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Hayes TK, Aquilanti E, Persky NS, Yang X, Kim EE, Brenan L, Goodale AB, Alan D, Sharpe T, Shue RE, Westlake L, Golomb L, Silverman BR, Morris MD, Fisher TR, Beyene E, Li YY, Cherniack AD, Piccioni F, Hicks JK, Chi AS, Cahill DP, Dietrich J, Batchelor TT, Root DE, Johannessen CM, Meyerson M. Author Correction: Comprehensive mutational scanning of EGFR reveals TKI sensitivities of extracellular domain mutants. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3273. [PMID: 38627431 PMCID: PMC11021560 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47675-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Tikvah K Hayes
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Aera Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Data Science Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Merck Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Center for Neuro-Oncology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Neuro-Oncology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Oncology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Hayes TK, Aquilanti E, Persky NS, Yang X, Kim EE, Brenan L, Goodale AB, Alan D, Sharpe T, Shue RE, Westlake L, Golomb L, Silverman BR, Morris MD, Fisher TR, Beyene E, Li YY, Cherniack AD, Piccioni F, Hicks JK, Chi AS, Cahill DP, Dietrich J, Batchelor TT, Root DE, Johannessen CM, Meyerson M. Comprehensive mutational scanning of EGFR reveals TKI sensitivities of extracellular domain mutants. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2742. [PMID: 38548752 PMCID: PMC10978866 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45594-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 04/01/2024] Open
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The epidermal growth factor receptor, EGFR, is frequently activated in lung cancer and glioblastoma by genomic alterations including missense mutations. The different mutation spectra in these diseases are reflected in divergent responses to EGFR inhibition: significant patient benefit in lung cancer, but limited in glioblastoma. Here, we report a comprehensive mutational analysis of EGFR function. We perform saturation mutagenesis of EGFR and assess function of ~22,500 variants in a human EGFR-dependent lung cancer cell line. This approach reveals enrichment of erlotinib-insensitive variants of known and unknown significance in the dimerization, transmembrane, and kinase domains. Multiple EGFR extracellular domain variants, not associated with approved targeted therapies, are sensitive to afatinib and dacomitinib in vitro. Two glioblastoma patients with somatic EGFR G598V dimerization domain mutations show responses to dacomitinib treatment followed by within-pathway resistance mutation in one case. In summary, this comprehensive screen expands the landscape of functional EGFR variants and suggests broader clinical investigation of EGFR inhibition for cancers harboring extracellular domain mutations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tikvah K Hayes
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Aera Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Data Science Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Merck Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Center for Neuro-Oncology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Neuro-Oncology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Oncology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Cancer Program, The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Aquilanti E, Wen PY. Advanced molecular diagnostic tools: A step closer to precision medicine in neuro-oncology. Neuro Oncol 2023; 25:1750-1751. [PMID: 37503808 PMCID: PMC10547505 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Aquilanti E, Kageler L, Watson J, Baird DM, Jones RE, Hodges M, Szegletes ZM, Doench JG, Strathdee CA, Figueroa JRMF, Ligon KL, Beck M, Wen PY, Meyerson M. Telomerase inhibition is an effective therapeutic strategy in TERT promoter-mutant glioblastoma models with low tumor volume. Neuro Oncol 2023; 25:1275-1285. [PMID: 36694348 PMCID: PMC10326479 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Glioblastoma is one of the most lethal forms of cancer, with 5-year survival rates of only 6%. Glioblastoma-targeted therapeutics have been challenging to develop due to significant inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity. Telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (TERT) promoter mutations are the most common known clonal oncogenic mutations in glioblastoma. Telomerase is therefore considered to be a promising therapeutic target against this tumor. However, an important limitation of this strategy is that cell death does not occur immediately after telomerase ablation, but rather after several cell divisions required to reach critically short telomeres. We, therefore, hypothesize that telomerase inhibition would only be effective in glioblastomas with low tumor burden. METHODS We used CRISPR interference to knock down TERT expression in TERT promoter-mutant glioblastoma cell lines and patient-derived models. We then measured viability using serial proliferation assays. We also assessed for features of telomere crisis by measuring telomere length and chromatin bridge formation. Finally, we used a doxycycline-inducible CRISPR interference system to knock down TERT expression in vivo early and late in tumor development. RESULTS Upon TERT inactivation, glioblastoma cells lose their proliferative ability over time and exhibit telomere shortening and chromatin bridge formation. In vivo, survival is only prolonged when TERT knockdown is induced shortly after tumor implantation, but not when the tumor burden is high. CONCLUSIONS Our results support the idea that telomerase inhibition would be most effective at treating glioblastomas with low tumor burden, for example in the adjuvant setting after surgical debulking and chemoradiation.
