Phenotype Heterogeneity and Dynamics in SCLC

SCLC 的表型异质性和动态

基本信息

批准号：
10375418
负责人：
Vito Quaranta
金额：
$ 154.69万
依托单位：
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-04-13 至 2024-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10375418
关键词：
Address Aftercare Automobile Driving Biological Models CD44 gene Cancer Biology Cancer cell line Cell Communication Cell Shape Cell model Cells Cellular Morphology Cellular biology Collaborations Communication Complex Cytometry DNA Sequence Alteration Data Data Analyses Ecosystem Educational workshop Epigenetic Process Exhibits Experimental Models Genes Genetic Genetically Engineered Mouse Genotype Goals Health Heterogeneity Human Human Engineering Information Systems Knowledge Leadership Logic Malignant Neoplasms Measurement Measures Mediating Methods Mission Modeling Molecular Morphologic artifacts Mutation Oncology Outcome Pathologic Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacotherapy Phenotype Physiological Population Dynamics Predisposition Process Production Property Publications Recurrence Relapse Research Personnel Resource Sharing Role Side Site Source System Systems Biology TP53 gene Technology Testing Thinking Tissues Treatment Failure Universities Variant base cancer cell cancer heterogeneity cancer therapy cancer type cell behavior chemoradiation computerized tools data exchange design drug sensitivity effective therapy exosome experimental study high dimensionality improved innovation lung small cell carcinoma mathematical model meetings mouse model multidimensional data neoplastic cell non-genetic novel online course outreach outreach program programs resistance mutation response single cell analysis single cell technology single-cell RNA sequencing success symposium therapy resistant tool transcriptomics treatment strategy tumor tumor heterogeneity virtual web site

项目摘要

Heterogeneity is a pervasive feature of cancer, central to progression and therapy failure. Both genetic and nongenetic factors, cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions contribute to tumor cell phenotypic variation. Thus, heterogeneity is a complex multiscale problem difficult to study by reductionist approaches but well suited to systems thinking. A mechanistic, system-level understanding of heterogeneity would spawn fundamental advances in cancer treatment strategies. Major challenges include definition of relevant tumor cell phenotypes, phenotype dynamics emergence from single-cell behavior and interactions, and effective targeting strategies. In our Center, we will use systems biology approaches to tackle these challenges, focusing on small cell lung cancer (SCLC), in which the impact of intratumor heterogeneity is particularly compelling. Thus, SCLC tumors, while histo-pathologically homogeneous with classic “small blue round cell” morphology, are comprised of phenotypic subpopulations (e.g., tumor-propagating cells; Hes1+ cells; CD44+ cells) that cooperate to form a tumor ecosystem adaptive to drug treatment. In SCLC genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) and patient tumors, accumulated genetic alterations (e.g., MYC amplification, NOTCH mutations) may bias phenotypic compositions and consequent drug sensitivity, underscoring the combined role of genetic and nongenetic sources. The overall goal of our proposed Center is a system-level understanding of the impact of SCLC phenotype heterogeneity in drug evasion, that will open avenues to novel treatment strategies. In two highly integrated Projects, we will combine experimentation with mathematical modeling to generate a comprehensive blueprint of SCLC phenotypic space and identify complex phenotype dynamics underlying treatment resistance. Project 1 will use high-dimensional cytometry and transcriptomics data to define human and GEMM core SCLC phenotypes, their susceptibility to genomic alteration bias, and their drug response plasticity. Project 2 will study SCLC phenotype dynamics initiated by cell-cell and secreted factors or exosomes in SCLC tumor ecosystems, using models of cell population dynamics driving tumor aggressiveness. Projects will be supported by a Single-Cell Biology and Data Analysis Shared Resource equipped with a vast palette of state-of-the-art single-cell technologies, including mass cytometry, scRNA-Seq and multidimensional data analysis. The Center will be located at Vanderbilt University and a satellite site at Stanford contributing highly-regarded SCLC GEMMs. Experimental systems will encompass human and GEMM SCLC cell lines and tumors. Our Center investigators have a track record of co-authored publications in SCLC and/or systems biology. The Administrative Core will provide leadership and communication across the Center while the Outreach Core will promote collaborations and disseminate knowledge and tools on SCLC and cancer heterogeneity. We expect that iteration between experiments and modeling will bring about a system-level understanding of SCLC tumor heterogeneity with lessons generally applicable to any cancer type.

异质性是癌症的普遍特征，是进展和治疗衰竭的核心。遗传和非固定因子，细胞 - 细胞和细胞 - 微环境相互作用有助于肿瘤细胞表型变异。这是，异质性是一个复杂的多尺度问题，难以通过还原主义的方法研究，但是很好适合系统思考。机械级别对异质性的理解将产生癌症治疗策略的基本进展。主要挑战包括定义相关的肿瘤细胞表型，单细胞行为和相互作用的表型动力学出现以及有效的靶向策略。在我们的中心，我们将使用系统生物学方法来应对这些挑战，重点关注小细胞肺癌（SCLC），其中肿瘤内异质性的影响特别令人信服。那， SCLC肿瘤虽然与经典的“小蓝色圆形细胞”形态的历史病理学同质性是积累了表型亚群（例如，肿瘤传播细胞； HES1+细胞； CD44+细胞）合作形成适应药物治疗的肿瘤生态系统。在SCLC基因设计的鼠标中模型（GEMM）和患者肿瘤，积累的遗传改变（例如MYC扩增，Notch 突变）可能会偏向表型组成和随之而来的药物敏感性，强调合并作用遗传和非核源。我们提议的中心的总体目标是系统级的理解 SCLC表型异质性在药物进化中的影响，这将为新治疗开放途径策略。在两个高度集成的项目中，我们将实验与数学建模相结合生成SCLC表型空间的全面蓝图并识别复杂的表型动力学潜在的治疗耐药性。项目1将使用高维细胞仪和转录组学数据定义人和GEMM核心SCLC表型，它们对基因组改变偏见的敏感性及其药物响应可塑性。项目2将研究由细胞细胞和分泌因素引发的SCLC表型动力学或 SCLC肿瘤生态系统中的外泌体，使用驱动肿瘤侵袭性的细胞种群动力学模型。项目将得到单细胞生物学和数据分析共享资源，配备了广泛的资源最先进的单细胞技术的调色板，包括质量细胞术，SCRNA-SEQ和多维数据分析。该中心将位于范德比尔特大学和斯坦福大学的卫星站点备受推崇的SCLC Gemms。实验系统将涵盖人类和GEMM SCLC细胞系以及肿瘤。我们的中心调查人员在SCLC和/或系统中拥有共同作品的出版物的记录生物学。行政核心将在中心提供领导和沟通外展核心将促进合作，并传播有关SCLC和癌症的知识和工具异质性。我们希望实验和建模之间的迭代将带来系统级通常适用于任何癌症类型的课程，了解SCLC肿瘤异质性。