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Somatic evolution and global expansion of an ancient
transmissible cancer lineage
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[論文紹介] 古代の伝染性がん系統の体細胞進化と世界的拡大 (Somatic evolution and global expansion of an ancient transmissible cancer lineage)
1. 古代の伝染性がん系統の体細胞進化と世界的拡大
令和元年十月八日
PMID: 31371581
M2 永田 祥平
RESEARCH ARTICLE
◥
CANCER EVOLUTION
Somatic evolution and global
expansion of an ancient
transmissible cancer lineage
Adrian Baez-Ortega1
, Kevin Gori1
*, Andrea Strakova1
*, Janice L. Allen2
,
Karen M. Allum3
, Leontine Bansse-Issa4
, Thinlay N. Bhutia5
, Jocelyn L. Bisson1,6
,
Cristóbal Briceño7
, Artemio Castillo Domracheva8
, Anne M. Corrigan9
, Hugh R. Cran10
,
Jane T. Crawford11
, Eric Davis12
, Karina F. de Castro13
, Andrigo B. de Nardi14
,
Anna P. de Vos15
, Laura Delgadillo Keenan16
, Edward M. Donelan2
,
Adela R. Espinoza Huerta17
, Ibikunle A. Faramade18
, Mohammed Fazil19
,
Eleni Fotopoulou20
, Skye N. Fruean21
, Fanny Gallardo-Arrieta22
, Olga Glebova23
,
Pagona G. Gouletsou24
, Rodrigo F. Häfelin Manrique25
, Joaquim J. G. P. Henriques26
,
Rodrigo S. Horta27
, Natalia Ignatenko28
, Yaghouba Kane29
, Cathy King3
,
Debbie Koenig3
, Ada Krupa30
, Steven J. Kruzeniski17
, Young-Mi Kwon1
,
Marta Lanza-Perea9
, Mihran Lazyan31
, Adriana M. Lopez Quintana32
,
Thibault Losfelt33
, Gabriele Marino34
, Simón Martínez Castañeda35
,
Mayra F. Martínez-López36,37
, Michael Meyer38
, Edward J. Migneco39
,
Berna Nakanwagi40
, Karter B. Neal41
, Winifred Neunzig3
, Máire Ní Leathlobhair1
,
Sally J. Nixon42
, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco43
, Francisco Pedraza-Ordoñez44
,
Maria C. Peleteiro45
, Katherine Polak46
, Ruth J. Pye47
, John F. Reece48
,
Jose Rojas Gutierrez49
, Haleema Sadia50
, Sheila K. Schmeling51
, Olga Shamanova52
,
Alan G. Sherlock47
, Maximilian Stammnitz1
, Audrey E. Steenland-Smit4
,
Alla Svitich53
, Lester J. Tapia Martínez17
, Ismail Thoya Ngoka54
, Cristian G. Torres55
,
Elizabeth M. Tudor56
, Mirjam G. van der Wel57
, Bogdan A. Vi ălaru58
,
Sevil A. Vural59
, Oliver Walkinton47
, Jinhong Wang1
, Alvaro S. Wehrle-Martinez60
,
Sophie A. E. Widdowson61
, Michael R. Stratton62
, Ludmil B. Alexandrov63
,
Iñigo Martincorena62
, Elizabeth P. Murchison1
†
The canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) is a cancer lineage that arose
countries during the 20th century owing to the
management andremoval of free-roamingdogs (4).
Similar to cancers that remain in a single in-
dividual, CTVT accumulates somatic mutations.
These result from the activities of endogenous
and exogenous mutational processes, and genet-
ically imprint a cancer’s history of mutagenic
exposures (5). Thus, the CTVT genome can be
considered a living biomarker that records the
changing mutagenic environments experienced
by this cancer throughout millennia and across
continents. Although most somatic mutations
in cancer have no functional effect and are con-
sidered neutral “passenger” mutations, a subset
of mutations are positively selected “driver” muta-
tions that confer the proliferation and survival
advantages that spur cancer growth (6). Ordinary
cancers, which remain in a single host, often ac-
quire additional driver mutations during tumor
progression (7); however, it is unknown whether
transmissible cancers that survive for hundreds
or thousands of years similarly continue to adapt.
It seems possible that the evolution of long-lived
cancers such as CTVT may instead be dominated
by negative selection acting to remove deleterious
mutations. Finally, in addition to recording a his-
tory of exposures and signatures of selection, so-
matic mutations provide a tool for tracing CTVT
phylogeography, potentially revealing how dogs,
together with humans, moved around the world
over the past centuries. Here, we use somatic mu-
tations extracted from the protein-coding ge-
nomes (exomes) of 546 globally distributed CTVT
tumors to trace the history, spread, diversity, mu-
tational exposures, and evolution of the CTVT clone.
