TY - JOUR
T1 - Comprehensive Drug Testing of Patient-derived Conditionally Reprogrammed Cells from Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer
AU - Saeed, Khalid
AU - Rahkama, Vesa
AU - Eldfors, Samuli
AU - Bychkov, Dmitry
AU - Mpindi, John Patrick
AU - Yadav, Bhagwan
AU - Paavolainen, Lassi
AU - Aittokallio, Tero
AU - Heckman, Caroline
AU - Wennerberg, Krister
AU - Peehl, Donna M
AU - Horvath, Peter
AU - Mirtti, Tuomas
AU - Rannikko, Antti
AU - Kallioniemi, Olli
AU - Östling, Päivi
AU - Af Hällström, Taija M
N1 - Copyright © 2016 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: Technology development to enable the culture of human prostate cancer (PCa) progenitor cells is required for the identification of new, potentially curative therapies for PCa.OBJECTIVE: We established and characterized patient-derived conditionally reprogrammed cells (CRCs) to assess their biological properties and to apply these to test the efficacies of drugs.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: CRCs were established from seven patient samples with disease ranging from primary PCa to advanced castration-resistant PCa (CRPC). The CRCs were characterized by genomic, transcriptomic, protein expression, and drug profiling.OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: The phenotypic quantification of the CRCs was done based on immunostaining followed by image analysis with Advanced Cell Classifier using Random Forest supervised machine learning. Copy number aberrations (CNAs) were called from whole-exome sequencing and transcriptomics using in-house pipelines. Dose-response measurements were used to generate multiparameter drug sensitivity scores using R-statistical language.RESULTS AND LIMITATIONS: We generated six benign CRC cultures which all had an androgen receptor-negative, basal/transit-amplifying phenotype with few CNAs. In three-dimensional cell culture, these cells could re-express the androgen receptor. The CRCs from a CRPC patient (HUB.5) displayed multiple CNAs, many of which were shared with the parental tumor. We carried out high-throughput drug-response studies with 306 emerging and clinical cancer drugs. Using the benign CRCs as controls, we identified the Bcl-2 family inhibitor navitoclax as the most potent cancer-specific drug for the CRCs from a CRPC patient. Other drug efficacies included taxanes, mepacrine, and retinoids.CONCLUSIONS: Comprehensive cancer pharmacopeia-wide drug testing of CRCs from a CRPC patient highlighted both known and novel drug sensitivities in PCa, including navitoclax, which is currently being tested in clinical trials of CRPC.PATIENT SUMMARY: We describe an approach to generate patient-derived cancer cells from advanced prostate cancer and apply such cells to discover drugs that could be applied in clinical trials for castration-resistant prostate cancer.
AB - BACKGROUND: Technology development to enable the culture of human prostate cancer (PCa) progenitor cells is required for the identification of new, potentially curative therapies for PCa.OBJECTIVE: We established and characterized patient-derived conditionally reprogrammed cells (CRCs) to assess their biological properties and to apply these to test the efficacies of drugs.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: CRCs were established from seven patient samples with disease ranging from primary PCa to advanced castration-resistant PCa (CRPC). The CRCs were characterized by genomic, transcriptomic, protein expression, and drug profiling.OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: The phenotypic quantification of the CRCs was done based on immunostaining followed by image analysis with Advanced Cell Classifier using Random Forest supervised machine learning. Copy number aberrations (CNAs) were called from whole-exome sequencing and transcriptomics using in-house pipelines. Dose-response measurements were used to generate multiparameter drug sensitivity scores using R-statistical language.RESULTS AND LIMITATIONS: We generated six benign CRC cultures which all had an androgen receptor-negative, basal/transit-amplifying phenotype with few CNAs. In three-dimensional cell culture, these cells could re-express the androgen receptor. The CRCs from a CRPC patient (HUB.5) displayed multiple CNAs, many of which were shared with the parental tumor. We carried out high-throughput drug-response studies with 306 emerging and clinical cancer drugs. Using the benign CRCs as controls, we identified the Bcl-2 family inhibitor navitoclax as the most potent cancer-specific drug for the CRCs from a CRPC patient. Other drug efficacies included taxanes, mepacrine, and retinoids.CONCLUSIONS: Comprehensive cancer pharmacopeia-wide drug testing of CRCs from a CRPC patient highlighted both known and novel drug sensitivities in PCa, including navitoclax, which is currently being tested in clinical trials of CRPC.PATIENT SUMMARY: We describe an approach to generate patient-derived cancer cells from advanced prostate cancer and apply such cells to discover drugs that could be applied in clinical trials for castration-resistant prostate cancer.
KW - Aniline Compounds/pharmacology
KW - Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
KW - Cellular Reprogramming Techniques
KW - Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
KW - High-Throughput Screening Assays
KW - Humans
KW - Kallikreins/metabolism
KW - Keratin-18/metabolism
KW - Keratin-5/metabolism
KW - Male
KW - Organoplatinum Compounds/pharmacology
KW - Precision Medicine
KW - Prostate-Specific Antigen/metabolism
KW - Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant/drug therapy
KW - Quinacrine/pharmacology
KW - Receptors, Androgen/metabolism
KW - Sulfonamides/pharmacology
KW - Tetrahydronaphthalenes/pharmacology
KW - Tretinoin/pharmacology
KW - Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects
U2 - 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.04.019
DO - 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.04.019
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27160946
SN - 1828-6569
VL - 71
SP - 319
EP - 327
JO - European Urology (Italian Edition)
JF - European Urology (Italian Edition)
IS - 3
ER -