This document summarizes a study that aimed to identify prognostic serum microRNA profiles in neuroblastoma. The study performed microRNA profiling on serum samples from different neuroblastoma patient risk groups. Ten microRNAs were found to best discriminate between survival groups. A validation set of over 120 patients was then profiled for these 10 microRNAs, finding they could separate high-risk deceased from low-risk survivor patients. This suggests serum microRNA profiling may help identify ultra-high risk neuroblastoma patients. The document also discusses microRNA biomarker potential in general and optimization of microRNA sequencing workflows from serum samples.
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Exploiting microRNAs for precision oncology
1. Exploiting microRNAs for precision
oncology
March 6, 2017
Jo Vandesompele, Cancer Research Institute Ghent
2. PDF version of presentation and most
references are available on
https://goo.gl/70kyab
3. • more effective and less toxic treatments for durable
responses
– combination therapies
– companion diagnostic tests > the right drug for the right
patient
• better laboratory tests
– early diagnosis
– monitoring of treatment effectivity
– early detection of relapse or recurrence
Unmet needs in oncology
4. • easy to obtain
• low risk for the patient
• serial profiling > longitudinal studies
• reflects entire tumor load
• full of biomarker potential
– cell-free nucleic acids
– circulating tumor cells
– extracellular vesicles
– tumor educated platelets
Liquid biopsies are the holy grail of
precision oncology
6. Active secretion and passive release
of RNA into circulation
Wan et al., Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017
7. • dynamic nature (time, location and condition specific)
• diverse
– different types: messenger, micro, long non-coding,
transfer, ribosomal, piwi, sn(o)RNA, etc.
– varying abundance levels: 1 copy/cell > 100,000
copies/cell
– structural differences: splicing, isoforms, fusion,
mutations
• measurement technologies are state-of-the-art
– RNA sequencing (discovery)
– quantitative and digital PCR (verification, validation,
clinical-grade test)
– sensitive, high-throughput, large dynamic range
RNA has great biomarker potential
8. The majority of human genes do not
code for proteins
protein coding mRNA
non-coding miRNA
long non-coding RNA
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• ncRNA have exquisite condition specific expression patterns
• attractive intellectual property landscape
10. MicroRNAs play a role in all the
hallmarks of cancer
Bertoli et al., Theranostics, 2015
11. • miRs undergo (epi)genetic alterations
– deletion (e.g. miR-15/16 in CLL)
– amplification (e.g. miR-17-92)
– mutation, methylation, etc.
– sponge titration (lncRNAs)
• miRNA biogenesis pathway alterations
– mutations in Drosha, Dicer, …
• mRNA target genes
– create new miR target recognition sites
– disrupt miR binding sites
– alternative splicing / differential UTR usage
MicroRNAs are genetically altered in
cancer
12. • high degree of homology between family members
• small differences in expression level among conditions
• low abundance (e.g. in body fluids)
• isomiR sequence variants
MicroRNA quantification challenges
13. Keeping track of microRNA
annotation changes
• www.mirbasetracker.org (Van Peer et al., Database, 2014)
• e.g. hsa-miR-422b
14. • comparison of 11 commercial microRNA gene expression
technologies (qPCR, microarrays, sequencing)
• novel objective and robust performance metrics
• framework for platform comparison, incl. set of
standardized samples
• Mestdagh et al., Nature Methods, 2014
miRNA quality control study
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16. • each platform has its own strengths and weaknesses
• selection of an optimal platform in part depends on the
application and goals of the study
– low input amount studies (e.g. serum/plasma profiling)
– discovery vs. validation
– isomiRs
• recommendation to combine 2 different technologies
for discovery and validation
• other things to consider: cost, throughput, sample input
amount, content size, ease of use, …
• TruSeq small RNA sequencing + miScript qPCR
miRQC conclusions
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• 10 cycle multiplex preamp
• lower adaptor concentration
• more PCR cycles
• Pippin lib size selection
• qPCR lib quant
18. • RNA input, library prep kit, library purification, read
depth, data processing, donor status (healthy vs.
