Project description:We used human iPSC-CMs generated from healthy individuals and performed RNA-sequencing after 7 days of trastuzumab treatment to examine the mechanism associated with contraction dysfunction in iPSC-CMs after trastuzumab treatment. Transcriptome analysis revealed the key role of an altered energy metabolism pathway for cardiomyocytes in the disease pathogenesis.
Project description:Background: The targeted ERBB2 therapy, trastuzumab, has had a tremendous impact on management of patients with HER2+ breast cancer, leading to development and increased use of further HER2 targeted therapies. The major clinical side effect is cardiotoxicity but the mechanism is largely unknown. On the basis that gene expression is known to be altered in multiple models of heart failure, we examined differential gene expression of iPSC derived cardiomyocytes treated at day 11 with the ERBB2 targeted monoclonal antibody, trastuzumab for 48 hours and the small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor of EGFR and ERBB2. Methods: Transcriptome sequencing was performed on four replicates from each group (48 hours untreated, 48 hours trastuzumab and 48 hours lapatinib) and differential gene expression analyses were performed on each treatment group relative to untreated cardiomyocytes. Results: 517 and 1,358 genes were differentially expressed, p<0.05, respectively in cardiomyocytes treated with trastuzumab and lapatinib. Gene ontology analyses revealed in cardiomyocytes treated with trastuzumab, significant down-regulation of genes involved in small molecule metabolism (p=3.22x10-9) and cholesterol (p=0.01) and sterol (p=0.03) processing. Conclusions: Our study suggests dysregulation of cardiac gene expression and metabolism as key elements of ERBB2 signaling that could potentially be early biomarkers of cardiotoxicity.
Project description:We generated maps of H3K4me1, H3K27ac (enhancers), H3K4me3, Pol II (promoters) and H3K27me3 (repressed chromatin) in the genome of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes Differentiation of cardiomyocytes from iPSC followed by ChIP-seq of H3K27ac, H34me1, H327me3, H3K4me3 and PolII
Project description:In the present study we created and analyzed cardiomyocytes from two separate iPSC clones from the fibroblasts of five different female individuals and two male individuals, using footprint-free Sendai virus RNA-seq of iPSC cardiomyocytes, Ampli-seq of heart left ventricle and iPSC cardiomyocytes (with and without drug treatment) and Exome-seq of patient fibroblasts.
Project description:We sequenced untreated BT474 cells, BT474 cells treated for three days with trastuzumab or trastuzumab + pertuzumab, as well as two BT474-derived trastuzumab-resistant pools and two BT474-derived trastuzumab + pertuzumab resistant pools. Resistant pools were generated by culturing BT474 cells in gradually increasing doses of trastuzumab and trastuzumab + pertuzumab over the course of several months and continually maintained in drug.
