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Gene regulatory network topology governs resistance and treatment escape in glioma stem-like cells

James H. Park, Parvinder Hothi, Adrián López García de Lomana, Min Pan, R. Brent Calder, Serdar Turkarslan, Wei‐Ju Wu, Hwahyung Lee, Anoop P. Patel, Charles Cobbs, Sui Huang, Nitin S. Baliga

Science Advances · 2024

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Summary

Poor prognosis and drug resistance in glioblastoma (GBM) can result from cellular heterogeneity and treatment-induced shifts in phenotypic states of tumor cells, including dedifferentiation into glioma stem-like cells (GSCs). This rare tumorigenic cell subpopulation resists temozolomide, undergoes proneural-to-mesenchymal transition (PMT) to evade therapy, and drives recurrence. Through inference of transcriptional regulatory networks (TRNs) of patient-derived GSCs (PD-GSCs) at single-cell resolution, we demonstrate how the topology of transcription factor interaction networks drives distinct trajectories of cell-state transitions in PD-GSCs resistant or susceptible to cytotoxic drug treatment. By experimentally testing predictions based on TRN simulations, we show that drug treatment driv

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Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.adj7706
Catalogue ID
SNmpdjw8a6-6exmtu
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