughney AM, Wells WA, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW. Scanning in situ spectroscopy platform for imaging surgical breast tissue specimens. Opt Express 2013; 21:2185-94. [PMID: 23389199 PMCID: PMC3601741 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.002185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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A non-contact localized spectroscopic imaging platform has been developed and optimized to scan 1 x 1 cm² square regions of surgically resected breast tissue specimens with ~150-micron resolution. A color corrected, image-space telecentric scanning design maintained a consistent sampling geometry and uniform spot size across the entire imaging field. Theoretical modeling in ZEMAX allowed estimation of the spot size, which is equal at both the center and extreme positions of the field with ~5% variation across the designed waveband, indicating excellent color correction. The spot sizes at the center and an extreme field position were also measured experimentally using the standard knife-edge technique and were found to be within ~8% of the theoretical predictions. Highly localized sampling offered inherent insensitivity to variations in background absorption allowing direct imaging of local scattering parameters, which was validated using a matrix of varying concentrations of Intralipid and blood in phantoms. Four representative, pathologically distinct lumpectomy tissue specimens were imaged, capturing natural variations in tissue scattering response within a given pathology. Variations as high as 60% were observed in the average reflectance and relative scattering power images, which must be taken into account for robust classification performance. Despite this variation, the preliminary data indicates discernible scatter power contrast between the benign vs malignant groups, but reliable discrimination of pathologies within these groups would require investigation into additional contrast mechanisms.
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755,
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- Department of Pathology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755,
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755,
USA
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755,
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Laughney AM, Krishnaswamy V, Rizzo EJ, Schwab MC, Barth RJ, Pogue BW, Paulsen KD, Wells WA. Scatter spectroscopic imaging distinguishes between breast pathologies in tissues relevant to surgical margin assessment. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:6315-25. [PMID: 22908098 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-0136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE A new approach to spectroscopic imaging was developed to detect and discriminate microscopic pathologies in resected breast tissues; diagnostic performance of the prototype system was tested in 27 tissues procured during breast conservative surgery. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A custom-built, scanning in situ spectroscopy platform sampled broadband reflectance from a 150-μm-diameter spot over a 1 × 1 cm(2) field using a dark field geometry and telecentric lens; the system was designed to balance sensitivity to cellular morphology and imaging the inherent diversity within tissue subtypes. Nearly 300,000 broadband spectra were parameterized using light scattering models and spatially dependent spectral signatures were interpreted using a cooccurrence matrix representation of image texture. RESULTS Local scattering changes distinguished benign from malignant pathologies with 94% accuracy, 93% sensitivity, 95% specificity, and 93% positive and 95% negative predictive values using a threshold-based classifier. Texture and shape features were important to optimally discriminate benign from malignant tissues, including pixel-to-pixel correlation, contrast and homogeneity, and the shape features of fractal dimension and Euler number. Analysis of the region-based diagnostic performance showed that spectroscopic image features from 1 × 1 mm(2) areas were diagnostically discriminant and enabled quantification of within-class tissue heterogeneities. CONCLUSIONS Localized scatter-imaging signatures detected by the scanning spectroscopy platform readily distinguished benign from malignant pathologies in surgical tissues and showed new spectral-spatial signatures of clinical breast pathologies.
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- Ashley M Laughney
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College Hanover, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.
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Laughney AM, Krishnaswamy V, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW, Rizzo EJ, Barth RJ, Wells WA. Abstract 3670: Spectroscopy imaging platform differentiates pathology diagnoses in breast surgical specimens. Cancer Res 2012. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2012-3670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Optical spectroscopy probes increasingly have been employed for diagnostic sensing during breast conserving surgery to aid surgeons in complete resection while minimizing damage to healthy tissues; however, traditional fiber probe-based systems rely on the assumption that ultra-structural changes associated with malignancy yield disease-specific contrast in a single, volume-averaged measure. A scanning-beam spectroscopy platform was designed to efficiently realize the imaging extension of probe-based spectroscopy methods and to selectively sample the scattering response of breast surgical specimens. The imaging system employs dark-field illumination and confocal detection to rapidly sample broadband spectra at 100μm lateral resolution over a 1cm2 field of view. Optical scattering is exquisitely sensitive to the morphological features observed in pathology, the diagnostic gold standard, and has not been studied sufficiently in thick tissues in a waveband that avoids absorption. In this study, 29 fresh breast tissue specimens procured during conservative surgery were imaged and returned to pathology for standard histological processing. A protocol was developed for accurate co-registration between the imaged field and histology. Over 300,00 broadband spectra were sampled and parameterized according to an empirical approximation to Mie theory. Further, the gray-level co-occurrence matrix representation of texture features was used to mathematically represent intensity-level spatial dependence in the scattering images. Spatially, the intra and inter-patient scattering response is quite heterogeneous; but imaging accounts for this