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Chen C, Li Y, Wei W, Lu Y, Zou B, Zhang L, Shan J, Zhu Y, Wang S, Wu H, Su H, Zhou G. A precise microdissection strategy enabled spatial heterogeneity analysis on the targeted region of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Talanta 2024; 278:126501. [PMID: 38963978 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2024.126501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2024] [Revised: 06/26/2024] [Accepted: 06/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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In recent years, the development of spatial transcriptomic technologies has enabled us to gain an in-depth understanding of the spatial heterogeneity of gene expression in biological tissues. However, a simple and efficient tool is required to analyze multiple spatial targets, such as mRNAs, miRNAs, or genetic mutations, at high resolution in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue sections. In this study, we developed hydrogel pathological sectioning coupled with the previously reported Sampling Junior instrument (HPSJ) to assess the spatial heterogeneity of multiple targets in FFPE sections at a scale of 180 μm. The HPSJ platform was used to demonstrate the spatial heterogeneity of 9 ferroptosis-related genes (TFRC, NCOA4, FTH1, ACSL4, LPCAT3, ALOX12, SLC7A11, GLS2, and GPX4) and 2 miRNAs (miR-185-5p and miR522) in FFPE tissue samples from patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). The results validated the significant heterogeneity of ferroptosis-related mRNAs and miRNAs. In addition, HPSJ confirmed the spatial heterogeneity of the L858R mutation in 7 operation-sourced and 4 needle-biopsy-sourced FFPE samples from patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). The successful detection of clinical FFPE samples indicates that HPSJ is a precise, high-throughput, cost-effective, and universal platform for analyzing spatial heterogeneity, which is beneficial for elucidating the mechanisms underlying drug resistance and guiding the prescription of mutant-targeted drugs in patients with tumors.
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- Chen Chen
- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China; Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210018, China
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- Department of Pathology Center of Diagnostic of Pathology, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210018, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210018, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210018, China
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- Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210018, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China; Department of Clinical Pharmacy, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210002, China.
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Forrester MT, Egol JR, Tata A, Tata PR, Foster MW. Analysis of Protein Cysteine Acylation Using a Modified Suspension Trap (Acyl-Trap). J Proteome Res 2024; 23:3716-3725. [PMID: 39008777 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
Abstract
Proteins undergo reversible S-acylation via a thioester linkage in vivo. S-palmitoylation, modification by C16:0 fatty acid, is a common S-acylation that mediates critical protein-membrane and protein-protein interactions. The most widely used S-acylation assays, including acyl-biotin exchange and acyl resin-assisted capture, utilize blocking of free Cys thiols, hydroxylamine-dependent cleavage of the thioester and subsequent labeling of nascent thiol. These assays generally require >500 μg of protein input material per sample and numerous reagent removal and washing steps, making them laborious and ill-suited for high throughput and low input applications. To overcome these limitations, we devised "Acyl-Trap", a suspension trap-based assay that utilizes a thiol-reactive quartz to enable buffer exchange and hydroxylamine-mediated S-acyl enrichment. We show that the method is compatible with protein-level detection of S-acylated proteins (e.g., H-Ras) as well as S-acyl site identification and quantification using "on trap" isobaric labeling and LC-MS/MS from as little as 20 μg of protein input. In mouse brain, Acyl-Trap identified 279 reported sites of S-acylation and 1298 previously unreported putative sites. Also described are conditions for long-term hydroxylamine storage, which streamline the assay. More generally, Acyl-Trap serves as a proof-of-concept for PTM-tailored suspension traps suitable for both traditional protein detection and chemoproteomic workflows.
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- Michael T Forrester
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
- Duke Regeneration Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
- Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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Forrester MT, Egol JR, Tata A, Tata PR, Foster MW. Analysis of Protein Cysteine Acylation Using a Modified Suspension Trap (Acyl-Trap). BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.23.586403. [PMID: 38585928 PMCID: PMC10996552 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.23.586403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
Abstract
Proteins undergo reversible S-acylation via a thioester linkage in vivo. S-palmitoylation, modification by C16:0 fatty acid, is a common S-acylation that mediates critical protein-membrane and protein-protein interactions. The most widely used S-acylation assays, including acyl-biotin exchange and acyl resin-assisted capture, utilize blocking of free Cys thiols, hydroxylamine-dependent cleavage of the thioester and subsequent labeling of nascent thiol. These assays generally require >500 micrograms of protein input material per sample and numerous reagent removal and washing steps, making them laborious and ill-suited for high throughput and low input applications. To overcome these limitations, we devised "Acyl-Trap", a suspension trap-based assay that utilizes a thiol-reactive quartz to enable buffer exchange and hydroxylamine-mediated S-acyl enrichment. We show that the method is compatible with protein-level detection of S-acylated proteins (e.g. H-Ras) as well as S-acyl site identification and quantification using "on trap" isobaric labeling and LC-MS/MS from as little as 20 micrograms of protein input. In mouse brain, Acyl-Trap identified 279 reported sites of S-acylation and 1298 previously unreported putative sites. Also described are conditions for long-term hydroxylamine storage, which streamlines the assay. More generally, Acyl-Trap serves as a proof-of-concept for PTM-tailored suspension traps suitable for both traditional protein detection and chemoproteomic workflows.
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- Michael T. Forrester
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Duke Regeneration Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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Lautenbacher L, Yang KL, Kockmann T, Panse C, Chambers M, Kahl E, Yu F, Gabriel W, Bold D, Schmidt T, Li K, MacLean B, Nesvizhskii AI, Wilhelm M. Koina: Democratizing machine learning for proteomics research. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.01.596953. [PMID: 38895358 PMCID: PMC11185529 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.01.596953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
Abstract
Recent developments in machine-learning (ML) and deep-learning (DL) have immense potential for applications in proteomics, such as generating spectral libraries, improving peptide identification, and optimizing targeted acquisition modes. Although new ML/DL models for various applications and peptide properties are frequently published, the rate at which these models are adopted by the community is slow, which is mostly due to technical challenges. We believe that, for the community to make better use of state-of-the-art models, more attention should be spent on making models easy to use and accessible by the community. To facilitate this, we developed Koina, an open-source containerized, decentralized and online-accessible high-performance prediction service that enables ML/DL model usage in any pipeline. Using the widely used FragPipe computational platform as example, we show how Koina can be easily integrated with existing proteomics software tools and how these integrations improve data analysis.
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- Ludwig Lautenbacher
- Computational Mass Spectrometry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) - University of Zurich | ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) - University of Zurich | ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Quartier Sorge - Batiment Amphipole, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Computational Mass Spectrometry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Computational Mass Spectrometry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
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- Computational Mass Spectrometry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Computational Mass Spectrometry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Freising, Germany
- Munich Data Science Institute, Technical University of Munich, 85748, Garching, Germany
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Li GX, Chen L, Hsiao Y, Mannan R, Zhang Y, Luo J, Petralia F, Cho H, Hosseini N, Leprevost FDV, Calinawan A, Li Y, Anand S, Dagar A, Geffen Y, Kumar-Sinha C, Chugh S, Le A, Ponce S, Guo S, Zhang C, Schnaubelt M, Al Deen NN, Chen F, Caravan W, Houston A, Hopkins A, Newton CJ, Wang X, Polasky DA, Haynes S, Yu F, Jing X, Chen S, Robles AI, Mesri M, Thiagarajan M, An E, Getz GA, Linehan WM, Hostetter G, Jewell SD, Chan DW, Wang P, Omenn GS, Mehra R, Ricketts CJ, Ding L, Chinnaiyan AM, Cieslik MP, Dhanasekaran SM, Zhang H, Nesvizhskii AI. Comprehensive proteogenomic characterization of rare kidney tumors. Cell Rep Med 2024; 5:101547. [PMID: 38703764 PMCID: PMC11148773 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024]
Abstract
Non-clear cell renal cell carcinomas (non-ccRCCs) encompass diverse malignant and benign tumors. Refinement of differential diagnosis biomarkers, markers for early prognosis of aggressive disease, and therapeutic targets to complement immunotherapy are current clinical needs. Multi-omics analyses of 48 non-ccRCCs compared with 103 ccRCCs reveal proteogenomic, phosphorylation, glycosylation, and metabolic aberrations in RCC subtypes. RCCs with high genome instability display overexpression of IGF2BP3 and PYCR1. Integration of single-cell and bulk transcriptome data predicts diverse cell-of-origin and clarifies RCC subtype-specific proteogenomic signatures. Expression of biomarkers MAPRE3, ADGRF5, and GPNMB differentiates renal oncocytoma from chromophobe RCC, and PIGR and SOSTDC1 distinguish papillary RCC from MTSCC. This study expands our knowledge of proteogenomic signatures, biomarkers, and potential therapeutic targets in non-ccRCC.
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- Ginny Xiaohe Li
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA; Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; Department of Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Yan Q, Deng Y, Zhang Q. A comprehensive overview of metaplastic breast cancer: Features and treatments. Cancer Sci 2024. [PMID: 38735837 DOI: 10.1111/cas.16208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024] Open
Abstract
Metaplastic breast cancer is a rare, aggressive, and chemotherapy-resistant subtype of breast cancers, accounting for less than 1% of invasive breast cancers, characterized by adenocarcinoma with spindle cells, squamous epithelium, and/or mesenchymal tissue differentiation. The majority of metaplastic breast cancers exhibit the characteristics of triple-negative breast cancer and have unfavorable prognoses with a lower survival rate. This subtype often displays gene alterations in the PI3K/AKT pathway, Wnt/β-catenin pathway, and cell cycle dysregulation and demonstrates epithelial-mesenchymal transition, immune response changes, TP53 mutation, EGFR amplification, and so on. Currently, the optimal treatment of metaplastic breast cancer remains uncertain. This article provides a comprehensive review on the clinical features, molecular characteristics, invasion and metastasis patterns, and prognosis of metaplastic breast cancer, as well as recent advancements in treatment strategies.
