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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
卷 3, 期 3, 页码 450-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0768-z
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- NIH Loan Repayment Programs
- NIH Case Comprehensive Cancer Center [P30CA043703]
- Calabresi Clinical Oncology Research Program, National Cancer Institute [K12CA076917]
Heterogeneity in strategies for survival and proliferation among the cells that constitute a tumour is a driving force behind the evolution of resistance to cancer therapy. The rules mapping the tumour's strategy distribution to the fitness of individual strategies can be represented as an evolutionary game. We develop a game assay to measure effective evolutionary games in co-cultures of non-small cell lung cancer cells that are sensitive and resistant to the anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor alectinib. The games are not only quantitatively different between different environments, but targeted therapy and cancer-associated fibroblasts qualitatively switch the type of game being played by the in vitro population from Leader to Deadlock. This observation provides empirical confirmation of a central theoretical postulate of evolutionary game theory in oncology: we can treat not only the player, but also the game. Although we concentrate on measuring games played by cancer cells, the measurement methodology we develop can be used to advance the study of games in other microscopic systems by providing a quantitative description of non-cell-autonomous effects.
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