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Multiplexed mosaic tumor models reveal natural phenotypic variations in drug response within and between populations

Yu, J. X.; Suh, J. M.; Popova, K. D.; Garcia, K.; Joshi, T.; Culbertson, B.; Spinelli, J. B.; Subramanyam, V.; Lou, K.; Shokat, K. M.; Weissman, J.; Goodarzi, H.

2024-12-16 cancer biology
10.1101/2024.12.13.628239 bioRxiv
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Many agents that show promise in preclinical cancer models lack efficacy in patients due to patient heterogeneity that is not captured in traditional assays. To address this problem, we have developed GENEVA, a platform that measures the molecular and phenotypic consequences of drug perturbations within diverse populations of cancer cells at single-cell resolution, both in vitro and in vivo. Here, we apply GENEVA to study the KRAS G12C inhibitors, recapitulating known properties of these drugs and uncovering a previously unknown role for mitochondrial activation in cell death induced by KRAS inhibition. We demonstrate that this finding can be leveraged for the development of combination therapies with greater efficacy. Finally, we show that the application of GENEVA with in vivo mouse models revealed epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) as a key mechanism for resistance to KRAS G12C inhibition.

Published in Nature Cancer (predicted rank #3) · training set

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