CTVT phylogeny
We sequenced the exomes (43.6 megabases, Mb;
mean sequencing depth ~132×) of 546 CTVT
tumors collected between 2003 and 2016 from
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
◥
CANCER EVOLUTION
Somatic evolution and global
expansion of an ancient
transmissible cancer lineage
Adrian Baez-Ortega1
, Kevin Gori1
*, Andrea Strakova1
*, Janice L. Allen2
,
Karen M. Allum3
, Leontine Bansse-Issa4
, Thinlay N. Bhutia5
, Jocelyn L. Bisson1,6
,
Cristóbal Briceño7
, Artemio Castillo Domracheva8
, Anne M. Corrigan9
, Hugh R. Cran10
,
Jane T. Crawford11
, Eric Davis12
, Karina F. de Castro13
, Andrigo B. de Nardi14
,
Anna P. de Vos15
, Laura Delgadillo Keenan16
, Edward M. Donelan2
,
Adela R. Espinoza Huerta17
, Ibikunle A. Faramade18
, Mohammed Fazil19
,
Eleni Fotopoulou20
, Skye N. Fruean21
, Fanny Gallardo-Arrieta22
, Olga Glebova23
,
Pagona G. Gouletsou24
, Rodrigo F. Häfelin Manrique25
, Joaquim J. G. P. Henriques26
,
Rodrigo S. Horta27
, Natalia Ignatenko28
, Yaghouba Kane29
, Cathy King3
,
Debbie Koenig3
, Ada Krupa30
, Steven J. Kruzeniski17
, Young-Mi Kwon1
,
Marta Lanza-Perea9
, Mihran Lazyan31
, Adriana M. Lopez Quintana32
,
Thibault Losfelt33
, Gabriele Marino34
, Simón Martínez Castañeda35
,
Mayra F. Martínez-López36,37
, Michael Meyer38
, Edward J. Migneco39
,
Berna Nakanwagi40
, Karter B. Neal41
, Winifred Neunzig3
, Máire Ní Leathlobhair1
,
Sally J. Nixon42
, Antonio Ortega-Pacheco43
, Francisco Pedraza-Ordoñez44
,
Maria C. Peleteiro45
, Katherine Polak46
, Ruth J. Pye47
, John F. Reece48
,
Jose Rojas Gutierrez49
, Haleema Sadia50
, Sheila K. Schmeling51
, Olga Shamanova52
,
Alan G. Sherlock47
, Maximilian Stammnitz1
, Audrey E. Steenland-Smit4
,
Alla Svitich53
, Lester J. Tapia Martínez17
, Ismail Thoya Ngoka54
, Cristian G. Torres55
,
Elizabeth M. Tudor56
, Mirjam G. van der Wel57
, Bogdan A. Vi ălaru58
,
Sevil A. Vural59
, Oliver Walkinton47
, Jinhong Wang1
, Alvaro S. Wehrle-Martinez60
,
Sophie A. E. Widdowson61
, Michael R. Stratton62
, Ludmil B. Alexandrov63
,
Iñigo Martincorena62
, Elizabeth P. Murchison1
†
The canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) is a cancer lineage that arose
countries during the 20th century owing to the
management andremoval offree-roamingdogs (4).
Similar to cancers that remain in a single in-
dividual, CTVT accumulates somatic mutations.
These result from the activities of endogenous
and exogenous mutational processes, and genet-
ically imprint a cancer’s history of mutagenic
exposures (5). Thus, the CTVT genome can be
considered a living biomarker that records the
changing mutagenic environments experienced
by this cancer throughout millennia and across
continents. Although most somatic mutations
in cancer have no functional effect and are con-
sidered neutral “passenger” mutations, a subset
of mutations are positively selected “driver” muta-
tions that confer the proliferation and survival
advantages that spur cancer growth (6). Ordinary
cancers, which remain in a single host, often ac-
quire additional driver mutations during tumor
progression (7); however, it is unknown whether
transmissible cancers that survive for hundreds
or thousands of years similarly continue to adapt.
It seems possible that the evolution of long-lived
cancers such as CTVT may instead be dominated
by negative selection acting to remove deleterious
mutations. Finally, in addition to recording a his-
tory of exposures and signatures of selection, so-
matic mutations provide a tool for tracing CTVT
phylogeography, potentially revealing how dogs,
together with humans, moved around the world
over the past centuries. Here, we use somatic mu-
tations extracted from the protein-coding ge-
nomes (exomes) of 546 globally distributed CTVT
tumors to trace the history, spread, diversity, mu-
tational exposures, and evolution of the CTVT clone.