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- Qiaoke Yan
- Department of Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
- Department of Medical Oncology, Heilongjiang Cancer Prevention and Treatment Institute, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
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Zhao D, Guo Y, Wei H, Jia X, Zhi Y, He G, Nie W, Huang L, Wang P, Laster KV, Liu Z, Wang J, Lee MH, Dong Z, Liu K. Multi-omics characterization of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma identifies molecular subtypes and therapeutic targets. JCI Insight 2024; 9:e171916. [PMID: 38652547 PMCID: PMC11141925 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.171916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the predominant form of esophageal cancer and is characterized by an unfavorable prognosis. To elucidate the distinct molecular alterations in ESCC and investigate therapeutic targets, we performed a comprehensive analysis of transcriptomics, proteomics, and phosphoproteomics data derived from 60 paired treatment-naive ESCC and adjacent nontumor tissue samples. Additionally, we conducted a correlation analysis to describe the regulatory relationship between transcriptomic and proteomic processes, revealing alterations in key metabolic pathways. Unsupervised clustering analysis of the proteomics data stratified patients with ESCC into 3 subtypes with different molecular characteristics and clinical outcomes. Notably, subtype III exhibited the worst prognosis and enrichment in proteins associated with malignant processes, including glycolysis and DNA repair pathways. Furthermore, translocase of inner mitochondrial membrane domain containing 1 (TIMMDC1) was validated as a potential prognostic molecule for ESCC. Moreover, integrated kinase-substrate network analysis using the phosphoproteome nominated candidate kinases as potential targets. In vitro and in vivo experiments further confirmed casein kinase II subunit α (CSNK2A1) as a potential kinase target for ESCC. These underlying data represent a valuable resource for researchers that may provide better insights into the biology and treatment of ESCC.
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- Dengyun Zhao
- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Tianjian Laboratory of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- The Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Cancer Chemoprevention, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Linzhou Cancer Hospital, Anyang, Henan, China
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- Linzhou Cancer Hospital, Anyang, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- College of Korean Medicine, Dongshin University, Naju, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Tianjian Laboratory of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- The Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Cancer Chemoprevention, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center for Cancer Chemoprevention, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Tianjian Laboratory of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- The Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Cancer Chemoprevention, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Provincial Cooperative Innovation Center for Cancer Chemoprevention, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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Avelar RA, Gupta R, Carvette G, da Veiga Leprevost F, Colina J, Teitel J, Nesvizhskii AI, O’Connor CM, Hatzoglou M, Shenolikar S, Arvan P, Narla G, DiFeo A. Integrated stress response plasticity governs normal cell adaptation to chronic stress via the PP2A-TFE3-ATF4 pathway. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-4013396. [PMID: 38585734 PMCID: PMC10996823 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4013396/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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The integrated stress response (ISR) regulates cell fate during conditions of stress by leveraging the cell's capacity to endure sustainable and efficient adaptive stress responses. Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity modulation has been shown to be successful in achieving both therapeutic efficacy and safety across various cancer models; however, the molecular mechanisms driving its selective antitumor effects remain unclear. Here, we show for the first time that ISR plasticity relies on PP2A activation to regulate drug response and dictate cellular fate under conditions of chronic stress. We demonstrate that genetic and chemical modulation of the PP2A leads to chronic proteolytic stress and triggers an ISR to dictate cell fate. More specifically, we uncovered that the PP2A-TFE3-ATF4 pathway governs ISR cell plasticity during endoplasmic reticular and cellular stress independent of the unfolded protein response. We further show that normal cells reprogram their genetic signatures to undergo ISR-mediated adaptation and homeostatic recovery thereby successfully avoiding toxicity following PP2A-mediated stress. Conversely, oncogenic specific cytotoxicity induced by chemical modulation of PP2A is achieved by activating chronic and irreversible ISR in cancer cells. Our findings propose that a differential response to chemical modulation of PP2A is determined by intrinsic ISR plasticity, providing a novel biological vulnerability to selectively induce cancer cell death and improve targeted therapeutic efficacy.
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- Rita A. Avelar
- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Emeritus Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Professor Emeritus, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
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- Division of Metabolism Endocrinology and Diabetes, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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He S, Jin Y, Nazaret A, Shi L, Chen X, Rampersaud S, Dhillon BS, Valdez I, Friend LE, Fan JL, Park CY, Mintz RL, Lao YH, Carrera D, Fang KW, Mehdi K, Rohde M, McFaline-Figueroa JL, Blei D, Leong KW, Rudensky AY, Plitas G, Azizi E. Starfysh integrates spatial transcriptomic and histologic data to reveal heterogeneous tumor-immune hubs. Nat Biotechnol 2024:10.1038/s41587-024-02173-8. [PMID: 38514799 DOI: 10.1038/s41587-024-02173-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
Abstract
Spatially resolved gene expression profiling provides insight into tissue organization and cell-cell crosstalk; however, sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics (ST) lacks single-cell resolution. Current ST analysis methods require single-cell RNA sequencing data as a reference for rigorous interpretation of cell states, mostly do not use associated histology images and are not capable of inferring shared neighborhoods across multiple tissues. Here we present Starfysh, a computational toolbox using a deep generative model that incorporates archetypal analysis and any known cell type markers to characterize known or new tissue-specific cell states without a single-cell reference. Starfysh improves the characterization of spatial dynamics in complex tissues using histology images and enables the comparison of niches as spatial hubs across tissues. Integrative analysis of primary estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and metaplastic breast cancer (MBC) tissues led to the identification of spatial hubs with patient- and disease-specific cell type compositions and revealed metabolic reprogramming shaping immunosuppressive hubs in aggressive MBC.
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- Siyu He
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Ludwig Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Ludwig Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Surgery, Breast Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
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Jiang W, Jaehnig EJ, Liao Y, Yaron-Barir TM, Johnson JL, Cantley LC, Zhang B. Illuminating the Dark Cancer Phosphoproteome Through a Machine-Learned Co-Regulation Map of 26,280 Phosphosites. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.19.585786. [PMID: 38562798 PMCID: PMC10983930 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.19.585786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Mass spectrometry-based phosphoproteomics offers a comprehensive view of protein phosphorylation, but limited knowledge about the regulation and function of most phosphosites restricts our ability to extract meaningful biological insights from phosphoproteomics data. To address this, we combine machine learning and phosphoproteomic data from 1,195 tumor specimens spanning 11 cancer types to construct CoPheeMap, a network mapping the co-regulation of 26,280 phosphosites. Integrating network features from CoPheeMap into a machine learning model, CoPheeKSA, we achieve superior performance in predicting kinase-substrate associations. CoPheeKSA reveals 24,015 associations between 9,399 phosphosites and 104 serine/threonine kinases, including many unannotated phosphosites and under-studied kinases. We validate the accuracy of these predictions using experimentally determined kinase-substrate specificities. By applying CoPheeMap and CoPheeKSA to phosphosites with high computationally predicted functional significance and cancer-associated phosphosites, we demonstrate the effectiveness of these tools in systematically illuminating phosphosites of interest, revealing dysregulated signaling processes in human cancer, and identifying under-studied kinases as putative therapeutic targets.
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Hsiao Y, Zhang H, Li GX, Deng Y, Yu F, Kahrood HV, Steele JR, Schittenhelm RB, Nesvizhskii AI. Analysis and visualization of quantitative proteomics data using FragPipe-Analyst. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.05.583643. [PMID: 38496650 PMCID: PMC10942459 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.05.583643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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The FragPipe computational proteomics platform is gaining widespread popularity among the proteomics research community because of its fast processing speed and user-friendly graphical interface. Although FragPipe produces well-formatted output tables that are ready for analysis, there is still a need for an easy-to-use and user-friendly downstream statistical analysis and visualization tool. FragPipe-Analyst addresses this need by providing an R shiny web server to assist FragPipe users in conducting downstream analyses of the resulting quantitative proteomics data. It supports major quantification workflows including label-free quantification, tandem mass tags, and data-independent acquisition. FragPipe-Analyst offers a range of useful functionalities, such as various missing value imputation options, data quality control, unsupervised clustering, differential expression (DE) analysis using Limma, and gene ontology and pathway enrichment analysis using Enrichr. To support advanced analysis and customized visualizations, we also developed FragPipeAnalystR, an R package encompassing all FragPipe-Analyst functionalities that is extended to support site-specific analysis of post-translational modifications (PTMs). FragPipe-Analyst and FragPipeAnalystR are both open-source and freely available.
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- Yi Hsiao
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Monash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Monash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
- Monash Genomics & Bioinformatics Platform, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Monash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Monash Proteomics & Metabolomics Platform, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Cosenza-Contreras M, Schäfer A, Sing J, Cook L, Stillger MN, Chen CY, Villacorta Hidalgo J, Pinter N, Meyer L, Werner T, Bug D, Haberl Z, Kübeck O, Zhao K, Stei S, Gafencu AV, Ionita R, Brehar FM, Ferrer-Lozano J, Ribas G, Cerdá-Alberich L, Martí-Bonmatí L, Nimsky C, Van Straaten A, Biniossek ML, Föll M, Cabezas-Wallscheid N, Büscher J, Röst H, Arnoux A, Bartsch JW, Schilling O. Proteometabolomics of initial and recurrent glioblastoma highlights an increased immune cell signature with altered lipid metabolism. Neuro Oncol 2024; 26:488-502. [PMID: 37882631 PMCID: PMC10912002 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND There is an urgent need to better understand the mechanisms associated with the development, progression, and onset of recurrence after initial surgery in glioblastoma (GBM). The use of integrative phenotype-focused -omics technologies such as proteomics and lipidomics provides an unbiased approach to explore the molecular evolution of the tumor and its associated environment. METHODS We assembled a cohort of patient-matched initial (iGBM) and recurrent (rGBM) specimens of resected GBM. Proteome and metabolome composition were determined by mass spectrometry-based techniques. We performed neutrophil-GBM cell coculture experiments to evaluate the behavior of rGBM-enriched proteins in the tumor microenvironment. ELISA-based quantitation of candidate proteins was performed to test the association of their plasma concentrations in iGBM with the onset of recurrence. RESULTS Proteomic profiles reflect increased immune cell infiltration and extracellular matrix reorganization in rGBM. ASAH1, SYMN, and GPNMB were highly enriched proteins in rGBM. Lipidomics indicates the downregulation of ceramides in rGBM. Cell analyses suggest a role for ASAH1 in neutrophils and its localization in extracellular traps. Plasma concentrations of ASAH1 and SYNM show an association with time to recurrence. CONCLUSIONS We describe the potential importance of ASAH1 in tumor progression and development of rGBM via metabolic rearrangement and showcase the feedback from the tumor microenvironment to plasma proteome profiles. We report the potential of ASAH1 and SYNM as plasma markers of rGBM progression. The published datasets can be considered as a resource for further functional and biomarker studies involving additional -omics technologies.
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- Miguel Cosenza-Contreras
- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “ Nicolae Simionescu,”Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “ Nicolae Simionescu,”Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Bagdasar-Arseni” Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Pathology Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, València, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Pathology Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, València, Spain
- Department of Radiology Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, València, Spain
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of medical informatics and evaluation of practices, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Centre, Paris University & European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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- Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Clinical Epidemiology INSERM & Clinical Research Unit, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris Centre, Paris University & European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Petralia F, Ma W, Yaron TM, Caruso FP, Tignor N, Wang JM, Charytonowicz D, Johnson JL, Huntsman EM, Marino GB, Calinawan A, Evangelista JE, Selvan ME, Chowdhury S, Rykunov D, Krek A, Song X, Turhan B, Christianson KE, Lewis DA, Deng EZ, Clarke DJB, Whiteaker JR, Kennedy JJ, Zhao L, Segura RL, Batra H, Raso MG, Parra ER, Soundararajan R, Tang X, Li Y, Yi X, Satpathy S, Wang Y, Wiznerowicz M, González-Robles TJ, Iavarone A, Gosline SJC, Reva B, Robles AI, Nesvizhskii AI, Mani DR, Gillette MA, Klein RJ, Cieslik M, Zhang B, Paulovich AG, Sebra R, Gümüş ZH, Hostetter G, Fenyö D, Omenn GS, Cantley LC, Ma'ayan A, Lazar AJ, Ceccarelli M, Wang P. Pan-cancer proteogenomics characterization of tumor immunity. Cell 2024; 187:1255-1277.e27. [PMID: 38359819 PMCID: PMC10988632 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
Abstract
Despite the successes of immunotherapy in cancer treatment over recent decades, less than <10%-20% cancer cases have demonstrated durable responses from immune checkpoint blockade. To enhance the efficacy of immunotherapies, combination therapies suppressing multiple immune evasion mechanisms are increasingly contemplated. To better understand immune cell surveillance and diverse immune evasion responses in tumor tissues, we comprehensively characterized the immune landscape of more than 1,000 tumors across ten different cancers using CPTAC pan-cancer proteogenomic data. We identified seven distinct immune subtypes based on integrative learning of cell type compositions and pathway activities. We then thoroughly categorized unique genomic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic changes associated with each subtype. Further leveraging the deep phosphoproteomic data, we studied kinase activities in different immune subtypes, which revealed potential subtype-specific therapeutic targets. Insights from this work will facilitate the development of future immunotherapy strategies and enhance precision targeting with existing agents.
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- Francesca Petralia
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- BIOGEM Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 83031 Ariano Irpino, Italy; Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-701 Poznań, Poland; International Institute for Molecular Oncology, 60-203 Poznań, Poland; Department of Oncology, Heliodor Swiecicki Clinical Hospital, 60-203 Poznań, Poland
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Department of Biochemistry, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Icahn Genomics Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Pathology and Biorepository Core, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Departments of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, & Environmental Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Zhang M, Yuan J, Wang M, Zhang M, Chen H. Chemotherapy is of prognostic significance to metaplastic breast cancer. Sci Rep 2024; 14:1210. [PMID: 38216630 PMCID: PMC10786888 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51627-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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This study aimed to evaluate the significance of chemotherapy (CT) among metaplastic breast cancer (MpBC), and to compare the survival outcomes between triple negative MpBC (MpBC-TNBC) and triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC-TNBC). SEER database was indexed to identify female unilateral primary MpBC diagnosed from 2010 to 2017. Patients were classified into neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) with response (NAC-response), NAC-no response, adjuvant chemotherapy, and no CT. Breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) and overall survival (OS) was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared by log-rank test. Cox regression was used to evaluate the independent prognostic factors. A 1:4 propensity score matching method was adopted to balance baseline differences. Altogether 1186 MpBC patients were enrolled, among them 181 received NAC, 647 received adjuvant CT and 358 did not receive any CT. Chemotherapy was an independent favorable prognostic factor. NAC-response and adjuvant CT had a significant or an obvious trend of survival improvement compared with NAC-no response or no CT. MpBC-TNBC was an independent unfavorable prognostic factor compared with IDC-TNBC. Among them, there was significant or trend of survival improvement among all TNBCs receiving NAC or adjuvant CT compared with no CT. Chemotherapy was of important significance to MpBC prognosis and should be integrated in comprehensive treatment for MpBC.
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- Meilin Zhang
- Department of breast surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of breast surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of breast surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of breast surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of breast surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China.
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Shi L, Zou H, Yi J. Construction of shared gene signature between rheumatoid arthritis and lung adenocarcinoma helps to predict the prognosis and tumor microenvironment of the LUAD patients. Front Mol Biosci 2024; 10:1314753. [PMID: 38268722 PMCID: PMC10806137 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1314753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024] Open
Abstract
Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common chronic autoimmune disease with high incidence rate and high disability rate. One of the top complications is cancer, especially lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). However, the molecular mechanisms linking RA and LUAD are still not clear. Therefore, in this study, we tried to identify the shared genetic signatures and local immune microenvironment between RA and LUAD and construct a clinical model for survival prediction. Methods: We obtained gene expression profiles and clinical information of patients with RA and LUAD from GEO and TCGA datasets. We performed differential analysis and Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) to discover the shared genes between RA and LUAD. Then, COX regression and LASSO analysis were employed to figure out genes significantly associated with survival. qRT-PCR and Western blot were utilized to validate the expression level of candidate genes. For clinical application, we constructed a nomogram, and also explored the value of RALUADS in characterizing immune infiltration features by CIBERSORT and xCell. Finally, responses to different drug therapy were predicted according to different RALUADS. Results: Our analysis identified two gene sets from differentially expressed genes and WGCNA gene modules of RA and LUAD. Filtered by survival analysis, three most significant shared genes were selected, CCN6, CDCA4 and ERLIN1, which were all upregulated in tumors and associated with poor prognosis. The three genes constituted RA and LUAD score (RALUADS). Our results demonstrated that RALUADS was higher in tumor patients and predicted poor prognosis in LUAD patients. Clinical nomogram combining RALUADS and other clinicopathological parameters had superior performance in survival prediction (AUC = 0.722). We further explored tumor immune microenvironment (TME) affected by RALUADS and observed RALUADS was closely related to the sensitivity of multiple immune blockades, chemotherapy and targeted drugs. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that there are shared physiopathologic processes and molecular profiles between RA and LUAD. RALUADS represents an excellent prognosis predictor and immune-related biomarker, which can be applied to select potential effective drugs and for LUAD patients with RA.
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- Liping Shi
- Department of Pharmacology, Gannan Healthcare Vocational College, Ganzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Dermatology Hospital of Ganzhou, Ganzhou, China
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- Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, China
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Che R, Wang Q, Li M, Shen J, Ji J. Quantitative Proteomics of Tissue-Infiltrating T Cells From CRC Patients Identified Lipocalin-2 Induces T-Cell Apoptosis and Promotes Tumor Cell Proliferation by Iron Efflux. Mol Cell Proteomics 2024; 23:100691. [PMID: 38072118 PMCID: PMC10792491 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/02/2024] Open
Abstract
T cells play the most pivotal roles in antitumor immunity; the T-cell proteome and the differentially expressed proteins in the tumor immune microenvironment have rarely been identified directly from the clinical samples, especially for tumors that lack effective immunotherapy targets, such as colorectal cancer (CRC). In this study, we analyzed the protein expression pattern of the infiltrating T cells isolated from CRC patients using quantitative proteomics. CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were isolated from clinical samples and labeled by tandem mass tag reagents, and the differentially expressed proteins were quantified by mass spectrometry. The T-cell proteome profiling revealed dysfunctions in these tumor-infiltrating T cells. Specifically, antitumor immunity was suppressed because of differentially expressed metal ion transporters and immunity regulators. For the first time, lipocalin-2 (LCN2) was shown to be significantly upregulated in CD4+ T cells. Quantitative proteomic analysis of LCN2-overexpressed Jurkat cells showed that LCN2 damaged T cells by changes in iron transport. LCN2 induced T-cell apoptosis by reducing cellular iron concentration; moreover, the iron that was transported to the tumor microenvironment aided tumor cell proliferation, promoting tumor development. Meanwhile, LCN2 also influenced tumor progression through immune cytokines and cholesterol metabolism. Our results demonstrated that LCN2 has immunosuppressive functions that can promote tumor development; therefore, it is a potential immunotherapy target for CRC.
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- Rui Che
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- General Surgery Department, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- General Surgery Department, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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Akrida I, Mulita F, Plachouri KM, Benetatos N, Maroulis I, Papadaki H. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in metaplastic breast cancer and phyllodes breast tumors. Med Oncol 2023; 41:20. [PMID: 38104042 DOI: 10.1007/s12032-023-02259-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a transdifferentiation program whereby epithelial cells acquire mesenchymal phenotype, is essential during embryonic development. EMT has also been implicated in cancer progression by conferring migratory and metastatic potential, as well as cell plasticity and stem cell like traits, to cancer cells. Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a rare aggressive type of breast cancer characterized by the presence of heterologous elements, typically by the existence of epithelial and mesenchymal components. Phyllodes tumors (PTs) are uncommon fibroepithelial neoplasms consisting of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. Although various hypotheses have been proposed on the pathogenesis of these biphasic tumors, there is growing evidence supporting the theory that PTs and MBC could both correlate with cancer related EMT. This review summarizes the existing literature on the emerging role of EMT in the pathogenesis of MBC and PTs. Both malignant PTs and MBC are characterized by poor prognosis. Therefore, several anti-EMT targeting strategies such as blocking upstream signaling pathways, targeting the molecular drivers of EMT and targeting mesenchymal cells and the extracellular matrix, could potentially represent a promising therapeutic approach for patients suffering from these aggressive neoplasms.
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- Ioanna Akrida
- Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece.
- Department of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, University of Patras Medical School, Rion, Greece.
- Department of Surgery, Department of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504, Rion, Greece.
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- Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece
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- Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece
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- Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Patras, Rion, Greece
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- Department of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, University of Patras Medical School, Rion, Greece
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Li N, Yan Y, Wu B, Wang J, Yang F. Proteomics protocol for obtaining extracellular vesicle from human plasma using asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation technology. STAR Protoc 2023; 4:102515. [PMID: 37742179 PMCID: PMC10520938 DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2023.102515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
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Plasma extracellular vesicles (EVs) represent a potential resource for biomarkers of multiple diseases. Here, we present a protocol for obtaining EVs from human plasma using asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation technology. We describe steps for using tandem mass tags to perform comparative proteomic studies of a large clinical cohort. We then detail targeted quantitative analysis of differential proteins based on a parallel reaction monitoring technique. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Wu et al. (2020)1 and Li et al. (2023).2.
