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Optimizing prevention and early detection of cancer requires understanding the number, types and timing of driver mutations. To quantify this, we exploited the elevated cancer incidence and mutation rates in germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 (gBRCA1/2) carriers. Using novel statistical models, we identify genomic deletions as the likely rate-limiting mutational processes, with 1-3 deletions required to initiate breast and ovarian tumors. gBRCA1/2 -driven hereditary and sporadic tumors undergo convergent evolution to develop a similar set of driver deletions, and deletions explain the elevated cancer risk of gBRCA1/2 -carriers. Orthogonal mutation timing analysis identifies deletions of chromosome 17 and 13q as early, recurrent events. Single-cell analyses confirmed deletion rate differences in gBRCA1/2 vs. non-carrier tumors as well as cells engineered to harbor gBRCA1/2 . The centrality of deletion-associated chromosomal instability to tumorigenesis shapes interpretation of the somatic evolution of non-malignant tissue and guides strategies for precision prevention and early detection.
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There are myriad types of biomedical data-molecular, clinical images, and others. When a group of patients with the same underlying disease exhibits similarities across multiple types of data, this is called a subtype. Existing subtyping approaches struggle to handle diverse data types with missing information. To improve subtype discovery, we exploited changes in the correlation-structure between different data types to create iSubGen, an algorithm for integrative subtype generation. iSubGen can accommodate any feature that can be compared with a similarity metric to create subtypes versatilely. It can combine arbitrary data types for subtype discovery, such as merging genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and pathway data. iSubGen recapitulates known subtypes across multiple cancers even with substantial missing data and identifies subtypes with distinct clinical behaviors. It performs equally with or superior to other subtyping methods, offering greater stability and robustness to missing data and flexibility to new data types. It is available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/iSubGen.
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Pretreatment prognostication, on-treatment monitoring, and early detection of physiological symptoms are considerable challenges in cancer. We describe the feasibility of high-resolution wearable data (steps per day, walking speed) to longitudinally profile physiological trajectories extracted from Apple Health data in three patients with lung cancer from diagnosis through cancer treatment after obtaining informed consent. We used descriptive statistics to describe our approach of building longitudinal physiological profiles. The wearable data monitoring period ranged from 58 to 135 weeks, with between 34,319 and 103,535 distinct digital physiological measures collected during this period-the equivalent to 41 measures per day/patient. Longitudinal profiling revealed that wearable data accurately captured physiological changes linked with clinical events such as surgery and hospitalizations as well as initiation (and cessation) of systemic cancer treatment in all three patients. These findings suggest that wearable devices could play a critical role in the management of lung cancer, although larger studies are needed to confirm these preliminary observations and validate their generalizability. Wearable devices hold significant promise for the development of personalized "digital biomarkers," which may enhance risk stratification and management in oncology.
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We developed and evaluated the Digital Platform for Exercise (DPEx): a decentralized, patient-centric approach designed to enhance all aspects of clinical investigation of exercise therapy. DPEx integrated provision of a treadmill with telemedicine and remote biospecimen collection permitting all study procedures to be conducted in patient's homes. Linked health biodevices enabled high-resolution monitoring of lifestyle and physiological response. Here we describe the rationale and development of DPEx as well as feasibility evaluation in three different cohorts of patients with cancer: a phase 0a development study among three women with post-treatment primary breast cancer; a phase 0b proof-of-concept trial of neoadjuvant exercise therapy in 13 patients with untreated solid tumors; and a phase 1a level-finding trial of neoadjuvant exercise therapy in 53 men with localized prostate cancer. Collectively, our study demonstrates the utility of a fully digital, decentralized approach to conduct clinical trials of exercise therapy in a clinical population.
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are heterogenous in size, biogenesis, cargo and function. Beside small EVs, aggressive tumor cells release a population of particularly large EVs, namely large oncosomes (LO). This study provides the first resource of label-free quantitative proteomics of LO and small EVs obtained from distinct cancer cell types (prostate, breast, and glioma). This dataset was integrated with a SWATH Proteomic assay on LO, rigorously isolated from the plasma of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PC). Proteins enriched in LO, which were identified also at the RNA level, and found in plasma LO significantly correlated with PC progression. Single EV RNA-Seq of the PC cell-derived LO confirmed some of the main findings from the bulk RNA-Seq, providing first evidence that single cell technologies can be successfully applied to EVs. This multiomics resource of cancer EVs can be leveraged for developing a multi-analyte approach for liquid biopsy.
