Project description:Nectin-4 is a new therapeutic target in various carcinomas. We were interested in resistance to anti-nectin 4 ADC in breast cancer and the way to overcome it. Tumor RNAs were extracted from sensitive and resistant pre-clinical models. RNA-Seq libraries were created using Truseq RNA-Seq Library kit.
Project description:Nectin-4 is a new therapeutic target in various carcinomas. We were interested in resistance to anti-nectin 4 ADC in breast cancer and the way to overcome it. Tumor DNA were extracted from sensitive and resistant pre-clinical models. Genomic profiles of samples were established by using array-CGH onto 4×180K CGH microarrays.
Project description:The genomic studies was designed to identify genes differentially expressed in tumor versus normal breast tissue. We aimed at identifying novel Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) targets that could be used to treat Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). Comparative genomic studies between normal breast and TNBC tissues, together with proteomic and bioinformatic analyses resulted in the elaboration of a catalog of potential ADC targets.
Project description:An orthotopic murine breast cancer model was created by transfecting the human HER2 gene into the breast cancer cell line EMT6 resulting in EMT6-hHER2. Previous in vivo tumor treatments with trastuzumab, trastuzumab-emtansine (T-DM1) and a novel antibody drug conjugate (ADC) T-PNU (provided by NBE therapeutics and carrying the highly potent anthracycline analogue PNU-159682) revealed that EMT6-hHER2 tumors are unresponsive to standard therapy treatments of trastuzumab and T-DM1, but respond well to the novel ADC T-PNU. Identifying immunogenic cell death properties of T-PNU, we postulated a therapeutic relevance for T-PNU mediated immune modulation of the tumor microenvironment. In order to identify the transcriptional pathways underlying the T-PNU anti-tumor response, we performed RNA-sequencing analysis of CD45+ tumor-derived cells from differently treated cohorts (untreated, trastuzumab, T-DM1, T-PNU; n=6).
Project description:The MCF7 cell line represents a typical epithelial cell line and corresponds to luminal A breast cancer (estrogen-responsive). Overexpression of HAX1 was demonstrated in MCF7 cell line as well as in breast cancer samples, suggesting a role of HAX1 in breast cancer progression. HAX1 is a 32-kDa protein of unknown structure, involved in the regulation of apoptosis, cell migration and calcium homeostasis. It was also shown to bind mRNA. Scarcity of structural elements and the presence of a disordered region, inferred from HAX1 sequence, suggests that HAX1 is intrinsically disordered, and may have many protein-protein interactions. So far about 40 different proteins were characterized as HAX1 protein partners. In the present work, applying immunoaffinity chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, we identified new candidates for HAX1 binding partners in breast cancer cells. Newly identified proteins may be divided into three, partially overlapping groups: cytoskeleton-associated proteins, GTP-ase associated proteins and RNA-binding proteins. These results imply that HAX1 has more protein partners than hitherto described. Subsequent analysis of these interactions may shed some light into molecular mechanisms of HAX1 functions.
Project description:Breast tumors are characterized into different subtypes based on their surface marker expression, which affects their prognosis and treatment. For example, triple negative breast cancer cells (ER-/PR-/Her2-) show reduced susceptibility towards radiotherapy and chemotherapeutic agents. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have shown promising results in clinical trials, both as single agents and in combination with other chemotherapeutics, in several subtypes of breast cancer patients. PARP1 is involved in DNA repair, apoptosis, and transcriptional regulation and an understanding of the effects of PARP inhibitors, specifically on metabolism, is currently lacking. Here, we have used NMR-based metabolomics to probe the cell line-specific effects of PARP inhibitor and radiation on metabolism in three distinct breast cancer cell lines. Our data reveal several cell line independent metabolic changes upon PARP inhibition, including an increase in taurine. Pathway enrichment and topology analysis identified that nitrogen metabolism, glycine, serine and threonine metabolism, aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis and taurine and hypotaurine metabolism were enriched after PARP inhibition in the three breast cancer cell lines. We observed that the majority of metabolic changes due to radiation as well as PARP inhibition were cell line dependent, highlighting the need to understand how these treatments affect cancer cell response via changes in metabolism. Finally, we observed that both PARP inhibition and radiation induced a similar metabolic response in the HCC1937 (BRCA mutant cell line), but not in MCF-7 and MDAMB231 cells, suggesting that radiation and PARP inhibition share similar interactions with metabolic pathways in BRCA mutant cells. Our study emphasizes the importance of differences in metabolic responses to cancer treatments in different subtypes of cancers.