Modeling SHH-driven medulloblastoma with patient iPS cell-derived neural stem cells

Evelyn Susanto, Ana Marin Navarro, Leilei Zhou, Anders Sundström, Niek van Bree, Marina Stantic, Mohsen Moslem, Jignesh Tailor, Jonne Rietdijk, Veronica Zubillaga, Jens Martin Hübner, Holger Weishaupt, Johanna Wolfsberger, Irina Alafuzoff, Ann Nordgren, Thierry Magnaldo, Peter Siesjö, John Inge Johnsen, Marcel Kool, Kristiina TammimiesAnna Darabi, Fredrik J. Swartling, Anna Falk, Margareta Wilhelm

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Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Here we describe a medulloblastoma model using Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived human neuroepithelial stem (NES) cells generated from a Gorlin syndrome patient carrying a germline mutation in the sonic hedgehog (SHH) receptor PTCH1. We found that Gorlin NES cells formed tumors in mouse cerebellum mimicking human medulloblastoma. Retransplantation of tumor-isolated NES (tNES) cells resulted in accelerated tumor formation, cells with reduced growth factor dependency, enhanced neurosphere formation in vitro, and increased sensitivity to Vismodegib. Using our model, we identified LGALS1 to be a GLI target gene that is up-regulated in both Gorlin tNES cells and SHH-subgroup of medulloblastoma patients. Taken together, we demonstrate that NES cells derived from Gorlin patients can be used as a resource to model medulloblastoma initiation and progression and to identify putative targets.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)20127-20138
Aantal pagina's12
TijdschriftProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume117
Nummer van het tijdschrift33
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - aug. 2020
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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