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Neuro Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Division of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Genetic Perturbation Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Neuro Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Center for Cancer Genomics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Youssef G, Aquilanti E, Muzikansky A, Miller J, Vogelzang J, Lapinskas E, Lim-Fat MJ, Rahman R, Beroukhim R, Bi WL, Chukwueke U, Castro LNG, Lee E, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Nayak L, Reardon DA, Ligon K, Wen PY. PATH-15. THE PROGNOSTIC IMPLICATION OF MGMT PROMOTER METHYLATION IN IDH-MUTANT GLIOMAS. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9660908 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.588] [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] Open
Abstract
Abstract
BACKGROUND
MGMT promoter methylation in IDH-mutant gliomas was associated with improved survival in a recent study (PMID 35386566) but did not account for the updated WHO classification of CNS tumors. We evaluated the prognostic value of MGMT methylation in IDH-mutant gliomas incorporating the 2021 WHO classification.
METHODS
We retrospectively identified 431 patients with IDH-mutant gliomas treated at a single institution from 2010-2020. Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate OS and PFS rates. Log-Rank test was used to evaluate differences between groups.
RESULTS
Median age was 36.2 years. MGMT promoter was methylated in 49.6%, unmethylated in 17.2%, partially methylated in 6.7%, and untested in 26.5%. Histological diagnosis was consistent with astrocytoma in 45.7%, oligodendroglioma in 33.9%, glioblastoma in 16.4%, and oligoastrocytoma in 4%. After accounting for 1p/19q and CDKN2A statuses, 190 patients had an integrated diagnosis of astrocytoma, grade 2 or 3; 94 had astrocytoma, grade 4; and 147 had oligodendroglioma, grade 2 or 3. There were 101 death events. Median OS was 33.36 years and median PFS was 5.67 years in MGMT methylated gliomas, compared to median OS of 12.54 years (p=0.0064) and median PFS of 3.91 years (p=0.0034) in unmethylated tumors. Upon univariate subgroup analysis, MGMT methylation was associated with significantly longer OS in histological astrocytomas, grade 2 or 4. However, when stratifying patients according to 2021 WHO classification of CNS tumors, there was no significant difference in OS between MGMT methylated and unmethylated astrocytomas or oligodendrogliomas, irrespective of WHO grade.
CONCLUSION
MGMT promoter methylation was associated with prolonged OS in histological astrocytomas, IDH-mutant. However, MGMT status did not impact survival after incorporating 2021 WHO classification of CNS tumors, suggesting that 1p/19q co-deletion and CDKN2A homozygous deletion are stronger prognostic factors in our cohort. The number of survival events was limited; larger datasets are required for more definitive conclusions.
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- Department of Neurology, Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston , USA
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- Dana Farber / Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Center , Boston , USA
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto , Toronto , Canada
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute , Boston, MA , USA
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Aquilanti E, Chen R, Hui K, Kageler L, Prensner J, Wen PY, Meyerson M, Huang F. EXTH-61. RPP25L IS A NOVEL DEPENDENCY IN GLIOBLASTOMAS WITH LOW RPP25 EXPRESSION. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9661098 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.859] [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] Open
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Genetic redundancy is a property whereby two or more genes encode for the same biological function, and inactivation of one redundant gene has little effect on the overall phenotype. In recent years, genetic redundancy has been exploited as a cancer therapeutic strategy, as individual paralogs of essential genes are occasionally lost in cancers because of genomic deletions. Inactivation of the non-deleted paralog can therefore be selectively toxic to tumor cells. To identify cancer cells that may become reliant on the non-methylated paralog of essential genes, we performed an in-silico analysis of the correlation between DNA methylation and genetic dependency across large scale CRISPR knockout screens that revealed novel paralog dependencies. Through this analysis, we identified glioblastoma cell lines with hypermethylation of the RPP25 promoter and with sensitivity to loss of RPP25L. RPP25 is a known structural component of RNAse P, a key enzyme involved in tRNA maturation. While the biological function of RPP25L is unknown, it has significant sequence homology to RPP25. We used CRISPR editing and CRISPR interference to inactivate RPP25L in a panel of glioblastoma cell lines and demonstrated that cell lines that do not express RPP25 (SF295, GB1, LN18) exhibit a rapid reduction in viability upon RPP25L loss, whereas cell lines with retained RPP25 expression or re-expressed RPP25 are not affected. RPP25L dependency is associated with a marked reduction in nascent polypeptide formation as determined by click chemistry. Lastly, we validated RPP25L dependency in glioblastoma patient-derived neurospheres with loss of RPP25 expression. These results indicate that RPP25L is a promising novel therapeutic target in glioblastomas with hypermethylation of the RPP25 promoter.
