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Article: Pro-metastatic and mesenchymal gene expression signatures characterize circulating tumor cells of neuroblastoma patients with bone marrow metastases and relapse
Title | Pro-metastatic and mesenchymal gene expression signatures characterize circulating tumor cells of neuroblastoma patients with bone marrow metastases and relapse |
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Keywords | bone marrow metastasis circulating tumor cells microfluidic minimal residual disease neuroblastoma |
Issue Date | 13-Sep-2022 |
Publisher | Frontiers Media |
Citation | Frontiers in Oncology, 2022, v. 12 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Existing marker-based methods of minimal residual disease (MRD) determination in neuroblastoma do not effectively enrich for the circulating disease cell population. Given the relative size differential of neuroblastoma tumor cells over normal hematogenous cells, we hypothesized that cell size-based separation could enrich circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples and disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) from bone marrow aspirates (BMA) of neuroblastoma patients, and that their gene expression profiles could vary dynamically with various disease states over the course of treatment. Using a spiral microfluidic chip, peripheral blood of 17 neuroblastoma patients at 3 serial treatment timepoints (diagnosis, n=17; post-chemotherapy, n=11; and relapse, n=3), and bone marrow samples at diagnosis were enriched for large intact circulating cells. Profiling the resulting enriched samples with immunohistochemistry and mRNA expression of 1490 cancer-related genes via NanoString, 13 of 17 samples contained CTCs displaying cytologic atypia, TH and PHOX2B expression and/or upregulation of cancer-associated genes. Gene signatures reflecting pro-metastatic processes and the neuroblastoma mesenchymal super-enhancer state were consistently upregulated in 7 of 13 samples, 6 of which also had metastatic high-risk disease. Expression of 8 genes associated with PI3K and GCPR signaling were significantly upregulated in CTCs of patients with bone marrow metastases versus patients without. Correspondingly, in patients with marrow metastases, differentially-expressed gene signatures reflected upregulation of immune regulation in bone marrow DTCs versus paired CTCs samples. In patients who later developed disease relapse, 5 genes involved in immune cell regulation, JAK/STAT signaling and the neuroblastoma mesenchymal super-enhancer state (OLFML2B, STAT1, ARHGDIB, STAB1, TLR2) were upregulated in serial CTC samples over their disease course, despite urinary catecholamines and bone marrow aspirates not indicating the disease recurrences. In summary, using a label-free cell size-based separation method, we enriched and characterized intact circulating cells in peripheral blood indicative of neuroblastoma CTCs, as well as their DTC counterparts in the bone marrow. Expression profiles of pro-metastatic genes in CTCs correlated with the presence of bone marrow metastases at diagnosis, while longitudinal profiling identified persistently elevated expression of genes in CTCs that may serve as novel predictive markers of hematogenous MRD in neuroblastoma patients that subsequently relapse. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337439 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 5.738 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.834 |
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dc.contributor.author | Loh, Amos H P | - |
dc.contributor.author | Angelina, Clara | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wong, Meng Kang | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tan, Sheng Hui | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sukhatme, Sarvesh A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yeo, Trifanny | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lim, Su Bin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, York Tien | - |
dc.contributor.author | Soh, Shui Yen | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, Wing | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chang, Kenneth T E | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chua, Yong Wei | - |
dc.contributor.author | Alkaff, Syed M F | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lim, Tony K H | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lim, Chwee Teck | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Zhi Xiong | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:20:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:20:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-13 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Frontiers in Oncology, 2022, v. 12 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2234-943X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337439 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Existing marker-based methods of minimal residual disease (MRD) determination in neuroblastoma do not effectively enrich for the circulating disease cell population. Given the relative size differential of neuroblastoma tumor cells over normal hematogenous cells, we hypothesized that cell size-based separation could enrich circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples and disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) from bone marrow aspirates (BMA) of neuroblastoma patients, and that their gene expression profiles could vary dynamically with various disease states over the course of treatment. Using a spiral microfluidic chip, peripheral blood of 17 neuroblastoma patients at 3 serial treatment timepoints (diagnosis, n=17; post-chemotherapy, n=11; and relapse, n=3), and bone marrow samples at diagnosis were enriched for large intact circulating cells. Profiling the resulting enriched samples with immunohistochemistry and mRNA expression of 1490 cancer-related genes <em>via</em> NanoString, 13 of 17 samples contained CTCs displaying cytologic atypia, TH and PHOX2B expression and/or upregulation of cancer-associated genes. Gene signatures reflecting pro-metastatic processes and the neuroblastoma mesenchymal super-enhancer state were consistently upregulated in 7 of 13 samples, 6 of which also had metastatic high-risk disease. Expression of 8 genes associated with PI3K and GCPR signaling were significantly upregulated in CTCs of patients with bone marrow metastases versus patients without. Correspondingly, in patients with marrow metastases, differentially-expressed gene signatures reflected upregulation of immune regulation in bone marrow DTCs versus paired CTCs samples. In patients who later developed disease relapse, 5 genes involved in immune cell regulation, JAK/STAT signaling and the neuroblastoma mesenchymal super-enhancer state (OLFML2B, STAT1, ARHGDIB, STAB1, TLR2) were upregulated in serial CTC samples over their disease course, despite urinary catecholamines and bone marrow aspirates not indicating the disease recurrences. In summary, using a label-free cell size-based separation method, we enriched and characterized intact circulating cells in peripheral blood indicative of neuroblastoma CTCs, as well as their DTC counterparts in the bone marrow. Expression profiles of pro-metastatic genes in CTCs correlated with the presence of bone marrow metastases at diagnosis, while longitudinal profiling identified persistently elevated expression of genes in CTCs that may serve as novel predictive markers of hematogenous MRD in neuroblastoma patients that subsequently relapse.<br></p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Oncology | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | bone marrow metastasis | - |
dc.subject | circulating tumor cells | - |
dc.subject | microfluidic | - |
dc.subject | minimal residual disease | - |
dc.subject | neuroblastoma | - |
dc.title | Pro-metastatic and mesenchymal gene expression signatures characterize circulating tumor cells of neuroblastoma patients with bone marrow metastases and relapse | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fonc.2022.939460 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85138923989 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2234-943X | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2234-943X | - |