Project description:Recent meta-analyses suggest triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogenous disease. In this study we sought to define these TNBC subtypes and identify subtype-specific markers and targets. We identified and confirmed four distinct, stable TNBC subtypes: (1) Luminal-AR (LAR); 2) Mesenchymal (MES); 3) Basal-Like Immune-Suppressed (BLIS), and 4) Basal-Like Immune-Activated (BLIA). RNA profiling analysis was conducted on 198 TNBC tumors (ER-negativity defined as Allred Scale value â¤2) with >50% cellularity (discovery set: n=84; validation set: n=114)
Project description:Comprehensive genomic analysis identify novel subtypes and targets of triple-negative breast cancer (67 not triple-negative tumors)
Project description:Recent meta-analyses suggest triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogenous disease. In this study we sought to define these TNBC subtypes and identify subtype-specific markers and targets. We identified and confirmed four distinct, stable TNBC subtypes: (1) Luminal-AR (LAR); 2) Mesenchymal (MES); 3) Basal-Like Immune-Suppressed (BLIS), and 4) Basal-Like Immune-Activated (BLIA).
Project description:Recent meta-analyses suggest triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogenous disease. In this study we sought to define these TNBC subtypes and identify subtype-specific markers and targets. We identified and confirmed four distinct, stable TNBC subtypes: (1) Luminal-AR (LAR); 2) Mesenchymal (MES); 3) Basal-Like Immune-Suppressed (BLIS), and 4) Basal-Like Immune-Activated (BLIA).
Project description:Triple negative breast cancer is an aggressive phenotypic breast cancer characterized by ER negative, PR negative and Her2 negative immunohistochemistry status. We embarked on a study to explore the transcriptome of Kenyan TNBC patients and identify potential biomarkers specific to Kenyan population. The transcriptome sequencing of tumors from Kenyan TNBC patients and comparisons with African American and Caucasian TNBC transcriptomes revealed several interesting targets and dysregulated pathways.
Project description:To identify novel molecular targets for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling. We purified 30 surgically resected breast cancer tissue diagnosed triple negative by means of immunohistochemical staining and 13 normal mammary ductal cells with lasermicrobeam microdissection system (PALM MicroBeam, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Co., Ltd), performed whole human genome microarray, and compared gene expression levels of TNBC, normal mammary ductal cells, and normal vital organs to develop molecular targets with a minimum risk. Gene expression levels of 30 TNBC, 13 normal mammary ductal cells, and 4 normal vital tissues were evaluated. to clarify the molecular mechanism involved in TNBC, we analyzed gene expression profiles of 30 TNBC as well as 13 normal epithelial ductal cells purified by laser microbeam microdissection, and identified 301 transcripts that were significantly up-regulated and 321 transcripts that were significantly down-regulated in TNBC. In addition, gene-expression profiles analysis of normal human vital organs including heart, lung, liver, and kidney allowed us to identify 90 cancer-specific genes involved in breast carcinogenesis such as NEK2, PBK, DTL, MELK and GPSM2. Among them, we focused on cell cycle regulators, asp (abnormal spindle) homolog, microcephaly associated (Drosophila) (ASPM) and centromere protein K (CENPK) as novel therapeutic targets for TNBC.
Project description:Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is the most aggressive form of triple-negative cancer (TNBC), defined by the presence of “metaplastic” components of spindle, squamous, or sarcomatoid histology. The protein profiles underpinning the pathological subtypes and metastatic behavior of MBC are unknown. Using multiplex quantitative tandem mass tag-based proteomics we quantified 5,798 proteins in MBC, TNBC, and normal breast from 27 patients. MBC showed increased epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and extracellular matrix, and reduced metabolic pathways compared to TNBC. MBC subtypes exhibited distinct upregulated profiles; translation and ribosomal events in spindle, inflammation and apical junctions in squamous, and extracellular matrix in sarcomatoid. Comparison of the proteomes of spindle MBC with MMTV-cre;Ccn6fl/fl spindle MBC tumors revealed a shared spindle-specific signature of 17 upregulated proteins involved in translation (e.g. RPL4,6,18, P3H1, PYCR1) and 19 downregulated proteins with roles in cell metabolism (e.g. ADH1B, ADH1C, LIPE, SOD1, FABP4). These data identify subtype specific MBC protein profiles providing biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Project description:Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype that lack targeted clinical therapies. In addition, TNBC is heterogeneous and was recently further sub-classified into seven TNBC subtypes that displayed unique gene expression patterns. To develop therapeutic treatment regimens, we established seven patient-derived xenograft models from TNBC tumors. These xenograft models not only retained the histology and clinical markers of the corresponding patient tumors, but also bearing the same mutations and deletions identified in the patient tumors. Moreover, as part of evaluation of these models, we performed microarrays on the xenograft tumors to assess their TNBC subtypes.
Project description:To identify novel molecular targets for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling. We purified 30 surgically resected breast cancer tissue diagnosed triple negative by means of immunohistochemical staining and 13 normal mammary ductal cells with lasermicrobeam microdissection system (PALM MicroBeam, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Co., Ltd), performed whole human genome microarray, and compared gene expression levels of TNBC, normal mammary ductal cells, and normal vital organs to develop molecular targets with a minimum risk.
