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A fluorogenic probe for predicting treatment response in non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR-activating mutations

  • Nat Commun. 2022 Nov 14;13(1):6944. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34627-5.
Hui Deng # 1 2 3 Qian Lei # 4 5 6 Chengdi Wang # 4 Zhoufeng Wang 4 6 Hai Chen 5 6 Gang Wang 5 Na Yang 5 Dan Huang 7 Quanwei Yu 5 Mengling Yao 6 Xue Xiao 6 Guonian Zhu 6 Cheng Cheng 6 Yangqian Li 6 Feng Li 7 Panwen Tian 8 Weimin Li 9 10 11
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. huideng0923@hotmail.com.
  • 2 Targeted Tracer Research and Development Laboratory, Precision Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Precision Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. huideng0923@hotmail.com.
  • 3 Institute of Respiratory Health, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. huideng0923@hotmail.com.
  • 4 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • 5 Targeted Tracer Research and Development Laboratory, Precision Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Precision Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • 6 Institute of Respiratory Health, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • 7 Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry & Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
  • 8 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. mrascend@163.com.
  • 9 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. weimi003@scu.edu.cn.
  • 10 Targeted Tracer Research and Development Laboratory, Precision Medicine Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Precision Medicine Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. weimi003@scu.edu.cn.
  • 11 Institute of Respiratory Health, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. weimi003@scu.edu.cn.
  • # Contributed equally.
Abstract

Therapeutic responses of non-small cell lung Cancer (NSCLC) to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) - tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are known to be associated with EGFR mutations. However, a proportion of NSCLCs carrying EGFR mutations still progress on EGFR-TKI underlining the imperfect correlation. Structure-function-based approaches have recently been reported to perform better in retrospectively predicting patient outcomes following EGFR-TKI treatment than exon-based method. Here, we develop a multicolor fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) with an EGFR-TKI-based fluorogenic probe (HX103) to profile active-EGFR in tumors. HX103-based FACS shows an overall agreement with gene mutations of 82.6%, sensitivity of 81.8% and specificity of 83.3% for discriminating EGFR-activating mutations from wild-type in surgical specimens from NSCLC patients. We then translate HX103 to the clinical studies for prediction of EGFR-TKI sensitivity. When integrating computed tomography imaging with HX103-based FACS, we find a high correlation between EGFR-TKI therapy response and probe labeling. These studies demonstrate HX103-based FACS provides a high predictive performance for response to EGFR-TKI, suggesting the potential utility of an EGFR-TKI-based probe in precision medicine trials to stratify NSCLC patients for EGFR-TKI treatment.

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