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- University of California San Francisco , San Francisco , USA
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- University of California San Francisco , San Francisco, CA , USA
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- University of California San Francisco , San Francisco , USA
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Kageler L, Aquilanti E, Watson J, Baird D, Jones R, Hodges M, Wen PY, Meyerson M. EXTH-11. TELOMERASE INHIBITION IS AN EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY IN TERT PROMOTER-MUTANT GLIOBLASTOMAS MODELS WITH LOW TUMOR BURDEN. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9661100 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.810] [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] Open
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Glioblastoma targeted therapeutics have been challenging to develop due to significant inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity. While many activated oncogenes in glioblastoma are subclonal, TERT promoter mutations commonly occur as clonal events and are found in up to 80% of IDH-wildtype glioblastomas. Given the high prevalence and clonal nature of TERT promoter mutations in glioblastoma, telomerase is considered a promising therapeutic target for this deadly cancer. Prior studies have validated this hypothesis, demonstrating that knockout of the transcription factor GABPA, which selectively binds to the mutant TERT promoter, as well as base editing-mediated correction of TERT promoter mutations, are selectively toxic to TERTpromoter mutant glioblastomas. However, an important limitation of this strategy is that cancer cell death does not occur immediately after telomerase ablation, but rather after several cell divisions required to reach critically short telomeres. We therefore hypothesize that telomerase inhibition would only be effective in low tumor burden glioblastomas. In this study, we used CRISPR interference to knock down TERT expression in TERT promoter-mutant glioblastoma cell lines and patient derived models. We then measured cell viability and assessed for features of telomere crisis by measuring telomere length and chromatin bridge formation. Lastly, we used a doxycycline inducible CRISPR interference system to knock down TERT expression in vivo early and late in the tumor formation process. We demonstrated that TERT promoter-mutant glioblastoma cells are sensitive to telomerase inhibition and undergo telomere crisis. In vivo, tumor formation is only inhibited when TERT knockdown is induced shortly after tumor implantation, but not when tumor burden is high. This work supports the idea that telomerase inhibition would be a suitable therapeutic strategy for glioblastoma patients with low tumor burden, for example in the adjuvant setting after surgical debulking and chemoradiation.
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Aquilanti E, Wen PY. Current therapeutic options for glioblastoma and future perspectives. Expert Opin Pharmacother 2022; 23:1629-1640. [DOI: 10.1080/14656566.2022.2125302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Neuro Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215
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- Division of Neuro Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215
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Gradl S, Lee S, Lange M, Wu X, Goldoni S, Lewis T, Kopitz C, Garvie C, Lienau P, Hoyt S, Seidel H, Kaulfuss S, Ellermann M, de Waal L, Tersteegen A, Golfier S, Suelzle D, Hegele-Hartung C, Carr J, Brookfield F, Bruening M, Berthold M, Jourdan T, Schenone M, Gao G, McGaunn J, Wengner A, Aquilanti E, Siegel F, Garrido M, Walter A, Genvresse I, Cherniack A, Schreiber S, Eis K, Eheim A, Meyerson M, Greulich H. Abstract ND04: BAY 2666605: The first PDE3A-SLFN12 complex inducer for cancer therapy. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-nd04] [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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Velcrin compounds are a class of small molecules that induce complex formation between PDE3A and SLFN12, killing cancer cells that express elevated levels of these two proteins by a mechanism independent of PDE3A enzymatic inhibition. Instead, PDE3A binding stimulates the RNase activity of SLFN12, resulting in cleavage of the specific SLFN12 substrate, tRNA-Leu-TAA. Cleavage of tRNA-Leu-TAA in turn causes ribosomal pausing, inhibition of protein synthesis, and cancer cell death. Unlike traditional targeted therapies that leverage dependencies created in cancer cells by genomic alterations, velcrins instead kill cancer cells by a gain-of-function mechanism dependent on the RNase activity of SLFN12.
In a collaboration between the Broad Institute and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, we developed the first velcrin, BAY 2666605, to enter Phase I clinical trials. BAY 2666605 is active in cell line and patient-derived xenografts of several tumor types, specifically where elevated levels of the two biomarkers, PDE3A and SLFN12, are expressed. Biomarker-positive tumors are especially enriched among melanomas, and we have consistently observed tumor regression in biomarker-positive melanoma tumor models in vivo. BAY 2666605 furthermore shows drug-like properties, excellent brain penetration, increased stimulation of SLFN12 RNase activity, and reduced inhibition of PDE3A enzymatic activity compared with most other velcrins and approved PDE3A inhibitors. BAY 2666605 has recently entered a First-in-Human study (NCT04809805) in patients with advanced solid tumors that co-express PDE3A and SLFN12, including melanoma, ovarian cancer, and sarcoma.