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Summary: DNA sequencing is becoming more affordable and faster through advances in high-throughput technologies. This rise in data availability has contributed to the development of novel algorithms to elucidate previously obscure features and led to an increased reliance on complex workflows to integrate such tools into analyses pipelines. To facilitate the analysis of DNA sequencing data, we created metapipeline-DNA, a highly configurable and extensible pipeline. It encompasses a broad range of processing including raw sequencing read alignment and recalibration, variant calling, quality control and subclonal reconstruction. Metapipeline-DNA also contains configuration options to select and tune analyses while being robust to failures. This standardizes and simplifies the ability to analyze large DNA sequencing in both clinical and research settings. Availability: Metapipeline-DNA is an open-source Nextflow pipeline under the GPLv2 license and is freely available at https://github.com/uclahs-cds/metapipeline-DNA.
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Multifocal prostate cancer is a prevalent phenomenon, with most cases remaining uncharacterized from a genomic perspective. A patient presented with bilateral prostate cancer. On systematic biopsy, two indistinguishable clinicopathologic lesions were detected. Whole-genome sequencing displayed somatically unrelated tumours with distinct driver CNA regions, suggesting independent origins of the two tumors. We demonstrated that similar clinicopathologic multifocal tumours, which might be interpreted as clonal disease, can in fact represent independent cancers. Genetic prognostics can prevent mischaracterization of multifocal disease to enable optimal patient management.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We characterized tumor prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) levels as a reflection of cancer biology and treatment sensitivities for treatment-naïve prostate cancer. METHODS: We first correlated PSMA positron emission tomography (PET) maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) in primary prostate cancer with tumor FOLH1 (PSMA RNA abundance) to establish RNA as a proxy (n = 55). We then discovered and validated molecular pathways associated with PSMA RNA levels in two large primary tumor cohorts. We validated those associations in independent cohorts (18 total; 5684 tumor samples) to characterize the pathways and treatment responses associated with PSMA. KEY FINDINGS AND LIMITATIONS: PSMA RNA abundance correlates moderately with SUVmax (ρ = 0.41). In independent cohorts, androgen receptor signaling is more active in tumors with high PSMA. Accordingly, patients with high PSMA tumors experienced longer cancer-specific survival when managed with androgen deprivation therapy for biochemical recurrence (adjusted hazard ratio [AHR] 0.54 [0.34-0.87]; n = 174). PSMA low tumors possess molecular markers of resistance to radiotherapy. Consistent with this, patients with high PSMA tumors experience longer time to recurrence following primary radiotherapy (AHR 0.50 [0.28-0.90]; n = 248). In the SAKK09/10 trial (n = 224), patients with high PSMA tumors who were managed with salvage radiotherapy experienced longer time to progression in the 64-Gy arm (restricted mean survival time [RMST] +7.60 [0.05-15.16]), but this effect was mitigated in the 70-Gy arm (RMST 3.52 [-3.30 to 10.33]). Limitations include using PSMA RNA as a surrogate for PET SUVmax. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: PSMA levels in treatment-naïve prostate cancer differentiate tumor biology and treatment susceptibilities. These results warrant validation using PET metrics to substantiate management decisions based on imaging.
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Sarcomas are rare malignancies with over 100 distinct histological subtypes. Their rarity and heterogeneity pose significant challenges to identifying effective therapies, and approved regimens show varied responses. Novel, personalized approaches to therapy are needed to improve patient outcomes. Patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTOs) model tumor behavior across an array of malignancies. We leverage PDTOs to characterize the landscape of drug resistance and sensitivity in sarcoma, collecting 194 specimens from 126 patients spanning 24 distinct sarcoma subtypes. Our high-throughput organoid screening pipeline tested single agents and combinations, with results available within a week from surgery. Drug sensitivity correlated with clinical features such as tumor subtype, treatment history, and disease trajectory. PDTO screening can facilitate optimal drug selection and mirror patient outcomes in sarcoma. We could identify at least one FDA-approved or NCCN-recommended effective regimen for 59% of the specimens, demonstrating the potential of our pipeline to provide actionable treatment information.
