Project description:Identifying patients at risk for metastatic relapse is a critical need in oncology. We identified a common missense germline variant in PCSK9 (rs562556) that associates with reduced breast cancer survival outcomes in multiple cohorts. Genetic modeling of this gain-of-function single nucleotide variant in mice revealed that it causally promoted breast cancer metastasis. Conversely, host PCSK9 deletion reduced metastatic colonization in multiple breast cancer models. Host PCSK9 promoted metastatic initiation events in lung and increased proliferative competence by targeting tumoral LRP1 receptors which repress metastasis-promoting genes. Antibody-mediated therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 suppressed breast cancer metastasis in multiple models. rs562556 stratified women in a large Swedish early-stage breast cancer cohort into those with 98% versus 78% distant-metastasis-free interval at 15 years after diagnosis. Our findings reveal that a commonly inherited genetic alteration predicts breast cancer survival and governs breast cancer metastasis—uncovering a hereditary basis underlying a prevalent cause of mortality.
Project description:Identifying patients at risk for metastatic relapse is a critical need in oncology. We identified a common missense germline variant in PCSK9 that associates with reduced breast cancer survival outcomes in multiple cohorts. Genetic modeling of this gain-of-function single nucleotide variant in mice revealed that it causally promoted breast cancer metastasis. Conversely, host PCSK9 deletion reduced metastatic colonization in multiple breast cancer models. Host PCSK9 promoted metastatic initiation events in lung and increased proliferative competence by targeting tumoral LRP1 receptors which repress metastasis-promoting genes. Antibody-mediated therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 suppressed breast cancer metastasis in multiple models. This variant stratified women in a large Swedish early-stage breast cancer cohort into those with 98% versus 78% distant-metastasis-free interval at 15 years after diagnosis. Our findings reveal that a commonly inherited genetic alteration predicts breast cancer survival and governs breast cancer metastasis—uncovering a hereditary basis underlying a prevalent cause of mortality.
Project description:Identifying patients at risk for metastatic relapse is a critical need in oncology. We identified a common missense germline variant in PCSK9 that associates with reduced breast cancer survival outcomes in multiple cohorts. Genetic modeling of this gain-of-function single nucleotide variant in mice revealed that it causally promoted breast cancer metastasis. Conversely, host PCSK9 deletion reduced metastatic colonization in multiple breast cancer models. Host PCSK9 promoted metastatic initiation events in lung and increased proliferative competence by targeting tumoral LRP1 receptors which repress metastasis-promoting genes. Antibody-mediated therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 suppressed breast cancer metastasis in multiple models. This variant stratified women in a large Swedish early-stage breast cancer cohort into those with 98% versus 78% distant-metastasis-free interval at 15 years after diagnosis. Our findings reveal that a commonly inherited genetic alteration predicts breast cancer survival and governs breast cancer metastasis—uncovering a hereditary basis underlying a prevalent cause of mortality.
Project description:Identifying patients at risk for metastatic relapse is a critical need in oncology. We identified a common missense germline variant in PCSK9 that associates with reduced breast cancer survival outcomes in multiple cohorts. Genetic modeling of this gain-of-function single nucleotide variant in mice revealed that it causally promoted breast cancer metastasis. Conversely, host PCSK9 deletion reduced metastatic colonization in multiple breast cancer models. Host PCSK9 promoted metastatic initiation events in lung and increased proliferative competence by targeting tumoral LRP1 receptors which repress metastasis-promoting genes. Antibody-mediated therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 suppressed breast cancer metastasis in multiple models. This variant stratified women in a large Swedish early-stage breast cancer cohort into those with 98% versus 78% distant-metastasis-free interval at 15 years after diagnosis. Our findings reveal that a commonly inherited genetic alteration predicts breast cancer survival and governs breast cancer metastasis—uncovering a hereditary basis underlying a prevalent cause of mortality.
Project description:Identifying patients at risk for metastatic relapse is a critical need in oncology. We identified a common missense germline variant in PCSK9 that associates with reduced breast cancer survival outcomes in multiple cohorts. Genetic modeling of this gain-of-function single nucleotide variant in mice revealed that it causally promoted breast cancer metastasis. Conversely, host PCSK9 deletion reduced metastatic colonization in multiple breast cancer models. Host PCSK9 promoted metastatic initiation events in lung and increased proliferative competence by targeting tumoral LRP1 receptors which repress metastasis-promoting genes. Antibody-mediated therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 suppressed breast cancer metastasis in multiple models. This variant stratified women in a large Swedish early-stage breast cancer cohort into those with 98% versus 78% distant-metastasis-free interval at 15 years after diagnosis. Our findings reveal that a commonly inherited genetic alteration predicts breast cancer survival and governs breast cancer metastasis—uncovering a hereditary basis underlying a prevalent cause of mortality.
