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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2025

Identifying genes underlying parallel evolution of stromal resistance to placental and cancer invasion.

Yasir Suhail, Wenqiang Du, Junaid Afzal, Günter P Wagner, Kshitiz

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Yasir SuhailDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA. suhail@uchc.edu.
Wenqiang DuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA.
Junaid AfzalDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Günter P WagnerSystems Biology Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
KshitizDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA. kshitiz@uchc.edu.

Funding

Systems analysis of phenotypic switch in control of cancer invasionU54CA209992 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEVCHENKO, ANDRE · 2016 to 2021
$10.1M
Investigating the Role of Emergent Oscillations of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 alpha Activity in Cancer Growth and ProgressionR37CA248161 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI KSHITIZ, . · 2020 to 2025
$2.5M
Dysregulation of Endometrial Invasibility Proximal to Uterine Scar as a Mechanism of Placenta AccretaR01HD112424 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI Molly A. Brewer, . Kshitiz · 2024 to 2026
$1.5M
Mapping inter-cellular trophoblast-decidual signaling to its effects on invasion related maternal-fetal diseasesK99HD105973 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI SUHAIL, YASIR · 2022 to 2024
$311k
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 1R01HD112424Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development K99HD105973National Cancer Institute, USA 5U54CA209992NCI NIH HHS R37 CA248161NCI NIH HHS R37CA248161NCI NIH HHS U54 CA209992NICHD NIH HHS K99 HD105973NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD112424
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Abstract

Stromal regulation of cancer dissemination is well recognized, however causal genes remain unidentified. We previously demonstrated that epitheliochorial species have acquired stromal resistance to placental invasion, correlating with reduced rate of cancer malignancies, identifying stromal genes correlating with depth of placental invasion called ELI (Evolved Levels of Invasibility) genes. Similarly, decidualization of human endometrial fibroblasts confers resistance to placental invasion. We hypothesized that both trajectories may convergently use similar pathways, providing an opportunity to identify stromal genes regulating epithelial invasion. We created a gene-set ELI-D1 (ELI-Decidual 1), putatively underlying stromal vulnerability to invasion. ELI-D1 were negatively enriched in T1-T2 stage transition in many human cancers, typically preceding dissemination. We also identified candidate transcriptional regulators underlying variation in ELI-D1 genes across eutherians, functionally showing Nr2f6, and JDP2 can regulate stromal resistance to invasion in human fibroblasts. Our comparative approach provides us with a gene-set linked to stromal vulnerability in human cancers.

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NeoplasmsPlacentaAnimalsFemaleFibroblastsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansNeoplasm InvasivenessPregnancyStromal Cells

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PMCPMC12373941

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