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Nakagawa S, Carnevali D, Tan X, Alvarez MJ, Parfitt DE, Di Vicino U, Arumugam K, Shin W, Aranda S, Normanno D, Sebastian-Perez R, Cannatá C, Cortes P, Neguembor MV, Shen MM, Califano A, Cosma MP. The Wnt-dependent master regulator NKX1-2 controls mouse pre-implantation development. Stem Cell Reports 2024; 19:689-709. [PMID: 38701778 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2024.04.004] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Embryo size, specification, and homeostasis are regulated by a complex gene regulatory and signaling network. Here we used gene expression signatures of Wnt-activated mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) clones to reverse engineer an mESC regulatory network. We identify NKX1-2 as a novel master regulator of preimplantation embryo development. We find that Nkx1-2 inhibition reduces nascent RNA synthesis, downregulates genes controlling ribosome biogenesis, RNA translation, and transport, and induces severe alteration of nucleolus structure, resulting in the exclusion of RNA polymerase I from nucleoli. In turn, NKX1-2 loss of function leads to chromosome missegregation in the 2- to 4-cell embryo stages, severe decrease in blastomere numbers, alterations of tight junctions (TJs), and impairment of microlumen coarsening. Overall, these changes impair the blastocoel expansion-collapse cycle and embryo cavitation, leading to altered lineage specification and developmental arrest.
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- Shoma Nakagawa
- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; DarwinHealth Inc, New York, NY, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York, New York, NY, USA.
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- Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Pg.Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain; Medical Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, 106 Zhongshan Er Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510080, China.
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Wang XG, Shen MM, Lu J, Dou TC, Ma M, Guo J, Wang KH, Qu L. Genome-wide association analysis of eggshell color of an F2 generation population reveals candidate genes in chickens. Animal 2024; 18:101167. [PMID: 38762993 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101167] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024] Open
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Eggshell color is an important visual characteristic that affects consumer preferences for eggs. Eggshell color, which has moderate to high heritability, can be effectively enhanced through molecular marker selection. Various studies have been conducted on eggshell color at specific time points. However, few longitudinal data are available on eggshell color. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate eggshell color using the Commission International de L'Eclairage L*a*b* system with multiple measurements at different ages (age at the first egg and at 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 66, and 72 weeks) within the same individuals from an F2 resource population produced by crossing White Leghorn and Dongxiang Blue chicken. Using an Affymetrix 600 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, we estimated the genetic parameters of the eggshell color trait, performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs), and screened for the potential candidate genes. The results showed that pink-shelled eggs displayed a significant negative correlation between L* values and both a* and b* values. Genetic heritability based on SNPs showed that the heritability of L*, a*, and b* values ranged from 0.32 to 0.82 for pink-shelled eggs, indicating a moderate to high level of genetic control. The genetic correlations at each time point were mostly above 0.5. The major-effect regions affecting the pink eggshell color were identified in the 10.3-13.0 Mb interval on Gallus gallus chromosome 20, and candidate genes were selected, including SLC35C2, PCIF1, and SLC12A5. Minor effect polygenic regions were identified on chromosomes 1, 6, 9, 12, and 15, revealing 11 candidate genes, including MTMR3 and SLC35E4. Members of the solute carrier family play an important role in influencing eggshell color. Overall, our findings provide valuable insights into the phenotypic and genetic aspects underlying the variation in eggshell color. Using GWAS analysis, we identified multiple quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for pink eggshell color, including a major QTL on chromosome 20. Genetic variants associated with eggshell color may be used in genomic breeding programs.
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- X G Wang
- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Sericultural and Animal Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China.
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Felice DD, Alaimo A, Bressan D, Genovesi S, Marmocchi E, Annesi N, Beccaceci G, Dalfovo D, Cutrupi F, Foletto V, Lorenzoni M, Gandolfi F, Kannan S, Verma CS, Vasciaveo A, Shen MM, Romanel A, Chiacchiera F, Cambuli F, Lunardi A. Rarγ -Foxa1 signaling promotes luminal identity in prostate progenitors and is disrupted in prostate cancer. bioRxiv 2024:2024.03.06.583256. [PMID: 38496627 PMCID: PMC10942448 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.06.583256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Retinoic acid (RA) signaling is a master regulator of vertebrate development with crucial roles in directing body axis orientation and tissue differentiation, including in the reproductive system. However, a mechanistic understanding of how RA signaling promotes cell lineage identity in different tissues is often missing. Here, leveraging prostate organoid technology, we demonstrated that RA signaling orchestrates the commitment of adult mouse prostate progenitors to glandular identity, epithelial barrier integrity, and ultimately, proper specification of the prostatic lumen. Mechanistically, RA-dependent RARγ activation promotes the expression of the pioneer factor Foxa1, which synergizes with the androgen pathway for proper luminal expansion, cytoarchitecture and function. FOXA1 nucleotide variants are common in human prostate and breast cancers and considered driver mutations, though their pathogenic mechanism is incompletely understood. Combining functional genetics experiments with structural modeling of FOXA1 folding and chromatin binding analyses, we discovered that FOXA1 F254E255 is a loss-of-function mutation leading to compromised transcriptional function and lack of luminal fate commitment of prostate progenitors. Overall, we define RA as a crucial instructive signal for glandular identity in adult prostate progenitors. We propose deregulation of vitamin A metabolism as a risk factor for benign and malignant prostate disease, and identified cancer associated FOXA1 indels affecting residue F254 as loss-of-function mutations promoting dedifferentiation of adult prostate progenitors. Summary: Retinoic acid signaling orchestrates luminal differentiation of adult prostate progenitors.
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Aparicio L, Crowley L, Christin JR, Laplaca CJ, Hibshoosh H, Rabadan R, Shen MM. Meta-analyses of mouse and human prostate single-cell transcriptomes reveal widespread epithelial plasticity in tissue regression, regeneration, and cancer. bioRxiv 2024:2024.01.30.578066. [PMID: 38352515 PMCID: PMC10862785 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.30.578066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Recent advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology have facilitated studies of cell states and plasticity in tissue maintenance and cancer, including in the prostate. Here we present meta-analyses of multiple new and published scRNA-seq datasets to establish reference cell type classifications for the normal mouse and human prostate. Our analyses demonstrate transcriptomic similarities between epithelial cell states in the normal prostate, in the regressed prostate after androgen-deprivation, and in primary prostate tumors. During regression in the mouse prostate, all epithelial cells shift their expression profiles towards a proximal periurethral (PrU) state, demonstrating an androgen-dependent plasticity that is restored to normal during androgen restoration and regeneration. In the human prostate, we find progressive rewiring of transcriptional programs across epithelial cell types in benign prostate hyperplasia and treatment-naïve prostate cancer. Notably, we detect copy number variants predominantly within Luminal Acinar cells in prostate tumors, suggesting a bias in their cell type of origin, as well as a larger field of transcriptomic alterations in non-tumor cells. Finally, we observe that Luminal Acinar tumor cells in treatment-naïve prostate cancer display heterogeneous androgen receptor (AR) signaling activity, including a split between high-AR and low-AR profiles with similarity to PrU-like states. Taken together, our analyses of cellular heterogeneity and plasticity provide important translational insights into the origin and treatment response of prostate cancer.
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- Luis Aparicio
- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Program for Mathematical Genomics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
- Department of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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Shao Z, Lee BJ, Zhang H, Lin X, Li C, Jiang W, Chirathivat N, Gershik S, Shen MM, Baer R, Zha S. Inactive PARP1 causes embryonic lethality and genome instability in a dominant-negative manner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2301972120. [PMID: 37487079 PMCID: PMC10401025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2301972120] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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PARP1 (poly-ADP ribose polymerase 1) is recruited and activated by DNA strand breaks, catalyzing the generation of poly-ADP-ribose (PAR) chains from NAD+. PAR relaxes chromatin and recruits other DNA repair factors, including XRCC1 and DNA Ligase 3, to maintain genomic stability. Here we show that, in contrast to the normal development of Parp1-null mice, heterozygous expression of catalytically inactive Parp1 (E988A, Parp1+/A) acts in a dominant-negative manner to disrupt murine embryogenesis. As such, all the surviving F1 Parp1+/A mice are chimeras with mixed Parp1+/AN (neoR retention) cells that act similarly to Parp1+/-. Pure F2 Parp1+/A embryos were found at Mendelian ratios at the E3.5 blastocyst stage but died before E9.5. Compared to Parp1-/- cells, genotype and expression-validated pure Parp1+/A cells retain significant ADP-ribosylation and PARylation activities but accumulate markedly higher levels of sister chromatid exchange and mitotic bridges. Despite proficiency for homologous recombination and nonhomologous end-joining measured by reporter assays and supported by normal lymphocyte and germ cell development, Parp1+/A cells are hypersensitive to base damages, radiation, and Topoisomerase I and II inhibition. The sensitivity of Parp1+/A cells to base damages and Topo inhibitors exceed Parp1-/- controls. The findings show that the enzymatically inactive PARP1 dominant negatively blocks DNA repair in selective pathways beyond wild-type PARP1 and establishes a crucial physiological difference between PARP1 inactivation vs. deletion. As a result, the expression of enzymatically inactive PARP1 from one allele is sufficient to abrogate murine embryonic development, providing a mechanism for the on-target side effect of PARP inhibitors used for cancer therapy.
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- Zhengping Shao
- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
- Division of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, NY10032
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Li JJ, Vasciaveo A, Karagiannis D, Sun Z, Chen X, Socciarelli F, Frankenstein Z, Zou M, Pannellini T, Chen Y, Gardner K, Robinson BD, de Bono J, Abate-Shen C, Rubin MA, Loda M, Sawyers CL, Califano A, Lu C, Shen MM. NSD2 maintains lineage plasticity and castration-resistance in neuroendocrine prostate cancer. bioRxiv 2023:2023.07.18.549585. [PMID: 37502956 PMCID: PMC10370123 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.18.549585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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The clinical use of potent androgen receptor (AR) inhibitors has promoted the emergence of novel subtypes of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), including neuroendocrine prostate cancer (CRPC-NE), which is highly aggressive and lethal 1 . These mCRPC subtypes display increased lineage plasticity and often lack AR expression 2-5 . Here we show that neuroendocrine differentiation and castration-resistance in CRPC-NE are maintained by the activity of Nuclear Receptor Binding SET Domain Protein 2 (NSD2) 6 , which catalyzes histone H3 lysine 36 dimethylation (H3K36me2). We find that organoid lines established from genetically-engineered mice 7 recapitulate key features of human CRPC-NE, and can display transdifferentiation to neuroendocrine states in culture. CRPC-NE organoids express elevated levels of NSD2 and H3K36me2 marks, but relatively low levels of H3K27me3, consistent with antagonism of EZH2 activity by H3K36me2. Human CRPC-NE but not primary NEPC tumors expresses high levels of NSD2, consistent with a key role for NSD2 in lineage plasticity, and high NSD2 expression in mCRPC correlates with poor survival outcomes. Notably, CRISPR/Cas9 targeting of NSD2 or expression of a dominant-negative oncohistone H3.3K36M mutant results in loss of neuroendocrine phenotypes and restores responsiveness to the AR inhibitor enzalutamide in mouse and human CRPC-NE organoids and grafts. Our findings indicate that NSD2 inhibition can reverse lineage plasticity and castration-resistance, and provide a potential new therapeutic target for CRPC-NE.
