Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Patient derived organoids to model rare prostate cancer phenotypes

  • Loredana Puca,
  • Rohan Bareja,
  • Davide Prandi,
  • Reid Shaw,
  • Matteo Benelli,
  • Wouter R. Karthaus,
  • Judy Hess,
  • Michael Sigouros,
  • Adam Donoghue,
  • Myriam Kossai,
  • Dong Gao,
  • Joanna Cyrta,
  • Verena Sailer,
  • Aram Vosoughi,
  • Chantal Pauli,
  • Yelena Churakova,
  • Cynthia Cheung,
  • Lesa Dayal Deonarine,
  • Terra J. McNary,
  • Rachele Rosati,
  • Scott T. Tagawa,
  • David M. Nanus,
  • Juan Miguel Mosquera,
  • Charles L. Sawyers,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Giorgio Inghirami,
  • Rema A. Rao,
  • Carla Grandori,
  • Olivier Elemento,
  • Andrea Sboner,
  • Francesca Demichelis,
  • Mark A. Rubin,
  • Himisha Beltran

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04495-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There are few available models to study neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Here they develop and characterize patient derived organoids from metastatic lesions, use these models to show the role of EZH2 in driving neuroendocrine phenotype, and perform high throughput organoid screening to identify therapeutic drug combinations.