diseased), body fluid type (platelet level in plasma)
• 500 – 800 miRNAs per 200 µl serum sample (<100
miRQC) with high reproducibility
miRNA seq on human serum
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19. • optimization of the library prep workflow results in more
efficient detection of miRNAs
miRNA seq on human serum
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data courtesy of Biogazelle
21. miSTAR has better overall performance
and equal/better precisionAreaUnderCurve
miSTAR
22. Case 1: prognostic serum microRNA
profiling in neuroblastoma
Cian Will Joep Max
low risk low risk high risk high risk
• most frequent extracranial solid tumor in children
• aim: identify ultra-high-risk patients to make them eligible
for new experimental drugs
23. • full miRNome miScript qPCR profiling (n=2405) of 5
pooled serum samples from 3 different risk groups
– low risk survivors
– high risk survivors
– high risk deceased
Experiment design
24. • full miRNome miScript qPCR profiling (n=2405) of 5
pooled serum samples from 3 different risk groups
– low risk survivors
– high risk survivors
– high risk deceased
• selection of 781 miRs expressed in the pools
• individual qPCR profiling of 781 miRs on 200 µl serum
– SIOPEN cohort of +120 high/low risk patients
• modified global mean normalization (D’haene et al.,
Methods Mol Biol, 2012)
Experiment design
26. • idasanutlin is a selective MDM2 inhibitor,
releasing TP53 from negative control
• before going to clinical phases in human during
drug development, preclinical work in animal
models is needed (safety, efficacy, biomarkers)
• goals
– identify liquid biopsy tumor markers for disease
monitoring
– identify on target drug efficacy markers
Case 2: serum miR analysis in a
preclinical model of NB
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27. • jugular vein puncture with a lancet (100 µl blood)
Verification of miRNA seq on ½ RNA
from 50 µl of murine serum
28. • optimized TruSeq small RNA sequencing results in
massive amount of 5’ tRNA halves
Verification of miRNA seq on ½ RNA
from 50 µl of murine serum
RNA fragment size
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readcount
29. • regulated process under stress and in cancer
tRNAs as source of small non-coding
RNAs with various functions
Anderson and Ivanov, 2014
30. Probe based removal of unwanted
small RNA fragments miRNA
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avg miRNAs: 169 570
tRNA %: 53.44% 3.88%
miRNA %: 1.12% 28.33%
• 25x enrichment of miRNA, 14x depletion of 5’ tRFs
• Van Goethem et al., Scientific Reports, 2016
32. Experiment design
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33. 56 miR indicators of tumor load0
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hsa miR 105 5p
hsa miR 1180 3p
hsa miR 125b 2 3p
hsa miR 1269a
hsa miR 1269b
hsa miR 1271 5p
hsa miR 1301 3p
hsa miR 1307 3p
hsa miR 1307 5p
hsa miR 1468 5p
hsa miR 151a 3p
hsa miR 16 2 3p
hsa miR 182 5p
hsa miR 191 3p
hsa miR 197 3p
hsa miR 199b 5p
hsa miR 28 3p
hsa miR 301b 3p
hsa miR 330 3p
hsa miR 339 3p
hsa miR 345 5p
hsa miR 3605 3p
hsa miR 361 3p
hsa miR 3615
hsa miR 3909
hsa miR 424 3p
hsa miR 432 5p
hsa miR 4326
hsa miR 450b 5p
hsa miR 454 5p
hsa miR 483 3p
hsa miR 483 5p
hsa miR 500a 3p
hsa miR 501 3p
hsa miR 505 3p
hsa miR 561 5p
hsa miR 576 5p
hsa miR 589 3p
hsa miR 589 5p
hsa miR 598 3p
hsa miR 6511b 3p
hsa miR 654 3p/mmu miR 654 3p
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DESeq2
• 53 are human specific, 3 are conserved between
human and mouse
• 5p and 3p arms of the same pre-miR are present
• gradual increase of these 56 miRs in tumor-bearing vs.