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Xia BL, Liu KW, Huang HX, Shen MM, Wang B, Gao J. [Deubiquitinating enzyme MINDY1 is an independent risk factor for the maintenance of stemness and poor prognosis in liver cancer cells]. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 2023; 31:518-523. [PMID: 37365029 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn501113-20230130-00028] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Objective: To explore the key deubiquitinating enzymes that maintain the stemness of liver cancer stem cells and provide new ideas for targeted liver cancer therapy. Methods: The high-throughput CRISPR screening technology was used to screen the deubiquitinating enzymes that maintain the stemness of liver cancer stem cells. RT-qPCR and Western blot were used to analyze gene expression levels. Stemness of liver cancer cells was detected by spheroid-formation and soft agar colony formation assays. Tumor growth in nude mice was detected by subcutaneous tumor-bearing experiments. Bioinformatics and clinical samples were examined for the clinical significance of target genes. Results: MINDY1 was highly expressed in liver cancer stem cells. The expression of stem markers, the self-renewal ability of cells, and the growth of transplanted tumors were significantly reduced and inhibited after knocking out MINDY1, and its mechanism of action may be related to the regulation of the Wnt signaling pathway. The expression level of MINDY1 was higher in liver cancer tissues than that in adjacent tumors, which was closely related to tumor progression, and its high expression was an independent risk factor for a poor prognosis of liver cancer. Conclusion: The deubiquitinating enzyme MINDY1 promotes stemness in liver cancer cells and is one of the independent predictors of poor prognosis in liver cancer.
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- B L Xia
- Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Digestive Malignancies, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing 400042, China
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- Daping Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing 400042, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Digestive Malignancies, Daping Hospital, Army Medical University (Third Military Medical University), Chongqing 400042, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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Tshering LF, Luo F, Russ S, Szenk M, Rubel D, Tutuska K, Rail JG, Balázsi G, Shen MM, Talos F. Immune mechanisms shape the clonal landscape during early progression of prostate cancer. Dev Cell 2023:S1534-5807(23)00180-6. [PMID: 37148881 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.04.010] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Revised: 12/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Understanding the role of the immune microenvironment in modulating intratumor heterogeneity is essential for effective cancer therapies. Using multicolor lineage tracing in genetically engineered mouse models and single-cell transcriptomics, we show that slowly progressing tumors contain a multiclonal landscape of relatively homogeneous subpopulations within a well-organized tumor microenvironment. In more advanced and aggressive tumors, however, the multiclonal landscape develops into competing dominant and minor clones accompanied by a disordered microenvironment. We demonstrate that this dominant/minor landscape is associated with differential immunoediting, in which minor clones are marked by an increased expression of IFNγ-response genes and the T cell-activating chemokines Cxcl9 and Cxcl11. Furthermore, immunomodulation of the IFNγ pathway can rescue minor clones from elimination. Notably, the immune-specific gene signature of minor clones exhibits a prognostic value for biochemical recurrence-free survival in human prostate cancer. These findings suggest new immunotherapy approaches for modulating clonal fitness and tumor progression in prostate cancer.
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- Lara F Tshering
- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Department of Urology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
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Tang X, Chen Z, Thomas J, Nagar K, Christin J, Rustgi N, Gao S, Chu C, De Stanchina E, Berger MF, Coleman JA, Shen MM, Al-Ahmadie HA, Iyer GV, Kim K, Solit DB. Abstract 472: HER2 as a therapeutic target in bladder cancer. Cancer Res 2023. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-472] [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: 04/07/2023]
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Introduction: HER2 (encoded by the ERBB2 gene) is a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family that exerts its activity through homo- or hetero-dimerization with other HER proteins. While multiple HER2-targeted therapies are FDA-approved for breast cancer, the clinical utility of targeting HER2 in bladder cancer patients remains undefined. We leveraged a prospective sequencing initiative and a new collection of patient-derived organoid (PDO) and xenograft (PDX) models to explore the prevalence of HER2 alterations in bladder cancers, its biologic role in bladder cancer pathogenesis and the potential clinical utility of HER2-targeted therapies.
Methods: To define the landscape of HER2 alterations in bladder cancer patients, we analyzed data generated by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and patients enrolled in the prospective MSK-IMPACT sequencing cohort. To study the biology of HER2 alterations in a bladder cancer context, we generated PDO and PDX bladder cancer models, including ERBB2 amplified, ERBB2 hotspot mutated and ERBB2 wildtype models. Patient-derived models were characterized using a multiplatform approach and were used to study HER2 oncogenic dependence and sensitivity to multiple anti-HER2 targeted agents.
Results: The MSK-IMPACT assay revealed that ERBB2 alteration is common in bladder cancer, with a mutation frequency of 10.4% (breast cancer: 2.8%) and amplification frequency of 7.8% (breast cancer: 11.8%). ERBB2 alterations were more common in higher grade and stage bladder cancers. Among the HER2-altered PDOs, we identified some models with HER2 pathway dependence, similar to that observed in HER2 amplified breast cancer cell lines. However, most models had less dependence of downstream effector pathways such as AKT and ERK on HER2 signaling as compared to breast cancers. HER2-altered PDX models were significantly more sensitive to the HER2-targeted antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) than to HER kinase inhibitor neratinib. We also observed a complete response of a HER2+ bladder cancer patient treated with T-DXd (based on PET at 7 weeks). Sensitivity to the T-DXd payload, an exatecan derivative (DXd), was found to play a key role in determining sensitivity of bladder cancer models to T-DXd.
Conclusion: Bladder cancer has higher ERBB2 mutation frequency than breast cancer, and HER2 alterations are more common in high grade and stage bladder cancers than in low-grade and non-invasive tumors, suggesting a role for HER2 in invasion and metastatic progression. The greater sensitivity of HER2 altered bladder cancer models to HER2-targeted ADC T-DXd and the complete response to T-DXd in a HER2+ bladder cancer patient provide justification for further clinical trials of HER2-targeted ADCs in bladder cancer. The sensitivity to ADC cytotoxic payload may be an important factor in determining patient response.
Citation Format: Xinran Tang, Ziyu Chen, Jasmine Thomas, Karan Nagar, John Christin, Naryan Rustgi, Sizhi Gao, Carissa Chu, Elisa De Stanchina, Michael F. Berger, Jonathan A. Coleman, Michael M. Shen, Hikmat A. Al-Ahmadie, Gopakumar V. Iyer, Kwanghee Kim, David B. Solit. HER2 as a therapeutic target in bladder cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 472.
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- Xinran Tang
- 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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- 2Columbia University Irving Medical 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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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Floc'h N, Kinkade CW, Kobayashi T, Aytes A, Lefebvre C, Mitrofanova A, Cardiff RD, Califano A, Shen MM, Abate-Shen C. Editor's Note: Dual Targeting of the Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway Inhibits Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Model. Cancer Res 2023; 83:1160. [PMID: 37014043 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-0516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Ouyang X, Jessen WJ, Al-Ahmadie H, Serio AM, Lin Y, Shih WJ, Reuter VE, Scardino PT, Shen MM, Aronow BJ, Vickers AJ, Gerald WL, Abate-Shen C. Editor's Note: Activator Protein-1 Transcription Factors Are Associated with Progression and Recurrence of Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res 2023; 83:1161. [PMID: 37014042 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-0515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Guo C, Figueiredo I, Gurel B, Neeb A, Seed G, Crespo M, Carreira S, Rekowski J, Buroni L, Welti J, Bogdan D, Gallagher L, Sharp A, de la Maza MDF, Rescigno P, Westaby D, Chandran K, Riisnaes R, Ferreira A, Miranda S, Calì B, Alimonti A, Bressan S, Nguyen AHT, Shen MM, Hawley JE, Obradovic A, Drake CG, Bertan C, Baker C, Tunariu N, Yuan W, de Bono JS. Erratum to "B7-H3 as a Therapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer" [Eur Urol 2023;83(3):224-38]. Eur Urol 2023; 83:e168-e169. [PMID: 36964041 DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2023.03.005] [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: 03/26/2023]
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- Christina Guo
- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Janssen Research, Spring House, PA, USA
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK.
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Kirk JS, Wang J, Tracz A, Long M, Rosario SR, Ji Y, Kumar R, Liu X, Singh PK, Puzanov I, Chatta G, Cheng Q, Huang J, Wrana JL, Lovell J, Yu H, Liu S, Shen MM, Liu T, Tang DG. Integrated single-cell analysis defines the epigenetic basis of castration-resistant prostate luminal cells. bioRxiv 2023:2023.03.03.530998. [PMID: 36945493 PMCID: PMC10028794 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.03.530998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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Understanding prostate response to castration and androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSI) is critical to improving long-term prostate cancer (PCa) patient survival. Here we use a multi-omics approach on 229,794 single cells to create a mouse single-cell reference atlas better suited to interpreting mouse prostate biology and castration response. Our reference atlas refines single-cell annotations and provides chromatin context, which, when coupled with mouse lineage tracing demonstrates that the castration-resistant luminal cells are distinct from the pre-existent urethra-proximal stem/progenitor cells. Molecular pathway analysis and therapeutic studies further implicate JUN/FOS, WNT/B-Catenin, FOXQ1, NFkB, and JAK/STAT pathways as the major drivers of castration-resistant luminal populations with high relevance to human PCa. Importantly, we demonstrate the utility of our datasets, which can be explored through an interactive portal (https://visportal.roswellpark.org/data/tang/), to aid in developing novel combination treatments with ARSI for advanced PCa patients.
