[HTML][HTML] Clinical application of a lung cancer organoid (tumoroid) culture system

E Yokota, M Iwai, T Yukawa, M Yoshida… - NPJ Precision …, 2021 - nature.com
E Yokota, M Iwai, T Yukawa, M Yoshida, Y Naomoto, M Haisa, Y Monobe, N Takigawa…
NPJ Precision Oncology, 2021nature.com
Despite high expectations for lung tumoroids, they have not been applied in the clinic due to
the difficulty of their long-term culture. Here, however, using AO (airway organoid) media
developed by the Clevers laboratory, we succeeded in generating 3 lung tumoroid lines for
long-term culture (> 13 months) from 41 lung cancer cases (primary or metastatic). Use of
nutlin-3a was key to selecting lung tumoroids that harbor mutant p53 in order to eliminate
normal lung epithelial organoids. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis indicated that …
Abstract
Despite high expectations for lung tumoroids, they have not been applied in the clinic due to the difficulty of their long-term culture. Here, however, using AO (airway organoid) media developed by the Clevers laboratory, we succeeded in generating 3 lung tumoroid lines for long-term culture (>13 months) from 41 lung cancer cases (primary or metastatic). Use of nutlin-3a was key to selecting lung tumoroids that harbor mutant p53 in order to eliminate normal lung epithelial organoids. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis indicated that each lung tumoroid carried BRAFG469A, TPM3-ROS1 or EGFRL858R/RB1E737*, respectively. Targeted therapies using small molecule drugs (trametinib/erlotinib for BRAFG469A, crizotinib/entrectinib for TPM3-ROS1 and ABT-263/YM-155 for EGFRL858R/RB1E737*) significantly suppressed the growth of each lung tumoroid line. AO media was superior to 3 different media developed by other laboratories. Our experience indicates that long-term lung tumoroid culture is feasible, allowing us to identify NGS-based therapeutic targets and determine the responsiveness to corresponding small molecule drugs.
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