Project description:Glioblastoma remains incurable and, due to its infiltrative growth, high levels of treatment resistance and population of glioma initiating/stem cells (GICs), recurs in all patients. Here we design and characterize a novel induced-recurrence model in which mice xenografted with primary patient-derived GICs are treated with a therapeutic regimen closely recapitulating patient standard of care, followed by monitoring until tumours recur (IR-PDX). By tracking in vivo tumour growth, we confirm the patient specificity and initial efficacy of treatment prior to recurrence. Availability of longitudinally matched pairs of primary and recurrent GICs enabled patient-specific evaluation of the faithfulness with which the model recapitulated phenotypes associated with the true recurrence. Through comprehensive multi-omic analyses, we showed that the IR-PDX model recapitulated genomic, epigenetic, and transcriptional state heterogeneity changes upon recurrence in a patient-specific manner. The accuracy of the IR-PDX enabled both novel biological insights, including the positive association between glioblastoma recurrence and levels of ciliated neural stem cell-like tumour cells, and the identification of druggable patient-specific therapeutic vulnerabilities. This proof-of-concept study opens the possibility for prospective precision medicine approaches, in which the IR-PDX model is developed between first diagnosis and disease progression to identify target-drug candidates for use as second line of treatment at recurrence.
Project description:Glioblastoma remains incurable and, due to its infiltrative growth, high levels of treatment resistance and population of glioma initiating/stem cells (GICs), recurs in all patients. Here we design and characterize a novel induced-recurrence model in which mice xenografted with primary patient-derived GICs are treated with a therapeutic regimen closely recapitulating patient standard of care, followed by monitoring until tumours recur (IR-PDX). By tracking in vivo tumour growth, we confirm the patient specificity and initial efficacy of treatment prior to recurrence. Availability of longitudinally matched pairs of primary and recurrent GICs enabled patient-specific evaluation of the faithfulness with which the model recapitulated phenotypes associated with the true recurrence. Through comprehensive multi-omic analyses, we showed that the IR-PDX model recapitulated genomic, epigenetic, and transcriptional state heterogeneity changes upon recurrence in a patient-specific manner. The accuracy of the IR-PDX enabled both novel biological insights, including the positive association between glioblastoma recurrence and levels of ciliated neural stem cell-like tumour cells, and the identification of druggable patient-specific therapeutic vulnerabilities. This proof-of-concept study opens the possibility for prospective precision medicine approaches, in which the IR-PDX model is developed between first diagnosis and disease progression to identify target-drug candidates for use as second line of treatment at recurrence.
Project description:Glioblastoma remains incurable and, due to its infiltrative growth, high levels of treatment resistance and population of glioma initiating/stem cells (GICs), recurs in all patients. Here we design and characterize a novel induced-recurrence model in which mice xenografted with primary patient-derived GICs are treated with a therapeutic regimen closely recapitulating patient standard of care, followed by monitoring until tumours recur (IR-PDX). By tracking in vivo tumour growth, we confirm the patient specificity and initial efficacy of treatment prior to recurrence. Availability of longitudinally matched pairs of primary and recurrent GICs enabled patient-specific evaluation of the faithfulness with which the model recapitulated phenotypes associated with the true recurrence. Through comprehensive multi-omic analyses, we showed that the IR-PDX model recapitulated genomic, epigenetic, and transcriptional state heterogeneity changes upon recurrence in a patient-specific manner. The accuracy of the IR-PDX enabled both novel biological insights, including the positive association between glioblastoma recurrence and levels of ciliated neural stem cell-like tumour cells, and the identification of druggable patient-specific therapeutic vulnerabilities. This proof-of-concept study opens the possibility for prospective precision medicine approaches, in which the IR-PDX model is developed between first diagnosis and disease progression to identify target-drug candidates for use as second line of treatment at recurrence.
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Project description:The paper describes a model of glioblastoma.
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Modeling the Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme and Cancer Stem Cells with Ordinary Differential Equations
Kristen Abernathy and Jeremy Burke BMC
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine Volume 2016, Article ID 1239861, 11 pages
Abstract:
Despite improvements in cancer therapy and treatments, tumor recurrence is a common event in cancer patients. One explanation of recurrence is that cancer therapy focuses on treatment of tumor cells and does not eradicate cancer stem cells (CSCs). CSCs are postulated to behave similar to normal stem cells in that their role is to maintain homeostasis. That is, when the population of tumor cells is reduced or depleted by treatment, CSCs will repopulate the tumor, causing recurrence. In this paper, we study the application of the CSC Hypothesis to the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme by immunotherapy. We extend the work of Kogan et al. (2008) to incorporate the dynamics of CSCs, prove the existence of a recurrence state, and provide an analysis of possible cancerous states and their dependence on treatment levels.
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Project description:Pan and selective HDAC inhibition is synthetically lethal with TRAP1 inhibition in various model systems of glioblastoma, including patient derived xenograft (PDX) cells. Mechanistically, this occurs through several mechanisms, including the induction of metabolic stress by interference with tumor cell energy metabolism accompanied by modulation of pro- and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins and the induction of a cell death with apoptotic features.
Project description:Resistance to genotoxic therapies and tumor recurrence are hallmarks of glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive brain tumor. Here, we explore functional drivers of post-treatment recurrent GBM. By conducting genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screens in patient-derived GBM models, we uncover distinct genetic dependencies in recurrent tumor cells absent in their patient-matched primary predecessors, accompanied by increased mutational burden and differential transcript and protein expression. These analyses map a multilayered genetic response to drive tumor recurrence, identifying protein tyrosine phosphatase 4A2 (PTP4A2) as a novel modulator of self-renewal, proliferation and tumorigenicity at GBM recurrence. Genetic perturbation or small molecule inhibition of PTP4A2 activity represses axon guidance activity through a dephosphorylation axis with roundabout guidance receptor 1 (ROBO1), exploiting a functional dependency on ROBO signaling. Importantly, engineered anti-ROBO1 single-domain antibodies mimic effects of PTP4A2 inhibition. Since a pan-PTP4A inhibitor was limited by poor penetrance across the blood brain barrier (BBB) in vivo, a second-generation chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy was engineered against ROBO1 that elicits specific and potent anti-tumor responses in vivo. A single dose of anti-ROBO1 CAR-T cells doubles median survival in patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of recurrent glioblastoma, and also eradicates tumors in ~50% of mice in PDX models of adult lung-to-brain metastases and pediatric relapsed medulloblastoma. We conclude that functional reprogramming drives tumorigenicity and dependence on a multi-targetable PTP4A-ROBO1 signaling axis at GBM recurrence, with potential in other malignant brain tumors.