Citation Format: Stefan Gradl, Sooncheol Lee, Martin Lange, Xiaoyun Wu, Silvia Goldoni, Timothy Lewis, Charlotte Kopitz, Colin Garvie, Philip Lienau, Stephanie Hoyt, Henrik Seidel, Stephan Kaulfuss, Manuel Ellermann, Luc de Waal, Adrian Tersteegen, Sven Golfier, Detlev Suelzle, Christa Hegele-Hartung, James Carr, Frederick Brookfield, Michael Bruening, Melanie Berthold, Thibaud Jourdan, Monica Schenone, Galen Gao, Joseph McGaunn, Antje Wengner, Elisa Aquilanti, Franziska Siegel, Marine Garrido, Annette Walter, Isabelle Genvresse, Andrew Cherniack, Stuart Schreiber, Knut Eis, Ashley Eheim, Matthew Meyerson, Heidi Greulich. BAY 2666605: The first PDE3A-SLFN12 complex inducer for cancer therapy [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr ND04.
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- 3Bayer Pharma AG and Nuvisan ICB GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- 3Bayer Pharma AG and Nuvisan ICB GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- 2The Broad Institute Inc, Cambridge, MA
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Goldoni S, Lange M, Kopitz C, Kaulfuss S, Golfier S, Tersteegen A, Bunse S, Berthold M, Jordan T, Lienau P, Siegel F, Walter A, Seidel H, Aquilanti E, Baker A, Wu X, Lee S, Gradl S, di Tomaso E, Meyerson M, Eis K, Eheim A, Greulich H. Abstract 2663: Preclinical profiling of BAY 2666605: The first PDE3A-SLFN12 complex inducer for cancer therapy. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-2663] [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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BAY 2666605, co-developed by the Broad Institute and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, is a selective and potent molecular glue, part of a family of small molecules recently baptized as ‘velcrins’, that induces complex formation between phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A) and SLFN12. BAY 2666605 has recently entered a First-in-Human study (NCT04809805) in patients with advanced solid tumors and here we describe its pre-clinical pharmacology profile. DNMDP, the precursor to BAY 2666605, was discovered in a phenotypic screen of genomically annotated cancer cell lines and sensitivity to treatment correlated to high expression of PDE3A (1). Upon treatment, SLFN12 is recruited into a stable complex with PDE3A where its RNase activity is enhanced and required for response (2). BAY 2666605 is a potent complex inducer (EC50 = 7 nM) and cytotoxic in vitro with nanomolar potency (IC50 = 1nM, in the most sensitive cell lines). Cancer cells with high expression of PDE3A and co-expression of SLFN12 are killed by a mechanism independent of PDE3A enzymatic inhibition. PDE3A-SLFN12 binding is required for cytotoxicity. Biomarker-positive lines are enriched in the melanoma lineage and show dose-dependent sensitivity to BAY 2666605 both in vitro and in vivo. Notably, we have consistently observed tumor regression in biomarker-positive melanoma models, including in PDX models (10mg/kg po BID). Based on target expression data from TCGA and tumor arrays, various other tumor types also co-express PDE3A and SLFN12, such as sarcomas and ovarian cancer. To this end, we show that BAY 2666605 inhibits tumor growth of PDX models of sarcoma and ovarian cancer in vivo. BAY 2666605 has excellent brain penetration, making glioblastoma a promising indication. Biomarker-positive GBM models are sensitive to BAY 2666605 both in vitro and in vivo. In a subset of orthotopic GBM models BAY 2666605 treatment has significant impact on survival. In BAY 2666605 treated models we have observed MCL1 downregulation and this biomarker will be evaluated in clinical settings. Our pre-clinical data indicate that BAY 2666605 is a potent anti-tumor agent with first-in-class potential and broad indication space.
1. de Waal et al. Identification of cancer-cytotoxic modulators of PDE3A by predictive chemogenomics, Nat. Chem. Biol. 12, 102-108 (2016) 2. Garvie et al. Structure of PDE3A-SLFN12 complex reveals requirements for activation of SLFN12 RNase, Nat. Commun. 12, 4375 (2021)
Citation Format: Silvia Goldoni, Martin Lange, Charlotte Kopitz, Stefan Kaulfuss, Sven Golfier, Adrian Tersteegen, Stefanie Bunse, Melanie Berthold, Thibaud Jordan, Philip Lienau, Franziska Siegel, Annette Walter, Henrik Seidel, Elisa Aquilanti, Andrew Baker, Xiaoyun Wu, Sooncheol Lee, Stefan Gradl, Emmanuelle di Tomaso, Matthew Meyerson, Knut Eis, Ashley Eheim, Heidi Greulich. Preclinical profiling of BAY 2666605: The first PDE3A-SLFN12 complex inducer for cancer therapy [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 2663.
