Methods for the purification and detection of single nucleotide KRAS mutations on extrachromosomal circular DNA in human plasma
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Methods for the purification and detection of single nucleotide KRAS mutations on extrachromosomal circular DNA in human plasma. / Bøllehuus Hansen, Lasse; Jakobsen, Sandra Fugl; Zole, Egija; Noer, Julie Boertmann; Fang, Li Tai; Alizadeh, Sefa; Johansen, Julia Sidenius; Mohiyuddin, Marghoob; Regenberg, Birgitte.
In: Cancer Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 17, 2023, p. 17679-17691.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Methods for the purification and detection of single nucleotide KRAS mutations on extrachromosomal circular DNA in human plasma
AU - Bøllehuus Hansen, Lasse
AU - Jakobsen, Sandra Fugl
AU - Zole, Egija
AU - Noer, Julie Boertmann
AU - Fang, Li Tai
AU - Alizadeh, Sefa
AU - Johansen, Julia Sidenius
AU - Mohiyuddin, Marghoob
AU - Regenberg, Birgitte
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Backgrounds: Despite recent advances, many cancers are still detected too late for curative treatment. There is, therefore, a need for the development of new diagnostic methods and biomarkers. One approach may arise from the detection of extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), which is part of cell-free DNA in human plasma. Aims: First, we assessed and compared two methods for the purification of eccDNA from plasma. Second, we tested for an easy diagnostic application of eccDNA liquid biopsy-based assays. Materials & Methods: For the comparison we tested a solid-phase silica purification method and a phenol/chloroform method with salt precipitation. For the diagnostic application of eccDNA we developed and tested a qPCR primer-based SNP detection system, for the detection of two well-established cancer-causing KRAS mutations (G12V and G12R) on circular DNA. This investigation was supported by purifying, sequencing, and analysing clinical plasma samples for eccDNAs containing KRAS mutant alleles in 0.5 mL plasma from 16 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients and 19 healthy controls. Results: In our method comparison we observed, that following exonuclease treatment a lower eccDNA yield was found for the phenol/chloroform method (15.7%–26.7%) compared with the solid-phase purification approach (47.8%–65.9%). For the diagnostic application of eccDNA tests, the sensitivity of the tested qPCR assay only reached ~10−3 in a background of 105 wild type (wt) KRAS circular entities, which was not improved by general amplification or primer-based inhibition of wt KRAS amplification. Furthermore, we did not detect eccDNA containing KRAS in any of the clinical samples. Discussion: A potential explanation for our inability to detect any KRAS mutations in the clinical samples may be related to the general low abundance of eccDNA in plasma. Conclusion: Taken together our results provide a benchmark for eccDNA purification methods while raising the question of what is required for the optimal fast and sensitive detection of SNP mutations on eccDNA with greater sensitivity than primer-based qPCR detection.
AB - Backgrounds: Despite recent advances, many cancers are still detected too late for curative treatment. There is, therefore, a need for the development of new diagnostic methods and biomarkers. One approach may arise from the detection of extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), which is part of cell-free DNA in human plasma. Aims: First, we assessed and compared two methods for the purification of eccDNA from plasma. Second, we tested for an easy diagnostic application of eccDNA liquid biopsy-based assays. Materials & Methods: For the comparison we tested a solid-phase silica purification method and a phenol/chloroform method with salt precipitation. For the diagnostic application of eccDNA we developed and tested a qPCR primer-based SNP detection system, for the detection of two well-established cancer-causing KRAS mutations (G12V and G12R) on circular DNA. This investigation was supported by purifying, sequencing, and analysing clinical plasma samples for eccDNAs containing KRAS mutant alleles in 0.5 mL plasma from 16 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients and 19 healthy controls. Results: In our method comparison we observed, that following exonuclease treatment a lower eccDNA yield was found for the phenol/chloroform method (15.7%–26.7%) compared with the solid-phase purification approach (47.8%–65.9%). For the diagnostic application of eccDNA tests, the sensitivity of the tested qPCR assay only reached ~10−3 in a background of 105 wild type (wt) KRAS circular entities, which was not improved by general amplification or primer-based inhibition of wt KRAS amplification. Furthermore, we did not detect eccDNA containing KRAS in any of the clinical samples. Discussion: A potential explanation for our inability to detect any KRAS mutations in the clinical samples may be related to the general low abundance of eccDNA in plasma. Conclusion: Taken together our results provide a benchmark for eccDNA purification methods while raising the question of what is required for the optimal fast and sensitive detection of SNP mutations on eccDNA with greater sensitivity than primer-based qPCR detection.
KW - circular DNA
KW - eccDNA
KW - KRAS mutations
KW - liquid biopsy
KW - phenol/chloroform DNA extraction
KW - plasmids
U2 - 10.1002/cam4.6385
DO - 10.1002/cam4.6385
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37602814
AN - SCOPUS:85168567409
VL - 12
SP - 17679
EP - 17691
JO - Cancer Medicine
JF - Cancer Medicine
SN - 2045-7634
IS - 17
ER -
ID: 366003331