Testing Targeted Therapies in Cancer using Structural DNA Alteration Analysis and Patient-Derived Xenografts

J Vis Exp. 2020 Jul 25:(161). doi: 10.3791/60646.

Abstract

We present here an integrative approach for testing efficacy of targeted therapies that combines the next generation sequencing technolo-gies, therapeutic target analyses and drug response monitoring using patient derived xenografts (PDX). This strategy was validated using ovarian tumors as an example. The mate-pair next generation sequencing (MPseq) protocol was used to identify structural alterations and followed by analysis of potentially targetable alterations. Human tumors grown in immunocompromised mice were treated with drugs selected based on the genomic analyses. Results demonstrated a good correlation between the predicted and the observed responses in the PDX model. The presented approach can be used to test the efficacy of combination treatments and aid personalized treatment for patients with recurrent cancer, specifically in cases when standard therapy fails and there is a need to use drugs off label.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • DNA
  • DNA Mutational Analysis*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Genomics
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Mutation
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays*

Substances

  • DNA