Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Nat Genet. 2023 Dec;55(12):2189-2199. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01551-3. Epub 2023 Nov 9.
Circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) in patient tumors is an important driver of oncogenic gene expression, evolution of drug resistance and poor patient outcomes. Applying computational methods for the detection and reconstruction of ecDNA across a retrospective cohort of 481 medulloblastoma tumors from 465 patients, we identify circular ecDNA in 82 patients (18%). Patients with ecDNA-positive medulloblastoma were more than twice as likely to relapse and three times as likely to die within 5 years of diagnosis. A subset of tumors harbored multiple ecDNA lineages, each containing distinct amplified oncogenes. Multimodal sequencing, imaging and CRISPR inhibition experiments in medulloblastoma models reveal intratumoral heterogeneity of ecDNA copy number per cell and frequent putative 'enhancer rewiring' events on ecDNA. This study reveals the frequency and diversity of ecDNA in medulloblastoma, stratified into molecular subgroups, and suggests copy number heterogeneity and enhancer rewiring as oncogenic features of ecDNA.
环状染色体外 DNA(ecDNA)存在于患者肿瘤中,是致癌基因表达、耐药性演变和患者预后不良的重要驱动因素。我们通过对 465 名患者的 481 例髓母细胞瘤肿瘤的回顾性队列应用计算方法进行检测和重建,鉴定出 82 名患者(18%)存在环状 ecDNA。ecDNA 阳性的髓母细胞瘤患者复发的可能性是其他患者的两倍多,并且在诊断后 5 年内死亡的可能性是其他患者的三倍多。一部分肿瘤存在多个 ecDNA 谱系,每个谱系都含有不同的扩增致癌基因。髓母细胞瘤模型中的多模态测序、成像和 CRISPR 抑制实验揭示了每个细胞 ecDNA 拷贝数的肿瘤内异质性,以及 ecDNA 上频繁出现的潜在“增强子重排”事件。这项研究揭示了髓母细胞瘤中 ecDNA 的频率和多样性,分为分子亚群,并提示 ecDNA 的拷贝数异质性和增强子重排是致癌特征。