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Lim-Fat MJ, Allen M, Smith T, Youssef G, Andersen B, Akintola O, Berger T, Budhu J, Hsieh A, Aquilanti E, Batchelor T, Beroukhim R, Chukwueke U, Castro LNG, Lee EQ, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Doherty L, Stefanik J, Taubert C, Torres A, Wen P, Reardon D, Nayak L. INNV-40. REAL WORLD INTEGRATION OF THE NEUROLOGIC ASSESSMENT IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY (NANO) SCALE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE IN PATIENTS WITH IDH-WT GBM. Neuro Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8598454 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab196.450] [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] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The neurologic assessment in neuro-oncology (NANO) scale was developed as a standardized metric to objectively measure neurologic function in patients with brain tumors and complement radiographic assessment in defining overall outcome. The scale has been incorporated in clinical trials. Early data is suggestive of feasibility and that NANO contributes to overall outcome assessment. However, real-world use of the NANO scale to drive clinical-decision making and the predictive value of the NANO scale to determine overall survival remains unclear in IDH-wt GBM. METHODS We report on an ongoing study using the NANO scale to evaluate neurologic function in patients with IDH-wt GBM, seen at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). Patient demographics, tumor histology and molecular status, treatment history and progression dates are being captured. NANO score, as collected by a built-in scale in our institutional electronic medical record (EMR), functional status (Karnofsky performance status) and corticosteroid dose are collected at prespecified time points (prior to start of therapy, and during each subsequent MRI visit). Changes in the NANO score will be correlated to overall survival. Statistical analyses including descriptive data analysis and generalized linear models will be performed using R (version 3.4.3). RESULTS Since June 2020, 50 patients have been enrolled in this study, including 42 (84%) with ≥2 follow up visits. Study accrual was initially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but adaptation to a virtual platform for NANO allowed for improved recruitment and follow up of patients. Study results will be available for discussion at the 2021 SNO conference. CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of neurologic function by NANO is feasible in a virtual framework in a prospective study in patients with GBM, aided by integration of the scale in our institutional EMR. NANO is able to objectively track neurologic function throughout disease course in IDH-wt GBM.
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- Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Center For Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and it continues to have a dismal prognosis. The development of targeted therapeutics has been particularly challenging, in part due to a limited number of oncogenic mutations and significant intra-tumoral heterogeneity. TERT promoter mutations were first discovered in melanoma and later found to be present in up to 80% of glioblastoma samples. They are also frequent clonal alterations in this tumor. TERT promoter mutations are one of the mechanisms for telomerase reactivation, providing cancers with cellular immortality. Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase ribonucleoprotein complex that maintains telomere length in cells with high proliferative ability. In this article we present genomic and pre-clinical data that supports telomerase as a potential "Achilles' heel" for glioblastoma. We also summarize prior experience with anti-telomerase agents and potential new approaches to tackle this target.
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Neuro Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Neuro Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Aquilanti E, Brastianos PK. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Brain Metastases: A Primer for Neurosurgeons. Neurosurgery 2020; 87:E281-E288. [PMID: 32302389 PMCID: PMC7426188 DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [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: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors enhance immune recognition of tumors by interfering with the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA4) and programmed death 1 (PD1) pathways. In the past decade, these agents brought significant improvements to the prognostic outlook of patients with metastatic cancers. Recent data from retrospective analyses and a few prospective studies suggest that checkpoint inhibitors have activity against brain metastases from melanoma and nonsmall cell lung cancer, as single agents or in combination with radiotherapy. Some studies reported intracranial response rates that were comparable with systemic ones. In this review, we provide a comprehensive summary of clinical data supporting the use of anti-CTLA4 and anti-PD1 agents in brain metastases. We also touch upon specific considerations on the assessment of intracranial responses in patients and immunotherapy-specific toxicities. We conclude that a subset of patients with brain metastases benefit from the addition of checkpoint inhibitors to standard of care therapeutic modalities, including radiotherapy and surgery.
