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Article Dans Une Revue Oncogene Année : 2024

A novel bioinformatic approach reveals cooperation between Cancer/Testis genes in basal-like breast tumors

Julien Wicinski
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André Nicolas
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Lounes Djerroudi
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Olivier Kirsh
Claude Philippe
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Yuki Okada
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Emmanuelle Charafe-Jauffret
Didier Meseure
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Anne Vincent-Salomon
Christophe Ginestier

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Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer in women worldwide. Within breast tumors, the basal-like subtype has the worst prognosis, prompting the need for new tools to understand, detect, and treat these tumors. Certain germline-restricted genes show aberrant expression in tumors and are known as Cancer/Testis genes; their misexpression has diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Here we designed a new bioinformatic approach to examine Cancer/Testis gene misexpression in breast tumors. We identify several new markers in Luminal and HER-2 positive tumors, some of which predict response to chemotherapy. We then use machine learning to identify the two Cancer/Testis genes most associated with basal-like breast tumors: HORMAD1 and CT83. We show that these genes are expressed by tumor cells and not by the microenvironment, and that they are not expressed by normal breast progenitors; in other words, their activation occurs de novo. We find these genes are epigenetically repressed by DNA methylation, and that their activation upon DNA demethylation is irreversible, providing a memory of past epigenetic disturbances. Simultaneous expression of both genes in breast cells in vitro has a synergistic effect that increases stemness and activates a transcriptional profile also observed in double-positive tumors. Therefore, we reveal a functional cooperation between Cancer/Testis genes in basal breast tumors; these findings have consequences for the understanding, diagnosis, and therapy of the breast tumors with the worst outcomes.

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hal-04600329 , version 1 (04-06-2024)

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Marthe Laisné, Brianna Rodgers, Sarah Benlamara, Julien Wicinski, André Nicolas, et al.. A novel bioinformatic approach reveals cooperation between Cancer/Testis genes in basal-like breast tumors. Oncogene, 2024, 43 (18), pp.1369-1385. ⟨10.1038/s41388-024-03002-7⟩. ⟨hal-04600329⟩
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