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- Na Li
- Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals & Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals & Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals & Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals & Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Protein and Peptide Pharmaceuticals & Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Tang VT, Abbineni PS, Veiga Leprevost FD, Basrur V, Khoriaty R, Emmer BT, Nesvizhskii AI, Ginsburg D. Identification of LMAN1- and SURF4-Dependent Secretory Cargoes. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:3439-3446. [PMID: 37844105 PMCID: PMC10629478 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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Most proteins secreted into the extracellular space are first recruited from the endoplasmic reticulum into coat protein complex II (COPII)-coated vesicles or tubules that facilitate their transport to the Golgi apparatus. Although several secreted proteins have been shown to be actively recruited into COPII vesicles and tubules by the cargo receptors LMAN1 and SURF4, the full cargo repertoire of these receptors is unknown. We now report mass spectrometry analysis of conditioned media and cell lysates from HuH7 cells CRISPR targeted to inactivate the LMAN1 or SURF4 gene. We found that LMAN1 has limited clients in HuH7 cells, whereas SURF4 traffics a broad range of cargoes. Analysis of putative SURF4 cargoes suggests that cargo recognition is governed by complex mechanisms rather than interaction with a universal binding motif..
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- Vi T. Tang
- Department
of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life
Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois 60153, United States
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- Department
of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Cell and Developmental Biology, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department
of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Life
Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department
of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Frederick MI, Hovey OFJ, Kakadia JH, Shepherd TG, Li SSC, Heinemann IU. Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Reprogramming in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Metastasis. Mol Cell Proteomics 2023; 22:100660. [PMID: 37820923 PMCID: PMC10652129 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 09/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
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Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a high-risk cancer presenting with heterogeneous tumors. The high incidence of EOC metastasis from primary tumors to nearby tissues and organs is a major driver of EOC lethality. We used cellular models of spheroid formation and readherence to investigate cellular signaling dynamics in each step toward EOC metastasis. In our system, adherent cells model primary tumors, spheroid formation represents the initiation of metastatic spread, and readherent spheroid cells represent secondary tumors. Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses show that spheroid cells are hypoxic and show markers for cell cycle arrest. Aurora kinase B abundance and downstream substrate phosphorylation are significantly reduced in spheroids and readherent cells, explaining their cell cycle arrest phenotype. The proteome of readherent cells is most similar to spheroids, yet greater changes in the phosphoproteome show that spheroid cells stimulate Rho-associated kinase 1 (ROCK1)-mediated signaling, which controls cytoskeletal organization. In spheroids, we found significant phosphorylation of ROCK1 substrates that were reduced in both adherent and readherent cells. Application of the ROCK1-specific inhibitor Y-27632 to spheroids increased the rate of readherence and altered spheroid density. The data suggest ROCK1 inhibition increases EOC metastatic potential. We identified novel pathways controlled by Aurora kinase B and ROCK1 as major drivers of metastatic behavior in EOC cells. Our data show that phosphoproteomic reprogramming precedes proteomic changes that characterize spheroid readherence in EOC metastasis.
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- Mallory I Frederick
- Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Augimeri G, Gonzalez ME, Paolì A, Eido A, Choi Y, Burman B, Djomehri S, Karthikeyan SK, Varambally S, Buschhaus JM, Chen YC, Mauro L, Bonofiglio D, Nesvizhskii AI, Luker GD, Andò S, Yoon E, Kleer CG. A hybrid breast cancer/mesenchymal stem cell population enhances chemoresistance and metastasis. JCI Insight 2023; 8:e164216. [PMID: 37607007 PMCID: PMC10561721 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.164216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Patients with triple-negative breast cancer remain at risk for metastatic disease despite treatment. The acquisition of chemoresistance is a major cause of tumor relapse and death, but the mechanisms are far from understood. We have demonstrated that breast cancer cells (BCCs) can engulf mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs), leading to enhanced dissemination. Here, we show that clinical samples of primary invasive carcinoma and chemoresistant breast cancer metastasis contain a unique hybrid cancer cell population coexpressing pancytokeratin and the MSC marker fibroblast activation protein-α. We show that hybrid cells form in primary tumors and that they promote breast cancer metastasis and chemoresistance. Using single-cell microfluidics and in vivo models, we found that there are polyploid senescent cells within the hybrid cell population that contribute to metastatic dissemination. Our data reveal that Wnt Family Member 5A (WNT5A) plays a crucial role in supporting the chemoresistance properties of hybrid cells. Furthermore, we identified that WNT5A mediates hybrid cell formation through a phagocytosis-like mechanism that requires BCC-derived IL-6 and MSC-derived C-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 2. These findings reveal hybrid cell formation as a mechanism of chemoresistance and suggest that interrupting this mechanism may be a strategy in overcoming breast cancer drug resistance.
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- Giuseppina Augimeri
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center and
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center and
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- Center for Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center and
- Center for Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
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- Rogel Cancer Center and
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center and
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Liao Y, Savage SR, Dou Y, Shi Z, Yi X, Jiang W, Lei JT, Zhang B. A proteogenomics data-driven knowledge base of human cancer. Cell Syst 2023; 14:777-787.e5. [PMID: 37619559 PMCID: PMC10530292 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2023.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 05/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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By combining mass-spectrometry-based proteomics and phosphoproteomics with genomics, epi-genomics, and transcriptomics, proteogenomics provides comprehensive molecular characterization of cancer. Using this approach, the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) has characterized over 1,000 primary tumors spanning 10 cancer types, many with matched normal tissues. Here, we present LinkedOmicsKB, a proteogenomics data-driven knowledge base that makes consistently processed and systematically precomputed CPTAC pan-cancer proteogenomics data available to the public through ∼40,000 gene-, protein-, mutation-, and phenotype-centric web pages. Visualization techniques facilitate efficient exploration and reasoning of complex, interconnected data. Using three case studies, we illustrate the practical utility of LinkedOmicsKB in providing new insights into genes, phosphorylation sites, somatic mutations, and cancer phenotypes. With precomputed results of 19,701 coding genes, 125,969 phosphosites, and 256 genotypes and phenotypes, LinkedOmicsKB provides a comprehensive resource to accelerate proteogenomics data-driven discoveries to improve our understanding and treatment of human cancer. A record of this paper's transparent peer review process is included in the supplemental information.
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- Yuxing Liao
- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Kumar B, Khatpe AS, Guanglong J, Batic K, Bhat-Nakshatri P, Granatir MM, Addison RJ, Szymanski M, Baldridge LA, Temm CJ, Sandusky G, Althouse SK, Cote ML, Miller KD, Storniolo AM, Nakshatri H. Stromal heterogeneity may explain increased incidence of metaplastic breast cancer in women of African descent. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5683. [PMID: 37709737 PMCID: PMC10502140 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41473-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
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The biologic basis of genetic ancestry-dependent variability in disease incidence and outcome is just beginning to be explored. We recently reported enrichment of a population of ZEB1-expressing cells located adjacent to ductal epithelial cells in normal breasts of women of African ancestry compared to those of European ancestry. In this study, we demonstrate that these cells have properties of fibroadipogenic/mesenchymal stromal cells that express PROCR and PDGFRα and transdifferentiate into adipogenic and osteogenic lineages. PROCR + /ZEB1 + /PDGFRα+ (PZP) cells are enriched in normal breast tissues of women of African compared to European ancestry. PZP: epithelial cell communication results in luminal epithelial cells acquiring basal cell characteristics and IL-6-dependent increase in STAT3 phosphorylation. Furthermore, level of phospho-STAT3 is higher in normal and cancerous breast tissues of women of African ancestry. PZP cells transformed with HRasG12V ± SV40-T/t antigens generate metaplastic carcinoma suggesting that these cells are one of the cells-of-origin of metaplastic breast cancers.
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- Brijesh Kumar
- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, UP, 221005, India
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
- VA Roudebush Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
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Liang WW, Lu RJH, Jayasinghe RG, Foltz SM, Porta-Pardo E, Geffen Y, Wendl MC, Lazcano R, Kolodziejczak I, Song Y, Govindan A, Demicco EG, Li X, Li Y, Sethuraman S, Payne SH, Fenyö D, Rodriguez H, Wiznerowicz M, Shen H, Mani DR, Rodland KD, Lazar AJ, Robles AI, Ding L. Integrative multi-omic cancer profiling reveals DNA methylation patterns associated with therapeutic vulnerability and cell-of-origin. Cancer Cell 2023; 41:1567-1585.e7. [PMID: 37582362 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2023.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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DNA methylation plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining cellular identity. However, it is frequently dysregulated during tumor development and is closely intertwined with other genetic alterations. Here, we leveraged multi-omic profiling of 687 tumors and matched non-involved adjacent tissues from the kidney, brain, pancreas, lung, head and neck, and endometrium to identify aberrant methylation associated with RNA and protein abundance changes and build a Pan-Cancer catalog. We uncovered lineage-specific epigenetic drivers including hypomethylated FGFR2 in endometrial cancer. We showed that hypermethylated STAT5A is associated with pervasive regulon downregulation and immune cell depletion, suggesting that epigenetic regulation of STAT5A expression constitutes a molecular switch for immunosuppression in squamous tumors. We further demonstrated that methylation subtype-enrichment information can explain cell-of-origin, intra-tumor heterogeneity, and tumor phenotypes. Overall, we identified cis-acting DNA methylation events that drive transcriptional and translational changes, shedding light on the tumor's epigenetic landscape and the role of its cell-of-origin.
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- Wen-Wei Liang
- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC), 08916 Badalona, Spain; Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), 08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA; Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- International Institute for Molecular Oncology, 60-203 Poznań, Poland; Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- International Institute for Molecular Oncology, 60-203 Poznań, Poland; Heliodor Swiecicki Clinical Hospital in Poznań, Ul. Przybyszewskiego 49, 60-355 Poznań, Poland; Poznań University of Medical Sciences, 61-701 Poznań, Poland
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- Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA; Department of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97221, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 631110, USA; McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
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Huang T, Staniak M, da Veiga Leprevost F, Figueroa-Navedo AM, Ivanov AR, Nesvizhskii AI, Choi M, Vitek O. Statistical Detection of Differentially Abundant Proteins in Experiments with Repeated Measures Designs and Isobaric Labeling. J Proteome Res 2023; 22:2641-2659. [PMID: 37467362 PMCID: PMC11090052 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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Repeated measures experimental designs, which quantify proteins in biological subjects repeatedly over multiple experimental conditions or times, are commonly used in mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Such designs distinguish the biological variation within and between the subjects and increase the statistical power of detecting within-subject changes in protein abundance. Meanwhile, proteomics experiments increasingly incorporate tandem mass tag (TMT) labeling, a multiplexing strategy that gains both relative protein quantification accuracy and sample throughput. However, combining repeated measures and TMT multiplexing in a large-scale investigation presents statistical challenges due to unique interplays of between-mixture, within-mixture, between-subject, and within-subject variation. This manuscript proposes a family of linear mixed-effects models for differential analysis of proteomics experiments with repeated measures and TMT multiplexing. These models decompose the variation in the data into the contributions from its sources as appropriate for the specifics of each experiment, enable statistical inference of differential protein abundance, and recognize a difference in the uncertainty of between-subject versus within-subject comparisons. The proposed family of models is implemented in the R/Bioconductor package MSstatsTMT v2.2.0. Evaluations of four simulated datasets and four investigations answering diverse biological questions demonstrated the value of this approach as compared to the existing general-purpose approaches and implementations.