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Resistencia a Antineoplásicos , Sarcoma , Humanos , Sarcoma/tratamiento farmacológico , Sarcoma/patología , Resistencia a Antineoplásicos/efectos de los fármacos , Organoides/efectos de los fármacos , Organoides/patología , Femenino , Masculino , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico , Persona de Mediana Edad , AdultoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Localized prostate tumors show significant spatial heterogeneity, with regions of high-grade disease adjacent to lower grade disease. Consequently, prostate cancer biopsies are prone to sampling bias, potentially leading to underestimation of tumor grade. To study the clinical, epidemiologic, and molecular hallmarks of this phenomenon, we conducted a prospective study of grade upgrading: differences in detected prostate cancer grade between biopsy and surgery. METHODS: We established a prospective, multi-institutional cohort of men with grade group 1 (GG1) prostate cancer on biopsy who underwent radical prostatectomy. Upgrading was defined as detection of GG2+ in the resected tumor. Germline DNA from 192 subjects was subjected to whole-genome sequencing to quantify ancestry, pathogenic variants in DNA damage response genes, and polygenic risk. RESULTS: Of 285 men, 67% upgraded at surgery. PSA density and percent of cancer in pre-prostatectomy positive biopsy cores were significantly associated with upgrading. No assessed genetic risk factor was predictive of upgrading, including polygenic risk scores for prostate cancer diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: In a cohort of patients with low-grade prostate cancer, a majority upgraded at radical prostatectomy. PSA density and percent of cancer in pre-prostatectomy positive biopsy cores portended the presence of higher-grade disease, while germline genetics was not informative in this setting. Patients with low-risk prostate cancer, but elevated PSA density or percent cancer in positive biopsy cores, may benefit from repeat biopsy, additional imaging or other approaches to complement active surveillance. IMPACT: Further risk stratification of patients with low-risk prostate cancer may provide useful context for active surveillance decision-making.
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Clasificación del Tumor , Prostatectomía , Neoplasias de la Próstata , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasias de la Próstata/genética , Neoplasias de la Próstata/cirugía , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Prostatectomía/métodos , Estudios Prospectivos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Factores de Riesgo , Anciano , Mutación de Línea GerminalRESUMEN
Background: Metastatic relapse of prostate cancer after radiotherapy is a significant cause of prostate cancer-related morbidity and mortality. PLOD2 is a mediator of invasion and metastasis that we identified as being upregulated in our highly aggressive radiorecurrent prostate cancer cell line. Methods: Patient dataset analysis was conducted using a variety of prostate cancer cohorts. Prostate cancer cell lines were treated with siRNA, or the drug PX-478 prior to in vitro invasion, migration, or in vivo chick embryo (CAM) extravasation assay. Protein levels were detected by western blot. For RNA analysis, RNA sequencing was conducted on PLOD2 knockdown cells and validated by qRT-PCR. Results: PLOD2 is a negative prognostic factor associated with biochemical relapse, driving invasion, migration, and extravasation in radiorecurrent prostate cancer. Mechanistically, HIF1α upregulation drives PLOD2 expression in our radiorecurrent prostate cancer cells, which is effectively inhibited by HIF1α inhibitor PX-478 to reduce invasion, migration, and extravasation. Finally, the long non-coding RNA LNCSRLR acts as a promoter of invasion downstream of PLOD2. Conclusions: Together, our results demonstrate for the first time the role of PLOD2 in radiorecurrent prostate cancer invasiveness, and point towards its potential as a therapeutic target to reduce metastasis and improve survival outcomes in prostate cancer patients.
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Prostate cancer is frequently treated with radiotherapy. Unfortunately, aggressive radioresistant relapses can arise, and the molecular underpinnings of radioresistance are unknown. Modern clinical radiotherapy is evolving to deliver higher doses of radiation in fewer fractions (hypofractionation). We therefore analyzed genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data to characterize prostate cancer radioresistance in cells treated with both conventionally fractionated and hypofractionated radiotherapy. Independent of fractionation schedule, resistance to radiotherapy involved massive genomic instability and abrogation of DNA mismatch repair. Specific prostate cancer driver genes were modulated at the RNA and protein levels, with distinct protein subcellular responses to radiotherapy. Conventional fractionation led to a far more aggressive biomolecular response than hypofractionation. Testing preclinical candidates identified in cell lines, we revealed POLQ (DNA Polymerase Theta) as a radiosensitizer. POLQ-modulated radioresistance in model systems and was predictive of it in large patient cohorts. The molecular response to radiation is highly multimodal and sheds light on prostate cancer lethality. SIGNIFICANCE: Radiation is standard of care in prostate cancer. Yet, we have little understanding of its failure. We demonstrate a new paradigm that radioresistance is fractionation specific and identified POLQ as a radioresistance modulator.
