Abstract
Interrogation and characterization of lung cancer stem cells (CSCs) that are implicated in lung oncogenesis is crucial for our understanding of inter- and intra-tumor heterogeneity and the aggressive nature of the disease, including tumor resistance and relapse in response to conventional therapy. Here, we describe an in vitro surrogate model, namely the “sphere-forming assay,” for the derivation, enrichment, and propagation of lung stem/progenitor cells with CSC properties, including self-renewal, tumor initiation capacity and propagation, and differentiation into cells of the tumor bulk, from a murine Kras-mutant lung adenocarcinoma cell line. Self-renewing cancer stem/progenitor cells, in the form of 3D in vitro spheres, can be phenotypically interrogated using downstream techniques such as gene expression analysis (e.g., whole transcriptome sequencing and quantitative real time PCR), which is the focus of this chapter.
Ansam Sinjab and Reem Daouk Co-contributing first authors.
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Sinjab, A., Daouk, R., Abou-Kheir, W., Kadara, H. (2021). Whole Transcriptome Sequencing Analysis of Cancer Stem/Progenitor Cells Obtained from Mouse Lung Adenocarcinomas. In: Santiago-Cardona, P.G. (eds) Lung Cancer. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2279. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1278-1_15
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