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LGR5 in breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ: a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker and a therapeutic target

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Title: LGR5 in breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ: a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker and a therapeutic target
Authors: Hagerling, Catharina, Owyong, Mark, Sitarama, Vaishnavi, Wang, Chih-Yang, Lin, Charlene, van den Bijgaart, Renske J E, Koopman, Charlotte D, Brenot, Audrey, Nanjaraj, Ankitha, Wärnberg, Fredrik, Jirström, Karin, Klein, Ophir D, Werb, Zena, Plaks, Vicki
Contributors: Hubrecht Institute with UMC
Publication Year: 2020
Subject Terms: Adult, Aged, 80 and over, Animals, Biomarkers, Tumor/analysis, Breast Neoplasms/chemistry, Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/chemistry, Cell Line, Tumor, Female, Heterografts, Humans, Mice, Middle Aged, Prognosis, RNA, Neoplasm/isolation & purification, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Receptor, ErbB-2/analysis, Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/analysis, Tissue Array Analysis/methods, Estrogen receptor, Targeted therapy, Breast cancer, DCIS
Description: BACKGROUND: Novel biomarkers are required to discern between breast tumors that should be targeted for treatment from those that would never become clinically apparent and/or life threatening for patients. Moreover, therapeutics that specifically target breast cancer (BC) cells with tumor-initiating capacity to prevent recurrence are an unmet need. We investigated the clinical importance of LGR5 in BC and ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to explore LGR5 as a biomarker and a therapeutic target. METHODS: We stained BC (n = 401) and DCIS (n = 119) tissue microarrays with an antibody against LGR5. We examined an LGR5 knockdown ER- cell line that was orthotopically transplanted and used for in vitro colony assays. We also determined the tumor-initiating role of Lgr5 in lineage-tracing experiments. Lastly, we transplanted ER- patient-derived xenografts into mice that were subsequently treated with a LGR5 antibody drug conjugate (anti-LGR5-ADC). RESULTS: LGR5 expression correlated with small tumor size, lower grade, lymph node negativity, and ER-positivity. ER+ patients with LGR5high tumors rarely had recurrence, while high-grade ER- patients with LGR5high expression recurred and died due to BC more often. Intriguingly, all the DCIS patients who later died of BC had LGR5-positive tumors. Colony assays and xenograft experiments substantiated a role for LGR5 in ER- tumor initiation and subsequent growth, which was further validated by lineage-tracing experiments in ER- /triple-negative BC mouse models. Importantly, by utilizing LGR5high patient-derived xenografts, we showed that anti-LGR5-ADC should be considered as a therapeutic for high-grade ER- BC. CONCLUSION: LGR5 has distinct roles in ER- vs. ER+ BC with potential clinical applicability as a biomarker to identify patients in need of therapy and could serve as a therapeutic target for high-grade ER- BC.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
ISSN: 1471-2407
Relation: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/442201
Availability: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/442201
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Accession Number: edsbas.1243E6D1
Database: BASE
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