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Guo C, Figueiredo I, Gurel B, Neeb A, Seed G, Crespo M, Carreira S, Rekowski J, Buroni L, Welti J, Bogdan D, Gallagher L, Sharp A, Fenor de la Maza MD, Rescigno P, Westaby D, Chandran K, Riisnaes R, Ferreira A, Miranda S, Calì B, Alimonti A, Bressan S, Nguyen AHT, Shen MM, Hawley JE, Obradovic A, Drake CG, Bertan C, Baker C, Tunariu N, Yuan W, de Bono JS. B7-H3 as a Therapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 2023; 83:224-238. [PMID: 36114082 DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [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: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND B7-H3 is a cell surface immunomodulatory glycoprotein overexpressed in prostate cancers (PCs). Understanding its longitudinal expression at emergence of castration resistance and association with tumour genomics are critical to the development of and patient selection for B7-H3 targeted therapies. OBJECTIVE To characterise B7-H3 expression in same-patient hormone-sensitive (HSPC) and castration-resistant (CRPC) PC biopsies, associating this with PC genomics, and to evaluate the antitumour activity of an anti-B7-H3 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in human CRPC in vitro and in vivo. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS We performed immunohistochemistry and next-generation sequencing on a cohort of 98 clinically annotated CRPC biopsies, including 72 patients who also had HSPC biopsies for analyses. We analysed two CRPC transcriptome and exome datasets, and PC scRNASeq datasets. PC organoids (patient-derived xenograft [PDX]-derived organoids [PDX-Os]) were derived from PDXs generated from human CRPC biopsies. OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS We evaluated B7-H3 mRNA expression in relation to a panel of 770 immune-related genes, compared B7-H3 protein expression between same-patient HSPC and CRPC biopsies, determined associations with PC genomic alterations, and evaluated the antitumour activity of DS-7300a, a topoisomerase-1 inhibitor payload anti-B7-H3 ADC, in human PC cell lines, organoids (PDX-Os), and xenografts (PDXs) of different histologies, B7-H3 expressions, and genomics. RESULTS AND LIMITATIONS B7-H3 was among the most highly expressed immunomodulatory genes in CRPCs. Most CRPCs (93%) expressed B7-H3, and in patients who developed CRPC, B7-H3 expression was frequently expressed at the time of HSPC diagnosis (97%). Conversion from B7-H3 positive to negative, or vice versa, during progression from HSPC to CRPC was uncommon. CRPC with neuroendocrine features were more likely to be B7-H3 negative (28%) than adenocarcinomas. B7-H3 is overexpressed in tumours with defective DNA repair gene (ATM and BRCA2) alterations and is associated with ERG expression, androgen receptor (AR) expression, and AR activity signature. DS7300a had antitumour activity against B7-H3 expressing human PC models including cell lines, PDX-Os, and PDXs of adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine histology. CONCLUSIONS The frequent overexpression of B7-H3 in CRPC compared with normal tissue and other B7 family members implicates it as a highly relevant therapeutic target in these diseases. Mechanisms driving differences in B7-H3 expression across genomic subsets warrant investigation for understanding the role of B7-H3 in cancer growth and for the clinical development of B7-H3 targeted therapies. PATIENT SUMMARY B7-H3, a protein expressed on the surface of the most lethal prostate cancers, in particular those with specific mutations, can be targeted using drugs that bind B7-H3. These findings are relevant for the development of such drugs and for deciding which patients to treat with these new drugs.
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- Christina Guo
- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Veneto Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Janssen Research, Spring House, PA, USA
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK.
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Khoo LY, McComas DJ, Rankin JS, Shen MM, Sharma T, Shi C. Compensating for gyroradius effects in beamlines with small Helmholtz coils. Rev Sci Instrum 2023; 94:035102. [PMID: 37012752 DOI: 10.1063/5.0135154] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Measurements of lighter, low-energy charged particles in a laboratory beamline are complicated due to the influence of Earth's magnetic field. Rather than nulling out the Earth's magnetic field over the entire facility, we present a new way to correct particle trajectories using much more spatially limited Helmholtz coils. This approach is versatile and easy to incorporate in a wide range of facilities, including the existing ones, enabling measurements of low-energy charged particles in a laboratory beamline.
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- L Y Khoo
- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Vasciaveo A, Arriaga JM, de Almeida FN, Zou M, Douglass EF, Picech F, Shibata M, Rodriguez-Calero A, de Brot S, Mitrofanova A, Chua CW, Karan C, Realubit R, Pampou S, Kim JY, Afari SN, Mukhammadov T, Zanella L, Corey E, Alvarez MJ, Rubin MA, Shen MM, Califano A, Abate-Shen C. OncoLoop: A Network-Based Precision Cancer Medicine Framework. Cancer Discov 2023; 13:386-409. [PMID: 36374194 PMCID: PMC9905319 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-0342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Prioritizing treatments for individual patients with cancer remains challenging, and performing coclinical studies using patient-derived models in real time is often unfeasible. To circumvent these challenges, we introduce OncoLoop, a precision medicine framework that predicts drug sensitivity in human tumors and their preexisting high-fidelity (cognate) model(s) by leveraging drug perturbation profiles. As a proof of concept, we applied OncoLoop to prostate cancer using genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM) that recapitulate a broad spectrum of disease states, including castration-resistant, metastatic, and neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Interrogation of human prostate cancer cohorts by Master Regulator (MR) conservation analysis revealed that most patients with advanced prostate cancer were represented by at least one cognate GEMM-derived tumor (GEMM-DT). Drugs predicted to invert MR activity in patients and their cognate GEMM-DTs were successfully validated in allograft, syngeneic, and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of tumors and metastasis. Furthermore, OncoLoop-predicted drugs enhanced the efficacy of clinically relevant drugs, namely, the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab and the AR inhibitor enzalutamide. SIGNIFICANCE OncoLoop is a transcriptomic-based experimental and computational framework that can support rapid-turnaround coclinical studies to identify and validate drugs for individual patients, which can then be readily adapted to clinical practice. This framework should be applicable in many cancer contexts for which appropriate models and drug perturbation data are available. This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 247.
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- Alessandro Vasciaveo
- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Genetics and Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Department of Urology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department for Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 3008
- Institute of Pathology, University of Bern and Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland 3008
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- COMPATH, Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland 3012
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Genetics and Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Department of Urology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- J.P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- J.P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- J.P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA 98195
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- DarwinHealth Inc, New York, NY
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- Department for Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 3008
- Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM) Bern, Switzerland 3008
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Genetics and Development, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Department of Urology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- J.P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
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- Department of Systems Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Urology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA 10032
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY USA 10032
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Hazra R, Brine L, Garcia L, Benz B, Chirathivat N, Shen MM, Wilkinson JE, Lyons SK, Spector DL. Platr4 is an early embryonic lncRNA that exerts its function downstream on cardiogenic mesodermal lineage commitment. Dev Cell 2022; 57:2450-2468.e7. [PMID: 36347239 PMCID: PMC9680017 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The mammalian genome encodes thousands of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), many of which are developmentally regulated and differentially expressed across tissues, suggesting their potential roles in cellular differentiation. Despite this expression pattern, little is known about how lncRNAs influence lineage commitment at the molecular level. Here, we demonstrate that perturbation of an embryonic stem cell/early embryonic lncRNA, pluripotency-associated transcript 4 (Platr4), directly influences the specification of cardiac-mesoderm-lineage differentiation. We show that Platr4 acts as a molecular scaffold or chaperone interacting with the Hippo-signaling pathway molecules Yap and Tead4 to regulate the expression of a downstream target gene, Ctgf, which is crucial to the cardiac-lineage program. Importantly, Platr4 knockout mice exhibit myocardial atrophy and valve mucinous degeneration, which are both associated with reduced cardiac output and sudden heart failure. Together, our findings provide evidence that Platr4 is required in cardiac-lineage specification and adult heart function in mice.
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- Rasmani Hazra
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
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Chen Z, Clinton TN, Park S, Lenis AT, Donoghue M, Rosenberg JE, Dean BF, Teo MY, Bochner BH, Ostrovnaya I, Pietzak EJ, Iyer GV, Gao S, Hu W, Shen MM, Berger MF, Al-Ahmadie HA, Abate-Shen CT, Solit DB. Abstract 1596: Genomic heterogeneity as a barrier to precision oncology in urothelial cancer. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-1596] [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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Background: Precision oncology relies on the accurate molecular characterization of individual cancer patients at the time of treatment initiation. However, tumor molecular profiles are not static, and cancers continually evolve because of ongoing mutagenesis and clonal selection, with actionable genomic alterations potentially gained or lost during disease progression.
Methods: To define the concordance of potentially actionable genomic alterations between primary and metastatic disease sites in patients with urothelial cancer and to identify drivers of metastatic disease progression, we performed an integrated analysis of clinical and genomic data from 2,199 urothelial carcinoma patients (2,732 tumor and 331 plasma cfDNA samples) prospectively profiled at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) from 2014 to 2021. Paired primary and metastatic tumor samples from individual patients were sequenced with MSK-IMPACT and/or whole-exome sequencing (WES). Plasma samples were analyzed using the MSK-ACCESS cfDNA platform.
Results: Among potentially actionable mutations (defined as OncoKB level 1-4), ERBB2 and ARID1A were associated with higher tumor grade and stage (p-value <0.001, p-value = 0.03 respectively). WES analysis of primary and metastatic tumor sites was consistent with early branched evolution with on average 42% of mutations shared between disease sites. Among chromatin-modifying genes, ARID1A has a discordant rate of 15.8%. In the 6 discordant cases, ARID1A mutation was seen exclusively in the metastatic tumor samples. This suggests a role for ARID1A mutations in metastatic disease progression. While known and likely oncogenic mutations were more likely to be concordant than variants of unknown functional significance, we observed a high degree of mutational discordance among potentially actionable genomic alterations with 23% discordant between primary and metastatic disease sites. 24% of mutations were exclusively identified by plasma cell-free DNA sequencing. Actionable mutations in cell-free DNA were more likely to be concordant with metastatic tumor biopsies than tumor tissue collected from the primary tumor site.
Conclusions: In sum, our analysis of patient-matched primary and metastatic urothelial carcinomas revealed a high degree of lesion-to-lesion genomic heterogeneity that may be a barrier to precision oncology approaches for this disease. Our data also provide a rationale for the use of cell-free DNA sequencing to guide targeted therapy selection in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer.
