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ArticleCancer research communications2023

CD142 Identifies Neoplastic Desmoid Tumor Cells, Uncovering Interactions Between Neoplastic and Stromal Cells That Drive Proliferation.

Mushriq Al-Jazrawe, Steven Xu, Raymond Poon, Qingxia Wei, Joanna Przybyl, Sushama Varma, Matt van de Rijn, Benjamin A Alman

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Article in Cancer research communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Genomic, Epigenomic, and Transcriptomic Inter- and Intratumor Heterogeneity in Desmoid Tumors.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Mushriq Al-JazraweHospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4267-4236
Steven XuHospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7073-1595
Raymond PoonHospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6547-6013
Qingxia WeiHospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7723-6180
Joanna PrzybylDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.ORCID 0000-0002-8162-5226
Sushama VarmaDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.ORCID 0000-0001-8137-0641
Matt van de RijnDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.ORCID 0000-0002-1909-9739
Benjamin A AlmanHospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7302-122X
Hospital for Sick Children · CAStanford Medicine · USDuke University · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Targeting Tumor Initiating Cell in Undifferentiated Pleomorphic SarcomaR01CA183811 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ALMAN, BENJAMIN AARON · 2014 to 2018
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA183811
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interaction between neoplastic and stromal cells within a tumor mass plays an important role in cancer biology. However, it is challenging to distinguish between tumor and stromal cells in mesenchymal tumors because lineage-specific cell surface markers typically used in other cancers do not distinguish between the different cell subpopulations. Desmoid tumors consist of mesenchymal fibroblast-like cells driven by mutations stabilizing beta-catenin. Here we aimed to identify surface markers that can distinguish mutant cells from stromal cells to study tumor-stroma interactions. We analyzed colonies derived from single cells from human desmoid tumors using a high-throughput surface antigen screen, to characterize the mutant and nonmutant cells. We found that CD142 is highly expressed by the mutant cell populations and correlates with beta-catenin activity. CD142-based cell sorting isolated the mutant population from heterogeneous samples, including one where no mutation was previously detected by traditional Sanger sequencing. We then studied the secretome of mutant and nonmutant fibroblastic cells. PTX3 is one stroma-derived secreted factor that increases mutant cell proliferation via STAT6 activation. These data demonstrate a sensitive method to quantify and distinguish neoplastic from stromal cells in mesenchymal tumors. It identifies proteins secreted by nonmutant cells that regulate mutant cell proliferation that could be therapeutically. Significance: Distinguishing between neoplastic (tumor) and non-neoplastic (stromal) cells within mesenchymal tumors is particularly challenging, because lineage-specific cell surface markers typically used in other cancers do not differentiate between the different cell subpopulations. Here, we developed a strategy combining clonal expansion with surface proteome profiling to identify markers for quantifying and isolating mutant and nonmutant cell subpopulations in desmoid tumors, and to study their interactions via soluble factors.

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Desmoid Tumorsbeta CateninCell ProliferationFibroblastsHumansStromal CellsThromboplastinbeta CateninThromboplastin

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PMID37377751
PMCPMC10128091
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