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Stephen E. Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Stephen E. Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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Nayyar N, Shih DJ, Bihun I, Dagogo-Jack I, Gill CM, Aquilanti E, Bertalan M, Kaplan A, D'Andrea MR, Chukwueke U, Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Lastrapes M, Kuter B, Strickland MR, Martinez-Gutierrez JC, Nagabhushan D, De Sauvage M, White MD, Castro BA, Hoang K, Paek SH, Park SH, Martinez-Lage M, Berghoff AS, Merrill P, Gerstner ER, Batchelor TT, Frosch MP, Frazier RP, Borger DR, Iafrate AJ, Santagata S, Preusser M, Cahill DP, Carter SL, Brastianos PK. Abstract 4729: Identifying genomic drivers of lung adenocarcinoma brain metastases. Cancer Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2020-4729] [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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Although lung adenocarcinomas frequently metastasize to the brain, treatment options for lung adenocarcinoma brain metastases (BM-LUAD) are limited. We discovered novel candidate drivers of progression by using case-control analyses to compare whole-exome sequencing data from a cohort of 73 BM-LUAD to a control cohort of 503 primary lung adenocarcinomas. We identified MYC, YAP1 and MMP13 as genomic regions with significantly more frequent amplifications in BM-LUAD compared to control cohort. We validated that MYC, YAP1 and MMP13 can drive brain metastases in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model, where incidence of brain metastases was higher in mice injected with tumor cells expressing the candidate drivers compared to tumor cells expressing LacZ. These results indicate that somatic alterations can drive lung adenocarcinomas to metastasize to the brain. These candidate drivers may serve as therapeutic targets in patients with brain metastatic lung adenocarcinomas.
Citation Format: Naema Nayyar, David J. Shih, Ivanna Bihun, Ibiayi Dagogo-Jack, Corey M. Gill, Elisa Aquilanti, Mia Bertalan, Alexander Kaplan, Megan R. D'Andrea, Ugonma Chukwueke, Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, Matthew Lastrapes, Ben Kuter, Matthew R. Strickland, Juan Carlos Martinez-Gutierrez, Deepika Nagabhushan, Magali De Sauvage, Michael D. White, Brandyn A. Castro, Kaitlin Hoang, Sun Ha Paek, Sun Hye Park, Maria Martinez-Lage, Anna S. Berghoff, Parker Merrill, Elizabeth R. Gerstner, Tracy T. Batchelor, Matthew P. Frosch, Ryan P. Frazier, Darrell R. Borger, A John Iafrate, Sandro Santagata, Matthias Preusser, Daniel P. Cahill, Scott L. Carter, Priscilla K. Brastianos. Identifying genomic drivers of lung adenocarcinoma brain metastases [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020; 2020 Apr 27-28 and Jun 22-24. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2020;80(16 Suppl):Abstract nr 4729.
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- 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- 4Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- 4Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Shih DJH, Nayyar N, Bihun I, Dagogo-Jack I, Gill CM, Aquilanti E, Bertalan M, Kaplan A, D'Andrea MR, Chukwueke U, Ippen FM, Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Camarda ND, Lastrapes M, McCabe D, Kuter B, Kaufman B, Strickland MR, Martinez-Gutierrez JC, Nagabhushan D, De Sauvage M, White MD, Castro BA, Hoang K, Kaneb A, Batchelor ED, Paek SH, Park SH, Martinez-Lage M, Berghoff AS, Merrill P, Gerstner ER, Batchelor TT, Frosch MP, Frazier RP, Borger DR, Iafrate AJ, Johnson BE, Santagata S, Preusser M, Cahill DP, Carter SL, Brastianos PK. Genomic characterization of human brain metastases identifies drivers of metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Nat Genet 2020; 52:371-377. [PMID: 32203465 PMCID: PMC7136154 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0592-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [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: 01/19/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Brain metastases from lung adenocarcinoma (BM-LUAD) frequently cause patient mortality. To identify genomic alterations that promote brain metastases, we performed whole-exome sequencing of 73 BM-LUAD cases. Using case-control analyses, we discovered candidate drivers of brain metastasis by identifying genes with more frequent copy-number aberrations in BM-LUAD compared to 503 primary LUADs. We identified three regions with significantly higher amplification frequencies in BM-LUAD, including MYC (12 versus 6%), YAP1 (7 versus 0.8%) and MMP13 (10 versus 0.6%), and significantly more frequent deletions in CDKN2A/B (27 versus 13%). We confirmed that the amplification frequencies of MYC, YAP1 and MMP13 were elevated in an independent cohort of 105 patients with BM-LUAD. Functional assessment in patient-derived xenograft mouse models validated the notion that MYC, YAP1 or MMP13 overexpression increased the incidence of brain metastasis. These results demonstrate that somatic alterations contribute to brain metastases and that genomic sequencing of a sufficient number of metastatic tumors can reveal previously unknown metastatic drivers.
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- David J H Shih
- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medicine I, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Laboratory for Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
- Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Aquilanti E, Baird D, Watson J, Meyerson M. CBMT-21. TERT PROMOTER-MUTANT GLIOBLASTOMAS EXHIBIT DEPENDENCY ON TELOMERASE. Neuro Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noz175.143] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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TERT promoter mutations are among the most common somatic alterations in cancer and they occur in about 80% of IDH-wildtype glioblastomas. TERT promoter mutations were found to reactivate telomerase by providing a novel binding site for the GABP transcription factor. While the effects of telomerase ablation are well understood in mice and somatic human cells, these effects in cancer are yet to be fully elucidated. In this study, we used a genetic approach with CRISPR-interference to knock down telomerase in TERT promoter-mutant glioblastoma cell lines. We show that this leads to a gradual and significant reduction in proliferation. This phenotype ultimately culminates in telomere crisis, with telomere shortening, activation of the DNA damage response pathway and formation of chromatin bridges. These data suggest that anti-telomerase therapy is a potential effective approach for glioblastoma tumors.