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- Ting Huang
- Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Barnett Institute of Biological and Chemical Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Barnett Institute of Biological and Chemical Analysis, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Microchemistry, Proteomics & Lipidomics, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Chowdhury S, Kennedy JJ, Ivey RG, Murillo OD, Hosseini N, Song X, Petralia F, Calinawan A, Savage SR, Berry AB, Reva B, Ozbek U, Krek A, Ma W, da Veiga Leprevost F, Ji J, Yoo S, Lin C, Voytovich UJ, Huang Y, Lee SH, Bergan L, Lorentzen TD, Mesri M, Rodriguez H, Hoofnagle AN, Herbert ZT, Nesvizhskii AI, Zhang B, Whiteaker JR, Fenyo D, McKerrow W, Wang J, Schürer SC, Stathias V, Chen XS, Barcellos-Hoff MH, Starr TK, Winterhoff BJ, Nelson AC, Mok SC, Kaufmann SH, Drescher C, Cieslik M, Wang P, Birrer MJ, Paulovich AG. Proteogenomic analysis of chemo-refractory high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Cell 2023; 186:3476-3498.e35. [PMID: 37541199 PMCID: PMC10414761 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/06/2023]
Abstract
To improve the understanding of chemo-refractory high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs), we characterized the proteogenomic landscape of 242 (refractory and sensitive) HGSOCs, representing one discovery and two validation cohorts across two biospecimen types (formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded and frozen). We identified a 64-protein signature that predicts with high specificity a subset of HGSOCs refractory to initial platinum-based therapy and is validated in two independent patient cohorts. We detected significant association between lack of Ch17 loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and chemo-refractoriness. Based on pathway protein expression, we identified 5 clusters of HGSOC, which validated across two independent patient cohorts and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models. These clusters may represent different mechanisms of refractoriness and implicate putative therapeutic vulnerabilities.
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- Shrabanti Chowdhury
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Tisch Cancer Institute, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Institute for Health Care Delivery Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Departments of Oncology and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Molecular Biology Core Facilities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, and Institute for Data Science & Computing, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, and Institute for Data Science & Computing, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Departments of Oncology and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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- Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
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- Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
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Zhang H, Li J, Yu Y, Ren J, Liu Q, Bao Z, Sun S, Liu X, Ma S, Liu Z, Yan K, Wu Z, Fan Y, Sun X, Zhang Y, Ji Q, Cheng F, Wei PH, Ma X, Zhang S, Xie Z, Niu Y, Wang YJ, Han JDJ, Jiang T, Zhao G, Ji W, Izpisua Belmonte JC, Wang S, Qu J, Zhang W, Liu GH. Nuclear lamina erosion-induced resurrection of endogenous retroviruses underlies neuronal aging. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112593. [PMID: 37261950 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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The primate frontal lobe (FL) is sensitive to aging-related neurocognitive decline. However, the aging-associated molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Here, using physiologically aged non-human primates (NHPs), we depicted a comprehensive landscape of FL aging with multidimensional profiling encompassing bulk and single-nucleus transcriptomes, quantitative proteome, and DNA methylome. Conjoint analysis across these molecular and neuropathological layers underscores nuclear lamina and heterochromatin erosion, resurrection of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), activated pro-inflammatory cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) signaling, and cellular senescence in post-mitotic neurons of aged NHP and human FL. Using human embryonic stem-cell-derived neurons recapitulating cellular aging in vitro, we verified the loss of B-type lamins inducing resurrection of ERVs as an initiating event of the aging-bound cascade in post-mitotic neurons. Of significance, these aging-related cellular and molecular changes can be alleviated by abacavir, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, either through direct treatment of senescent human neurons in vitro or oral administration to aged mice.
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- Hui Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproductive Technology and Key Laboratory of Assisted Reproduction, Ministry of Education, Center of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China; Clinical Stem Cell Research Center, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China; Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas Network & Asian Glioma Genome Atlas Network, Beijing 100070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Beijing 100053, China; MAIS, State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- MAIS, State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Peking University International Cancer Institute, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research, Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China
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- Department of Neurology, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China; State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn and Combined Injury, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China
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- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing 100070, China; Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China; Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas Network & Asian Glioma Genome Atlas Network, Beijing 100070, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; Clinical Research Center for Epilepsy Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Beijing 100053, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research, Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China
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- Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; Aging Translational Medicine Center, International Center for Aging and Cancer, Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; The Fifth People's Hospital of Chongqing, Chongqing 400062, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, CAS, Beijing 100101, China; Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China; Aging Translational Medicine Center, International Center for Aging and Cancer, Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China.
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Papatheodoridi A, Papamattheou E, Marinopoulos S, Ntanasis-Stathopoulos I, Dimitrakakis C, Giannos A, Kaparelou M, Liontos M, Dimopoulos MA, Zagouri F. Metaplastic Carcinoma of the Breast: Case Series of a Single Institute and Review of the Literature. Med Sci (Basel) 2023; 11:medsci11020035. [PMID: 37218987 DOI: 10.3390/medsci11020035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast (MpBC) is a very rare and aggressive type of breast cancer. Data focusing on MpBC are limited. The aim of this study was to describe the clinicopathological features of MpBC and evaluate the prognosis of patients with MpBC. Eligible articles about MpBC were identified by searching CASES SERIES gov and the MEDLINE bibliographic database for the period of 1 January 2010 to 1 June 2021 with the keywords metaplastic breast cancer, mammary gland cancer, neoplasm, tumor, and metaplastic carcinoma. In this study, we also report 46 cases of MpBC stemming from our hospital. Survival rates, clinical behavior, and pathological characteristics were analyzed. Data from 205 patients were included for analysis. The mean age at diagnosis was 55 (14.7) years. The TNM stage at diagnosis was mostly stage II (58.5%) and most tumors were triple negative. The median overall survival was 66 (12-118) months, and the median disease-free survival was 56.8 (11-102) months. Multivariate Cox regression analysis revealed that surgical treatment was associated with decreased risk of death (hazard ratio 0.11, 95% confidence interval 0.02-0.54, p = 0.01) while advanced TNM stage was associated with increased risk of death (hazard ratio 1.5, 95% confidence interval 1.04-2.28, p = 0.03). Our results revealed that surgical treatment and TNM stage were the only independent risk factors related to patients' overall survival.
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- Alkistis Papatheodoridi
- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- Department of Physiology, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
- 1st Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- 1st Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, "Alexandra" Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Alexandra" General Hospital of Athens, 115 28 Athens, Greece
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Yeger H. CCN proteins: opportunities for clinical studies-a personal perspective. J Cell Commun Signal 2023:10.1007/s12079-023-00761-y. [PMID: 37195381 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-023-00761-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023] Open
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The diverse members of the CCN family now designated as CCN1(CYR61), CCN2 (CTGF), CCN3(NOV), CCN4(WISP1), CCN5(WISP2), CCN6(WISP3) are a conserved matricellular family of proteins exhibiting a spectrum of functional properties throughout all organs in the body. Interaction with cell membrane receptors such as integrins trigger intracellular signaling pathways. Proteolytically cleaved fragments (constituting the active domains) can be transported to the nucleus and perform transcriptional relevant functional activities. Notably, as also found in other protein families some members act opposite to others creating a system of functionally relevant checks and balances. It has become apparent that these proteins are secreted into the circulation, are quantifiable, and can serve as disease biomarkers. How they might also serve as homeostatic regulators is just becoming appreciated. In this review I have attempted to highlight the most recent evidence under the subcategories of cancer and non-cancer relevant that could lead to potential therapeutic approaches or ideas that can be factored into clinical advances. I have added my own personal perspective on feasibility.
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- Herman Yeger
- Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Research Institute, SickKids, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Tang VT, Abbineni PS, Leprevost FDV, Basrur V, Emmer BT, Nesvizhskii AI, Ginsburg D. Identification of LMAN1 and SURF4 dependent secretory cargoes. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.06.535922. [PMID: 37066360 PMCID: PMC10104123 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.06.535922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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Most proteins secreted into the extracellular space are first recruited from the endoplasmic reticulum into coat protein complex II (COPII)-coated vesicles or tubules that facilitate their transport to the Golgi apparatus. Although several secreted proteins have been shown to be actively recruited into COPII vesicles/tubules by the cargo receptors LMAN1 and SURF4, the full cargo repertoire of these receptors is unknown. We now report mass spectrometry analysis of conditioned media and cell lysates from HuH7 cells CRISPR targeted to inactivate the LMAN1 or SURF4 gene. We found that LMAN1 has limited clients in HuH7 cells whereas SURF4 traffics a broad range of cargoes. Analysis of putative SURF4 cargoes suggests that cargo recognition is governed by complex mechanisms rather than interaction with a universal binding motif.
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- Vi T. Tang
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Thomas HR, Hu B, Boyraz B, Johnson A, Bossuyt VI, Spring L, Jimenez RB. Metaplastic breast cancer: A review. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2023; 182:103924. [PMID: 36696934 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2023.103924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Metaplastic breast cancer (MpBC) is an uncommon aggressive malignancy that is associated with a poor prognosis. Due to its rarity, the relationships between the clinical and pathological features of MpBC, treatment approach, and clinical outcomes remain underexplored. In the following review article, we synthesize the existing data on the clinical, pathological and genomic features, management, and outcomes of MpBC. We also identify potential targets for future clinical trials.
