Project description:High-throughput screening platforms for the profiling of drug sensitivity of hundreds of cancer cell lines (CCLs) have generated large datasets that hold the potential to unlock targeted, anti-tumor therapies. In this study, we leveraged these datasets to create predictive models of cancer cells drug sensitivity. To this aim we trained explainable machine learning algorithms by employing cell line transcriptomics to predict the growth inhibitory potential of drugs. We used large language models (LLMs) to expand descriptions of the mechanisms of action (MOA) for each drug starting from available annotations, which were matched to the semantically closest pathways from reference knowledge bases. By leveraging this AI-curated resource, and the interpretability of our model, we demonstrated that pathways enriched for genes crucial for prediction often matched known drug-MOAs and essential genes, suggesting that our models learned the molecular determinants of drug response. Furthermore, we demonstrated that by incorporating only LLM-curated genes associated with MOAs, we enhanced the predictive accuracy of our drug models. To enhance translatability to a clinical setting, we employed a pipeline to align bulk RNAseq from CCLs, used for training the models, to those from patient samples, used for inference. We proved the effectiveness of our approach on TCGA samples, where patients’ best scoring drugs matched those prescribed for their cancer type. We further showed its usefulness by predicting and experimentally validating effective drugs for the patients of two highly lethal solid tumors, i.e. pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma. In summary, our method facilitates the inference and interpretation of cancer cell line drug sensitivity and holds potential to effectively translate them into new cancer therapeutics.
Project description:Ex-vivo drug sensitivity screening (DSS) only provides a readout on mixtures of cells, potentially occulting important information on clinically relevant cell subtypes. Here we developed a machine-learning framework to deconvolute bulk RNA expression matched with bulk drug sensitivity into cell subtype composition and cell subtype drug sensitivity. We first determined that our method could decipher the cellular composition of bulk samples more accurately than current state-of-the-art methods. We then optimized an algorithm capable of estimating cell subtype- and single-cell-specific drug sensitivity, which we evaluated by performing in-vitro drug studies
Project description:Ex-vivo drug sensitivity screening (DSS) only provides a readout on mixtures of cells, potentially occulting important information on clinically relevant cell subtypes. Here we developed a machine-learning framework to deconvolute bulk RNA expression matched with bulk drug sensitivity into cell subtype composition and cell subtype drug sensitivity. We first determined that our method could decipher the cellular composition of bulk samples more accurately than current state-of-the-art methods. We then optimized an algorithm capable of estimating cell subtype- and single-cell-specific drug sensitivity, which we evaluated by performing in-vitro drug studies
Project description:Although genetic and epigenetic abnormalities in breast cancer have been extensively studied, it remains difficult to identify those patients who will respond to particular therapies. This is due in part to our lack of understanding of how the variability of cellular signaling affects drug sensitivity. Here, we used mass cytometry to characterize the single-cell signaling landscapes of 62 breast cancer cell lines and five lines from healthy tissue. We quantified 34 markers in each cell line upon stimulation by the growth factor EGF in the presence or absence of five kinase inhibitors. These data – on more than 80 million single cells from 4,000 conditions – were used to fit mechanistic signaling network models that provide unprecedented insights into the biological principles of how cancer cells process information. Our dynamic single-cell-based models more accurately predicted drug sensitivity than static bulk measurements for drugs targeting the PI3K-MTOR signaling pathway. Finally, we identified genomic features associated with drug sensitivity by using signaling phenotypes as proxies, including a missense mutation in DDIT3 predictive of PI3K-inhibition sensitivity. This provides proof of principle that single-cell measurements and modeling could inform matching of patients with appropriate treatments in the future.
Project description:Tumor cell lines and drug-resistant counterparts. These data support the publication Gyorffy et al, Oncogene 2005 (July), Prediction of doxorubicin sensitivity in breast tumors based on gene expression profiles of drug-resistant cell lines correlates with patient survival. We contrasted the expression profiles of 13 different human tumor cell lines of gastric (EPG85-257), pancreatic (EPP85-181), colon (HT29) and breast (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) origin and their counterparts resistant to the topoisomerase inhibitors daunorubicin, doxorubicin or mitoxantrone. We interrogated cDNA arrays with 43 000 cDNA clones ( approximately 30 000 unique genes) to study the expression pattern of these cell lines. A cell type comparison design experiment design type compares cells of different type for example different cell lines. Using regression correlation
Project description:Tumor cell lines and drug-resistant counterparts. These data support the publication Gyorffy et al, Oncogene 2005 (July), Prediction of doxorubicin sensitivity in breast tumors based on gene expression profiles of drug-resistant cell lines correlates with patient survival. We contrasted the expression profiles of 13 different human tumor cell lines of gastric (EPG85-257), pancreatic (EPP85-181), colon (HT29) and breast (MCF7 and MDA-MB-231) origin and their counterparts resistant to the topoisomerase inhibitors daunorubicin, doxorubicin or mitoxantrone. We interrogated cDNA arrays with 43 000 cDNA clones ( approximately 30 000 unique genes) to study the expression pattern of these cell lines. A cell type comparison design experiment design type compares cells of different type for example different cell lines. Keywords: cell_type_comparison_design