Project description:A Cartes d'Identite des Tumeurs (CIT) project from the French National League Against Cancer (http://cit.ligue-cancer.net ) 25 glioblastoma multiforme tumors hybridized on Illumina SNP and Affymetrix gene expression arrays. Project leader : François DUCRAY (francois.ducray@chu-lyon.fr). CIT Analysis : Julien LAFFAIRE (laffairej@ligue-cancer.net). Note: PFS : progression-free survival, OS: Overall Survival,BCNU : Carmustine (chemotherapy agent). RESPONDER: if the patient has shown or not shown a response to the treatment (Bevacizumab (Avastin) plus Irinotecan). Progression during : If the disease has progressed (cancer relapse or patient's death); otherwise (patient is alive without relapse).
Project description:Metastatic relapse from treatment failure has been a formidable challenge to finding a cure for EGFR-mutant lung cancer. Metastasis to the brain is a severe complication for 45% of patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer that drastically reduces their quality of life and survival. Here, we demonstrate that genetic inhibition of S100A9, ALDH1A1, RAR, or pharmacological inhibition of the RA pathway using pan-RAR inhibitors significantly reduces brain relapse from osimertinib-refractory cancer cells. Our study has therefore revealed a novel S100A9-ALDH1A1-RA signaling axis in the EGFR-mutant lung cancer cells that drives osimertinib-refractory metastatic brain relapse and identified a potential vulnerability in lung cancer cells that can be therapeutically targeted to prolong progression-free survival in EGFR-mutant lung cancer patients.
Project description:Brain metastasis is one of the most feared complications of cancer and the most common intracranial malignancy in adults. Its underlying mechanisms remain unknown. From breast cancer patients with metastatic disease we isolated cell populations that aggressively colonize the brain. Transcriptomic analysis of these cells yielded overlapping gene sets whose expression is selectively associated with brain metastasis. The expression of seventeen of these genes in primary breast tumors is associated with brain relapse in breast cancer patients. Some of these genes are also associated with metastasis to lung but not to liver, bone or lymph nodes, providing a molecular basis for the long-observed link between brain and lung metastasis. Among the functionally validated brain metastasis genes, the cyclooxigenase COX-2, the EGFR ligand HB-EGF, and the brain-specific 2-6 sialyltransferase ST6GALNAC5 mediate cancer cell passage through the blood-brain barrier. Other brain metastasis genes encode inflammatory factors and brain-specific proteolytic regulators, suggesting a multifaceted program for breast cancer colonization of the brain. Experiment Overall Design: 204 primary tumors from breast cancer patients with known site of relapse were studied, focussing on brain relapse versus other relapse. Identified genes were validated in this cohort.
Project description:Breast cancer metastasis is the leading cause of breast cancer-related mortalities in women. Differential gene expression programs enriched in the primary tumor is able to distinguish patients that experience relapse to different organs. Epigenomic changes often underlie transcriptomic differences and give rise to stable phenotypes. However, the epigenomic differences present in organotropic metastasis remains underexplored. Here we profile the active chromatin landscape of the claudin-low cell line MDA-MB-231 and its metastatic subpopulations that preferentially grow in the brain (BrM2), and lung (LM2). We find that metastatic cells harbor increased promoter and enhancer activation. Using ATAC-seq, we also define transcription factors that are enriched in an organotropic manner. Chromatin accessibility of metastatic cells correlates with shorter progression-free survival and is enriched in patients who have more aggressive subtypes of breast cancer.
Project description:Breast cancer metastasis is the leading cause of breast cancer-related mortalities in women. Differential gene expression programs enriched in the primary tumor is able to distinguish patients that experience relapse to different organs. Epigenomic changes often underlie transcriptomic differences and give rise to stable phenotypes. However, the epigenomic differences present in organotropic metastasis remains underexplored. Here we profile the active chromatin landscape of the claudin-low cell line MDA-MB-231 and its metastatic subpopulations that preferentially grow in the brain (BrM2), and lung (LM2). We find that metastatic cells harbor increased promoter and enhancer activation. Using ATAC-seq, we also define transcription factors that are enriched in an organotropic manner. Chromatin accessibility of metastatic cells correlates with shorter progression-free survival and is enriched in patients who have more aggressive subtypes of breast cancer.