Citation Format: Ziyu Chen, Timothy N. Clinton, Soonbum Park, Andrew T. Lenis, Mark Donoghue, Jonathan E. Rosenberg, Bajorin F. Dean, Min Y. Teo, Bernard H. Bochner, Irina Ostrovnaya, Eugene J. Pietzak, Gopakumar V. Iyer, Sizhi Gao, Wenhuo Hu, Michael M. Shen, Michael F. Berger, Hikmat A. Al-Ahmadie, Corinne T. Abate-Shen, David B. Solit. Genomic heterogeneity as a barrier to precision oncology in urothelial cancer [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 1596.
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- Ziyu Chen
- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- 3Columbia University Irving Medical 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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- 1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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Miranda S, Gil V, Riisnaes R, Gurel B, D’Ambrosio M, Vasciaveo A, Crespo M, Ferreira A, Brina D, Troiani M, Sharp A, Sheehan B, Christova R, Seed G, Figueiredo I, Lambros M, Dolling D, Rekowski J, Alajati A, Clarke M, Pereira R, Flohr P, Fowler G, Boysen G, Sumanasuriya S, Bianchini D, Rescigno P, Aversa C, Tunariu N, Guo C, Paschalis A, Bertan C, Buroni L, Ning J, Carreira S, Workman P, Swain A, Califano A, Shen MM, Alimonti A, Neeb A, Welti J, Yuan W, de Bono J. Abstract 2807: HER3 is an actionable target in advanced prostate cancer. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-2807] [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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Background: ERBB signaling is implicated in castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), but so far clinical trials of ERBB targeting drugs failed to demonstrate antitumor activity. We elected to re-investigate ERBB receptors in endocrine treatment-resistant lethal PC, hypothesizing that targeting ERBB receptors merits further evaluation in metastatic CRPC (mCRPC).
Design: We analyzed matching, same-patient, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) treatment-naïve, castration-sensitive PC (CSPC) samples (n=88), and mCRPC biopsies (n=51), from patients treated at The Royal Marsden Hospital, UK. Samples were stained for HER2 and HER3 protein, by immunohistochemistry (IHC), data was generated through digital image analysis and results were analyzed against clinical characteristics and outcome data. Moreover, we treated HER3 high (CP50) and low (CP142) expressing patient derived xenograft (PDX) models with anti-HER3 antibody-drug conjugate (HER3-ADC) U3-1402 (10mg/Kg), IgG-ADC (MAAA-9289, 10mg/Kg), anti-HER3 antibody Patritumab (U3-1287, 10mg/Kg) and 10mM acetate buffer-5% sorbitol-pH 5.5 as vehicle control, in vitro and in vivo. In vitro cell growth inhibitory activity was monitored for 7-days with endpoint assay luminescence. In vivo efficacy was evaluated comparing tumor volumes, measured every 2-3 days. Statistical significance was analyzed using ANOVA with Dunnett’s multiple comparisons correction test.
Results: Membranous HER2 (mHER2) and HER3 (mHER3) proteins were detectable in both CSPC and mCRPC biopsies, with HER3 being highly expressed in many tumors. The median optical density (OD) for mHER3 expression at diagnosis was 2958.0; PC with high mHER3 expression (> median OD; n=44) had a significantly shorter median time to CRPC (20.3 vs 14.2 months; p=0.016) and worse overall survival (OS) (79.0 vs 48.8 months; p=0.04) compared to CSPC with low mHER3 (≤ median; n=44). mHER2 staining did not associate with outcome. U3-1402 demonstrated in vivo potent and sustained antitumor activity in CP50, without inducing any body weight loss or apparent toxicity. Additionally, no tumor regrowth was observed up to 60-days following the end of dosing. This anti-HER3-ADC had minimal antitumor activity in CP142, highlighting the relevance of high HER3 expression as a functional therapeutic target.
Conclusion: HER3 is commonly expressed in advanced PC and has clinical relevance in this setting. Our data indicate that HER3 is a valid target for clinical trials for men suffering from high HER3 expressing advanced PC.
Citation Format: Susana Miranda, Veronica Gil, Ruth Riisnaes, Bora Gurel, Mariantonietta D’Ambrosio, Alessandro Vasciaveo, Mateus Crespo, Ana Ferreira, Daniela Brina, Martina Troiani, Adam Sharp, Beshara Sheehan, Rossitza Christova, George Seed, Ines Figueiredo, Maryou Lambros, David Dolling, Jan Rekowski, Abdullah Alajati, Matthew Clarke, Rita Pereira, Penny Flohr, Gemma Fowler, Gunther Boysen, Semini Sumanasuriya, Diletta Bianchini, Pasquale Rescigno, Caterina Aversa, Nina Tunariu, Christina Guo, Alec Paschalis, Claudia Bertan, Lorenzo Buroni, Jian Ning, Suzanne Carreira, Paul Workman, Amanda Swain, Andrea Califano, Michael M. Shen, Andrea Alimonti, Antje Neeb, SU2C/PCF International Prostate Cancer Dream Team, Jonathan Welti, Wei Yuan, Johann de Bono. HER3 is an actionable target in advanced prostate cancer [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 2807.
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- Susana Miranda
- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 2Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- 2Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 2Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 4The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 3Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
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- 3Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
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- 2Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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- 1The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, United Kingdom
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Cambuli F, Foletto V, Alaimo A, De Felice D, Gandolfi F, Palumbieri MD, Zaffagni M, Genovesi S, Lorenzoni M, Celotti M, Bertossio E, Mazzero G, Bertossi A, Bisio A, Berardinelli F, Antoccia A, Gaspari M, Barbareschi M, Fiorentino M, Shen MM, Loda M, Romanel A, Lunardi A. Intra-epithelial non-canonical Activin A signaling safeguards prostate progenitor quiescence. EMBO Rep 2022; 23:e54049. [PMID: 35253958 PMCID: PMC9066067 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202154049] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The healthy prostate is a relatively quiescent tissue. Yet, prostate epithelium overgrowth is a common condition during aging, associated with urinary dysfunction and tumorigenesis. For over thirty years, TGF-β ligands have been known to induce cytostasis in a variety of epithelia, but the intracellular pathway mediating this signal in the prostate, and its relevance for quiescence, have remained elusive. Here, using mouse prostate organoids to model epithelial progenitors, we find that intra-epithelial non-canonical Activin A signaling inhibits cell proliferation in a Smad-independent manner. Mechanistically, Activin A triggers Tak1 and p38 ΜAPK activity, leading to p16 and p21 nuclear import. Spontaneous evasion from this quiescent state occurs upon prolonged culture, due to reduced Activin A secretion, a condition associated with DNA replication stress and aneuploidy. Organoids capable to escape quiescence in vitro are also able to implant with increased frequency into immunocompetent mice. This study demonstrates that non-canonical Activin A signaling safeguards epithelial quiescence in the healthy prostate, with potential implications for the understanding of cancer initiation, and the development of therapies targeting quiescent tumor progenitors.
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- Francesco Cambuli
- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly,Department of Medicine, Genetics and DevelopmentUrologySystems BiologyHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer CenterColumbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkNYUSA,Present address:
Molecular Pharmacology ProgramSloan Kettering InstituteMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew YorkNYUSA
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational GenomicsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- Department of ScienceUniversity of Roma TreRomaItaly,Laboratory of Neurodevelopment, Neurogenetics and Molecular Neurobiology UnitIRCCS Santa Lucia FoundationRomaItaly
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical MedicineUniversity of CatanzaroCatanzaroItaly
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty MedicineUniversity of BolognaBolognaItaly
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- Department of Medicine, Genetics and DevelopmentUrologySystems BiologyHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer CenterColumbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkNYUSA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew YorkNYUSA
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational GenomicsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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- The Armenise‐Harvard Laboratory of Cancer Biology & GeneticsDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO)University of TrentoTrentoItaly
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Crowley L, Shen MM. Heterogeneity and complexity of the prostate epithelium: New findings from single-cell RNA sequencing studies. Cancer Lett 2022; 525:108-114. [PMID: 34728312 PMCID: PMC8629925 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2021.10.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Abstract
The recent advent of single-cell RNA-sequencing technology has provided new fundamental insights into the heterogeneity of the prostate epithelium. Several independent studies have described extensive heterogeneity of the luminal epithelial compartment, including a major division between a novel population of luminal cells located in the proximal region of the prostate ducts versus luminal cells located more distally. Proximal luminal cells as well as novel periurethral cells display increased progenitor potential in organoid culture and tissue reconstitution assays, but not in lineage-tracing analyses during prostate homeostasis, suggesting context-dependent plasticity of these populations. Here we describe and synthesize recent findings regarding the epithelial cell populations in the mouse prostate, draw comparisons to the human prostate, and address the relevance of these findings to prostate diseases and cancer.
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- Author for correspondence at: phone: (212) 851-4723; fax: (212) 851-4572;
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Christin JR, Shen MM. Modeling tumor plasticity in organoid models of human cancer. Trends Cancer 2022; 8:161-163. [PMID: 35000880 DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2021.12.004] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Due to its inherent plasticity and heterogeneity, cancer is a difficult disease to model both in vitro and in vivo. However, recent advances in organoid technology hold great promise for future research into the mechanisms underlying tumor plasticity in human cancers.
