A precision oncology approach to the pharmacological targeting of mechanistic dependencies in neuroendocrine tumors.

ABSTRACT: We introduce and validate a new precision oncology framework for the systematic prioritization of drugs targeting mechanistic tumor dependencies in individual patients. Compounds are prioritized on the basis of their ability to invert the concerted activity of master regulator proteins that mechanistically regulate tumor cell state, as assessed from systematic drug perturbation assays. We validated the approach on a cohort of 212 gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), a rare malignancy originating in the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. The analysis identified several master regulator proteins, including key regulators of neuroendocrine lineage progenitor state and immunoevasion, whose role as critical tumor dependencies was experimentally confirmed. Transcriptome ana

SUBMITTER: Alvarez MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6421579 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature