Exploiting convergent phenotypes to derive a pan-cancer cisplatin response gene expression signature.


Journal

NPJ precision oncology
ISSN: 2397-768X
Titre abrégé: NPJ Precis Oncol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101708166

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Apr 2023
Historique:
received: 30 09 2022
accepted: 21 03 2023
medline: 20 4 2023
pubmed: 20 4 2023
entrez: 19 04 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Precision medicine offers remarkable potential for the treatment of cancer, but is largely focused on tumors that harbor actionable mutations. Gene expression signatures can expand the scope of precision medicine by predicting response to traditional (cytotoxic) chemotherapy agents without relying on changes in mutational status. We present a new signature extraction method, inspired by the principle of convergent phenotypes, which states that tumors with disparate genetic backgrounds may evolve similar phenotypes independently. This evolutionary-informed method can be utilized to produce consensus signatures predictive of response to over 200 chemotherapeutic drugs found in the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) Database. Here, we demonstrate its use by extracting the Cisplatin Response Signature (CisSig). We show that this signature can predict cisplatin response within carcinoma-based cell lines from the GDSC database, and expression of the signatures aligns with clinical trends seen in independent datasets of tumor samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Total Cancer Care (TCC) database. Finally, we demonstrate preliminary validation of CisSig for use in muscle-invasive bladder cancer, predicting overall survival in a small cohort of patients who undergo cisplatin-containing chemotherapy. This methodology can be used to produce robust signatures that, with further clinical validation, may be used for the prediction of traditional chemotherapeutic response, dramatically increasing the reach of personalized medicine in cancer.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37076665
doi: 10.1038/s41698-023-00375-y
pii: 10.1038/s41698-023-00375-y
pmc: PMC10115855
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

38

Subventions

Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : L30 CA162069
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : R37 CA244613
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : F30 CA257076
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : U54 CA274513
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Jessica A Scarborough (JA)

Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Department, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Steven A Eschrich (SA)

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.

Javier Torres-Roca (J)

Department of Radiation Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.

Andrew Dhawan (A)

Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. dhawana@ccf.org.

Jacob G Scott (JG)

Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Department, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. scottj10@ccf.org.
Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. scottj10@ccf.org.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. scottj10@ccf.org.

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