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Neoplasias de la Próstata , Proteogenómica , Tolerancia a Radiación , Masculino , Humanos , Neoplasias de la Próstata/radioterapia , Neoplasias de la Próstata/genética , Neoplasias de la Próstata/metabolismo , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Tolerancia a Radiación/genética , Proteogenómica/métodos , Línea Celular Tumoral , ADN Polimerasa theta , Inestabilidad Genómica , Reparación de la Incompatibilidad de ADN , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , ADN Polimerasa Dirigida por ADN/genética , ADN Polimerasa Dirigida por ADN/metabolismo , Hipofraccionamiento de la Dosis de RadiaciónRESUMEN
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: There is no consensus on de-escalation of monitoring during active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer (PCa). Our objective was to determine clinical criteria that can be used in decisions to reduce the intensity of AS monitoring. METHODS: The global prospective AS cohort from the Global Action Plan prostate cancer AS consortium was retrospectively analyzed. The 24656 patients with complete outcome data were considered. The primary goal was to develop a model identifying a subgroup with a high ratio of other-cause mortality (OCM) to PCa-specific mortality (PCSM). Nonparametric competing-risks models were used to estimate cause-specific mortality. We hypothesized that the subgroup with the highest OCM/PCSM ratio would be good candidates for de-escalation of AS monitoring. KEY FINDINGS AND LIMITATIONS: Cumulative mortality at 15 yr, accounting for censoring, was 1.3% for PCSM, 11.5% for OCM, and 18.7% for death from unknown causes. We identified body mass index (BMI) >25 kg/m2 and <11% positive cores at initial biopsy as an optimal set of criteria for discriminating OCM from PCSM. The 15-yr OCM/PCSM ratio was 34.2 times higher for patients meeting these criteria than for those not meeting the criteria. According to these criteria, 37% of the cohort would be eligible for de-escalation of monitoring. Limitations include the retrospective nature of the study and the lack of external validation. CONCLUSIONS: Our study identified BMI >25 kg/m2 and <11% positive cores at initial biopsy as clinical criteria for de-escalation of AS monitoring in PCa. PATIENT SUMMARY: We investigated factors that could help in deciding on when to reduce the intensity of monitoring for patients on active surveillance for prostate cancer. We found that patients with higher BMI (body mass index) and lower prostate cancer volume may be good candidates for less intensive monitoring. This model could help doctors and patients in making decisions on active surveillance for prostate cancer.
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Importance: Observational data have shown that postdiagnosis exercise is associated with reduced risk of prostate cancer death. The feasibility and tumor biological activity of exercise therapy is not known. Objective: To identify recommended phase 2 dose of exercise therapy for patients with prostate cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants: This single-center, phase 1a dose-finding trial was conducted at a tertiary cancer center using a patientcentric, decentralized platform and included 53 inactive men with treatment-naive localized prostate cancer scheduled to undergo surgical resection between June 2019 and January 2023. Data were analyzed in June 2024. Intervention: Six escalated exercise therapy dose levels ranging from 90 to 450 minutes per week of individualized, moderate-intensity treadmill walking, allocated using adaptive continual reassessment. All exercise therapy sessions were conducted remotely with real-time monitoring. Main Outcomes and Measures: Feasibility was evaluated by relative exercise dose intensity (REDI). A dose level was considered feasible if 70% or more of patients achieved an REDI of 75% or greater. Activity end points were changes in tumor cell proliferation (Ki67) and plasma prostate-specific antigen levels between pretreatment and postintervention. Safety and changes in patient physiology were also assessed. Results: A total of 53 men were enrolled (median [IQR] age, 61 [56-66] years). All dose levels were feasible (≥75% REDI). The mean (95% CI) changes in Ki67 were 5.0% (-4.3% to 14.0%) for 90 minutes per week, 2.4% (-1.3% to 6.2%) for 150 minutes per week, -1.3% (-5.8% to 3.3%) for 225 minutes per week, -0.2% (-4.0% to 3.7%) for 300 minutes per week, -2.6% (-9.2% to 4.1%) for 375 minutes per week, and 2.2% (-0.8% to 5.1%) for 450 minutes per week. Changes in prostate-specific antigen levels were 1.0 ng/mL (-1.8 to 3.8) for 90 minutes per week, 0.2 ng/mL (-1.1 to 1.5) for 150 minutes per week, -0.5 ng/mL (-1.2 to 0.3) for 225 minutes per week, -0.2 (-1.7 to 1.3) for 300 minutes per week, -0.7 ng/mL (-1.7 to 0.4) for 375 minutes per week, and -0.9 ng/mL (-2.4 to 0.7) for 450 minutes per week. No serious adverse events were observed. Overall, 225 minutes per week (approximately 45 minutes per treatment at 5 times weekly) was selected as the recommended phase 2 dose. Conclusions and Relevance: The results of this nonrandomized clinical trial suggest that neoadjuvant exercise therapy is feasible and safe with promising activity in localized prostate cancer. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03813615.
