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Gene expression profiling of breast tumor cell lines to predict for therapeutic response to microtubule-stabilizing agents

Authors: Gais Kadra, Pascal Finetti, Yves Toiron, Patrice Viens, Daniel Birnbaum, Jean-Paul Borg, François Bertucci, Anthony Gonçalves

Published in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | Issue 3/2012

Abstract

Microtubule-targeting agents, including taxanes (Tax) and ixabepilone (Ixa), are important components of modern breast cancer chemotherapy regimens, but no molecular parameter is currently available that can predict for their efficiency. We sought to develop pharmacogenomic predictors of Tax- and Ixa-response from a large panel of human breast tumor cell lines (BTCL), then to evaluate their performance in clinical samples. Thirty-two BTCL, representative of the molecular diversity of breast cancers (BC), were treated in vitro with Tax (paclitaxel (Pac), docetaxel (Doc)), and ixabepilone (Ixa), then classified as drug-sensitive or resistant according to their 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC50s). Baseline gene expression data were obtained using Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 human oligonucleotide microarrays. Gene expression set (GES) predictors of response to taxanes were derived, then tested for validation internally and in publicly available gene expression datasets. In vitro IC50s of Pac and Doc were almost identical, whereas some Tax-resistant BTCL retained sensitivity to Ixa. GES predictors for Tax-sensitivity (333 genes) and Ixa-sensitivity (79 genes) were defined. They displayed a limited number of overlapping genes. Both were validated by leave-n-out cross-validation (n = 4; for overall accuracy (OA), P = 0.028 for Tax, and P = 0.0005 for Ixa). The GES predictor of Tax-sensitivity was tested on publicly available external datasets and significantly predicted Pac-sensitivity in 16 BTCL (P = 0.04 for OA), and pathological complete response to Pac-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy in BC patients (P = 0.0045 for OA). Applying Tax and Ixa-GES to a dataset of clinically annotated early BC patients identified subsets of tumors with potentially distinct phenotypes of drug sensitivity: predicted Ixa-sensitive/Tax-resistant BC were significantly (P < 0.05, Fischer’s exact test) more frequently ER/PR-positive, Ki67-negative, and luminal subtype than predicted Ixa-resistant/Tax-sensitive BC. Genomic predictors for Tax- and Ixa-sensitivity can be derived from BTCL and may be helpful for better selecting cytotoxic treatment in BC patients.

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Title: Gene expression profiling of breast tumor cell lines to predict for therapeutic response to microtubule-stabilizing agents
Authors: Gais Kadra
Pascal Finetti
Yves Toiron
Patrice Viens
Daniel Birnbaum
Jean-Paul Borg
François Bertucci
Anthony Gonçalves
Publication date: 01-04-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 0167-6806
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-011-1687-8

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