Organizational principles in glioblastoma: decoded by ptalign and targeted via SFRP1
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Project description:Organizational principles in glioblastoma: decoded by ptalign and targeted via SFRP1 [GBM]
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Project description:Cancer research has largely focused on understanding mutations driving uncontrolled growth, leaving the organization of cellular hierarchies that sustain tumor progression less explored. We address this gap with ptalign, a tool that decodes such hierarchies in glioblastoma. By introducing the concept of pseudolineages mirroring adult neural stem cell lineages, we establish a correspondence between tumor pseudolineage and patient survival, devising biomarkers enabling cost-effective pseudolineage-based patient stratification. Comparing tumor pseudolineages to adult neural stem cell lineages, we identify the recurrent loss of the secreted Wnt antagonist SFRP1 in glioblastoma. This Wnt antagonist is expressed after the transition from dormant to quiescent neural stem cells, regulating their activation. Introducing SFRP1 into glioblastoma induced the generation of dormant astrocyte-like tumor cells, thereby increasing the quiescent tumor cell fraction and suggesting its potential as a target to arrest tumor progression. The insights facilitated by ptalign offer a new perspective on glioblastoma's cellular organization, providing a framework for understanding and treating glioblastomas and other solid tumors.
2023-12-01 | GSE240675 | GEO
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Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a lethal chronic lung disease characterized by aberrant intercellular communication, extracellular matrix deposition and destruction of functional lung tissue. While extracellular vesicles (EVs) accumulate in the IPF lung, their cargo and biological effects remain unclear. We interrogated the proteome of EV and non-EV fractions during pulmonary fibrosis and characterize their contribution to fibrosis. EVs accumulated 14 days post-bleomycin challenge, correlating with decreased lung function and initiated fibrogenesis in healthy precision-cut lung slices. Label-free proteomics of broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF)-EVs collected from mice challenged with bleomycin or control identified 107 proteins enriched in fibrotic vesicles. Multiomic analysis revealed fibroblasts as a major cellular source of BALF-EV cargo, which was enriched in Secreted Frizzled Related Protein 1 (SFRP1). Sfrp1 deficiency inhibited the activity of fibroblast-derived EVs to potentiate lung fibrosis in vivo. SFRP1 led to increased transitional cell markers, such as Krt8, and WNT/β-catenin signaling in primary alveolar type 2 cells. SFRP1 is expressed within the IPF lung and localized at the surface of EVs from patient-derived fibroblasts and BALF. Our work reveals altered EV protein cargo in fibrotic EVs promoting fibrogenesis and identifies fibroblast derived vesicular SFRP1 as fibrotic mediator and potential therapeutic target for IPF.
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Project description:In summary, our study demonstrated the methylation sites of SFRP1 gene promoter in patients with colorectal cancer and adenoma and found SFRP1_16_17_18 CpG site was good performance as a diagnostic marker of colorectal cancer.
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Project description:Sfrp1 is a Wnt inhibitor that is down regulated in various human cancers such as acute myeloid leukaemia, hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic, ovarian and breast cancer etc. Our study has shown that the loss of Sfrp1 in mouse skin leads to early tumor initiation with induced skin chemical carcinogenesis. Further, CSCs isolated from the Sfrp1-/- tumors showed increased in vivo tumorigenic potential with enhanced tumor propagating cell (TPC) frequency when injected into NOD/SCID mice. Hence, in order to understand the molecular mechanism involved in CSC regulation in the absence of sfrp1, we have performed microarray analysis on CSCs isolated from mice skin SCC. The data showed upregulation of genes involved in the regulation of tumor aggressiveness, metastasis and stemness in Sfrp1-/- CSCs as compared to WT CSCs. Our study has provided significant contribution to the existing knowledge of Sfrp1 by showing the uncharted role of Sfrp1 in tumor initiation and CSC regulation.
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Project description:• Atypical hyperplasias (AH) provide insights into early changes that may predispose breast epithelial cells to oncogenic transformation. • Of genes associated with premalignancy in prior studies, only mRNA levels of ESR1 and SFRP1 were detected in the present study. • Transcriptional profiling defined signatures distinguishing atypical hyperplasias. The patterns of expression were similar among hyperplastic lesions of lobular and ductal phenotype suggesting a common set of alterations underlying both lesions. Pathway analyses identified elevated expression of estrogen receptor alpha, androgen receptor and EGFR receptors and Rho signaling as central events nodes in the pathways altered in AH. • A set of 43 genes were identified as common targets using 2 different algorithms to detect signatures associated with AH. Knockdown of SFRP1 in a TERT immortalized breast epithelial cell line resulted in 14 genes from this signature being either up-regulated or down-regulated as observed in the expression profiles from AH. • The results demonstrate a signature of genes representing alterations that are common to the development of hyperplasias in both ductal and lobular epithelium. Loss of SFRP1 expression is a key player underlying the transcriptional changes in AH that directs a module of genes that can be used to improve reproducibility of diagnosis of AH.
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