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Terapia por Ejercicio , Terapia Neoadyuvante , Neoplasias de la Próstata , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasias de la Próstata/terapia , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Anciano , Persona de Mediana Edad , Terapia por Ejercicio/métodos , Antígeno Prostático Específico/sangre , Antígeno Ki-67/análisis , Antígeno Ki-67/metabolismo , Resultado del Tratamiento , Estudios de FactibilidadRESUMEN
PURPOSE: To characterize the relationship between Decipher genomic classifier scores and prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)-based metastatic spread. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We identified patients from four institutions who underwent PSMA PET/CT scans pretreatment for primary staging or postradical prostatectomy (RP) for suspected recurrence and had Decipher transcriptomic data available from biopsy or RP specimens. PSMA PET/CT-based patterns of spread were classified as localized (miT + N0M0) or nonlocalized (miN1M0 or miM1a-c). We calculated the association between Decipher scores and the risk of nonlocalized disease on PSMA PET/CT using multivariable logistic regression for pretreatment patients and multivariable Cox regression for post-RP patients. We also compared select transcriptomic signatures between patients with localized and nonlocalized diseases. RESULTS: Five hundred eighty-six patients were included (pretreatment: n = 329; post-RP: n = 257). Higher Decipher scores were associated with nonlocalized disease on PSMA PET/CT both pretreatment (odds ratio, 1.18 [95% CI, 1.03 to 1.36] per 0.1 increase in Decipher score, P = .02) and post-RP (hazard ratio, 1.15 [95% CI, 1.05 to 1.27] per 0.1 increase in Decipher score, P = .003). In the pretreatment setting, nonlocalized disease was associated with higher rates of TP53 mutations and lower rates of PAM50 luminal A subtype compared with localized disease. In the post-RP setting, overexpression of signatures related to metabolism, DNA repair, and androgen receptor signaling were associated with higher rates of nonlocalized disease. CONCLUSION: Higher Decipher scores were associated with nonlocalized disease identified on PSMA PET/CT both pretreatment and post-RP. There were several transcriptomic differences between localized and nonlocalized diseases in both settings.
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Perfilación de la Expresión Génica , Tomografía Computarizada por Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones , Neoplasias de la Próstata , Humanos , Masculino , Tomografía Computarizada por Tomografía de Emisión de Positrones/métodos , Neoplasias de la Próstata/genética , Neoplasias de la Próstata/diagnóstico por imagen , Neoplasias de la Próstata/patología , Estudios Retrospectivos , Anciano , Persona de Mediana Edad , Glutamato Carboxipeptidasa II/genética , Antígenos de Superficie/genética , TranscriptomaRESUMEN
MOTIVATION: Software is vital for the advancement of biology and medicine. Impact evaluations of scientific software have primarily emphasized traditional citation metrics of associated papers, despite these metrics inadequately capturing the dynamic picture of impact and despite challenges with improper citation. RESULTS: To understand how software developers evaluate their tools, we conducted a survey of participants in the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) program funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). We found that although developers realize the value of more extensive metric collection, they find a lack of funding and time hindering. We also investigated software among this community for how often infrastructure that supports more nontraditional metrics were implemented and how this impacted rates of papers describing usage of the software. We found that infrastructure such as social media presence, more in-depth documentation, the presence of software health metrics, and clear information on how to contact developers seemed to be associated with increased mention rates. Analysing more diverse metrics can enable developers to better understand user engagement, justify continued funding, identify novel use cases, pinpoint improvement areas, and ultimately amplify their software's impact. Challenges are associated, including distorted or misleading metrics, as well as ethical and security concerns. More attention to nuances involved in capturing impact across the spectrum of biomedical software is needed. For funders and developers, we outline guidance based on experience from our community. By considering how we evaluate software, we can empower developers to create tools that more effectively accelerate biological and medical research progress. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: More information about the analysis, as well as access to data and code is available at https://github.com/fhdsl/ITCR_Metrics_manuscript_website.