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- John R Christin
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Gil V, Miranda S, Riisnaes R, Gurel B, D'Ambrosio M, Vasciaveo A, Crespo M, Ferreira A, Brina D, Troiani M, Sharp A, Sheehan B, Christova R, Seed G, Figueiredo I, Lambros M, Dolling D, Rekowski J, Alajati A, Clarke M, Pereira R, Flohr P, Fowler G, Boysen G, Sumanasuriya S, Bianchini D, Rescigno P, Aversa C, Tunariu N, Guo C, Paschalis A, Bertan C, Buroni L, Ning J, Carreira S, Workman P, Swain A, Califano A, Shen MM, Alimonti A, Neeb A, Welti J, Yuan W, de Bono J. HER3 Is an Actionable Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res 2021; 81:6207-6218. [PMID: 34753775 PMCID: PMC8932336 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-21-3360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [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: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
It has been recognized for decades that ERBB signaling is important in prostate cancer, but targeting ERBB receptors as a therapeutic strategy for prostate cancer has been ineffective clinically. However, we show here that membranous HER3 protein is commonly highly expressed in lethal prostate cancer, associating with reduced time to castration resistance (CR) and survival. Multiplex immunofluorescence indicated that the HER3 ligand NRG1 is detectable primarily in tumor-infiltrating myelomonocytic cells in human prostate cancer; this observation was confirmed using single-cell RNA sequencing of human prostate cancer biopsies and murine transgenic prostate cancer models. In castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patient-derived xenograft organoids with high HER3 expression as well as mouse prostate cancer organoids, recombinant NRG1 enhanced proliferation and survival. Supernatant from murine bone marrow-derived macrophages and myeloid-derived suppressor cells promoted murine prostate cancer organoid growth in vitro, which could be reversed by a neutralizing anti-NRG1 antibody and ERBB inhibition. Targeting HER3, especially with the HER3-directed antibody-drug conjugate U3-1402, exhibited antitumor activity against HER3-expressing prostate cancer. Overall, these data indicate that HER3 is commonly overexpressed in lethal prostate cancer and can be activated by NRG1 secreted by myelomonocytic cells in the tumor microenvironment, supporting HER3-targeted therapeutic strategies for treating HER3-expressing advanced CRPC. SIGNIFICANCE: HER3 is an actionable target in prostate cancer, especially with anti-HER3 immunoconjugates, and targeting HER3 warrants clinical evaluation in prospective trials.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/pharmacology
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological/pharmacology
- Apoptosis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics
- Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism
- Camptothecin/analogs & derivatives
- Camptothecin/pharmacology
- Cell Proliferation
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Male
- Mice, Inbred NOD
- Mice, SCID
- Neuregulin-1/genetics
- Neuregulin-1/metabolism
- Organoids/drug effects
- Organoids/metabolism
- Organoids/pathology
- Prognosis
- Prospective Studies
- Prostatic Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics
- Prostatic Neoplasms/metabolism
- Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology
- Receptor, ErbB-3/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptor, ErbB-3/genetics
- Receptor, ErbB-3/metabolism
- Survival Rate
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
- Mice
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- Veronica Gil
- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Institute of Oncology Research, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom.
- The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Cable J, Pei D, Reid LM, Wang XW, Bhatia S, Karras P, Melenhorst JJ, Grompe M, Lathia JD, Song E, Kuo CJ, Zhang N, White RM, Ma SK, Ma L, Chin YR, Shen MM, Ng IOL, Kaestner KH, Zhou L, Sikandar S, Schmitt CA, Guo W, Wong CCL, Ji J, Tang DG, Dubrovska A, Yang C, Wiedemeyer WR, Weissman IL. Cancer stem cells: advances in biology and clinical translation-a Keystone Symposia report. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2021; 1506:142-163. [PMID: 34850398 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The test for the cancer stem cell (CSC) hypothesis is to find a target expressed on all, and only CSCs in a patient tumor, then eliminate all cells with that target that eliminates the cancer. That test has not yet been achieved, but CSC diagnostics and targets found on CSCs and some other cells have resulted in a few clinically relevant therapies. However, it has become apparent that eliminating the subset of tumor cells characterized by self-renewal properties is essential for long-term tumor control. CSCs are able to regenerate and initiate tumor growth, recapitulating the heterogeneity present in the tumor before treatment. As great progress has been made in identifying and elucidating the biology of CSCs as well as their interactions with the tumor microenvironment, the time seems ripe for novel therapeutic strategies that target CSCs to find clinical applicability. On May 19-21, 2021, researchers in cancer stem cells met virtually for the Keystone eSymposium "Cancer Stem Cells: Advances in Biology and Clinical Translation" to discuss recent advances in the understanding of CSCs as well as clinical efforts to target these populations.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou, China.,Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.,Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory (GRMH-GDL), Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, and Liver Cancer Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Center for Cancer Biology and Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, Leuven, Belgium
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- Glioblastoma Translational Center of Excellence, The Abramson Cancer Center and Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, and Oregon Stem Cell Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Medical Research Center and Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.,Bioland Laboratory; Program of Molecular Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University; and Fountain-Valley Institute for Life Sciences, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Translational Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology and State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong
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- Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hematology/Oncology, and Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, and Johannes Kepler University, Kepler Universitätsklinikum, Hematology/Oncology, Linz, Austria
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- Department of Biology, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pathology and State Key Laboratory of Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis & Protection, and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Cancer Molecular Cell Biology, Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Experimental Therapeutics (ET) Graduate Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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- OncoRay National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.,Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiooncology-OncoRay, Dresden, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Dresden, and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Partner Site Dresden, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Ludwig Center for Cancer Stem Cell Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Park S, Rong L, Owczarek TB, Bernardo MD, Shoulson RL, Chua CW, Kim JY, Lankarani A, Chakrapani P, Syed T, McKiernan JM, Solit DB, Shen MM, Al-Ahmadie HA, Abate-Shen C. Novel Mouse Models of Bladder Cancer Identify a Prognostic Signature Associated with Risk of Disease Progression. Cancer Res 2021; 81:5161-5175. [PMID: 34470779 PMCID: PMC8609963 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-21-1254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
To study the progression of bladder cancer from non-muscle-invasive to muscle-invasive disease, we have developed a novel toolkit that uses complementary approaches to achieve gene recombination in specific cell populations in the bladder urothelium in vivo, thereby allowing us to generate a new series of genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM) of bladder cancer. One method is based on the delivery of adenoviruses that express Cre recombinase in selected cell types in the urothelium, and a second uses transgenic drivers in which activation of inducible Cre alleles can be limited to the bladder urothelium by intravesicular delivery of tamoxifen. Using both approaches, targeted deletion of the Pten and p53 tumor suppressor genes specifically in basal urothelial cells gave rise to muscle-invasive bladder tumors. Furthermore, preinvasive lesions arising in basal cells displayed upregulation of molecular pathways related to bladder tumorigenesis, including proinflammatory pathways. Cross-species analyses comparing a mouse gene signature of early bladder cancer with a human signature of bladder cancer progression identified a conserved 28-gene signature of early bladder cancer that is associated with poor prognosis for human bladder cancer and that outperforms comparable gene signatures. These findings demonstrate the relevance of these GEMMs for studying the biology of human bladder cancer and introduce a prognostic gene signature that may help to stratify patients at risk for progression to potentially lethal muscle-invasive disease. SIGNIFICANCE: Analyses of bladder cancer progression in a new series of genetically engineered mouse models has identified a gene signature of poor prognosis in human bladder cancer.
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- Soonbum Park
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Institute of Comparative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Human Oncology and Pathogenesis and Medicine, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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Shen MM, Ge QY, Xu Y, Song GX, Ping GQ, Wang C. [Clinical and molecular pathological study of cervical adenocarcinoma with invasive micropapillary feature of five cases]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2021; 50:1045-1047. [PMID: 34496497 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20201231-00994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- M M Shen
- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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Li W, Shen MM. Prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity: Insights from studies of genetically-engineered mouse models. Semin Cancer Biol 2021; 82:60-67. [PMID: 34147640 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2021.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Although prostate adenocarcinoma lacks distinguishable histopathological subtypes, prostate cancer displays significant inter- and intratumor heterogeneity at the molecular level and with respect to disease prognosis and treatment response. In principle, understanding the basis for prostate cancer heterogeneity can help distinguish aggressive from indolent disease, and help overcome castration-resistance in advanced prostate cancer. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in understanding the cell types of origin, putative cancer stem cells, and tumor plasticity in prostate cancer, focusing on insights from studies of genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs). We will also outline future directions for investigating tumor heterogeneity using mouse models of prostate cancer.
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- Weiping Li
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032 USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032 USA.
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Lopez-Bujanda ZA, Obradovic A, Nirschl TR, Crowley L, Macedo R, Papachristodoulou A, O'Donnell T, Laserson U, Zarif JC, Reshef R, Yuan T, Soni MK, Antonarakis ES, Haffner MC, Larman HB, Shen MM, Muranski P, Drake CG. TGM4: an immunogenic prostate-restricted antigen. J Immunother Cancer 2021; 9:e001649. [PMID: 34193566 PMCID: PMC8246381 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-001649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men in the USA; death occurs when patients progress to metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Although immunotherapy with the Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine sipuleucel-T, which targets prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), extends survival for 2-4 months, the identification of new immunogenic tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) continues to be an unmet need. METHODS We evaluated the differential expression profile of castration-resistant prostate epithelial cells that give rise to CRPC from mice following an androgen deprivation/repletion cycle. The expression levels of a set of androgen-responsive genes were further evaluated in prostate, brain, colon, liver, lung, skin, kidney, and salivary gland from murine and human databases. The expression of a novel prostate-restricted TAA was then validated by immunostaining of mouse tissues and analyzed in primary tumors across all human cancer types in The Cancer Genome Atlas. Finally, the immunogenicity of this TAA was evaluated in vitro and in vivo using autologous coculture assays with cells from healthy donors as well as by measuring antigen-specific antibodies in sera from patients with prostate cancer (PCa) from a neoadjuvant clinical trial. RESULTS We identified a set of androgen-responsive genes that could serve as potential TAAs for PCa. In particular, we found transglutaminase 4 (Tgm4) to be highly expressed in prostate tumors that originate from luminal epithelial cells and only expressed at low levels in most extraprostatic tissues evaluated. Furthermore, elevated levels of TGM4 expression in primary PCa tumors correlated with unfavorable prognosis in patients. In vitro and in vivo assays confirmed the immunogenicity of TGM4. We found that activated proinflammatory effector memory CD8 and CD4 T cells were expanded by monocyte-derived dendritic cell (moDCs) pulsed with TGM4 to a greater extent than moDCs pulsed with either PAP or prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and T cells primed with TGM4-pulsed moDCs produce functional cytokines following a prime/boost regiment or in vitro stimulation. An IgG antibody response to TGM4 was detected in 30% of vaccinated patients, while fewer than 8% of vaccinated patients developed antibody responses to PSA or prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that TGM4 is an immunogenic, prostate-restricted antigen with the potential for further development as an immunotherapy target.
