1. A human liver cell-based system modeling a clinical prognostic liver signature for therapeutic discovery.
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Crouchet E, Bandiera S, Fujiwara N, Li S, El Saghire H, Fernández-Vaquero M, Riedl T, Sun X, Hirschfield H, Jühling F, Zhu S, Roehlen N, Ponsolles C, Heydmann L, Saviano A, Qian T, Venkatesh A, Lupberger J, Verrier ER, Sojoodi M, Oudot MA, Duong FHT, Masia R, Wei L, Thumann C, Durand SC, González-Motos V, Heide D, Hetzer J, Nakagawa S, Ono A, Song WM, Higashi T, Sanchez R, Kim RS, Bian CB, Kiani K, Croonenborghs T, Subramanian A, Chung RT, Straub BK, Schuppan D, Ankavay M, Cocquerel L, Schaeffer E, Goossens N, Koh AP, Mahajan M, Nair VD, Gunasekaran G, Schwartz ME, Bardeesy N, Shalek AK, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Felli E, Pessaux P, Tanabe KK, Heikenwälder M, Schuster C, Pochet N, Zeisel MB, Fuchs BC, Hoshida Y, and Baumert TF
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- Animals, Carcinogenesis pathology, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular pathology, Cell Line, Tumor, Chemoprevention, Cohort Studies, Cyclic AMP metabolism, Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic drug effects, HEK293 Cells, Hepacivirus physiology, Hepatitis C genetics, Hepatocytes drug effects, Hepatocytes metabolism, Hepatocytes pathology, Humans, Immunologic Surveillance drug effects, Inflammation pathology, Liver drug effects, Liver metabolism, Liver Cirrhosis pathology, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Macrophages drug effects, Macrophages metabolism, Macrophages pathology, Male, Mice, Knockout, Nizatidine pharmacology, Prognosis, Signal Transduction drug effects, Transcriptome genetics, Mice, Drug Discovery, Liver pathology, Models, Biological
- Abstract
Chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are life-threatening diseases with limited treatment options. The lack of clinically relevant/tractable experimental models hampers therapeutic discovery. Here, we develop a simple and robust human liver cell-based system modeling a clinical prognostic liver signature (PLS) predicting long-term liver disease progression toward HCC. Using the PLS as a readout, followed by validation in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis/fibrosis/HCC animal models and patient-derived liver spheroids, we identify nizatidine, a histamine receptor H2 (HRH2) blocker, for treatment of advanced liver disease and HCC chemoprevention. Moreover, perturbation studies combined with single cell RNA-Seq analyses of patient liver tissues uncover hepatocytes and HRH2
+ , CLEC5Ahigh , MARCOlow liver macrophages as potential nizatidine targets. The PLS model combined with single cell RNA-Seq of patient tissues enables discovery of urgently needed targets and therapeutics for treatment of advanced liver disease and cancer prevention., (© 2021. The Author(s).)- Published
- 2021
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