Project description:Palb2 interacts with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in supercomplexes involved in DNA repair via homologous recombination. Heterozygous germline mutations in PALB2 confer a moderate risk of breast cancer while biallelic PALB2 mutations are linked to a severe form of Fanconi anaemia characterized by early childhood solid tumours and severe chromosomal instability. In contrast to BRCA1- or BRCA2-associated cancers, breast tumours in heterozygous PALB2 mutation carriers do not show loss of the wild type allele, suggesting PALB2 might be haploinsufficient for tumour suppression. To study the role of PALB2 in development and tumourigenesis, we have generated Palb2GT mouse mutants using a gene trap approach. Whereas Palb2GT/GT homozygous mutant embryos died at mid-gestation due to massive apoptosis, Palb2GT/+ heterozygous mice were viable and did not show any obvious abnormalities. Deletion of p53 alleviated the phenotype of Palb2GT/GT embryos, but did not rescue embryonic lethality. In addition, loss of p53 did not significantly collaborate with Palb2 heterozygosity in tumourigenesis in heterozygous or homozygous p53 knockout mice. Tumours arising in Palb2GT/+;p53+/– or Palb2GT/+;p53–/– compound mutant mice retained the wild type Palb2 allele and did not display increased genomic instability. Comparison of 15 Palb2GT/+;p53-/- and 11 Palb2+/+;p53-/- lymphomas. Spleen/liver DNA of the same animal was used as reference material.
Project description:Palb2 interacts with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in supercomplexes involved in DNA repair via homologous recombination. Heterozygous germline mutations in PALB2 confer a moderate risk of breast cancer while biallelic PALB2 mutations are linked to a severe form of Fanconi anaemia characterized by early childhood solid tumours and severe chromosomal instability. In contrast to BRCA1- or BRCA2-associated cancers, breast tumours in heterozygous PALB2 mutation carriers do not show loss of the wild type allele, suggesting PALB2 might be haploinsufficient for tumour suppression. To study the role of PALB2 in development and tumourigenesis, we have generated Palb2GT mouse mutants using a gene trap approach. Whereas Palb2GT/GT homozygous mutant embryos died at mid-gestation due to massive apoptosis, Palb2GT/+ heterozygous mice were viable and did not show any obvious abnormalities. Deletion of p53 alleviated the phenotype of Palb2GT/GT embryos, but did not rescue embryonic lethality. In addition, loss of p53 did not significantly collaborate with Palb2 heterozygosity in tumourigenesis in heterozygous or homozygous p53 knockout mice. Tumours arising in Palb2GT/+;p53+/– or Palb2GT/+;p53–/– compound mutant mice retained the wild type Palb2 allele and did not display increased genomic instability.
2011-01-21 | GSE26723 | GEO
Project description:A case report of a mucinous breast carcinoma patient
Project description:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death both in men and women. Tumor heterogeneity is an impediment to targeted treatment of all cancers, including lung cancer. Here, we sought to characterize changes in tumor proteome and phosphoproteome by longitudinal, prospective collection of tumor tissue of an exceptional responder lung adenocarcinoma patient who survived with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma for more than seven years with HER2-directed therapy in combination with chemotherapy. We employed “Super-SILAC” and TMT labeling strategies to quantify the proteome and phosphoproteome of a lung metastatic site and ten different metastatic progressive lymph nodes collected across a span of seven years, including five lymph nodes procured at autopsy. We identified specific signaling networks enriched in lung compared to the lymph node metastatic sites. We correlated the changes in protein abundance with changes in copy number alteration (CNA) and transcript expression. To further interrogate the mass spectrometry data, patient-specific database was built incorporating all the somatic variants identified by whole genome sequencing (WGS) of genomic DNA from the lung, one lymph node metastatic site and blood. An extensive validation pipeline was built for confirmation of variant peptides. We validated 360 spectra corresponding to 55 germline and 6 somatic variant peptides. Targeted MRM assays demonstrated expression of two novel variant somatic peptides, CDK12 G879V and FASN-R1439Q, with expression in lung and lymph node metastatic sites, respectively. CDK12 G879V mutation likely results in a nonfunctional kinase and knockdown of CDK12 in lung adenocarcinoma cells increased chemotherapy sensitivity, explaining the complete resolution of the lung metastatic sites in this patient.