Project description:Identifying resistance mutations in a drug target provides crucial information. Lentiviral transduction creates multiple types of mutations due to the error-prone nature of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). We optimized and leveraged this property to identify drug resistance mutations, a technique we term LentiMutate. After validating this technique by identifying clinically relevant EGFR resistance mutations, we applied this technique to two additional anti-cancer drugs, imatinib and AMG 510. We find novel deletions in BCR-ABL1 that confer resistance to BCR-ABL1 inhibitors and point mutations in the AMG 510 binding pocket or oncogenic non-G12C mutations, in KRAS-G12C or wild-type KRAS, respectively, that confer resistance to AMG 510. LentiMutate may prove highly valuable to clinical and preclinical cancer drug development.
Project description:Identifying resistance mutations in a drug target provides crucial information. Lentiviral transduction creates multiple types of mutations due to the error-prone nature of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). Here we optimized and leveraged this property to identify drug resistance mutations, developing a technique we term LentiMutate. This technique was validated by identifying clinically relevant EGFR resistance mutations, then applied to two additional clinical anticancer drugs: imatinib, a BCR-ABL inhibitor, and AMG 510, a KRAS G12C inhibitor. Novel deletions in BCR-ABL1 conferred resistance to imatinib. In KRAS-G12C or wild-type KRAS, point mutations in the AMG 510 binding pocket or oncogenic non-G12C mutations conferred resistance to AMG 510. LentiMutate should prove highly valuable for clinical and preclinical cancer-drug development. SIGNIFICANCE: LentiMutate can evaluate a drug's on-target activity and can nominate resistance mutations before they occur in patients, which could accelerate and refine drug development to increase the survival of patients with cancer.
Project description:Identifying resistance mutations in a drug target provides crucial information. Lentiviral transduction creates multiple types of mutations due to the error-prone nature of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and we show this property can be leveraged to identify mutations that confer resistance to targeted anti-cancer drugs, a technique we term “LentiMutate”. First, we improved LentiMutate by making the lentiviral RT more error-prone. Next, we applied this technique to two anti-cancer drugs, imatinib and AMG 510. We find novel deletions in BCR-ABL that confer resistance to BCR-ABL inhibitors and point mutations in the AMG 510 binding pocket or oncogenic non-G12C mutations, in KRAS-G12C or wild-type KRAS, respectively, that confer resistance to AMG 510. LentiMutate may prove highly valuable to clinical and preclinical cancer drug development
Project description:Identifying resistance mutations in a drug target provides crucial information. Lentiviral transduction creates multiple types of mutations due to the error-prone nature of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and we show this property can be leveraged to identify mutations that confer resistance to targeted anti-cancer drugs, a technique we term “LentiMutate”. First, we improved LentiMutate by making the lentiviral RT more error-prone. Next, we applied this technique to two anti-cancer drugs, imatinib and AMG 510. We find novel deletions in BCR-ABL that confer resistance to BCR-ABL inhibitors and point mutations in the AMG 510 binding pocket or oncogenic non-G12C mutations, in KRAS-G12C or wild-type KRAS, respectively, that confer resistance to AMG 510. LentiMutate may prove highly valuable to clinical and preclinical cancer drug development
Project description:Chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular (CINCA) syndrome is an IL-1-driven autoinflammatory disorder caused mainly by NLRP3 mutations. The pathogenesis of CINCA syndrome patients who carry NLRP3 mutations as somatic mosaicism has not been precisely described because of the difficulty in separating individual cells based on the presence or absence of the mutation. Here, we report the generation of NLRP3-mutant and non-mutant induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from two CINCA syndrome patients with somatic mosaicism, and describe their differentiation into macrophages (iPS-MPs). We found that mutant cells are predominantly responsible for the pathogenesis in these mosaic patients because only mutant iPS-MPs showed the disease relevant phenotype of abnormal IL-1M-NM-2 secretion. We also confirmed that the existing anti-inflammatory compounds inhibited the abnormal IL-1M-NM-2 secretion, indicating that mutant iPS-MPs are applicable for drug screening for CINCA syndrome and other NLRP3-related inflammatory conditions. Our results illustrate that patient-derived iPSCs are useful for dissecting somatic mosaicism, and that NLRP3-mutant iPSCs can provide a valuable platform for drug discovery for multiple NLRP3-related disorders. To characterize iPS and differentiated cells, RNA expression profiles were evaluated by microarray analysis.We analyzed iPC cells and macrophage from healthy volunteers and CINCA syndrome patients. Human ES cella and fibroblasts were used as control.
Project description:Chronic infantile neurological cutaneous and articular (CINCA) syndrome is an IL-1-driven autoinflammatory disorder caused mainly by NLRP3 mutations. The pathogenesis of CINCA syndrome patients who carry NLRP3 mutations as somatic mosaicism has not been precisely described because of the difficulty in separating individual cells based on the presence or absence of the mutation. Here, we report the generation of NLRP3-mutant and non-mutant induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from two CINCA syndrome patients with somatic mosaicism, and describe their differentiation into macrophages (iPS-MPs). We found that mutant cells are predominantly responsible for the pathogenesis in these mosaic patients because only mutant iPS-MPs showed the disease relevant phenotype of abnormal IL-1β secretion. We also confirmed that the existing anti-inflammatory compounds inhibited the abnormal IL-1β secretion, indicating that mutant iPS-MPs are applicable for drug screening for CINCA syndrome and other NLRP3-related inflammatory conditions. Our results illustrate that patient-derived iPSCs are useful for dissecting somatic mosaicism, and that NLRP3-mutant iPSCs can provide a valuable platform for drug discovery for multiple NLRP3-related disorders.
Project description:Mutations or amplifications of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are common in many cancers. Given the emergence of small molecule inhibitors specific to RTKs, these signalling cascades are attractive therapeutic targets. However, compensatory and adaptation mechanisms limit the clinical utility of compounds that target nodes in RTK networks. Here we show that PHLDA1 down-regulation is critical to acquisition and maintenance of drug resistance in RTK-driven cancer.
Project description:The use of a graduated series of Arabidopsis thaliana genomic deletion mutations (of sizes ranging from 4 bp to ~5 kb) to optimize CGH-based genomic deletion detection Microarray-based ultra-high resolution discovery of genomic deletion mutations
Project description:To shed light on the parasiticidal mechanisms of L35, we have adapted a workflow which combines a forward genetic approach based on transcriptome sequencing, computational mutation discovery, and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in Toxoplasma gondii. Drug-resistant parasites were generated by chemical random mutagenesis. Multiple independent resistant lines were isolated. Single nucleotide variations (SNVs) were identified based on NGS transcriptomic analysis. By focusing on mutations present in coding sequences, we identified a single gene, TgPRS, that harbored SNVs leading to amino acid substitutions in the 6 drug-resistant lines obtained that were not present in the parental strain. Finally, using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing we confirmed that the mutations identified confer resistance against L35.