Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Genetic characterization of a unique neuroendocrine transdifferentiation prostate circulating tumor cell-derived eXplant model

  • Vincent Faugeroux,
  • Emma Pailler,
  • Marianne Oulhen,
  • Olivier Deas,
  • Laura Brulle-Soumare,
  • Céline Hervieu,
  • Virginie Marty,
  • Kamelia Alexandrova,
  • Kiki C. Andree,
  • Nikolas H. Stoecklein,
  • Dominique Tramalloni,
  • Stefano Cairo,
  • Maud NgoCamus,
  • Claudio Nicotra,
  • Leon W. M. M. Terstappen,
  • Nicolo Manaresi,
  • Valérie Lapierre,
  • Karim Fizazi,
  • Jean-Yves Scoazec,
  • Yohann Loriot,
  • Jean-Gabriel Judde,
  • Françoise Farace

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15426-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Better tumor models are needed for the neuroendocrine subtype of castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC-NE). Here, the authors develop patient-derived model from circulating tumor cells of a CRPC-NE patient, and provide insights on the sequential acquisition of driver gene mutations promoting NE transdifferentiation.