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- Zoila A Lopez-Bujanda
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Current: Molecular Pathogenesis Program, The Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine of the Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Division of Hematology Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Divisions of Human Biology and Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Division of Hematology Oncology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Lu J, Li YF, Qu L, Ma M, Yang XD, Shen MM, Wang XG, Guo J, Hu YP, Dou TC, Li SM, Yang Z, Gao F, Wang KH. Effects of energy-restricted feeding during rearing on sexual maturation and reproductive performance of Rugao layer breeders. Poult Sci 2021; 100:101225. [PMID: 34237549 PMCID: PMC8267595 DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of energy-restricted feeding during rearing on the sexual maturation and reproductive performance of Rugao layer breeders. A total of 2,400 8-wk-old Rugao layer breeders were randomly assigned to one of 5 groups (480 pullets per group) with eight replicates and were fed one of 5 diets that were nutritionally similar with the exception of apparent metabolizable energy corrected for nitrogen (AMEn) content (2,850, 2,750, 2,650, 2,550, and 2,450 kcal AMEn/kg) from 8 to 18 wks of age. The daily amount of feed was restricted to the absolute quantity of the diet consumed by laying hens fed 2,850 kcal AMEn per kg diet ad libitum (control). From 18 to 52 wks of age, all hens were fed basal diets ad libitum. The body weight of layer breeders at 18 wks of age decreased linearly with increasing energy restriction (P < 0.001), but caught up within 3 wks of ad libitum feeding (P = 0.290). The coefficient of variation of the body weight of the hens at 18, 21, and 24 wks of age decreased linearly (P = 0.010, 0.025, and 0.041, respectively) with increasing energy restriction during rearing. Energy-restricted feeding delayed sexual organ development at 18, 20, and 22 wks of age, including the number of large yellow follicles, oviduct length, oviduct length index, oviduct index, and ovary stroma index (P < 0.05), and delayed sexual maturity, including the age at laying the first egg and the age at 5% and 50% egg production (P = 0.042, 0.004, and 0.029, respectively). Consequently, egg number from 5% to 50% egg production decreased linearly as the degree of energy restriction increased (P = 0.001) and egg production of hens in the energy-restricted feeding groups was lower than that of hens in the ad libitum feeding group (6.36, 6.43, 6.4, and 4.61% vs. 14.29%; P < 0.05) from 18 to 20 wks of age. Furthermore, egg weight increased linearly as energy restriction increased (P < 0.001) and laying hens in the most severe energy-restricted feeding group had more setting eggs (normal eggs weighing >40 g) than hens in the ad libitum feeding and lighter energy-restricted feeding groups (149.57 vs. 144.34, 142.66, 143.63, and 141.78; P < 0.05). No significant differences were observed in fertility, hatchability of fertile eggs, and hatchability of setting eggs (P = 0.381, 0.790, and 0.605, respectively). In conclusion, moderate energy restriction (85.97%, 2,450 vs. 2,850 kcal AMEn/kg) from 8 to 18 wks of age increased egg weight as well as the production of setting eggs in native layer breeders throughout the laying period, without adverse effects on productive performance from 18 to 52 wks of age, or fertility and hatchability at 52 wks of age.
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- J Lu
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095 China; Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China; Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Key Laboratory for Poultry Genetics and Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225009 China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095 China.
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- Poultry Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125 China
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Papachristodoulou A, Rodriguez-Calero A, Panja S, Margolskee E, Virk RK, Milner TA, Martina LP, Kim JY, Di Bernardo M, Williams AB, Maliza EA, Caputo JM, Haas C, Wang V, De Castro GJ, Wenske S, Hibshoosh H, McKiernan JM, Shen MM, Rubin MA, Mitrofanova A, Dutta A, Abate-Shen C. NKX3.1 Localization to Mitochondria Suppresses Prostate Cancer Initiation. Cancer Discov 2021; 11:2316-2333. [PMID: 33893149 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-20-1765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Mitochondria provide the first line of defense against the tumor-promoting effects of oxidative stress. Here we show that the prostate-specific homeoprotein NKX3.1 suppresses prostate cancer initiation by protecting mitochondria from oxidative stress. Integrating analyses of genetically engineered mouse models, human prostate cancer cells, and human prostate cancer organotypic cultures, we find that, in response to oxidative stress, NKX3.1 is imported to mitochondria via the chaperone protein HSPA9, where it regulates transcription of mitochondrial-encoded electron transport chain (ETC) genes, thereby restoring oxidative phosphorylation and preventing cancer initiation. Germline polymorphisms of NKX3.1 associated with increased cancer risk fail to protect from oxidative stress or suppress tumorigenicity. Low expression levels of NKX3.1 combined with low expression of mitochondrial ETC genes are associated with adverse clinical outcome, whereas high levels of mitochondrial NKX3.1 protein are associated with favorable outcome. This work reveals an extranuclear role for NKX3.1 in suppression of prostate cancer by protecting mitochondrial function. SIGNIFICANCE: Our findings uncover a nonnuclear function for NKX3.1 that is a key mechanism for suppression of prostate cancer. Analyses of the expression levels and subcellular localization of NKX3.1 in patients at risk of cancer progression may improve risk assessment in a precision prevention paradigm, particularly for men undergoing active surveillance.See related commentary by Finch and Baena, p. 2132.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 2113.
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- Alexandros Papachristodoulou
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Institute of Pathology, University of Bern and Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics and Development, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.
- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
- Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York
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Qu L, Shen MM, Dou TC, Ma M, Lu J, Wang XG, Guo J, Hu YP, Li YF, Wang KH. Genome-wide association studies for mottled eggs in chickens using a high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism array. Animal 2020; 15:100051. [PMID: 33516007 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2020.100051] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 08/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Mottled eggs in layer chickens are gaining increasing attention because of the economic impact on the egg industry caused by the reduced sale value of commodity eggs. However, the genetic architecture underlying mottled eggs is not well understood. The genetic architecture underlying the mottled egg trait was investigated using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) by high-density arrays, using a total of 407 pink eggs and 799 blue eggs from an F2 resource population generated by crossing Dongxiang Blue-shelled and White Leghorn chickens. The mottled egg score in blue eggs was found to be higher than that in pink eggs. The single-nucleotide polymorphism heritability of mottled egg at laying day and storage for 7 days was 0.18 and 0.20, respectively. Bivariate GWAS provided 29 significant loci, mainly located on GGA2, GGA3, GGA8, GGA10, GGA15, GGA17, and GGA23, affecting mottled egg on laying day. Candidate genes RIMS2, SLC25A32, RIMBP2, VPS13B, and RGS3 were obtained for mottled eggshell by bivariate GWAS and gene annotation. Our findings provide new insights into the genetic architecture of mottled egg in hens, and demonstrate that a genomic selection method would be profitable for breeding out the mottled egg trait.
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- L Qu
- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China; College of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, 212003 Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 225125 Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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Bowen C, Shibata M, Zhang H, Bergren SK, Shen MM, Gelmann EP. CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Point Mutation in Nkx3.1 Prolongs Protein Half-Life and Reverses Effects Nkx3.1 Allelic Loss. Cancer Res 2020; 80:4805-4814. [PMID: 32943441 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-20-1742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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NKX3.1 is the most commonly deleted gene in prostate cancer and is a gatekeeper suppressor. NKX3.1 is haploinsufficient, and pathogenic reduction in protein levels may result from genetic loss, decreased transcription, and increased protein degradation caused by inflammation or PTEN loss. NKX3.1 acts by retarding proliferation, activating antioxidants, and enhancing DNA repair. DYRK1B-mediated phosphorylation at serine 185 of NKX3.1 leads to its polyubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Because NKX3.1 protein levels are reduced, but never entirely lost, in prostate adenocarcinoma, enhancement of NKX3.1 protein levels represents a potential therapeutic strategy. As a proof of principle, we used CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing to engineer in vivo a point mutation in murine Nkx3.1 to code for a serine to alanine missense at amino acid 186, the target for Dyrk1b phosphorylation. Nkx3.1S186A/-, Nkx3.1+/- , and Nkx3.1+/+ mice were analyzed over one year to determine the levels of Nkx3.1 expression and effects of the mutant protein on the prostate. Allelic loss of Nkx3.1 caused reduced levels of Nkx3.1 protein, increased proliferation, and prostate hyperplasia and dysplasia, whereas Nkx3.1S186A/- mouse prostates had increased levels of Nkx3.1 protein, reduced prostate size, normal histology, reduced proliferation, and increased DNA end labeling. At 2 months of age, when all mice had normal prostate histology, Nkx3.1+/- mice demonstrated indices of metabolic activation, DNA damage response, and stress response. These data suggest that modulation of Nkx3.1 levels alone can exert long-term control over premalignant changes and susceptibility to DNA damage in the prostate. SIGNIFICANCE: These findings show that prolonging the half-life of Nkx3.1 reduces proliferation, enhances DNA end-labeling, and protects from DNA damage, ultimately blocking the proneoplastic effects of Nkx3.1 allelic loss.
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- Cai Bowen
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics & Development, Urology and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona.
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Crowley L, Cambuli F, Aparicio L, Shibata M, Robinson BD, Xuan S, Li W, Hibshoosh H, Loda M, Rabadan R, Shen MM. A single-cell atlas of the mouse and human prostate reveals heterogeneity and conservation of epithelial progenitors. eLife 2020; 9:e59465. [PMID: 32915138 PMCID: PMC7529463 DOI: 10.7554/elife.59465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [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: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Understanding the cellular constituents of the prostate is essential for identifying the cell of origin for prostate adenocarcinoma. Here, we describe a comprehensive single-cell atlas of the adult mouse prostate epithelium, which displays extensive heterogeneity. We observe distal lobe-specific luminal epithelial populations (LumA, LumD, LumL, and LumV), a proximally enriched luminal population (LumP) that is not lobe-specific, and a periurethral population (PrU) that shares both basal and luminal features. Functional analyses suggest that LumP and PrU cells have multipotent progenitor activity in organoid formation and tissue reconstitution assays. Furthermore, we show that mouse distal and proximal luminal cells are most similar to human acinar and ductal populations, that a PrU-like population is conserved between species, and that the mouse lateral prostate is most similar to the human peripheral zone. Our findings elucidate new prostate epithelial progenitors, and help resolve long-standing questions about anatomical relationships between the mouse and human prostate.
