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Organoid cultures recapitulate esophageal adenocarcinoma heterogeneity providing a model for clonality studies and precision therapeutics

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Li, Xiaodun, Francies, Hayley E., Secrier, Maria, Perner, Juliane, Miremadi, Ahmad, Galeano-Dalmau, Núria, Barendt, William J., Letchford, Laura +15 more·2018·Nature Communications

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Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) incidence is increasing while 5-year survival rates remain less than 15%. A lack of experimental models has hampered progress. We have generated clinically annotated EAC organoid cultures that recapitulate the morphology, genomic, and transcriptomic landscape of the primary tumor including point mutations, copy number alterations, and mutational signatures. Karyotyping of organoid cultures has confirmed polyclonality reflecting the clonal architecture of the primary tumor. Furthermore, subclones underwent clonal selection associated with driver gene status. Medium throughput drug sensitivity testing demonstrates the potential of targeting receptor tyrosine kinases and downstream mediators. EAC organoid cultures provide a pre-clinical tool for studies of clonal evolution and precision therapeutics.

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  • RNAseq has shown that organoids have gene expression profiles similar to the tumors from which they were established across many tumor types, including bladder and esophageal cancer.

    “This has been shown by RNAseq on many tumor types including bladder cancer128 and esophageal cancer129 amongst others.”

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Li, X., Francies, H. E., Secrier, M., Perner, J., Miremadi, A., Galeano-Dalmau, N., Barendt, W. J., Letchford, L., Leyden, G. M., Goffin, E. K., Barthorpe, A., Lightfoot, H., Chen, E., Gilbert, J., Noorani, A., Devonshire, G., Bower, L., Grantham, A., MacRae, S., Grehan, N., Wedge, D. C., Fitzgerald, R. C., & Garnett, M. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • AstraZeneca (United Kingdom) (GB)
  • Cancer Research UK (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Fitzgerald, Rebecca C.
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2018-07-30
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
2983-2983
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2884074563
Cited by
316
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 2
FWCI
29.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders
  • Medical Research Council (RG84369)
  • DH | National Institute for Health Research (RG67258)
  • Cancer Research UK (RG66287, C44943/A22536)
  • Wellcome Trust (102696)
  • EIF | Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C-AACR-DT1213)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Keywords
esophageal adenocarcinoma, organoid culture, tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution, polyclonality, subclonal selection, driver genes, mutational signatures, copy number alterations, drug susceptibility testing, receptor tyrosine kinase, precision therapy
MeSH terms
Adenocarcinoma, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, DNA Mutational Analysis, Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor, Esophageal Neoplasms, Female, Humans, Karyotyping, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Organoids, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Inhibitory Concentration 50, Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, DNA Copy Number Variations, Precision Medicine, Transcriptome, Clonal Evolution

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