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Broad Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Gliomas are the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults. The traditional classification of gliomas has been based on histologic features and tumor grade. The advent of sophisticated molecular diagnostic techniques has led to a deeper understanding of genomic drivers implicated in gliomagenesis, some of which have important prognostic implications. These advances have led to an extensive revision of the World Health Organization classification of diffuse gliomas to include molecular markers such as isocitrate dehydrogenase mutation, 1p/19q codeletion, and histone mutations as integral components of brain tumor classification. Here, we report a comprehensive analysis of molecular prognostic factors for patients with gliomas, including those mentioned above, but also extending to others such as telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter mutations, O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter methylation, glioma cytosine-phosphate-guanine island methylator phenotype DNA methylation, and epidermal growth factor receptor alterations.
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- Elisa Aquilanti
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.,Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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Brastianos PK, Nayyar N, Rosebrock D, Leshchiner I, Gill CM, Livitz D, Bertalan MS, D'Andrea M, Hoang K, Aquilanti E, Chukwueke UN, Kaneb A, Chi A, Plotkin S, Gerstner ER, Frosch MP, Suva ML, Cahill DP, Getz G, Batchelor TT. Resolving the phylogenetic origin of glioblastoma via multifocal genomic analysis of pre-treatment and treatment-resistant autopsy specimens. NPJ Precis Oncol 2017; 1:33. [PMID: 29872714 PMCID: PMC5871833 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-017-0035-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 03/07/2017] [Revised: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Glioblastomas are malignant neoplasms composed of diverse cell populations. This intratumoral diversity has an underlying architecture, with a hierarchical relationship through clonal evolution from a common ancestor. Therapies are limited by emergence of resistant subclones from this phylogenetic reservoir. To characterize this clonal ancestral origin of recurrent tumors, we determined phylogenetic relationships using whole exome sequencing of pre-treatment IDH1/2 wild-type glioblastoma specimens, matched to post-treatment autopsy samples (n = 9) and metastatic extracranial post-treatment autopsy samples (n = 3). We identified “truncal” genetic events common to the evolutionary ancestry of the initial specimen and later recurrences, thereby inferring the identity of the precursor cell population. Mutations were identified in a subset of cases in known glioblastoma genes such as NF1(n = 3), TP53(n = 4) and EGFR(n = 5). However, by phylogenetic analysis, there were no protein-coding mutations as recurrent truncal events across the majority of cases. In contrast, whole copy-loss of chromosome 10 (12 of 12 cases), copy-loss of chromosome 9p21 (11 of 12 cases) and copy-gain in chromosome 7 (10 of 12 cases) were identified as shared events in the majority of cases. Strikingly, mutations in the TERT promoter were also identified as shared events in all evaluated pairs (9 of 9). Thus, we define four truncal non-coding genomic alterations that represent early genomic events in gliomagenesis, that identify the persistent cellular reservoir from which glioblastoma recurrences emerge. Therapies to target these key early genomic events are needed. These findings offer an evolutionary explanation for why precision therapies that target protein-coding mutations lack efficacy in GBM. Non-coding and structural alterations may be early drivers of brain cancer development. A team led by Priscilla Brastianos and Tracy Batchelor from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, analyzed the genetic landscape of glioblastoma by comparing pre-treatment and autopsy tumor specimens from 12 patients who died of the aggressive brain cancer. They identified a common set of four genetic events that occurred early in the evolution of nearly every patient’s cancer: three losses or gains of chromosome regions or entire chromosomes, and mutations in the gene-activating promoter of TERT, which encodes an enzyme implicated in the cancer’s growth. The findings help explain why therapies that target protein-coding mutations don’t work in brain cancer when they do in other tumor types. They also point to new drug targets.
