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ArticleNPJ breast cancer2023

Clonal heterogeneity in ER+ breast cancer reveals the proteasome and PKC as potential therapeutic targets.

Lukas Beumers, Efstathios-Iason Vlachavas, Simone Borgoni, Luisa Schwarzmüller, Luca Penso-Dolfin, Birgitta E Michels, Emre Sofyali, Sara Burmester, Daniela Heiss, Heike Wilhelm and 5 more

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Article in NPJ breast cancer, 2023. 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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6citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lukas BeumersDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. lukas.beumers@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8574-4388
Efstathios-Iason VlachavasDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3432-9053
Simone BorgoniDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Luisa SchwarzmüllerDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7151-9913
Luca Penso-DolfinDivision of Somatic Evolution and Early Detection, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Birgitta E MichelsDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9948-4567
Emre SofyaliDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5113-4047
Sara BurmesterDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Daniela HeissDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heike WilhelmDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Yosef YardenDepartment of Immunology and Regenerative Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4168-7884
Dominic HelmProteomics Core Facility, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9321-2069
Rainer WillCellular Tools Core Facility, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6049-2690
Angela GoncalvesDivision of Somatic Evolution and Early Detection, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
Stefan WiemannDivision of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. s.wiemann@dkfz-heidelberg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4683-3174
German Cancer Research Center · DEWeizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intratumoral heterogeneity impacts the success or failure of anti-cancer therapies. Here, we investigated the evolution and mechanistic heterogeneity in clonal populations of cell models for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. To this end, we established barcoded models of luminal breast cancer and rendered them resistant to commonly applied first line endocrine therapies. By isolating single clones from the resistant cell pools and characterizing replicates of individual clones we observed inter- (between cell lines) and intra-tumor (between different clones from the same cell line) heterogeneity. Molecular characterization at RNA and phospho-proteomic levels revealed private clonal activation of the unfolded protein response and respective sensitivity to inhibition of the proteasome, and potentially shared sensitivities for repression of protein kinase C. Our in vitro findings are consistent with tumor-heterogeneity that is observed in breast cancer patients thus highlighting the need to uncover heterogeneity at an individual patient level and to adjust therapies accordingly.

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PMID38042915
PMCPMC10693625
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