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- Laura Crowley
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew YorkUnited States
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Han HL, Zhang JF, Yan EF, Shen MM, Wu JM, Gan ZD, Wei CH, Zhang LL, Wang T. Effects of taurine on growth performance, antioxidant capacity, and lipid metabolism in broiler chickens. Poult Sci 2020; 99:5707-5717. [PMID: 33142488 PMCID: PMC7647726 DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2020.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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To investigate the effects of dietary taurine supplementation on growth performance, antioxidant status, and lipid metabolism in broilers, 384 male broilers (Arbor Acres, 1 D of age) were randomly allocated into 4 groups with 8 replicates of 8 birds. Dietary treatments were supplemented with taurine at the level of 0.00, 2.50, 5.00, and 7.50 g/kg of the diet (denoted as CON, TAU1, TAU2, TAU3, respectively). The BW gain from 1 to 21 D and from 22 to 42 D were all increased linearly (linear, P < 0.001) by taurine supplementation. Throughout the trial period, the highest BW gain and favorable gain-to-feed ratio were observed in the TAU2 group. Taurine supplementation increased the antioxidant enzyme activities and decreased (linear, P < 0.001) the content of malondialdehyde in both serum and the liver of broilers and alleviated oxidative damage through enhancing (P < 0.05) the hepatic genes expression of nuclear factor erythroid-2-related factor 2 (NRF2), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1). Correspondingly, in serum, the activities of hepatic lipase and total lipase were decreased linearly and quadratically (linear and quadratic, P < 0.001) with the increasing inclusion of taurine in the diet. Meanwhile, in serum, the content of triglycerides was significantly decreased (P < 0.05), and except for TAU3, the total cholesterol content was also significantly decreased (P < 0.05) by taurine supplementation. In addition, the hepatic content of triglycerides was significantly decreased (P < 0.05) in the TAU1 and TAU2 groups. Compared with the CON group, the hepatic genes expression of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase alpha (AMPKα), silent 1, (SIRT1) and carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT-1) were all increased (P < 0.05), and sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 (SREBP-1) expression was decreased (P < 0.05) in the TAU2 group. These results indicated that taurine supplementation improved the growth performance, antioxidant capacity, and lipid metabolism of broilers.
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
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Shen MM. Abstract IA17: Patient-derived organoid models of bladder cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2020. [DOI: 10.1158/1557-3265.bladder19-ia17] [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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The molecular mechanisms of bladder tumorigenesis are poorly understood, in part due to the lack of suitable model systems that reflect the biology of human bladder cancer. In our studies, we have used three-dimensional culture approaches to establish a novel biobank of human patient-derived organoids from primary bladder tumors. These organoid lines recapitulate the histopathologic and molecular diversity of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer as well as muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and can be readily converted into xenografts by orthotopic transplantation. These organoid lines can be propagated by serial passaging in culture while maintaining their tumor properties and display mutational profiles that are highly concordant with their parental tumors. Notably, organoid lines often retain parental tumor heterogeneity and exhibit a spectrum of genomic changes that are consistent with tumor evolution in culture. Furthermore, we have shown that these organoid lines are highly amenable for analyses of drug response, which can be validated in vivo using orthotopic xenografts.
I will discuss our recent findings using patient-derived tumor organoid lines to investigate bladder cancer biology and drug response, including ongoing analyses of tumor plasticity and the basis for tumor recurrence.
Citation Format: Michael M. Shen. Patient-derived organoid models of bladder cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference on Bladder Cancer: Transforming the Field; 2019 May 18-21; Denver, CO. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2020;26(15_Suppl):Abstract nr IA17.
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Shen MM, Zhang LL, Chen YN, Zhang YY, Han HL, Niu Y, He JT, Zhang YL, Cheng YF, Wang T. Effects of bamboo leaf extract on growth performance, meat quality, and meat oxidative stability in broiler chickens. Poult Sci 2020; 98:6787-6796. [PMID: 31289827 PMCID: PMC8913974 DOI: 10.3382/ps/pez404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary bamboo leaf extract (BLE) on growth performance, meat quality, oxidative stability, and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) related gene expression of breast meat in broilers. A total of 576 one-day-old male Arbor Acres broilers were divided into 6 groups. The control group (CTR) was fed basal diet, while BLE1, BLE2, BLE3, BLE4, and BLE5 were fed basal diet supplemented with 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 g BLE per kg feed, respectively. Compared with the CTR group, BLE2 and BLE5 increased average daily feed intake from 1 to 21 D and 22 to 42 D (P < 0.05), BLE1 and BLE2 improved average daily gain (ADG) and feed to gain ratio from 22 to 42 D (P < 0.05). Throughout the trial period, the highest body weight and favorable ADG and feed to gain ratio were observed in the BLE2 group. The drip loss at 24 h and pH at 45 min postmortem of breast meat were linearly improved by BLE supplementation (P < 0.05). Shear force was significantly lower in BLE2 and BLE3 than that in CTR group. Increasing supplementation of BLE linearly improved free radical scavenging capacity and decreased malondialdehyde content of breast meat during 12 D of storage (P < 0.05). Total antioxidant capacity and glutathione peroxidase activity were linearly increased by BLE supplementation (P < 0.05). Compared with the CTR group, the mRNA expression of Nrf2 and glutathione peroxidase in BLE3, BLE4, and BLE5 groups was significantly promoted, and glutathione S-transferase gene expression was increased in BLE2, BLE4, and BLE5 (P < 0.05). The highest (P < 0.05) heme oxygennase-1 gene expression was observed in BLE5. In conclusion, broiler supplemented with BLE improved growth performance and meat quality, BLE supplementation might activate Nrf2 pathway to alleviate lipid oxidation and increase antioxidant capacity of breast meat. The dosage of 2.0 to 3.0 g/kg BLE in broiler diet was recommanded.
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- M M Shen
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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In this issue of Cancer Cell, Su et al. demonstrate that epigenetic reprogramming by Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) promotes an inflammatory tumor microenvironment in a subtype of metastatic prostate cancer, and show that a PRC1 inhibitor can synergize with immune checkpoint inhibitors to suppress metastasis in mouse models.
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- Michael M Shen
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Michael M Shen
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032
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- Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021.,Department of BioMedical Research, University of Bern and Inselspital, 3008 Bern, Switzerland
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Stem/progenitor cells play central roles in processes of organogenesis and tissue maintenance, whereas cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to drive tumor malignancy. Here, we review recent progress in the identification and analysis of normal prostate stem/progenitor cells as well as putative CSCs in both genetically engineered mouse models as well as in human tissue. We also discuss studies that have investigated the cell type of origin for prostate cancer. In addition, we provide a critical assessment of methodologies used in stem cell analyses and outline directions for future research.
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- Jia J Li
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department Genetics and Development, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department of Urology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department Genetics and Development, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department of Urology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
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Hanoun M, Arnal-Estapé A, Maryanovich M, Zahalka AH, Bergren SK, Chua CW, Leftin A, Brodin PN, Shen MM, Guha C, Frenette PS. Nestin +NG2 + Cells Form a Reserve Stem Cell Population in the Mouse Prostate. Stem Cell Reports 2019; 12:1201-1211. [PMID: 31130357 PMCID: PMC6565923 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 04/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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In the prostate, stem and progenitor cell regenerative capacities have been ascribed to both basal and luminal epithelial cells. Here, we show that a rare subset of mesenchymal cells in the prostate are epithelial-primed Nestin-expressing cells (EPNECs) that can generate self-renewing prostate organoids with bipotential capacity. Upon transplantation, these EPNECs can form prostate gland tissue grafts at the clonal level. Lineage-tracing analyses show that cells marked by Nestin or NG2 transgenic mice contribute to prostate epithelium during organogenesis. In the adult, modest contributions in repeated rounds of regression and regeneration are observed, whereas prostate epithelial cells derived from Nestin/NG2-marked cells are dramatically increased after severe irradiation-induced organ damage. These results indicate that Nestin/NG2 expression marks a novel radioresistant prostate stem cell that is active during development and displays reserve stem cell activity for tissue maintenance. The murine prostate mesenchyme contains epithelial-primed Nestin+ cells Nestin+ cells generate self-renewing prostate organoids and glands at clonal level NG2/Nestin+ cells contribute to prostate epithelium during organogenesis NG2/Nestin+ cells retain reserve stem cell activity for tissue regeneration in the adult
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- Maher Hanoun
- Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Hematology, University Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45122 Essen, Germany
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- Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Aytes A, Giacobbe A, Mitrofanova A, Ruggero K, Cyrta J, Arriaga J, Palomero L, Farran-Matas S, Rubin MA, Shen MM, Califano A, Abate-Shen C. NSD2 is a conserved driver of metastatic prostate cancer progression. Nat Commun 2018; 9:5201. [PMID: 30518758 PMCID: PMC6281610 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07511-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [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: 02/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Deciphering cell-intrinsic mechanisms of metastasis progression in vivo is essential to identify novel therapeutic approaches. Here we elucidate cell-intrinsic drivers of metastatic prostate cancer progression through analyses of genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM) and correlative studies of human prostate cancer. Expression profiling of lineage-marked cells from mouse primary tumors and metastases defines a signature of de novo metastatic progression. Cross-species master regulator analyses comparing this mouse signature with a comparable human signature identifies conserved drivers of metastatic progression with demonstrable clinical and functional relevance. In particular, nuclear receptor binding SET Domain Protein 2 (NSD2) is robustly expressed in lethal prostate cancer in humans, while its silencing inhibits metastasis of mouse allografts in vivo. We propose that cross-species analysis can elucidate mechanisms of metastasis progression, thus providing potential additional therapeutic opportunities for treatment of lethal prostate cancer.
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- Alvaro Aytes
- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 160 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Programs of Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology (ONCOBell), and Cancer Therapeutics Resistance (ProCURE), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet, 199, 08908, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 160 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 65 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Programs of Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology (ONCOBell), and Cancer Therapeutics Resistance (ProCURE), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet, 199, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 160 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Programs of Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology (ONCOBell), and Cancer Therapeutics Resistance (ProCURE), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet, 199, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Programs of Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology (ONCOBell), and Cancer Therapeutics Resistance (ProCURE), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Gran Via de L'Hospitalet, 199, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 35, CH-3008, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 160 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 160 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1130 Saint Nicholas Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630W 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
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Lee SH, Hu W, Matulay JT, Silva MV, Owczarek TB, Kim K, Chua CW, Barlow LJ, Kandoth C, Williams AB, Bergren SK, Pietzak EJ, Anderson CB, Benson MC, Coleman JA, Taylor BS, Abate-Shen C, McKiernan JM, Al-Ahmadie H, Solit DB, Shen MM. Tumor Evolution and Drug Response in Patient-Derived Organoid Models of Bladder Cancer. Cell 2018; 173:515-528.e17. [PMID: 29625057 PMCID: PMC5890941 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 459] [Impact Index Per Article: 76.5] [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: 09/24/2017] [Revised: 01/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Bladder cancer is the fifth most prevalent cancer in the U.S., yet is understudied, and few laboratory models exist that reflect the biology of the human disease. Here, we describe a biobank of patient-derived organoid lines that recapitulates the histopathological and molecular diversity of human bladder cancer. Organoid lines can be established efficiently from patient biopsies acquired before and after disease recurrence and are interconvertible with orthotopic xenografts. Notably, organoid lines often retain parental tumor heterogeneity and exhibit a spectrum of genomic changes that are consistent with tumor evolution in culture. Analyses of drug response using bladder tumor organoids show partial correlations with mutational profiles, as well as changes associated with treatment resistance, and specific responses can be validated using xenografts in vivo. Our studies indicate that patient-derived bladder tumor organoids represent a faithful model system for studying tumor evolution and treatment response in the context of precision cancer medicine.
