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A biomaterial screening approach reveals microenvironmental mechanisms of drug resistance
Integrative Biology ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2017-11-14 00:00:00 , DOI: 10.1039/c7ib00128b
Alyssa D. Schwartz 1 , Lauren E. Barney 1 , Lauren E. Jansen 1 , Thuy V. Nguyen 1 , Christopher L. Hall 1 , Aaron S. Meyer 2 , Shelly R. Peyton 1
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Traditional drug screening methods lack features of the tumor microenvironment that contribute to resistance. Most studies examine cell response in a single biomaterial platform in depth, leaving a gap in understanding how extracellular signals such as stiffness, dimensionality, and cell–cell contacts act independently or are integrated within a cell to affect either drug sensitivity or resistance. This is critically important, as adaptive resistance is mediated, at least in part, by the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the tumor microenvironment. We developed an approach to screen drug responses in cells cultured on 2D and in 3D biomaterial environments to explore how key features of ECM mediate drug response. This approach uncovered that cells on 2D hydrogels and spheroids encapsulated in 3D hydrogels were less responsive to receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)-targeting drugs sorafenib and lapatinib, but not cytotoxic drugs, compared to single cells in hydrogels and cells on plastic. We found that transcriptomic differences between these in vitro models and tumor xenografts did not reveal mechanisms of ECM-mediated resistance to sorafenib. However, a systems biology analysis of phospho-kinome data uncovered that variation in MEK phosphorylation was associated with RTK-targeted drug resistance. Using sorafenib as a model drug, we found that co-administration with a MEK inhibitor decreased ECM-mediated resistance in vitro and reduced in vivo tumor burden compared to sorafenib alone. In sum, we provide a novel strategy for identifying and overcoming ECM-mediated resistance mechanisms by performing drug screening, phospho-kinome analysis, and systems biology across multiple biomaterial environments.

中文翻译:

生物材料筛选方法揭示了耐药性的微环境机制

传统的药物筛选方法缺乏有助于抵抗的肿瘤微环境特征。大多数研究深入研究了单一生物材料平台中的细胞反应,在理解细胞外信号(例如硬度,尺寸和细胞间接触)如何独立起作用或如何整合到细胞中以影响药物敏感性或耐药性方面尚存空白。这一点至关重要,因为适应性抗性至少部分地由肿瘤微环境的细胞外基质(ECM)介导。我们开发了一种在2D和3D生物材料环境中培养的细胞中筛选药物反应的方法,以探索ECM的关键特征如何介导药物反应。该方法揭示了与水凝胶中的单个细胞和塑料上的细胞相比,二维水凝胶上的细胞和封装在3D水凝胶中的球体对靶向受体酪氨酸激酶(RTK)的药物sorafenib和lapatinib的反应较小,但对细胞毒性药物的反应较弱。我们发现这些之间的转录组差异体外模型和肿瘤异种移植未揭示ECM介导的对索拉非尼耐药的机制。然而,对磷酸激酶基因组数据的系统生物学分析发现,MEK磷酸化的变化与RTK靶向的耐药性有关。使用索拉非尼作为模型药物,我们发现与MEK抑制剂共同给药与单独使用索拉非尼相比,可降低体外ECM介导的耐药性并降低体内肿瘤负荷。总之,我们通过在多种生物材料环境中进行药物筛选,磷酸激酶分析和系统生物学,提供了一种识别和克服ECM介导的耐药机制的新颖策略。
更新日期:2017-11-21
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