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Integrated chromatin and transcriptomic profiling of patient-derived colon cancer organoids identifies personalized drug targets to overcome oxaliplatin resistance

Integrated chromatin and transcriptomic profiling of patient-derived colon cancer organoids identifies personalized drug targets to overcome oxaliplatin resistance

Kuei-Ling Tung
Kai-Yuan Chen
Marcos Negrete
Tianyi Chen
Alexias Safi
Abed Alhalim Aljamal
Lingyun Song
Gregory E. Crawford
Shengli Ding
David S. Hsu
Xiling Shen
Genes & Diseases第8卷, 第2期pp.203-214纸质出版 2021-03-01在线发表 2019-10-29
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Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths. Most colorectal cancer patients eventually develop chemoresistance to the current standard-of-care therapies. Here, we used patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids to demonstrate that resistant tumor cells undergo significant chromatin changes in response to oxaliplatin treatment. Integrated transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility analyses using ATAC-Seq and RNA-Seq identified a group of genes associated with significantly increased chromatin accessibility and upregulated gene expression. CRISPR/Cas9 silencing of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) and oxytocin receptor (OXTR) helped overcome oxaliplatin resistance. Similarly, treatment with oxaliplatin in combination with an FGFR1 inhibitor (PD166866) or an antagonist of OXTR (L-368, 899) suppressed chemoresistant organoids. However, oxaliplatin treatment did not activate either FGFR1 or OXTR expression in another resistant organoid, suggesting that chromatin accessibility changes are patient-specific. The use of patient-derived cancer organoids in combination with transcriptomic and chromatin profiling may lead to precision treatments to overcome chemoresistance in colorectal cancer.

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Chromatin accessibilityDrug screeningPatient-derived organoidsPersonalized medicineTarget discovery