natural variance so that diagnostic classification improved. The average scattering power per 100x100 pixel field of view was sufficient to discriminate between benign and malignant pathologies with a positive and negative predictive value of 1.00 and 0.90 respectively, using a simple, threshold-based classification. As compared to classification on a per-spectrum basis, which yielded positive and negative predictive values of just 0.71 and 0.75 respectively. Further, textural features yielded discriminated between invasive and in situ carcinomas with p<0.05, suggesting potential to discriminate between these surgically undifferentiable pathologies. The scanning spectroscopy platform was designed to strike a balance between sensitivity to tissue ultra-structure and imaging the macroscopic fields encountered during surgery. It allows for high throughput imaging of light scattering from the surface of breast surgical specimens, and the sheer number of spectra collected dramatically improves diagnostic classification.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2012 Mar 31-Apr 4; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2012;72(8 Suppl):Abstract nr 3670. doi:1538-7445.AM2012-3670
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- 2Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
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- 3Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
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- 2Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
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Krishnaswamy V, Laughney AM, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW. Dark-field scanning in situ spectroscopy platform for broadband imaging of resected tissue. Opt Lett 2011; 36:1911-3. [PMID: 21593932 PMCID: PMC3538824 DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.001911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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A dark-field geometry spectral imaging system is presented to raster scan thick tissue samples in situ in 1.5 cm square sections, recovering full spectra from each 100 μm diameter pixel. This spot size provides adequate resolution for wide field scanning, while also facilitating scatter imaging without requiring sophisticated light-tissue transport modeling. The system is demonstrated showing accurate estimation of localized scatter parameters and the potential to recover absorption-based contrast from broadband reflectance data measured from 480 nm up to 750 nm in tissue phantoms. Results obtained from xenograft pancreas tumors show the ability to quantitatively image changes in localized scatter response in this fast-imaging geometry. The polychromatic raster scan design allows the rapid scanning necessary for use in surgical/clinical applications where timely decisions are required about tissue pathology.
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- Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy
- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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- Thayer School of Engineering, 8000 Cummings Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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Laughney AM, Krishnaswamy V, Garcia-Allende PB, Conde OM, Wells WA, Paulsen KD, Pogue BW. Automated classification of breast pathology using local measures of broadband reflectance. J Biomed Opt 2010; 15:066019. [PMID: 21198193 PMCID: PMC3032233 DOI: 10.1117/1.3516594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We demonstrate that morphological features pertinent to a tissue's pathology may be ascertained from localized measures of broadband reflectance, with a mesoscopic resolution (100-μm lateral spot size) that permits scanning of an entire margin for residual disease. The technical aspects and optimization of a k-nearest neighbor classifier for automated diagnosis of pathologies are presented, and its efficacy is validated in 29 breast tissue specimens. When discriminating between benign and malignant pathologies, a sensitivity and specificity of 91 and 77% was achieved. Furthermore, detailed subtissue-type analysis was performed to consider how diverse pathologies influence scattering response and overall classification efficacy. The increased sensitivity of this technique may render it useful to guide the surgeon or pathologist where to sample pathology for microscopic assessment.
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- Ashley M Laughney
- Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
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Jiang S, Pogue BW, Laughney AM, Kogel CA, Paulsen KD. Measurement of pressure-displacement kinetics of hemoglobin in normal breast tissue with near-infrared spectral imaging. Appl Opt 2009; 48:D130-6. [PMID: 19340100 PMCID: PMC2804884 DOI: 10.1364/ao.48.00d130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Applying localized external displacement to the breast surface can change the interstitial fluid pressure such that regional transient microvascular changes occur in oxygenation and vascular volume. Imaging these dynamic responses over time, while different pressures are applied, could provide selective temporal contrast for cancer relative to the surrounding normal breast. In order to investigate this possibility in normal breast tissue, a near-infrared spectral tomography system was developed that can simultaneously acquire data at three wavelengths with a 15 s time resolution per scan. The system was tested first with heterogeneous blood phantoms. Changes in regional blood concentrations were found to be linearly related to recovered mean hemoglobin concentration (Hb(T)) values (R(2)=0.9). In a series of volunteer breast imaging exams, data from 17 asymptomatic subjects were acquired under increasing and decreasing breast compression. Calculations show that a 10 mm displacement applied to the breast results in surface pressures in the range of 0-55 kPa depending on breast density. The recovered human data indicate that Hb(T) was reduced under compression and the normalized change was significantly correlated to the applied pressure with a p value of 0.005. The maximum Hb(T) decreases in breast tissue were associated with body mass index (BMI), which is a surrogate indicator of breast density. No statistically valid correlations were found between the applied pressure and the changes in tissue oxygen saturation (S(t)O(2)) or water percentage (H(2)O) across the range of BMI values studied.
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- Shudong Jiang
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
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