Investigative needle core biopsies support multimodal deep-data generation in glioblastoma
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ABSTRACT: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a primary brain cancer with an abysmal prognosis with few effective therapies. The ability to investigate the tumor microenvironment before and during treatment would greatly enhance both our understanding of disease response and progression, as well as the delivery and impact of therapeutics. Stereotactic biopsies are a routine surgical procedure performed primarily for diagnostic histopathologic purposes. The adaptation of stereotactic biopsy tissue for complex and integrated investigative multi-modal molecular analyses (‘Multi-omics”) in the context of GBM regional heterogeneity is not routinely performed, Most of the tissue is consumed with standard of care clinical testing and the amount and quality of remaining cells, particularly in the context of recurrent GBMs that have failed previous treatments, has not previously been shown to be amenable to complex analyses. Here we performed highly resolved multi-modal analysis methods including single cell RNA sequencing, spatial-transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, phosphoproteomics, T-cell clonal analysis, and immunopeptidomics on needle biopsy cores obtained from a single patient during the same procedure. In a second patient, we analyzed multi-regional core biopsies to decipher spatially associated tissue and genomic variance. Finally in a separate cohort of patients we investigated the utility of stereotactic biopsies as a method for generating patient derived xenograft models. Dataset integration across modalities showed good correspondence between spatial modalities and revealed tumor and immune cell associated metabolic profiles and cell signalling pathways. In conclusion, stereotactic needle biopsy cores are of sufficient quality for the purposes of investigative biopsy and can generate multi-omics data, providing data rich insight into a patient’s disease to interrogate the tumor immune microenvironment.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Exploris 480
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
TISSUE(S): Malignant Cell, Glioblastoma Multiforme Cell
DISEASE(S): Brain Glioblastoma Multiforme
SUBMITTER:
Ryuhjin Ahn
LAB HEAD: Forest White
PROVIDER: PXD046857 | Pride | 2025-05-06
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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