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CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 562-574Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2089
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- Lichtenberg program of the VW foundation
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany [FKZ 03V0785]
- NIH/NINDS [NS055165]
- EU [FP7-HEALTH-2010-266753-SCRTox]
- COLIPA
- BIO. NRW [z0911bt027i]
- StemCellFactory
- Hertie Foundation
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Purpose: Investigation of clonal heterogeneity may be key to understanding mechanisms of therapeutic failure in human cancer. However, little is known on the consequences of therapeutic intervention on the clonal composition of solid tumors. Experimental Design: Here, we used 33 single cell-derived subclones generated from five clinical glioblastoma specimens for exploring intra-and interindividual spectra of drug resistance profiles in vitro. In a personalized setting, we explored whether differences in pharmacologic sensitivity among subclones could be employed to predict drug-dependent changes to the clonal composition of tumors. Results: Subclones from individual tumors exhibited a remarkable heterogeneity of drug resistance to a library of potential antiglioblastoma compounds. A more comprehensive intratumoral analysis revealed that stable genetic and phenotypic characteristics of coexisting subclones could be correlated with distinct drug sensitivity profiles. The data obtained from differential drug response analysis could be employed to predict clonal population shifts within the naive parental tumor in vitro and in orthotopic xenografts. Furthermore, the value of pharmacologic profiles could be shown for establishing rational strategies for individualized secondary lines of treatment. Conclusions: Our data provide a previously unrecognized strategy for revealing functional consequences of intratumor heterogeneity by enabling predictive modeling of treatmentrelated subclone dynamics in human glioblastoma. Clin Cancer Res; 23(2); 562- 74. (C) 2016 AACR.
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