Gene expression signatures modulated by epidermal growth factor receptor activation and their relationship to cetuximab resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

BMC Genomics

Research Article

Elana J Fertig¹  Michael Considine¹  Christine H Chung¹  Haixia Cheng¹  Michael F Ochs²  Hiromitsu Hatakeyama³  Qing Ren⁴  Ulrich Rodeck⁵  Adam P Dicker⁶ 

[1] Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA;Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA;Department of Health Science Informatics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA;Department of Otolaryngology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan;Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;

关键词: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor;    Markov Chain Monte Carlo;    Cetuximab;    HaCaT Cell;    Gene Expression Signature;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-13-160

 received in 2011-10-24, accepted in 2012-03-22,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAberrant activation of signaling pathways downstream of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been hypothesized to be one of the mechanisms of cetuximab (a monoclonal antibody against EGFR) resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). To infer relevant and specific pathway activation downstream of EGFR from gene expression in HNSCC, we generated gene expression signatures using immortalized keratinocytes (HaCaT) subjected to ligand stimulation and transfected with EGFR, RELA/p65, or HRASVal12D.ResultsThe gene expression patterns that distinguished the HaCaT variants and conditions were inferred using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) matrix factorization algorithm Coordinated Gene Activity in Pattern Sets (CoGAPS). This approach inferred gene expression signatures with greater relevance to cell signaling pathway activation than the expression signatures inferred with standard linear models. Furthermore, the pathway signature generated using HaCaT-HRASVal12D further associated with the cetuximab treatment response in isogenic cetuximab-sensitive (UMSCC1) and -resistant (1CC8) cell lines.ConclusionsOur data suggest that the CoGAPS algorithm can generate gene expression signatures that are pertinent to downstream effects of receptor signaling pathway activation and potentially be useful in modeling resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies.

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