Protein pathway activation mapping of brain metastasis from lung and breast cancers reveals organ type specific drug target activation.

ABSTRACT: Brain metastases are the most common fatal complication of systemic cancer, especially of lung (40-50%) and breast (20-30%) cancers. In this era of personalized therapy, there is a critical need to uncover the signaling architecture of brain metastases; however, little is known about what signaling pathways are activated in the context of the brain microenvironment. Using a unique study set of 42 brain metastases from patients with breast or nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the phosphorylation/activation states of 128 key signaling proteins involved in cancer signaling were measured in laser capture microdissected tumor epithelium using reverse phase protein microarray (RPMA) technology. Distinct pathway activation subgroups from both breast and lung metastases were underpinned by, among

SUBMITTER: Improta G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5564317 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature