Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2021 Dec;14(12):1089-1100. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-21-0041. Epub 2021 Aug 13.
Mechanisms underlying aspirin chemoprevention of colorectal cancer remain unclear. Prior studies have been limited because of the inability of preclinical models to recapitulate human normal colon epithelium or cellular heterogeneity present in mucosal biopsies. To overcome some of these obstacles, we performed aspirin treatment of colon organoids derived from normal mucosal biopsies to reveal transcriptional networks relevant to aspirin chemoprevention. Colon organoids derived from 38 healthy individuals undergoing endoscopy were treated with 50 μmol/L aspirin or vehicle control for 72 hours and subjected to bulk RNA sequencing. Paired regression analysis using DESeq2 identified differentially expressed genes (DEG) associated with aspirin treatment. Cellular composition was determined using CIBERSORTx. Aspirin treatment was associated with 1,154 significant ( < 0.10) DEGs prior to deconvolution. We provide replication of these findings in an independent population-based RNA-sequencing dataset of mucosal biopsies (BarcUVa-Seq), where a significant enrichment for overlap of DEGs was observed ( < 2.2E). Single-cell deconvolution revealed changes in cell composition, including a decrease in transit-amplifying cells following aspirin treatment ( = 0.01). Following deconvolution, DEGs included novel putative targets for aspirin such as ( = 0.055), a negative regulator of Wnt signaling. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis identified 12 significant modules, including two that contained hubs for and , the latter being previously implicated in aspirin chemoprevention. In summary, aspirin treatment of patient-derived colon organoids using physiologically relevant doses resulted in transcriptome-wide changes that reveal altered cell composition and improved understanding of transcriptional pathways, providing novel insight into its chemopreventive properties. PREVENTION RELEVANCE: Numerous studies have highlighted a role for aspirin in colorectal cancer chemoprevention, though the mechanisms driving this association remain unclear. We addressed this by showing that aspirin treatment of normal colon organoids diminished the transit-amplifying cell population, inhibited prostaglandin synthesis, and dysregulated expression of novel genes implicated in colon tumorigenesis.
阿司匹林预防结直肠癌的作用机制尚不清楚。由于临床前模型无法重现人类正常结肠上皮或黏膜活检中存在的细胞异质性,先前的研究受到限制。为了克服这些障碍,我们对来自正常黏膜活检的结肠类器官进行了阿司匹林治疗,以揭示与阿司匹林化学预防相关的转录网络。对 38 名接受内镜检查的健康个体的结肠类器官进行 50 μmol/L 阿司匹林或载体对照处理 72 小时,并进行批量 RNA 测序。使用 DESeq2 进行配对回归分析,鉴定与阿司匹林治疗相关的差异表达基因(DEG)。使用 CIBERSORTx 确定细胞组成。在去卷积之前,阿司匹林处理与 1154 个显著的(<0.10)DEG 相关。我们在基于人群的黏膜活检 RNA 测序数据集(BarcUVa-Seq)中复制了这些发现,在该数据集中观察到 DEG 显著重叠(<2.2E)。单细胞去卷积揭示了细胞组成的变化,包括阿司匹林治疗后过渡扩增细胞减少(=0.01)。去卷积后,DEG 包括阿司匹林的新潜在靶点,如(=0.055),它是 Wnt 信号的负调节剂。加权基因共表达网络分析鉴定了 12 个显著模块,其中两个模块包含和的枢纽基因,后者先前被认为与阿司匹林的化学预防作用有关。总之,使用生理相关剂量的患者衍生结肠类器官进行阿司匹林治疗导致全转录组变化,揭示了改变的细胞组成,并更好地理解了转录途径,为其化学预防特性提供了新的见解。预防相关性:许多研究强调了阿司匹林在结直肠癌化学预防中的作用,但驱动这种关联的机制仍不清楚。我们通过表明阿司匹林治疗正常结肠类器官可减少过渡扩增细胞群、抑制前列腺素合成以及失调参与结直肠肿瘤发生的新基因的表达来解决这个问题。
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