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ArticleOncotarget2018

Ependymomas overexpress chemoresistance and DNA repair-related proteins.

Sherise D Ferguson, Shouhao Zhou, Joanne Xiu, Yuuri Hashimoto, Nader Sanai, Lyndon Kim, Santosh Kesari, John de Groot, David Spetzler, Amy B Heimberger

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Article in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Sherise D FergusonDepartment of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Shouhao ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Joanne XiuCaris Life Sciences, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Yuuri HashimotoDepartment of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Nader SanaiDivision of Neurosurgical Oncology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Lyndon KimDepartment of Neurological Surgery and Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Santosh KesariDepartment of Translational Neurosciences and Neurotherapeutics, Pacific Neuroscience Institute and John Wayne Cancer Institute at Providence Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
John de GrootDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
David SpetzlerDepartment of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Amy B HeimbergerDepartment of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USBarrow Neurological Institute · USCaris Life Sciences (United States) · USNeurological Surgery · USSaint John's Health Center · US

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAfter surgery and radiation, treatment options for ependymoma are few making recurrence a challenging issue. Specifically, the efficacy of chemotherapy at recurrence is limited. We performed molecular profiling on a cohort of ependymoma cases in order to uncover therapeutic targets and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms contributing to treatment resistance.

resultsThis ependymoma cohort showed minimal alterations in gene amplifications and mutations but had high expression rates of DNA synthesis and repair enzymes such as RRM1 (47%), ERCC1 (48%), TOPO1 (62%) and class III β-tublin (TUBB3) (57%), which are also all associated with chemoresistance. This cohort also had high expression rates of transporter proteins that mediate multi-drug resistance including BCRP (71%) and MRP1 (43%). Subgroup analyses showed that cranial ependymomas expressed the DNA synthesis enzyme TS significantly more frequently than spinal lesions did (57% versus 15%; MATERIALS AND

methodsWe reviewed the characteristics of 41 ependymomas (21 cranial, 20 spinal; 8 grade I, 11 grade II, 22 grade III) that underwent multiplatform profiling with immunohistochemistry, next-generation sequencing, and

conclusionsEpendymomas are enriched with proteins involved in chemoresistance and in DNA synthesis and repair, which is consistent with the meager clinical effectiveness of conventional systemic therapy in ependymoma. Adjuvant therapies that combine conventional chemotherapy with the inhibition of chemoresistance-related proteins may represent a novel treatment paradigm for this difficult disease.

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chemoresistanceDNA repairependymomamolecular profiling

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PMCPMC5814261
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