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Neuroblastoma is composed of two super enhancer-associated differentiation states

ABSTRACT: Intra-tumour heterogeneity is increasingly appreciated as a determinant of tumour recurrence. Several tumour types were recently found to include phenotypically divergent cell types, reflecting lineage development stages (1,2,3). Lineage identity has been proposed to ensue super-enhancer (SE)-associated transcription factor (TF) networks (4,5), but their role in intra-tumour heterogeneity is unknown. Neuroblastoma is a paediatric tumour of the adrenergic differentiation lineage. Here we show that most neuroblastoma tumors include two types of tumor cells with highly diverging gene expression profiles. The undifferentiated mesenchymal cells and more differentiated adrenergic cells can interconvert and may relate to normal lineage differentiation stages. ChIP-seq analysis of isogenic pairs of mesenchymal and adrenergic neuroblastoma cells revealed a distinct, highly consistent super-enhancer landscape for each cell type. Two SE-associated TF networks emerged that potentially master each cell type. Accordingly, the mesenchymal TF PRRX1 could reprogram the SE- and mRNA-profiles of adrenergic cells towards a mesenchymal state. To assess the clinical relevance of this bi-phasic system, we investigated chemo-sensitivity of both cell types. Mesenchymal cells were more resistant in vitro and were enriched in post-therapy and relapsed neuroblastoma in patients. Intra-tumor heterogeneity in neuroblastoma is therefore structured according to distinct SE-associated transcriptional programs that mediate a dynamic bi-phasic structure.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE91028 | GEO | 2017/05/19

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA356701

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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