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- Horatio R Thomas
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, United States.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
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Park J, Yu F, Fulcher JM, Williams SM, Engbrecht K, Moore RJ, Clair GC, Petyuk V, Nesvizhskii AI, Zhu Y. Evaluating Linear Ion Trap for MS3-Based Multiplexed Single-Cell Proteomics. Anal Chem 2023; 95:1888-1898. [PMID: 36637389 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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There is a growing demand to develop high-throughput and high-sensitivity mass spectrometry methods for single-cell proteomics. The commonly used isobaric labeling-based multiplexed single-cell proteomics approach suffers from distorted protein quantification due to co-isolated interfering ions during MS/MS fragmentation, also known as ratio compression. We reasoned that the use of MS3-based quantification could mitigate ratio compression and provide better quantification. However, previous studies indicated reduced proteome coverages in the MS3 method, likely due to long duty cycle time and ion losses during multilevel ion selection and fragmentation. Herein, we described an improved MS acquisition method for MS3-based single-cell proteomics by employing a linear ion trap to measure reporter ions. We demonstrated that linear ion trap can increase the proteome coverages for single-cell-level peptides with even higher gain obtained via the MS3 method. The optimized real-time search MS3 method was further applied to study the immune activation of single macrophages. Among a total of 126 single cells studied, over 1200 and 1000 proteins were quantifiable when at least 50 and 75% nonmissing data were required, respectively. Our evaluation also revealed several limitations of the low-resolution ion trap detector for multiplexed single-cell proteomics and suggested experimental solutions to minimize their impacts on single-cell analysis.
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- Junho Park
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, CHA University, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Seongnam 13488, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Nuclear, Chemistry, and Biology Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382, United States
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382, United States
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Transcriptomic alterations underlying metaplasia into specific metaplastic components in metaplastic breast carcinoma. Breast Cancer Res 2023; 25:11. [PMID: 36707876 PMCID: PMC9883935 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-023-01608-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MpBC) typically consists of carcinoma of no special type (NST) with various metaplastic components. Although previous transcriptomic and proteomic studies have reported subtype-related heterogeneity, the intracase transcriptomic alterations between metaplastic components and paired NST components, which are critical for understanding the pathogenesis underlying the metaplastic processes, remain unclear. METHODS Fifty-nine NST components and paired metaplastic components (spindle carcinomatous [SPS], matrix-producing, rhabdoid [RHA], and squamous carcinomatous [SQC] components) were microdissected from specimens obtained from 27 patients with MpBC for gene expression profiling using the NanoString Breast Cancer 360 Panel on a NanoString nCounter FLEX platform. BC360-defined signatures were scored using nSolver software. RESULTS Hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis revealed a heterogeneous gene expression profile (GEP) corresponding to the NST components, but the GEP of metaplastic components exhibited subtype dependence. Compared with the paired NST components, the SPS components demonstrated the upregulation of genes related to stem cells and epithelial-mesenchymal transition and displayed enrichment in claudin-low and macrophage signatures. Despite certain overlaps in the enriched functions and signatures between the RHA and SPS components, the specific differentially expressed genes differed. We observed the RHA-specific upregulation of genes associated with vascular endothelial growth factor signaling. The chondroid matrix-producing components demonstrated the upregulation of hypoxia-related genes and the downregulation of the immune-related MHC2 signature and the TIGIT gene. In the SQC components, TGF-β and genes associated with cell adhesion were upregulated. The differentially expressed genes among metaplastic components in the 22 MpBC cases with one or predominantly one metaplastic component clustered paired NST samples into clusters with correlation with their associated metaplastic types. These genes could be used to separate the 31 metaplastic components according to respective metaplastic types with an accuracy of 74.2%, suggesting that intrinsic signatures of NST may determine paired metaplastic type. Finally, the EMT activity and stem cell traits in the NST components were correlated with specimens displaying lymph node metastasis. CONCLUSIONS We presented the distinct transcriptomic alterations underlying metaplasia into specific metaplastic components in MpBCs, which contributes to the understanding of the pathogenesis underlying morphologically distinct metaplasia in MpBCs.
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Identifying Associations between DCE-MRI Radiomic Features and Expression Heterogeneity of Hallmark Pathways in Breast Cancer: A Multi-Center Radiogenomic Study. Genes (Basel) 2022; 14:genes14010028. [PMID: 36672769 PMCID: PMC9858814 DOI: 10.3390/genes14010028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To investigate the relationship between dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) radiomic features and the expression activity of hallmark pathways and to develop prediction models of pathway-level heterogeneity for breast cancer (BC) patients. METHODS Two radiogenomic cohorts were analyzed (n = 246). Tumor regions were segmented semiautomatically, and 174 imaging features were extracted. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and gene set variation analysis (GSVA) were performed to identify significant imaging-pathway associations. Random forest regression was used to predict pathway enrichment scores. Five-fold cross-validation and grid search were used to determine the optimal preprocessing operation and hyperparameters. RESULTS We identified 43 pathways, and 101 radiomic features were significantly related in the discovery cohort (p-value < 0.05). The imaging features of the tumor shape and mid-to-late post-contrast stages showed more transcriptional connections. Ten pathways relevant to functions such as cell cycle showed a high correlation with imaging in both cohorts. The prediction model for the mTORC1 signaling pathway achieved the best performance with the mean absolute errors (MAEs) of 27.29 and 28.61% in internal and external test sets, respectively. CONCLUSIONS The DCE-MRI features were associated with hallmark activities and may improve individualized medicine for BC by noninvasively predicting pathway-level heterogeneity.
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He T, Liu Y, Zhou Y, Li L, Wang H, Chen S, Gao J, Jiang W, Yu Y, Ge W, Chang HY, Fan Z, Nesvizhskii AI, Guo T, Sun Y. Comparative Evaluation of Proteome Discoverer and FragPipe for the TMT-Based Proteome Quantification. J Proteome Res 2022; 21:3007-3015. [PMID: 36315902 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Isobaric labeling-based proteomics is widely applied in deep proteome quantification. Among the platforms for isobaric labeled proteomic data analysis, the commercial software Proteome Discoverer (PD) is widely used, incorporating the search engine CHIMERYS, while FragPipe (FP) is relatively new, free for noncommercial purposes, and integrates the engine MSFragger. Here, we compared PD and FP over three public proteomic data sets labeled using 6plex, 10plex, and 16plex tandem mass tags. Our results showed the protein abundances generated by the two software are highly correlated. PD quantified more proteins (10.02%, 15.44%, 8.19%) than FP with comparable NA ratios (0.00% vs. 0.00%, 0.85% vs. 0.38%, and 11.74% vs. 10.52%) in the three data sets. Using the 16plex data set, PD and FP outputs showed high consistency in quantifying technical replicates, batch effects, and functional enrichment in differentially expressed proteins. However, FP saved 93.93%, 96.65%, and 96.41% of processing time compared to PD for analyzing the three data sets, respectively. In conclusion, while PD is a well-maintained commercial software integrating various additional functions and can quantify more proteins, FP is freely available and achieves similar output with a shorter computational time. Our results will guide users in choosing the most suitable quantification software for their needs.
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- Tianen He
- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China.,School of Life Sciences, Peking University, No.5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, China
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- Westlake Omics (Hangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., No.1 Yunmeng Road, Hangzhou 310024, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Omics (Hangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., No.1 Yunmeng Road, Hangzhou 310024, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Omics (Hangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., No.1 Yunmeng Road, Hangzhou 310024, China
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- Westlake Omics (Hangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd., No.1 Yunmeng Road, Hangzhou 310024, China
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- Department of Pathology; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.,Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City 320317, Taiwan
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- Thermo Fisher Scientific, No.2517 Jinke Road, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Department of Pathology; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, No.18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, China.,Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, No.600 Dunyu Road, Hangzhou 310030, China
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Robusti G, Vai A, Bonaldi T, Noberini R. Investigating pathological epigenetic aberrations by epi-proteomics. Clin Epigenetics 2022; 14:145. [PMID: 36371348 PMCID: PMC9652867 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-022-01371-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Epigenetics includes a complex set of processes that alter gene activity without modifying the DNA sequence, which ultimately determines how the genetic information common to all the cells of an organism is used to generate different cell types. Dysregulation in the deposition and maintenance of epigenetic features, which include histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and histone variants, can result in the inappropriate expression or silencing of genes, often leading to diseased states, including cancer. The investigation of histone PTMs and variants in the context of clinical samples has highlighted their importance as biomarkers for patient stratification and as key players in aberrant epigenetic mechanisms potentially targetable for therapy. Mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as the most powerful and versatile tool for the comprehensive, unbiased and quantitative analysis of histone proteoforms. In recent years, these approaches-which we refer to as "epi-proteomics"-have demonstrated their usefulness for the investigation of epigenetic mechanisms in pathological conditions, offering a number of advantages compared with the antibody-based methods traditionally used to profile clinical samples. In this review article, we will provide a critical overview of the MS-based approaches that can be employed to study histone PTMs and variants in clinical samples, with a strong focus on the latest advances in this area, such as the analysis of uncommon modifications and the integration of epi-proteomics data into multi-OMICs approaches, as well as the challenges to be addressed to fully exploit the potential of this novel field of research.
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- Giulia Robusti
- grid.15667.330000 0004 1757 0843Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- grid.15667.330000 0004 1757 0843Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- grid.15667.330000 0004 1757 0843Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20139 Milan, Italy ,grid.4708.b0000 0004 1757 2822Department of Oncology and Hematology-Oncology, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- grid.15667.330000 0004 1757 0843Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20139 Milan, Italy
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Topham JT, Tsang ES, Karasinska JM, Metcalfe A, Ali H, Kalloger SE, Csizmok V, Williamson LM, Titmuss E, Nielsen K, Negri GL, Spencer Miko SE, Jang GH, Denroche RE, Wong HL, O'Kane GM, Moore RA, Mungall AJ, Loree JM, Notta F, Wilson JM, Bathe OF, Tang PA, Goodwin R, Morin GB, Knox JJ, Gallinger S, Laskin J, Marra MA, Jones SJM, Schaeffer DF, Renouf DJ. Integrative analysis of KRAS wildtype metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveals mutation and expression-based similarities to cholangiocarcinoma. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5941. [PMID: 36209277 PMCID: PMC9547977 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33718-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Oncogenic KRAS mutations are absent in approximately 10% of patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC) and may represent a subgroup of mPDAC with therapeutic options beyond standard-of-care cytotoxic chemotherapy. While distinct gene fusions have been implicated in KRAS wildtype mPDAC, information regarding other types of mutations remain limited, and gene expression patterns associated with KRAS wildtype mPDAC have not been reported. Here, we leverage sequencing data from the PanGen trial to perform comprehensive characterization of the molecular landscape of KRAS wildtype mPDAC and reveal increased frequency of chr1q amplification encompassing transcription factors PROX1 and NR5A2. By leveraging data from colorectal adenocarcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma samples, we highlight similarities between cholangiocarcinoma and KRAS wildtype mPDAC involving both mutation and expression-based signatures and validate these findings using an independent dataset. These data further establish KRAS wildtype mPDAC as a unique molecular entity, with therapeutic opportunities extending beyond gene fusion events. KRAS wildtype metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC) could represent a distinct molecular entity from other PDACs. Here, the authors analyse KRAS wildtype mPDAC tumours using genomics and transcriptomics and find molecular similarities with cholangiocarcinomas.
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- Division of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Surgery and Oncology, Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Departments of Surgery and Oncology, Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.,University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Division of Anatomic Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pancreas Centre BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada. .,Division of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada. .,Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Farheen J, Hosmane NS, Zhao R, Zhao Q, Iqbal MZ, Kong X. Nanomaterial-assisted CRISPR gene-engineering - A hallmark for triple-negative breast cancer therapeutics advancement. Mater Today Bio 2022; 16:100450. [PMID: 36267139 PMCID: PMC9576993 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2022.100450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most violent class of tumor and accounts for 20–24% of total breast carcinoma, in which frequently rare mutation occurs in high frequency. The poor prognosis, recurrence, and metastasis in the brain, heart, liver and lungs decline the lifespan of patients by about 21 months, emphasizing the need for advanced treatment. Recently, the adaptive immunity mechanism of archaea and bacteria, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) combined with nanotechnology, has been utilized as a potent gene manipulating tool with an extensive clinical application in cancer genomics due to its easeful usage and cost-effectiveness. However, CRISPR/Cas are arguably the efficient technology that can be made efficient via organic material-assisted approaches. Despite the efficacy of the CRISPR/Cas@nano complex, problems regarding successful delivery, biodegradability, and toxicity remain to render its medical implications. Therefore, this review is different in focus from past reviews by (i) detailing all possible genetic mechanisms of TNBC occurrence; (ii) available treatments and gene therapies for TNBC; (iii) overview of the delivery system and utilization of CRISPR-nano complex in TNBC, and (iv) recent advances and related toxicity of CRISPR-nano complex towards clinical trials for TNBC.
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- Jabeen Farheen
- Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Zhejiang-Mauritius Joint Research Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA
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- Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Zhejiang-Mauritius Joint Research Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Research Center for Clinical Pharmacy & Key Laboratory for Drug Evaluation and Clinical Research of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310003, PR China
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- Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Zhejiang-Mauritius Joint Research Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Corresponding author. Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China.
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- Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Zhejiang-Mauritius Joint Research Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China,Corresponding author. Institute of Smart Biomedical Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, PR China
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Salavaty A, Shehni SA, Ramialison M, Currie PD. Systematic molecular profiling of acute leukemia cancer stem cells allows identification of druggable targets. Heliyon 2022; 8:e11093. [PMID: 36281397 PMCID: PMC9586918 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 10/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most prevalent and acute blood cancers with a poor prognosis and low overall survival rate, especially in the elderly. Although several new AML markers and drug targets have been recently identified, the rate of long-term cancer eradication has not improved significantly due to the presence and drug resistance of AML cancer stem cells (CSCs). Here we develop a novel computational pipeline to analyze the transcriptomic profiles of AML cancer (stem) cells and identify novel candidate AML CSC markers and drug targets. In our novel pipeline we apply a top-down meta-analysis strategy to integrate The Cancer Genome Atlas data with CSC datasets to infer cell stemness features. As a result, a set of genes termed the "AML key CSC genes" along with all the available drugs/compounds that could target them were identified. Overall, our novel computational pipeline could retrieve known cancer drugs (Carfilzomib) and predicted novel drugs such as Zonisamide, Amitriptyline, and their targets amongst the top ranked drugs and drug targets for targeting AML. Additionally, the pipeline applied in this study could be used for the identification of CSC-specific markers, drivers and their respective targeting drugs in other cancer types.
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- Adrian Salavaty
- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- Systems Biology Institute Australia, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- Systems Biology Institute Australia, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
- Department of Pediatrics, The Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
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- Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- EMBL Australia, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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Cheng P, Zhao X, Katsnelson L, Camacho-Hernandez EM, Mermerian A, Mays JC, Lippman SM, Rosales-Alvarez RE, Moya R, Shwetar J, Grun D, Fenyo D, Davoli T. Proteogenomic analysis of cancer aneuploidy and normal tissues reveals divergent modes of gene regulation across cellular pathways. eLife 2022; 11:75227. [PMID: 36129397 PMCID: PMC9491860 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
How cells control gene expression is a fundamental question. The relative contribution of protein-level and RNA-level regulation to this process remains unclear. Here, we perform a proteogenomic analysis of tumors and untransformed cells containing somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs). By revealing how cells regulate RNA and protein abundances of genes with SCNAs, we provide insights into the rules of gene regulation. Protein complex genes have a strong protein-level regulation while non-complex genes have a strong RNA-level regulation. Notable exceptions are plasma membrane protein complex genes, which show a weak protein-level regulation and a stronger RNA-level regulation. Strikingly, we find a strong negative association between the degree of RNA-level and protein-level regulation across genes and cellular pathways. Moreover, genes participating in the same pathway show a similar degree of RNA- and protein-level regulation. Pathways including translation, splicing, RNA processing, and mitochondrial function show a stronger protein-level regulation while cell adhesion and migration pathways show a stronger RNA-level regulation. These results suggest that the evolution of gene regulation is shaped by functional constraints and that many cellular pathways tend to evolve one predominant mechanism of gene regulation at the protein level or at the RNA level.
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- Pan Cheng
- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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- Würzburg Institute of Systems Immunology, Max Planck Research Group at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School for Immunobiology, Epigenetics, and Metabolism, Freiburg, Germany.,Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States.,Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Würzburg Institute of Systems Immunology, Max Planck Research Group at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.,Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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- Institute for Systems Genetics and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
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Kong QC, Tang WJ, Chen SY, Hu WK, Hu Y, Liang YS, Zhang QQ, Cheng ZX, Huang D, Yang J, Guo Y. Nomogram for the prediction of triple-negative breast cancer histological heterogeneity based on multiparameter MRI features: A preliminary study including metaplastic carcinoma and non- metaplastic carcinoma. Front Oncol 2022; 12:916988. [PMID: 36212484 PMCID: PMC9533710 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.916988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objectives Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous disease, and different histological subtypes of TNBC have different clinicopathological features and prognoses. Therefore, this study aimed to establish a nomogram model to predict the histological heterogeneity of TNBC: including Metaplastic Carcinoma (MC) and Non-Metaplastic Carcinoma (NMC). Methods We evaluated 117 patients who had pathologically confirmed TNBC between November 2016 and December 2020 and collected preoperative multiparameter MRI and clinicopathological data. The patients were randomly assigned to a training set and a validation set at a ratio of 3:1. Based on logistic regression analysis, we established a nomogram model to predict the histopathological subtype of TNBC. Nomogram performance was assessed with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), calibration curve and decision curve. According to the follow-up information, disease-free survival (DFS) survival curve was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Results Of the 117 TNBC patients, 29 patients had TNBC-MC (age range, 29–65 years; median age, 48.0 years), and 88 had TNBC-NMC (age range, 28–88 years; median age, 44.5 years). Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that lesion type (p = 0.001) and internal enhancement pattern (p = 0.001) were significantly predictive of TNBC subtypes in the training set. The nomogram incorporating these variables showed excellent discrimination power with an AUC of 0.849 (95% CI: 0.750−0.949) in the training set and 0.819 (95% CI: 0.693−0.946) in the validation set. Up to the cutoff date for this analysis, a total of 66 patients were enrolled in the prognostic analysis. Six of 14 TNBC-MC patients experienced recurrence, while 7 of 52 TNBC-NMC patients experienced recurrence. The DFS of the two subtypes was significantly different (p=0.035). Conclusions In conclusion, we developed a nomogram consisting of lesion type and internal enhancement pattern, which showed good discrimination ability in predicting TNBC-MC and TNBC-NMC.
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- Qing-cong Kong
- Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Breast Tumor Center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Pathology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Di Huang, ; Jing Yang, ; Yuan Guo,
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- Department of Pathology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Di Huang, ; Jing Yang, ; Yuan Guo,
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Di Huang, ; Jing Yang, ; Yuan Guo,
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Gonzalez ME, Naimo GD, Anwar T, Paolì A, Tekula SR, Kim S, Medhora N, Leflein SA, Itkin J, Trievel R, Kidwell KM, Chen YC, Mauro L, Yoon E, Andò S, Kleer CG. EZH2 T367 phosphorylation activates p38 signaling through lysine methylation to promote breast cancer progression. iScience 2022; 25:104827. [PMID: 35992062 PMCID: PMC9389258 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are frequently poorly differentiated with high propensity for metastasis. Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is the lysine methyltransferase of polycomb repressive complex 2 that mediates transcriptional repression in normal cells and in cancer through H3K27me3. However, H3K27me3-independent non-canonical functions of EZH2 are incompletely understood. We reported that EZH2 phosphorylation at T367 by p38α induces TNBC metastasis in an H3K27me3-independent manner. Here, we show that cytosolic EZH2 methylates p38α at lysine 139 and 165 leading to enhanced p38α stability and that p38 methylation and activation require T367 phosphorylation of EZH2. Dual inhibition of EZH2 methyltransferase and p38 kinase activities downregulates pEZH2-T367, H3K27me3, and p-p38 pathways in vivo and reduces TNBC growth and metastasis. These data uncover a cooperation between EZH2 canonical and non-canonical mechanisms and suggest that inhibition of these pathways may be a potential therapeutic strategy.
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- Maria E. Gonzalez
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Abbineni PS, Tang VT, da Veiga Leprevost F, Basrur V, Xiang J, Nesvizhskii AI, Ginsburg D. Identification of secreted proteins by comparison of protein abundance in conditioned media and cell lysates. Anal Biochem 2022; 655:114846. [PMID: 35973625 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2022.114846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 07/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
Abstract
Analysis of the full spectrum of secreted proteins in cell culture is complicated by leakage of intracellular proteins from damaged cells. To address this issue, we compared the abundance of individual proteins between the cell lysate and the conditioned medium, reasoning that secreted proteins should be relatively more abundant in the conditioned medium. Marked enrichment for signal-peptide-bearing proteins with increasing conditioned media to cell lysate ratio, as well loss of this signal following brefeldin A treatment, confirmed the sensitivity and specificity of this approach. The subset of proteins demonstrating increased conditioned media to cell lysate ratio in the presence of Brefeldin A identified candidates for unconventional secretion via a pathway independent of ER to Golgi trafficking.
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Chen L, Perera ND, Karoukis AJ, Feathers KL, Ali RR, Thompson DA, Fahim AT. Oxidative stress differentially impacts apical and basolateral secretion of angiogenic factors from human iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium cells. Sci Rep 2022; 12:12694. [PMID: 35882889 PMCID: PMC9325713 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16701-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a polarized monolayer that secretes growth factors and cytokines towards the retina apically and the choroid basolaterally. Numerous RPE secreted proteins have been linked to the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The purpose of this study was to determine the differential apical and basolateral secretome of RPE cells, and the effects of oxidative stress on directional secretion of proteins linked to AMD and angiogenesis. Tandem mass tag spectrometry was used to profile proteins in human iPSC-RPE apical and basolateral conditioned media. Changes in secretion after oxidative stress induced by H2O2 or tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBH) were investigated by ELISA and western analysis. Out of 926 differentially secreted proteins, 890 (96%) were more apical. Oxidative stress altered the secretion of multiple factors implicated in AMD and neovascularization and promoted a pro-angiogenic microenvironment by increasing the secretion of pro-angiogenic molecules (VEGF, PTN, and CRYAB) and decreasing the secretion of anti-angiogenic molecules (PEDF and CFH). Apical secretion was impacted more than basolateral for PEDF, CRYAB and CFH, while basolateral secretion was impacted more for VEGF, which may have implications for choroidal neovascularization. This study lays a foundation for investigations of dysfunctional RPE polarized protein secretion in AMD and other chorioretinal degenerative disorders.
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- Lisheng Chen
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
- KCL Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, London, WC2R 2LS, England, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105, USA.
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Lyu Z, Sycks MM, Espinoza MF, Nguyen KK, Montoya MR, Galapate CM, Mei L, Genereux JC. Monitoring Protein Import into the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Living Cells with Proximity Labeling. ACS Chem Biol 2022; 17:1963-1977. [PMID: 35675579 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
The proper trafficking of eukaryotic proteins is essential to cellular function. Genetic, environmental, and other stresses can induce protein mistargeting and, in turn, threaten cellular protein homeostasis. Current methods for measuring protein mistargeting are difficult to translate to living cells, and thus the role of cellular signaling networks in stress-dependent protein mistargeting processes, such as ER pre-emptive quality control (ER pQC), is difficult to parse. Herein, we use genetically encoded peroxidases to characterize protein import into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We show that the ERHRP/cytAPEX pair provides good selectivity and sensitivity for both multiplexed protein labeling and for identifying protein mistargeting, using the known ER pQC substrate transthyretin (TTR). Although ERHRP labeling induces formation of detergent-resistant TTR aggregates, this is minimized by using low ERHRP expression, without loss of labeling efficiency. cytAPEX labeling recovers TTR that is mistargeted as a consequence of Sec61 inhibition or ER stress-induced ER pQC. Furthermore, we discover that stress-free activation of the ER stress-associated transcription factor ATF6 recapitulates the TTR import deficiency of ER pQC. Hence, proximity labeling is an effective strategy for characterizing factors that influence ER protein import in living cells.
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- Ziqi Lyu
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Graduate Program of Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States.,Graduate Program of Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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Yam C, Abuhadra N, Sun R, Adrada BE, Ding QQ, White JB, Ravenberg EE, Clayborn AR, Valero V, Tripathy D, Damodaran S, Arun BK, Litton JK, Ueno NT, Murthy RK, Lim B, Baez L, Li X, Buzdar AU, Hortobagyi GN, Thompson AM, Mittendorf EA, Rauch GM, Candelaria RP, Huo L, Moulder SL, Chang JT. Molecular Characterization and Prospective Evaluation of Pathologic Response and Outcomes with Neoadjuvant Therapy in Metaplastic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2022; 28:2878-2889. [PMID: 35507014 PMCID: PMC9250637 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-3100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Metaplastic breast cancer (MpBC) is a rare subtype of breast cancer that is commonly triple-negative and poorly responsive to neoadjuvant therapy in retrospective studies. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN To better define clinical outcomes and correlates of response, we analyzed the rate of pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant therapy, survival outcomes, and genomic and transcriptomic profiles of the pretreatment tumors in a prospective clinical trial (NCT02276443). A total of 211 patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), including 39 with MpBC, received doxorubicin-cyclophosphamide-based neoadjuvant therapy. RESULTS Although not meeting the threshold for statistical significance, patients with MpBCs were less likely to experience a pCR (23% vs. 40%; P = 0.07), had shorter event-free survival (29.4 vs. 32.2 months, P = 0.15), metastasis-free survival (30.3 vs. 32.4 months, P = 0.22); and overall survival (32.6 vs. 34.3 months, P = 0.21). This heterogeneity is mirrored in the molecular profiling. Mutations in PI3KCA (23% vs. 9%, P = 0.07) and its pathway (41% vs. 18%, P = 0.02) were frequently observed and enriched in MpBCs. The gene expression profiles of each histologically defined subtype were distinguishable and characterized by distinctive gene signatures. Among nonmetaplastic (non-Mp) TNBCs, 10% possessed a metaplastic-like gene expression signature and had pCR rates and survival outcomes similar to MpBC. CONCLUSIONS Further investigations will determine if metaplastic-like tumors should be treated more similarly to MpBC in the clinic. The 23% pCR rate in this study suggests that patients with MpBC should be considered for NAT. To improve this rate, a pathway analysis predicted enrichment of histone deacetylase (HDAC) and RTK/MAPK pathways in MpBC, which may serve as new targetable vulnerabilities.
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- Clinton Yam
- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- PROncology (Private Practice), University of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute - Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Surgical Oncology, Section of Breast Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MD, USA.,Breast Oncology Program, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA
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Wang J, Li Q, Luo Y, Han Y, Ma F, Cai R, Li Q, Fan Y, Wang J, Zhang P, Xu B. Development and external validation of a clinical nomogram for individually predicting survival of metaplastic breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer 2022; 22:e798-e806. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clbc.2022.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Vizgan N, Jokar TO, Enayati L, Salyana M, Gotlieb VK. Presentation and treatment of aggressive,
Triple‐Negative
carcinosarcoma of the breast. Clin Case Rep 2022; 10:e6020. [PMID: 35865780 PMCID: PMC9291258 DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.6020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
An extremely rare form of breast cancer, breast carcinosarcoma accounts for less than a percent of all breast malignancies and is highly aggressive. Composed of both cancerous epithelial and mesenchymal cell types, breast carcinosarcoma is associated with a poor prognosis compared to more common breast cancers, and typically lack the receptors typical of other breast carcinomas, which minimize potential targets for treatment. In this case report, we discuss a 56‐year‐old patient affected by carcinosarcoma of the breast at a T2N1 stage, and the decision‐making process that factored into her treatment plan.
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- Niels Vizgan
- Department of Chemistry Wesleyan University Middletown Connecticut USA
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- Department of Haematology/Oncology Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Brooklyn New York USA
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- Department of Haematology/Oncology Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Brooklyn New York USA
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- Department of Haematology/Oncology Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Brooklyn New York USA
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Cai YL, Hao BC, Chen JQ, Li YR, Liu HB. Correlation Between Plasma Proteomics and Adverse Outcomes Among Older Men With Chronic Coronary Syndrome. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:867646. [PMID: 35514441 PMCID: PMC9062975 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.867646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) is a newly proposed concept and is hallmarked by more long-term major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs), calling for accurate prognostic biomarkers for initial risk stratification. Methods Data-independent acquisition liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (DIA LC-MS/MS) quantitative proteomics was performed on 38 patients with CCS; 19 in the CCS events group and 19 in the non-events group as the controls. We also developed a machine-learning-based pipeline to identify proteins as potential biomarkers and validated the target proteins by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in an independent prospective cohort. Results Fifty-seven differentially expressed proteins were identified by quantitative proteomics and three final biomarkers were preliminarily selected from the machine-learning-based pipeline. Further validation with the prospective cohort showed that endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) and cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) levels at admission were significantly higher in the CCS events group than they were in the non-events group, whereas the carboxypeptidase B2 (CPB2) level was similar in the two groups. In the Cox survival analysis, EPCR and CETP were independent risk factors for MACEs. We constructed a new prognostic model by combining the Framingham coronary heart disease (CHD) risk model with EPCR and CETP levels. This new model significantly improved the C-statistics for MACE prediction compared with that of the Framingham CHD risk model alone. Conclusion Plasma proteomics was used to find biomarkers of predicting MACEs in patients with CCS. EPCR and CETP were identified as promising prognostic biomarkers for CCS.
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- Yu-Lun Cai
- Department of Cardiology, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Chronic Heart Failure Precision Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Chronic Heart Failure Precision Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Medical School of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Chronic Heart Failure Precision Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Chronic Heart Failure Precision Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Chronic Heart Failure Precision Medicine, Beijing, China
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Boyer S, Lee HJ, Steele N, Zhang L, Sajjakulnukit P, Andren A, Ward MH, Singh R, Basrur V, Zhang Y, Nesvizhskii AI, Pasca di Magliano M, Halbrook CJ, Lyssiotis CA. Multiomic characterization of pancreatic cancer-associated macrophage polarization reveals deregulated metabolic programs driven by the GM-CSF-PI3K pathway. eLife 2022; 11:73796. [PMID: 35156921 PMCID: PMC8843093 DOI: 10.7554/elife.73796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma microenvironment is composed of a variety of cell types and marked by extensive fibrosis and inflammation. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are abundant, and they are important mediators of disease progression and invasion. TAMs are polarized in situ to a tumor promoting and immunosuppressive phenotype via cytokine signaling and metabolic crosstalk from malignant epithelial cells and other components of the tumor microenvironment. However, the specific distinguishing features and functions of TAMs remain poorly defined. Here, we generated tumor-educated macrophages (TEMs) in vitro and performed detailed, multiomic characterization (i.e., transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics). Our results reveal unique genetic and metabolic signatures of TEMs, the veracity of which were queried against our in-house single-cell RNA sequencing dataset of human pancreatic tumors. This analysis identified expression of novel, metabolic TEM markers in human pancreatic TAMs, including ARG1, ACLY, and TXNIP. We then utilized our TEM model system to study the role of mutant Kras signaling in cancer cells on TEM polarization. This revealed an important role for granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and lactate on TEM polarization, molecules released from cancer cells in a mutant Kras-dependent manner. Lastly, we demonstrate that GM-CSF dysregulates TEM gene expression and metabolism through PI3K–AKT pathway signaling. Collectively, our results define new markers and programs to classify pancreatic TAMs, how these are engaged by cancer cells, and the precise signaling pathways mediating polarization.
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- Seth Boyer
- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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