TY - JOUR
T1 - Plasma proteome predicts chemotherapy response in osteosarcoma patients
AU - Li, Yiting
AU - Dang, Tu Anh
AU - Shen, Jianhe
AU - Hicks, John
AU - Chintagumpala, Murali
AU - Lau, Ching C.
AU - Man, Tsz Kwong
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor that affects hundreds of children and young adults every year. The major prognostic factor in patients with localized osteosarcoma is the development of resistance towards preoperative chemotherapy. However, modifications of postoperative chemotherapy based on the histological response have not significantly improved the outcome of patients. Thus, it would be of tremendous clinical value if the poor responders could be identified at the time of diagnosis, so that ineffective therapy can be prevented and intensified or alternative therapy could be provided to improve their outcome. We hypothesized that plasma proteomic profiles could be used to distinguish good from poor responders prior to the start of treatment. In order to test this hypothesis, we analyzed the proteomic profiles in two sets of plasma samples (n=54) from osteosarcoma patients collected before (n=27) and after (n=27) pre-operative chemotherapy. Using a linear support vector machine algorithm and external leave-one-out cross validation, we developed two classifiers that classified good and poor responders with an equal accuracy of 85% (p<0.01 after 5000 permutations) in both sets of plasma samples. In order to understand the biological basis of the classifiers, we further identified and validated two plasma proteins, serum amyloid protein A and transthyretin, in the classifiers. Our results suggest that plasma proteomic profiles can predict chemotherapy response before treatment as accurately as after treatment. Our study could lead to the development of a simple blood test that can predict chemotherapy response in osteosarcoma patients. Since the two identified proteins are involved in innate immunity, our findings are corroborated by the notion that boosting the innate immunity in conjunction with chemotherapy, achieves a better anti-tumor activity, thus improving the overall survival of osteosarcoma patients.
AB - Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor that affects hundreds of children and young adults every year. The major prognostic factor in patients with localized osteosarcoma is the development of resistance towards preoperative chemotherapy. However, modifications of postoperative chemotherapy based on the histological response have not significantly improved the outcome of patients. Thus, it would be of tremendous clinical value if the poor responders could be identified at the time of diagnosis, so that ineffective therapy can be prevented and intensified or alternative therapy could be provided to improve their outcome. We hypothesized that plasma proteomic profiles could be used to distinguish good from poor responders prior to the start of treatment. In order to test this hypothesis, we analyzed the proteomic profiles in two sets of plasma samples (n=54) from osteosarcoma patients collected before (n=27) and after (n=27) pre-operative chemotherapy. Using a linear support vector machine algorithm and external leave-one-out cross validation, we developed two classifiers that classified good and poor responders with an equal accuracy of 85% (p<0.01 after 5000 permutations) in both sets of plasma samples. In order to understand the biological basis of the classifiers, we further identified and validated two plasma proteins, serum amyloid protein A and transthyretin, in the classifiers. Our results suggest that plasma proteomic profiles can predict chemotherapy response before treatment as accurately as after treatment. Our study could lead to the development of a simple blood test that can predict chemotherapy response in osteosarcoma patients. Since the two identified proteins are involved in innate immunity, our findings are corroborated by the notion that boosting the innate immunity in conjunction with chemotherapy, achieves a better anti-tumor activity, thus improving the overall survival of osteosarcoma patients.
KW - Chemotherapy response
KW - Osteosarcoma
KW - Plasma proteomics
KW - Serum amyloid protein A
KW - Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization
KW - Transthyretin
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U2 - 10.3892/or.2010.1111
DO - 10.3892/or.2010.1111
M3 - Article
C2 - 21165584
AN - SCOPUS:78651361195
VL - 25
SP - 303
EP - 314
JO - Oncology Reports
JF - Oncology Reports
SN - 1021-335X
IS - 2
ER -