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- Priscilla K Brastianos
- 1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 6Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY USA
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- 1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,7Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,7Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,8Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 2Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,7Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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- 1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,4Division of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA.,5Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Aquilanti E, Gill C, Santagata S, Lawrence D, Flaherty K, Cahill D, Sullivan R, Brastianos P. BMET-04LEPTOMENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS IN MELANOMA. Neuro Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nov208.04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Muller FL, Colla S, Aquilanti E, Manzo VE, Genovese G, Lee J, Eisenson D, Narurkar R, Deng P, Nezi L, Lee MA, Hu B, Hu J, Sahin E, Ong D, Fletcher-Sananikone E, Ho D, Kwong L, Brennan C, Wang YA, Chin L, DePinho RA. Passenger deletions generate therapeutic vulnerabilities in cancer. Nature 2012; 488:337-42. [PMID: 22895339 PMCID: PMC3712624 DOI: 10.1038/nature11331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2012] [Accepted: 06/15/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Inactivation of tumour-suppressor genes by homozygous deletion is a prototypic event in the cancer genome, yet such deletions often encompass neighbouring genes. We propose that homozygous deletions in such passenger genes can expose cancer-specific therapeutic vulnerabilities when the collaterally deleted gene is a member of a functionally redundant family of genes carrying out an essential function. The glycolytic gene enolase 1 (ENO1) in the 1p36 locus is deleted in glioblastoma (GBM), which is tolerated by the expression of ENO2. Here we show that short-hairpin-RNA-mediated silencing of ENO2 selectively inhibits growth, survival and the tumorigenic potential of ENO1-deleted GBM cells, and that the enolase inhibitor phosphonoacetohydroxamate is selectively toxic to ENO1-deleted GBM cells relative to ENO1-intact GBM cells or normal astrocytes. The principle of collateral vulnerability should be applicable to other passenger-deleted genes encoding functionally redundant essential activities and provide an effective treatment strategy for cancers containing such genomic events.
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- Florian L Muller
- Department of Genomic Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Muller F, Lee M, Muller F, Aquilanti E, Hu B, DePinho R. Stereotactic Orthotopic Xenograft Injections into the Mouse Brain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1038/protex.2012.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Kino Y, Washizu C, Aquilanti E, Okuno M, Kurosawa M, Yamada M, Doi H, Nukina N. Intracellular localization and splicing regulation of FUS/TLS are variably affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutations. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:2781-98. [PMID: 21109527 PMCID: PMC3074126 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [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] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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TLS (translocated in liposarcoma), also known as FUS (fused in sarcoma), is an RNA/DNA-binding protein that plays regulatory roles in transcription, pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA transport. Mutations in TLS are responsible for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) type 6. Furthermore, TLS-containing intracellular inclusions are found in polyglutamine diseases, sporadic ALS, non-SOD1 familial ALS and a subset of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, indicating a pathological significance of TLS in a wide variety of neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we identified TLS domains that determine intracellular localization of the murine TLS. Among them, PY-NLS located in the C-terminus is a strong determinant of intracellular localization as well as splicing regulation of an E1A-derived minigene. Disruption of PY-NLS promoted the formation of cytoplasmic granules that were partially overlapped with stress granules and P-bodies. Some of the ALS-linked mutations altered both intracellular localization and splicing regulation of TLS, while most mutations alone did not affect splicing regulation. However, phospho-mimetic substitution of Ser505 (or Ser513 in human) could enhance the effects of ALS mutations, highlighting interplay between post-translational modification and ALS-linked mutations. These results demonstrate that ALS-linked mutations can variably cause loss of nuclear functions of TLS depending on the degree of impairment in nuclear localization.
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- Yoshihiro Kino
- Laboratory for Structural Neuropathology, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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Kotliarov Y, Kotliarova S, Charong N, Li A, Walling J, Aquilanti E, Ahn S, Steed ME, Su Q, Center A, Zenklusen JC, Fine HA. Correlation analysis between single-nucleotide polymorphism and expression arrays in gliomas identifies potentially relevant target genes. Cancer Res 2009; 69:1596-603. [PMID: 19190341 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-2496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Primary brain tumors are a major cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Therapy for gliomas, the most common type of primary brain tumors, remains suboptimal. The development of improved therapeutics will require greater knowledge of the biology of gliomas at both the genomic and transcriptional levels. We have previously reported whole genome profiling of chromosome copy number alterations (CNA) in gliomas, and now present our findings on how those changes may affect transcription of genes that may be involved in tumor induction and progression. By calculating correlation values of mRNA expression versus DNA copy number average in a moving window around a given RNA probe set, biologically relevant information can be gained that is obscured by the analysis of a single data type. Correlation coefficients ranged from -0.6 to 0.7, highly significant when compared with previous studies. Most correlated genes are located on chromosomes 1, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 19, 20, and 22, chromosomes known to have genomic alterations in gliomas. Additionally, we were able to identify CNAs whose gene expression correlation suggests possible epigenetic regulation. This analysis revealed a number of interesting candidates such as CXCL12, PTER, and LRRN6C, among others. The results have been verified using real-time PCR and methylation sequencing assays. These data will further help differentiate genes involved in the induction and/or maintenance of the tumorigenic process from those that are mere passenger mutations, thereby enriching for a population of potentially new therapeutic molecular targets.
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- Yuri Kotliarov
- Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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