Characterization of heterogeneous response to chemotherapy by perturbation-based modeling of fluorescent sphingolipid metabolism in cancer cell subpopulations

 

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Autores: Mora Rodríguez, Rodrigo Antonio, Molina Mora, José Arturo
Formato: comunicación de congreso
Fecha de Publicación:2017
Descrição:Cancer treatments options are limited by the generation of therapy resistance, which is due by intratumoral heterogeneity in cell response. The study of resistance requires biosensors able to report the response at the single cell level. We suggest that changes in the distribution and dynamics of a fluorescent sphingolipid probe (SL) could help to deconvolve cancer heterogeneity. We used imaging flow cytometry to extract multiple image features and classify cells into subpopulations across multiple perturbations using Gaussian Mixture Models. This enabled us to model the sphingolipid metabolism in cancer cell subpopulations. The results showed that a chemosensitive cell line of pancreatic cancer has in fact a highly resistant subpopulation. Resistant cancer cell lines harbor also subpopulations insensitive to chemotherapy whereas others adapt to the perturbation induced by the drug. This suggests that fluorescent-sphingolipid analogs are promising sensors of chemotherapy response for the development of in vitro chemosensitivity assays able to disentangle cancer heterogeneity.
País:Kérwá
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Idioma:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/85931
Acesso em linha:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7942346
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/85931
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Cancer heterogeneity
GMM
Sphingolipids
Systems biology
Chemosensitivity