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- Suk Hyung Lee
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Genitourinary Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Matulay JT, Williams AB, Silva MV, McKiernan JM, Shen MM. MP54-13 BLUE LIGHT IN COMBINATION WITH HEAMINOLEVULINATE (CYSVIEW®) LEADS TO BLADDER CANCER CELL DEATH IN AN IN VITRO MODEL. J Urol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2018.02.1704] [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: 10/17/2022]
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Historically, it has been widely presumed that differentiated cells are determined during development and become irreversibly committed to their designated fates. In certain circumstances, however, differentiated cells can display plasticity by changing their identity, either by dedifferentiation to a progenitor-like state or by transdifferentiation to an alternative differentiated cell type. Such cellular plasticity can be triggered by physiological or oncogenic stress, or it can be experimentally induced through cellular reprogramming. Notably, physiological stresses that promote plasticity, such as severe tissue damage, inflammation, or senescence, also represent hallmarks of cancer. Furthermore, key drivers of cellular plasticity include major oncogenic and tumor suppressor pathways and can be exacerbated by drug treatment. Thus, plasticity may help cancer cells evade detection and treatment. We propose that cancer can be considered as a disease of excess plasticity, a notion that has important implications for intervention and treatment.
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- Clémentine Le Magnen
- Department of Urology and Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology and Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Urology and Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Chua CW, Epsi NJ, Leung EY, Xuan S, Lei M, Li BI, Bergren SK, Hibshoosh H, Mitrofanova A, Shen MM. Differential requirements of androgen receptor in luminal progenitors during prostate regeneration and tumor initiation. eLife 2018; 7:28768. [PMID: 29334357 PMCID: PMC5807048 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Master regulatory genes of tissue specification play key roles in stem/progenitor cells and are often important in cancer. In the prostate, androgen receptor (AR) is a master regulator essential for development and tumorigenesis, but its specific functions in prostate stem/progenitor cells have not been elucidated. We have investigated AR function in CARNs (CAstration-Resistant Nkx3.1-expressing cells), a luminal stem/progenitor cell that functions in prostate regeneration. Using genetically--engineered mouse models and novel prostate epithelial cell lines, we find that progenitor properties of CARNs are largely unaffected by AR deletion, apart from decreased proliferation in vivo. Furthermore, AR loss suppresses tumor formation after deletion of the Pten tumor suppressor in CARNs; however, combined Pten deletion and activation of oncogenic Kras in AR-deleted CARNs result in tumors with focal neuroendocrine differentiation. Our findings show that AR modulates specific progenitor properties of CARNs, including their ability to serve as a cell of origin for prostate cancer.
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- Chee Wai Chua
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States.,Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers School of Health Professions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States.,Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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Prostate organogenesis is a complex process that is primarily mediated by the presence of androgens and subsequent mesenchyme-epithelial interactions. The investigation of prostate development is partly driven by its potential relevance to prostate cancer, in particular the apparent re-awakening of key developmental programs that occur during tumorigenesis. However, our current knowledge of the mechanisms that drive prostate organogenesis is far from complete. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of prostate development, focusing on recent findings regarding sexual dimorphism, bud induction, branching morphogenesis and cellular differentiation.
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- Roxanne Toivanen
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Talos F, Mitrofanova A, Bergren SK, Califano A, Shen MM. A computational systems approach identifies synergistic specification genes that facilitate lineage conversion to prostate tissue. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14662. [PMID: 28429718 PMCID: PMC5413950 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 08/28/2016] [Accepted: 01/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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To date, reprogramming strategies for generating cell types of interest have been facilitated by detailed understanding of relevant developmental regulatory factors. However, identification of such regulatory drivers often represents a major challenge, as specific gene combinations may be required for reprogramming. Here we show that a computational systems approach can identify cell type specification genes (master regulators) that act synergistically, and demonstrate its application for reprogramming of fibroblasts to prostate tissue. We use three such master regulators (FOXA1, NKX3.1 and androgen receptor, AR) in a primed conversion strategy starting from mouse fibroblasts, resulting in prostate tissue grafts with appropriate histological and molecular properties that respond to androgen-deprivation. Moreover, generation of reprogrammed prostate does not require traversal of a pluripotent state. Thus, we describe a general strategy by which cell types and tissues can be generated even with limited knowledge of the developmental pathways required for their specification in vivo.
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- Flaminia Talos
- Department of Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Genetics and Development, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Genetics and Development, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Genetics and Development, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.,Department of Urology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Zou M, Toivanen R, Mitrofanova A, Floch N, Hayati S, Sun Y, Le Magnen C, Chester D, Mostaghel EA, Califano A, Rubin MA, Shen MM, Abate-Shen C. Transdifferentiation as a Mechanism of Treatment Resistance in a Mouse Model of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Cancer Discov 2017; 7:736-749. [PMID: 28411207 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-16-1174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Current treatments for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that target androgen receptor (AR) signaling improve patient survival, yet ultimately fail. Here, we provide novel insights into treatment response for the antiandrogen abiraterone by analyses of a genetically engineered mouse (GEM) model with combined inactivation of Trp53 and Pten, which are frequently comutated in human CRPC. These NPp53 mice fail to respond to abiraterone and display accelerated progression to tumors resembling treatment-related CRPC with neuroendocrine differentiation (CRPC-NE) in humans. Cross-species computational analyses identify master regulators of adverse response that are conserved with human CRPC-NE, including the neural differentiation factor SOX11, which promotes neuroendocrine differentiation in cells derived from NPp53 tumors. Furthermore, abiraterone-treated NPp53 prostate tumors contain regions of focal and/or overt neuroendocrine differentiation, distinguished by their proliferative potential. Notably, lineage tracing in vivo provides definitive and quantitative evidence that focal and overt neuroendocrine regions arise by transdifferentiation of luminal adenocarcinoma cells. These findings underscore principal roles for TP53 and PTEN inactivation in abiraterone resistance and progression from adenocarcinoma to CRPC-NE by transdifferentiation.Significance: Understanding adverse treatment response and identifying patients likely to fail treatment represent fundamental clinical challenges. By integrating analyses of GEM models and human clinical data, we provide direct genetic evidence for transdifferentiation as a mechanism of drug resistance as well as for stratifying patients for treatment with antiandrogens. Cancer Discov; 7(7); 736-49. ©2017 AACR.See related commentary by Sinha and Nelson, p. 673This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 653.
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- Min Zou
- Departments of Medicine and Urology, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York; and Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Departments of Medicine and Urology, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Departments of Systems Biology, Biomedical Informatics, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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- Englander Institute for Precision Medicine and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weil Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
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- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
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- Departments of Urology, Medicine, Systems Biology, and Pathology and Cell Biology, Institute of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
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The identification of tumor-initiating cells represents a significant challenge for studies of prostate cancer. In a recent issue of Cell Reports, Agarwal and colleagues use organoid culture to ascertain two distinct luminal progenitors in a mouse model of prostate cancer, shedding new light on lineage relationships in the prostate epithelium.
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- Michael M Shen
- Departments of Medicine, Genetics and Development, Urology, and Systems Biology, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Zou M, Toivanen R, Mitrofanova A, Shen MM, Abate-Shen C. Abstract 4387: Alterations of TP53 mediate resistance to abiraterone in castration-resistant prostate cancer. Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-4387] [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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Prostate cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. The first line treatment for advanced prostate cancer is hormone deprivation therapy (ADT), which although it is initially effective, usually leads to progression to more aggressive and often lethal castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Nonetheless, CRPC remains dependent on androgen receptor (AR) signaling through various mechanisms. Therefore, drugs that target androgen synthesis or AR signaling, such as abiraterone acetate and enzalutamide, have been employed as second line therapy. Despite the fact that both drugs improve the overall survival for CRPC patients, neither of them is curative, suggesting intrinsic or acquired resistance. Here we have focused on elucidating resistance mechanisms for abiraterone acetate, an inhibitor of androgen biosynthesis, using preclinical analyses of relevant genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs).
Given the high frequency of co-alteration in PTEN and p53 in mCRPC, we generated conditional GEMMs based on deletion of either PTEN alone or PTEN plus p53 to obtain the NP and NPp53 GEMMs, respectively. Both NP and NPp53 mice develop CRPC, and cross-species gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) suggests that they have molecular programs that are well-conserved with human CRPC. In preclinical studies, we find that the NP mice are highly responsive to tumor inhibition by abiraterone, whereas the NPp53 mice do not respond. In fact, the NPp53 mice display a marked acceleration of tumor progression following abiraterone treatment. The disparate phenotypic responses of the NP and NPp53 mice to abiraterone are evident by analyses of their tumor histology, immunohistochemical staining, as well as the change in tumor volume by MRI imaging. We further validated the results in a genetically modified human prostate cancer cell line. In particular, a xenograft model based on 22RV1 cells that are depleted for both PTEN and p53 also displayed an acceleration of the tumor phenotype following abiraterone treatment. Notably, expression profiling of the abiraterone- or vehicle-treated “responder” NP tumors versus “non-responder” NPp53 tumors identified a unique set of cancer driver genes that are enriched for genes found in human neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC). These findings were confirmed by immunohistochemistry, which demonstrated a significant increase in synaptophysin-expressing cells in CRPC in the NPp53 mice but not the NP mice.
Our findings suggest that loss of p53 in the context of PTEN deletion promotes resistance to abiraterone while CRPC in the NPp53 mice partially resemble human NEPC. Given the high prevalence of co-alteration of PTEN and p53 in advanced human mCRPC, and observed occurrence of treatment induced NEPC-like phenotypes observed following treatment with AR targeting agents in patients, our finding suggest that abiraterone may not be suitable for patients with alterations in both PTEN and p53.
Citation Format: Min Zou, Roxanne Toivanen, Antonina Mitrofanova, Michael M. Shen, Cory Abate-Shen. Alterations of TP53 mediate resistance to abiraterone in castration-resistant prostate cancer. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 4387.
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- Min Zou
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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