Project description:Breast cancers contain a minority population of cancer cells characterized by CD44 expression but low or undetectable levels of CD24 (CD44+CD24-/low) that have higher tumorigenic capacity than other subtypes of cancer cells. METHODS: We compared the gene-expression profile of CD44+CD24-/low tumorigenic breast-cancer cells with that of normal breast epithelium. Differentially expressed genes were used to generate a 186-gene invasiveness gene signature (IGS), which was evaluated for its association with overall survival and metastasis-free survival in patients with breast cancer or other types of cancer. RESULTS: There was a significant association between the IGS and both overall and metastasis-free survival (P<0.001, for both) in patients with breast cancer, which was independent of established clinical and pathological variables. When combined with the prognostic criteria of the National Institutes of Health, the IGS was used to stratify patients with high-risk early breast cancer into prognostic categories (good or poor); among patients with a good prognosis, the 10-year rate of metastasis-free survival was 81%, and among those with a poor prognosis, it was 57%. The IGS was also associated with the prognosis in medulloblastoma (P=0.004), lung cancer (P=0.03), and prostate cancer (P=0.01). The prognostic power of the IGS was increased when combined with the wound-response (WR) signature. CONCLUSIONS: The IGS is strongly associated with metastasis-free survival and overall survival for four different types of tumors. This genetic signature of tumorigenic breast-cancer cells was even more strongly associated with clinical outcomes when combined with the WR signature in breast cancer. Expression profling was performed on 6 tumorigenic, 3 non tumorigenic samples of breast tumors and 3 normal breast samples on two different platforms GPL96 and GPL97. A gene signature was derived by comparing the gene expressions of 6 tumorigenic samples with 3 normal breast samples.
Project description:Vascular endothelial growth factor is a multifunctional cytokine playing important roles in angiogenesis, tumor progression and metastasis. Alternative splicing results in the production of several different isoforms of VEGF. We have previously generated human breast cancer cells overexpressing VEGF165 or VEGF189 isoforms (referred to as the V165 and V189 clones, respectively) and showed that VEGF189-transfected cells were less tumorigenic. In this study, we used bioluminescence imaging to analyze the metastasis capacity of breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-321) overexpressing VEGF isoforms in nude mice. V165, V189 and control cV clones were transfected with a luciferase plasmid to generate bioluminescent clones (the V165-B, V189-B and cV clones, respectively). These clones were then injected into the left heart ventricle of nude mice. Analysis of the location of metastases shows that V189-B cells induced fewer metastases in lung and bone than V165-B and cV-B cells. Moreover, there was a delay on metastasis appearance in mice receiving VEGF V189-B clone, consistent with increase survival in these mice. We investigated the possible mechanisms underlying these effects and found that VEGF189 increased adhesion and decreased cell invasion and survival in vitro. In the other side, transcriptomic analyses shown expression of genes, implicated in breast cancer and metastatic dissemination, in VEGF165 overexpressing cells. After in silico analyses of genes differentially expressed between V189 and V165 cells,we used Q-PCR assays to quantify mRNA levels of some gene of interest in 120 breast tumors from patients with or without metastasis and/or specially lung metastasis. We found that genes have prognostical significance and /or showed an influence on relapse-free survival. These data provide the first evidence that different VEGF isoforms have different effects on breast cancer cell line invasion and colonization. Human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells were used to generate stable transfected clones overexpressing VEGF165 isoform, VEGF189 isoform, or control vector (referred to as 42ctl8, 13ctl3 and PCIctl3, respectively). Analysis of the metastasis capacity of these clones in nude mice.
Project description:Protein deacetylase SIRT7 is significantly downregulated in lung metastases of human patient and mouse tissues, and predicted metastasis-free survival. To explore the roles of SIRT7 in breast cancer, we analysed the gene expressions in breast cancer BT549 cells with SIRT7 knockdown or not.