IDHwt Glioblastomas Show Opposing Resistance Mechanisms Across Patients in Response to Standard Treatment

Georgette Tanner, Martina A. Finetti, Steven Pollock, Nora Rippaus, Alexander-Francisco Bruns, Catherine Hogg, Alastair Droop, Anke Bruning-Richardson, Mathew Care, Joseph N. Wilkinson, Michael Jenkinson, Andrew Brodbelt, Aruna Chakrabarty, Azzam Ismail, Susan Short, Lucy Stead

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Abstract

AIMS
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain tumour in adults. Despite aggressive treatment, a resistant tumour recurs in practically all patients. We therefore aimed to better understand the mechanisms driving this treatment resistance through investigating changes in gene expression across pairs of primary and recurrent GBM tumours.

METHOD
We generated or acquired bulk tumour RNA sequencing data for primary and first recurrent tumours from 107 patients who received standard treatment. Differential expression analysis between primary and recurrent samples found that the most dysregulated genes were involved in neurodevelopment and neurodifferentiation. We therefore used a publicly available ChIP-seq database to identify DNA binding factors for which binding sites are enriched in the promotors of genes with the largest expression changes from primary to recurrent.

RESULTS
Jumonji and AT-Rich Interacting Domain 2 (JARID2) was the most strongly enriched for binding to promotors of dysregulated genes. 65 patients showed an up-regulation and 42 showed a down-regulation of genes bound by this protein. The same set of JARID2 bound genes were found to be dysregulated in each direction, and correlated with the largest source of variation between samples in their response to treatment. Further enrichment analyses indicated that ‘Up’ responders may resist treatment through reduced proliferation and increased interaction with the tumour microenvironment, whereas ‘Down’ responders instead rely on a shift to mesenchymal cell states.

CONCLUSION
These results indicate that GBM tumours can be split into two subtypes that transcriptionally reprogramme in different directions through treatment and may benefit from different treatment approaches.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)iv1
Number of pages1
JournalNeuro-Oncology
Volume24
Issue numberSuppl. 4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2022
Event2022 British Neuro-Oncology Society Annual Meeting: Current, innovative, and alternative. Raising the standard - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Duration: 22 Jun 202224 Jun 2022
https://www.bnos.org.uk/upcoming-bnos-conference/

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