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Primary organoid cultures generated from patient biopsies comprise a novel improved platform for disease modeling, being genetically stable and closely recapitulating in vivo scenarios. Barrett esophagus (BE) is the major risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma. There has been a dearth of long-term in vitro expansion models of BE neoplastic transformation. We generated a long-term virus-free organoid expansion model of BE neoplasia from patient biopsies. Both wild-type and paired APC-knockout (APC(KO)) BE organoids genome-edited by CRISPR-Cas9 showed characteristic goblet cell differentiation. Autonomous Wnt activation was confirmed in APC(KO) organoids by overexpression of Wnt target genes and nuclear-translocated beta-catenin expression after withdrawal of Wnt-3A and R-spondin-1. Wnt-activated organoids demonstrated histologic atypia, higher proliferative and replicative activity, reduced apoptosis, and prolonged culturability. Wnt-activated organoids also showed sustained protrusive migration ability accompanied by disrupted basement membrane reorganization and integrity. This CRISPR-Cas9 editing human-derived organoid model recapitulates the critical role of aberrant Wnt/beta-catenin signaling activation in BE neoplastic transformation. This system can be used to study other 'driver' pathway alterations in BE-associated neoplasia, avoiding signaling noise present in immortalized or cancer-derived cell lines.
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CANCER LETTERS
ISSN: 0304-3835
Year: 2018
Volume: 436
Page: 109-118
6 . 5 0 8
JCR@2018
8 . 6 7 9
JCR@2020
ESI Discipline: CLINICAL MEDICINE;
ESI HC Threshold:114
JCR Journal Grade:2
CAS Journal Grade:2
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WoS CC Cited Count: 26
SCOPUS Cited Count: 38
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 5
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