non-engrafted over 4 time points
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hsa miR 105 5p
hsa miR 1180 3p
hsa miR 125b 2 3p
hsa miR 1269a
hsa miR 1269b
hsa miR 1271 5p
hsa miR 1301 3p
hsa miR 1307 3p
hsa miR 1307 5p
hsa miR 1468 5p
hsa miR 151a 3p
hsa miR 16 2 3p
hsa miR 182 5p
hsa miR 191 3p
hsa miR 197 3p
hsa miR 199b 5p
hsa miR 28 3p
hsa miR 301b 3p
hsa miR 330 3p
hsa miR 339 3p
hsa miR 345 5p
hsa miR 3605 3p
hsa miR 361 3p
hsa miR 3615
hsa miR 3909
hsa miR 424 3p
hsa miR 432 5p
hsa miR 4326
hsa miR 450b 5p
hsa miR 454 5p
hsa miR 483 3p
hsa miR 483 5p
hsa miR 500a 3p
hsa miR 501 3p
hsa miR 505 3p
hsa miR 561 5p
hsa miR 576 5p
hsa miR 589 3p
hsa miR 589 5p
hsa miR 598 3p
hsa miR 6511b 3p
hsa miR 654 3p/mmu miR 654 3p
hsa miR 660 5p
hsa miR 675 3p
hsa miR 675 5p
hsa miR 767 5p/mmu miR 767
hsa miR 767 5p
hsa miR 769 5p
hsa miR 7706
hsa miR 873 3p
hsa miR 887 3p
hsa miR 92b 3p/mmu miR 92b 3p
hsa miR 941
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34. 56 serum miRs are proportional to
tumor volume
tumorweight(g)
log2meanexpressoin
log2 mean
expression
tumor weight (g)cumulative proportion
of serum miRs
in vivo luciferase imaging endpoints
35. 56 serum miRs are proportional to
tumor volume
tumorweight(g)
logluciferasesignal
log2 mean expression log2 mean expression
36. Serum tumor load miRs are high
abundant in tumor
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hsa−miR−151a−3p
hsa−miR−28−3p
hsa−miR−500a−3p
hsa−miR−769−5phsa−miR−941hsa−miR−887−3p
hsa−miR−345−5phsa−miR−301b−3phsa−miR−125b−2−3phsa−miR−1307−5p
hsa−miR−767−5phsa−miR−589−5p
hsa−miR−1307−3p
hsa−miR−197−3phsa−miR−7706hsa−miR−21−3phsa−miR−660−5p
hsa−miR−873−3p
hsa−miR−589−3p
hsa−miR−598−3phsa−miR−483−5p
hsa−miR−135a−5phsa−miR−450b−5p
hsa−miR−339−3phsa−miR−873−5p
hsa−miR−3615
hsa−miR−483−3p
hsa−miR−105−5phsa−miR−191−3p
hsa−miR−330−3p
hsa−miR−1468−5p
hsa−miR−4326
hsa−miR−3648
hsa−miR−129−2−3p
hsa−miR−675−3p
hsa−miR−499a−5phsa−miR−455−5p
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Differentially expressed in serum NO YES
miRNA Expression in cell_line
logcounts
tumor miRs ordered according to abundance
serum tumor load miR
37. 20 out of 56 miRs are higher
expressed in human HR NB
hsa−miR−1269a hsa−miR−1307−3p hsa−miR−16−2−3p hsa−miR−191−3p
hsa−miR−199b−5p hsa−miR−330−3p hsa−miR−339−3p hsa−miR−345−5p
hsa−miR−3605−3p hsa−miR−424−3p hsa−miR−432−5p hsa−miR−454−5p
hsa−miR−4741 hsa−miR−483−3p hsa−miR−483−5p hsa−miR−500a−3p
hsa−miR−501−3p hsa−miR−675−5p hsa−miR−769−5p hsa−miR−92b−3p
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38. 24 idasanutlin induced human miRs
hsa miR 802/mmu miR 802 5p vehicle
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hsa miR 485 3p/mmu miR 485 3p
hsa miR 143 5p/mmu miR 143 5p
hsa miR 4492
hsa miR 216a 5p/mmu miR 216a 5p
hsa miR 636/mmu miR 5126
hsa miR 146b 5p/mmu miR 146b 5p
hsa miR 378a 3p/mmu miR 378b
hsa miR 365b 5p/mmu miR 365 2 5p
hsa miR 6087
hsa miR 490 5p/mmu miR 490 5p
hsa miR 10a 5p/mmu miR 10a 5p
hsa miR 668 3p/mmu miR 668 3p
hsa miR 212 3p/mmu miR 212 3p
hsa miR 29c 3p/mmu miR 29c 3p
hsa miR 188 5p/mmu miR 188 5p
hsa miR 136 3p/mmu miR 136 3p
hsa miR 143 3p/mmu miR 143 3p
hsa miR 145 3p/mmu miR 145a 3p
hsa miR 145 5p/mmu miR 145a 5p
hsa miR 490 3p/mmu miR 490 3p
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39. miR-34a-5p & 212-3p are circulating
biomarkers for TP53 activation
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tumortreatment idasanutlin
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40. • tools available to study miRNAs
– miRBase Tracker, miSTAR
– miRQC, global mean normalization, tRNA depletion
• circulating miRNAs are promising biomarkers in
neuroblastoma
– outcome prediction in high-risk group
– tumor load assessment > patient monitoring / diagnosis
– target engagement in the tumor
Conclusions