CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Sufficiently Abolished Oncogenicity in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.
Li-Chi HuangKa-Wai TamWei-Ni LiuChun-Yu LinKai-Wen HsuWen-Shyang HsiehWei-Ming ChiAi-Wei LeeJinn-Moon YangChing-Ling LinChia-Hwa LeePublished in: Disease markers (2018)
Anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid (ATC), also called undifferentiated thyroid cancer, is the least common but most aggressive and deadly thyroid gland malignancy of all thyroid cancers. The aim of this study is to explore essential biomarker and use CRISPR/Cas9 with lentivirus delivery to establish a gene-target therapeutic platform in ATC cells. At the beginning, the gene expression datasets from 1036 cancers from CCLE and 8215 tumors from TCGA were collected and analyzed, showing EGFR is predominantly overexpressed in thyroid cancers than other type of cancers (P = 0.017 in CCLE and P = 0.001 in TCGA). Using CRISPR/Cas9 genomic edit system, ATC cells with EGFR sgRNA lentivirus transfection obtained great disruptions on gene and protein expression, resulting in cell cycle arrest, cell growth inhibition, and most importantly metastasis turn-off ability. In addition, the FDA-approved TKI of afatinib for EGFR targeting also illustrates great anticancer activity on cancer cell death occurrence, cell growth inhibition, and cell cycle arrest in SW579 cells, an EGFR expressing human ATC cell line. Furthermore, off-target effect of using EGFR sgRNAs was measured and found no genomic editing can be detected in off-target candidate gene. To conclude, this study provides potential ATC therapeutic strategies for current and future clinical needs, which may be possible in increasing the survival rate of ATC patients by translational medicine.
Keyphrases
- cell cycle arrest
- crispr cas
- epidermal growth factor receptor
- genome editing
- cell death
- tyrosine kinase
- advanced non small cell lung cancer
- pi k akt
- small cell lung cancer
- gene expression
- copy number
- induced apoptosis
- signaling pathway
- genome wide
- endothelial cells
- end stage renal disease
- risk assessment
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- dna methylation
- chronic kidney disease
- squamous cell carcinoma
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- papillary thyroid
- rna seq
- free survival
- climate change