Project description:Residual disease represents a major obstacle to the successful treatment of breast cancer, however little is known about the biology of residual tumor cells in vivo. To identify genes differentially expressed in vivo in residual tumor cells compared to primary tumor cells or recurrent tumor cells, we used flow cytometry to isolate GFP-labeled tumor cells from primary, residual, or recurrent tumors grown orthotopically in nu/nu mice. WTA was used to amplify RNA from all tumor cells.
Project description:Residual disease represents a major obstacle to the successful treatment of breast cancer, however little is known about the biology of residual tumor cells in vivo. To identify genes differentially expressed in vivo in residual tumor cells compared to primary tumor cells or recurrent tumor cells, we used flow cytometry to isolate GFP-labeled tumor cells from primary, residual, or recurrent tumors grown orthotopically in nu/nu mice. WTA was used to amplify RNA from all tumor cells.
Project description:Subcutanesouly tumors from both Bmal1+/+ and Bmal1-/- mice were used to isolated stromal vascular fractions (SVF). Tumor cells with GFP+ signals were exclusive. Remain GFP- cells were collected to do RNAseq.
Project description:This paper presents a T-cell receptor (TCR) reactive to the recurrent D835Y driver mutation in the FLT3 tyrosine-kinase domain. TCRFLT3D/Y-redirected T cells selectively eliminated primary human AML cells harboring the D835Y mutation in vitro and in vivo. The TCRFLT3D/Y cells rejected both CD34+ and CD34- AML in mice engrafted with primary leukemia from patients, reaching minimal residual disease negative levels, and eliminated primary CD34+ AML leukemia-propagating cells in vivo. Thus, T cells targeting a single shared mutation can provide efficient immunotherapy towards selective elimination of clonally involved primary AML cells in vivo.