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Investigación Biomédica , Programas Informáticos , Investigación Biomédica/métodos , Humanos , Estados Unidos , Biología Computacional/métodosRESUMEN
Comprehensive N6-methyladenosine (m6A) epitranscriptomic profiling of primary tumors remains largely uncharted. Here, we profiled the m6A epitranscriptome of 10 nonneoplastic lung tissues and 51 lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) tumors, integrating the corresponding transcriptomic, proteomic, and extensive clinical annotations. We identified distinct clusters and genes that were exclusively linked to disease progression through m6A modifications. In comparison with nonneoplastic lung tissues, we identified 430 transcripts to be hypo-methylated and 222 to be hyper-methylated in tumors. Among these genes, EML4 emerged as a novel metastatic driver, displaying significant hypermethylation in tumors. m6A modification promoted the translation of EML4, leading to its widespread overexpression in primary tumors. Functionally, EML4 modulated cytoskeleton dynamics by interacting with ARPC1A, enhancing lamellipodia formation, cellular motility, local invasion, and metastasis. Clinically, high EML4 protein abundance correlated with features of metastasis. METTL3 small-molecule inhibitor markedly diminished both EML4 m6A and protein abundance and efficiently suppressed lung metastases in vivo. Significance: Our study reveals a dynamic and functional epitranscriptomic landscape in LUAD, offering a valuable resource for further research in the field. We identified EML4 hypermethylation as a key driver of tumor metastasis, highlighting a novel therapeutic strategy of targeting EML4 to prevent LUAD metastasis.
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Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón , Adenosina , Neoplasias Pulmonares , Transcriptoma , Humanos , Adenosina/análogos & derivados , Adenosina/metabolismo , Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón/genética , Adenocarcinoma del Pulmón/patología , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patología , Ratones , Animales , Epigénesis Genética , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Línea Celular TumoralRESUMEN
Subclonal reconstruction algorithms use bulk DNA sequencing data to quantify parameters of tumor evolution, allowing an assessment of how cancers initiate, progress and respond to selective pressures. We launched the ICGC-TCGA (International Cancer Genome Consortium-The Cancer Genome Atlas) DREAM Somatic Mutation Calling Tumor Heterogeneity and Evolution Challenge to benchmark existing subclonal reconstruction algorithms. This 7-year community effort used cloud computing to benchmark 31 subclonal reconstruction algorithms on 51 simulated tumors. Algorithms were scored on seven independent tasks, leading to 12,061 total runs. Algorithm choice influenced performance substantially more than tumor features but purity-adjusted read depth, copy-number state and read mappability were associated with the performance of most algorithms on most tasks. No single algorithm was a top performer for all seven tasks and existing ensemble strategies were unable to outperform the best individual methods, highlighting a key research need. All containerized methods, evaluation code and datasets are available to support further assessment of the determinants of subclonal reconstruction accuracy and development of improved methods to understand tumor evolution.
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Urine is a complex biofluid that reflects both overall physiologic state and the state of the genitourinary tissues through which it passes. It contains both secreted proteins and proteins encapsulated in tissue-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs). To understand the population variability and clinical utility of urine, we quantified the secreted and EV proteomes from 190 men, including a subset with prostate cancer. We demonstrate that a simple protocol enriches prostatic proteins in urine. Secreted and EV proteins arise from different subcellular compartments. Urinary EVs are faithful surrogates of tissue proteomes, but secreted proteins in urine or cell line EVs are not. The urinary proteome is longitudinally stable over several years. It can accurately and non-invasively distinguish malignant from benign prostatic lesions and can risk-stratify prostate tumors. This resource quantifies the complexity of the urinary proteome and reveals the synergistic value of secreted and EV proteomes for translational and biomarker studies.