Plasma RNA profiling unveils transcriptional signatures associated with resistance to osimertinib in EGFR T790M positive non-small cell lung cancer patients

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Background: Targeted therapy with tyrosine kinases inhibitors (TKIs) against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is part of routine clinical practice for EGFR mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. These patients eventually develop resistance, frequently accompanied by a gatekeeper mutation, T790M. Osimertinib is a third-generation EGFR TKI displaying potency to the T790M resistance mutation. Here we aimed to analyze if exosomal RNAs, isolated from longitudinally sampled plasma of osimertinib-treated EGFR T790M NSCLC patients, could provide biomarkers of acquired resistance to osimertinib.

Methods: Plasma was collected at baseline and progression of disease from 20 patients treated with osimertinib in the multicenter phase II study TKI in Relapsed EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer patients (TREM). Plasma was centrifuged at 16,000 g followed by exosomal RNA extraction using Qiagen exoRNeasy kit. RNA was subjected to transcriptomics analysis with Clariom D.

Results: Transcriptome profiling revealed differential expression [log2(fold-change) >0.25, false discovery rate (FDR) P<0.15, and P(interaction) >0.05] of 128 transcripts. We applied network enrichment analysis (NEA) at the pathway level in a large collection of functional gene sets. This overall enrichment analysis revealed alterations in pathways related to EGFR and PI3K as well as to syndecan and glypican pathways (NEA FDR <3×10-10). When applied to the 40 individual, sample-specific gene sets, the NEA detected 16 immune-related gene sets (FDR <0.25, P(interaction) >0.05 and NEA z-score exceeding 3 in at least one sample).

Conclusions: Our study demonstrates a potential usability of plasma-derived exosomal RNAs to characterize molecular phenotypes of emerging osimertinib resistance. Furthermore, it highlights the involvement of multiple RNA species in shaping the transcriptome landscape of osimertinib-refractory NSCLC patients.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

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Translational lung cancer research - 11(2022), 10 vom: 12. Okt., Seite 2064-2078

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alexeyenko, Andrey [VerfasserIn]
Brustugun, Odd Terje [VerfasserIn]
Eide, Inger Johanne Zwicky [VerfasserIn]
Gencheva, Radosveta [VerfasserIn]
Kosibaty, Zeinab [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Yi [VerfasserIn]
de Petris, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Tsakonas, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Grundberg, Oscar [VerfasserIn]
Franzen, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Viktorsson, Kristina [VerfasserIn]
Lewensohn, Rolf [VerfasserIn]
Hydbring, Per [VerfasserIn]
Ekman, Simon [VerfasserIn]

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Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)
Exosomal RNA
Journal Article
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
Osimertinib
Transcriptome

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Date Revised 18.11.2022

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/tlcr-22-236

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NLM348998090