Project description:Histological transformation from epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is the major resistance mechanism of EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). In our analysis of 59 regions of interest from EGFR-mutant NSCLC or combined SCLC/NSCLC tumors, we compared the transcriptomic profiles before and after transformation.
Project description:In addition to the generation and analysis of metabolomics data on cell lines, samples of normal lung tissue, adenocarcinoma lung tissue and small cell lung carcinoma tissue (seven samples/group) were processed and evaluated metabolite profile differences under the scope of the pilot and feasibility study. These data can be correlated to the metabolite profiles defined in the SCLC and NSCLC cell lines and integrated with the ABPP-determined metabolic kinases to identify distinct metabolic signatures or biomarkers (?oncometabolites?) that distinguish small cell lung cancer from non-small cell lung cancer.
Project description:Expression profiles of 18,175 unique genes and three major genetic changes, p53, EGFR and K-ras, were investigated in 149 patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including 90 patients with adenocarcinomas (AD) to determine their relationships with various clinicopathologic features and Gene Ontology (GO) terms. Keywords: Disease state analysis Expression profiles in 149 patients with NSCLC, 9 patients with SCLC and 5 for normal lung tissue.
Project description:The study was designed to identify the molecular changes that occur in EGFR mutant NSCLCs that become resistant to TKI by transforming to SCLC. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are effective treatments for non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. However, they do not lead to cures, and, on average, relapse occurs after one year of continuous treatment. In a subset of patients, a fundamental histological transformation from NSCLC to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is observed in the resistant cancers, but the molecular changes associated with this transformation remain unknown. Analysis of a cohort of tumor samples and cell lines derived from resistant EGFR mutant patients with SCLC transformation revealed that RB is lost in 100% of these cases, but rarely in those that remain NSCLC. Global changes in gene expression, including increased neuroendocrine marker expression and absence of EGFR expression, are observed in cancers that transformed to SCLC. Consistent with their genetic and epigenetic similarities to classical SCLC, cell lines derived from resistant EGFR mutant SCLC biopsies are substantially more sensitive to ABT-263 treatment compared to those derived from resistant EGFR mutant NSCLCs. Together, these findings suggest that despite developing initially as EGFR mutant adenocarcinomas, this subset of resistant cancers ultimately take on many of the molecular and phenotypic characteristics of classical SCLC. Overall, we completed array CGH analysis on 4 tumor specimens from EGFR mutant, TKI-resistant patients. Three of these samples had transformed to SCLC and one remained NSCLC.
Project description:Normal appearing airway samples from non-small cell lung (NSCLC) cancer patients were profiled using illumina sequencing arrays. Allelic imbalance was detected in normal-appearing large and small airway samples and affected known lung cancer driver genes.
Project description:This was a Phase II, multi-center, open label, single dose study in patients with tumor types known to overexpress Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor (GRPR), including breast, prostate, colorectal, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) and Small-Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC).
Project description:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. The two main lung cancer types are small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-SCLC (NSCLC), where NSCLC comprises about 80-85% of all lung cancer. Despite the introduction of improved treatments, the overall survival rate of lung cancer patients remains low. Further elucidation of the regulatory network perturbations between cancer-related genes and proteins is one promising route to alter this mortality trend. The deregulation of the DNA replication, cell cycle, proliferation and migration are the common factors that are involved in cancer development and progression, and therefore logical targets for analysis. Minichromosome maintenance 2(MCM2) is a DNA replication licensing factor, which belongs to the heterohexameric MCM2-7 complex. MCM2 has been proposed as an excellent proliferation marker in many types of cancer. Our study will establish a global functional distribution of identified proteins in silenced-MCM2 in H1299 NSCLC by the means of iTRAQ. Understanding the molecular basis of MCM2 in lung cancer cells enables us to discover alternative target for lung cancer therapy.
Project description:Asparagine-linked glycosylation (N-glycosylation) of proteins in the cancer secretome has gained increasing attention as a potential biomarker for cancer detection and diagnosis. Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) constitute a large part of the cancer secretome, yet little is known about whether their N-glycosylation status reflects cancer characteristics. Here we investigated the N-glycosylation of sEVs released from small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) cells. The N-glycans of SCLC-sEVs were characterized by the presence of structural units found in the brain N-glycome, while NSCLC-sEVs were dominated by typical lung-type N-glycans with NSCLC-associated core fucosylation. We pulled down these glycoproteins from the detergent-solubilized sEVs with SSA-conjugated beads for H520-sEVs and WGA-conjugated beads for H446-sEVs, and the protein bands were subjected to shotgun proteomics. The analysis revealed that several integrin subunits were enriched in the sEVs: V, 6, 1, and 5 subunits in H520-sEVs and V and 1 subunits in H446-sEVs.
Project description:The study was designed to identify the molecular changes that occur in EGFR mutant NSCLCs that become resistant to TKI by transforming to SCLC. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are effective treatments for non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations. However, they do not lead to cures, and, on average, relapse occurs after one year of continuous treatment. In a subset of patients, a fundamental histological transformation from NSCLC to small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is observed in the resistant cancers, but the molecular changes associated with this transformation remain unknown. Analysis of a cohort of tumor samples and cell lines derived from resistant EGFR mutant patients with SCLC transformation revealed that RB is lost in 100% of these cases, but rarely in those that remain NSCLC. Global changes in gene expression, including increased neuroendocrine marker expression and absence of EGFR expression, are observed in cancers that transformed to SCLC. Consistent with their genetic and epigenetic similarities to classical SCLC, cell lines derived from resistant EGFR mutant SCLC biopsies are substantially more sensitive to ABT-263 treatment compared to those derived from resistant EGFR mutant NSCLCs. Together, these findings suggest that despite developing initially as EGFR mutant adenocarcinomas, this subset of resistant cancers ultimately take on many of the molecular and phenotypic characteristics of classical SCLC.