Glioneuronal tumor with ATRX alteration, kinase fusion and anaplastic features (GTAKA) with leptomeningeal dissemination and ZMIZ1::RET fusion
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ABSTRACT: Glioneuronal tumor with ATRX alteration, kinase fusion and anaplastic features (GTAKA) with leptomeningeal dissemination and ZMIZ1::RET fusion
Project description:Glioneuronal tumor with ATRX alteration, kinase fusion and anaplastic features (GTAKA) with leptomeningeal dissemination and ZMIZ1::RET fusion [methylation array]
Project description:Glioneuronal tumor with ATRX alteration, kinase fusion and anaplastic features (GTAKA) with leptomeningeal dissemination and ZMIZ1::RET fusion [RNA-seq]
Project description:Herein we describe a case with histological, immunohistochemical and molecular features of GTAKA showing widespread leptomeningeal dissemination.
Project description:Herein we describe a case with histological, immunohistochemical and molecular features of GTAKA showing widespread leptomeningeal dissemination.
Project description:Glioneuronal tumor (GN) is one type of biphasic central nervous system (CNS) tumor that exhibits both glial and neuronal immunohistological characteristics. We report a case of glioneuronal tumor (GN) with a discovery of novel gene fusion of CLIP2-MET resulting from aberrant chromosome 7 abnormalities. The tumor exhibited typical characteristics on histological examinations. We executed an elaborate genomic study on this case including whole-exome sequencing and RNA sequencing. Genomic analysis of the tumor revealed aberrations in chromosomes 1 and 7 and a CLIP2-MET fusion. Further analysis of the upregulated genes revealed substantial connections with MAPK pathway activation. We concluded that the chromosome 7 abnormalities prompted CLIP2-MET gene fusion which successively leads to MAPK pathway activation. We deliberated that MAPK pathway activation is responsible for the oncogenesis of GN based on our case and other previously reported ones.
Project description:Myeloproliferative neoplasms are frequently associated with aberrant constitutive tyrosine kinase (TK) activity resulting from point mutations or chimaeric fusion genes, such as BCR ABL1 or JAK2 V617F. We report here for the first time in hematological malignancies, two novel fusion genes involving the TK RET, BCR-RET and FGFR1OP-RET, in chronic myelo monocytic leukemia (CMML) cases. The two RET fusion genes lead to the aberrant activation of RET, are able to transform hematopoietic cells and skew the hematopoietic differentiation program towards the monocytic/macrophage lineage. We also report that the BCR-RET fusion protein is insensitive to Imatinib but sensitive to Sorafenib in vivo. CMML is an hematopoietic malignancy associated with the frequent activation of the RAS pathway. The RET fusion genes seems to constitutively mimic the same signaling pathway than RAS mutations. Overall, the RET fusion genes behaviors in the monocytic lineage underlie the role of the normal RET TK activity during the physiological monocytic differentiation. We analysed BAF/3 cells infected by BCR-RET, FGFR1OP-RET or BCR-ABL1P210 fusion genes retroviruses and sorted out using EGFP fluorescence, with Affymetrix GeneChip MouseGene 1.0 ST platform.
Project description:Myeloproliferative neoplasms are frequently associated with aberrant constitutive tyrosine kinase (TK) activity resulting from point mutations or chimaeric fusion genes, such as BCR ABL1 or JAK2 V617F. We report here for the first time in hematological malignancies, two novel fusion genes involving the TK RET, BCR-RET and FGFR1OP-RET, in chronic myelo monocytic leukemia (CMML) cases. The two RET fusion genes lead to the aberrant activation of RET, are able to transform hematopoietic cells and skew the hematopoietic differentiation program towards the monocytic/macrophage lineage. We also report that the BCR-RET fusion protein is insensitive to Imatinib but sensitive to Sorafenib in vivo. CMML is an hematopoietic malignancy associated with the frequent activation of the RAS pathway. The RET fusion genes seems to constitutively mimic the same signaling pathway than RAS mutations. Overall, the RET fusion genes behaviors in the monocytic lineage underlie the role of the normal RET TK activity during the physiological monocytic differentiation.
Project description:RET fusions (e.g., with KIF5B, CCDC6, and NCOA4) drive subsets of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Despite improvements in precision therapy using selective RET tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), resistance occurs and is often driven by RET-independent bypass mechanisms. SRC is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase and a well-known oncogene promoting proliferation, migration, stemness, etc. Although previous studies have implied crosstalk between RET and SRC, the anti-cancer effects of targeting SRC combined with first line RETi treatment, and their related molecular mechanisms are still not fully elucidated. Thus, we aimed to determine whether SRC inhibition enhances the anti-cancer effects of RET TKIs to create a combination strategy to treat RET fusion-positive (RET+) NSCLC and PTC. Our results showed that the SRC TKI, dasatinib, significantly enhanced the anti-cancer activities of RET TKIs in vitro. From phosphoproteomics analysis and validation assays using selective inhibitors and siRNAs, we have defined that dasatinib synergizes with RET TKIs through further suppression of PAK, AKT and S6 signaling pathways. Moreover, rescue experiments using SRC gatekeeper mutation (T341I) further validated that the combination effects between RET TKIs and dasatinib were SRC-dependent. Importantly, we also observed synergistic effects in RET+ cancer cells between RET TKIs and eCF506, a next-generation clinical SRC inhibitor with higher selectivity. Finally, both dasatinib and scF506 could restore selpercatinib sensitivity in a selpercatinib-resistant RET+ PTC cell line. Altogether, our results suggest that SRC and RET signaling crosstalk to activate RET canonical and non-canonical downstream pathways in RET+ NSCLC and PTC and that SRC inhibition has clinical potential against TKI-naïve and -resistant RET+ cancers.The experimental design for the tandem mass tag labeling was: DMSO (126, 127CC, 128C), DMSO 24 hrs. (127N, 128N, 129N), Pralsetinib 3 hrs. (129C, 130C, 131C), Pralsetinib 24 hrs. (130N, 131N, 132N), Dasatinib 3 hrs. (132C, 133C, 134C), PralDasa Combination 3 hrs. (133N, 134N, 135N). In the filenames, ID indicates expression proteomics; IMAC indicates phosphoproteomics.