CTVT phylogeny
We sequenced the exomes (43.6 megabases, Mb;
mean sequencing depth ~132×) of 546 CTVT
tumors collected between 2003 and 2016 from
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4. 4
可移植性性器腫瘍 (CTVT)とは
可移植性性器腫瘍 (canine transmissible venereal tumor; CTVT)
イヌ科において発生する感染性のがん。主に交尾により伝染し外性器などに腫瘍を形成する。
がん細胞が直接イヌからイヌに「転移する」ことで伝染する。
数千年前に個々の「始祖犬 (founder dog)」で最初に発生し,その後,交尾中に生きているがん
細胞を新しい宿主に移すことで生き残っている。
Introduction
WHAT IS CTVT?
Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour (CTVT), also called TVT or Sticker s sarcoma is a transmissible cancer hich arose
around 11,000 years ago and has been transmitted by living cancer cells during coitus between individual dogs.
https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/pdfs/ctvt-project-information.pdf
5. 5
本研究の流れ
INTRODUCTION: The canine transmissible
venereal tumor (CTVT) is a sexually transmitted
cancer that manifests as genital tumors in dogs.
This cancer first arose in an individual “founder
dog” several thousand years ago and has since
survived by transfer of living cancer cells to new
hosts during coitus. Today, CTVT affects dogs
around the world and is the oldest and most
prolific known cancer lineage. CTVT thus pro-
vides an opportunity to explore the evolution
of cancer over the long term and to track the
unusual biological transition from multicel-
lular organism to obligate conspecific asexual
parasite. Furthermore, the CTVT genome, act-
ing as a living biomarker, has recorded the
changing mutagenic environments experienced
by this cancer throughout millennia and across
continents.
RATIONALE: To capture the genetic diversity
of the CTVT lineage, we analyzed somatic muta-
tions extracted from the protein-coding ge-
nomes (exomes) of 546 globally distributed CTVT
tumors. We inferred a time-resolved phyloge-
netic tree for the clone and used this to trace the
worldwide spread of the disease and to select
subsets of mutations acquired at known geo-
graphical locations and time periods. Computa-
tionalmethodswereappliedtoextractmutational
signatures and to measure their exposures across
time and space. In addition, we assessed the
activity of selection using ratios of nonsynon-
ymous and synonymous variants.
RESULTS: The CTVT phylogeny reveals that
the lineage first arose from its founder dog
4000 to 8500 years ago, likely in Asia, with the
most recent common ancestor of modern glob-
ally distributed tumors occurring ~1900 years
ago. CTVT underwent a rapid global expansion
within the past 500 years, likely aided by in-
tensification of human maritime travel. We
identify a highly specific mutational signature
dominated by C>T mutations at GTCCA penta-
nucleotide contexts, which operated in CTVT
up until ~1000 years ago. The number of mu-
tations caused by ultraviolet light exposure is
correlated with latitude of tumor collection,
described in human can-
cers. The identification of
a highly context-specific
mutational process that
operated in the past but
subsequently vanished, as
well as correlation of ultra-
violet light–induced DNA damage with latitude,
highlight the potential for long-lived, widespread
clonal organisms to act as biomarkers for muta-
genic exposures. Our results suggest that neu-
tral genetic drift is the dominant evolutionary
force operating on cancer over the long term, in
contrast to the ongoing positive selection that is
often observed in short-lived human cancers.
The weakness of negative selection in this asexual
lineage may be expected to lead to the pro-
gressive accumulation of deleterious mutations,
invoking Muller’s ratchet and raising the pos-
sibility that CTVT may be declining in fitness
despite its global success.
▪
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Early drivers
PTEN
RB1
CDKN2A
MYC
SETD2
546 CTVT exomes
(148,030 somatic SNVs)
Somatic phylogeny
Phylogeography
Mutational signatures
Selection
CTVT
founder tumor
(4000–8500 BP)
Neutral drift
Basal trunk
(prior to ~1900 BP)
Signature A
(unknown early process)
Signature 7
(UV light)
GTCCA
C>T
Cancer evolution over thousands of years. The canine transmissi-
ble venereal tumor (CTVT) is an ancient contagious cancer with a
global distribution. We sequenced the exomes of 546 CTVT tumors
insights into the cancer’s phylogeography, mutational processes,
and signatures of selection across thousands of years. Notably,
a highly context-specific mutational pattern named signature A
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・2003年から2016年に渡り,世界各国から546のCTVTサンプルを取得
・タンパク質コード領域をシークエンス (Exome sequencing)
Fig. 1. 地理情報を合わせた系統解析と年代推定により,CTVTの起源と世界的移入の経路を解明した。
Fig. 2. 変異パターンの分析により,CTVTに非常に特徴的な変異シグネチャを特定した。
Fig. 3. CTCV遺伝子にかかる自然選択圧を算出することで,CTCVの進化を支配している中立進化である
ことを示唆した。
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CTVTはいつ頃生まれどのように世界に広がったのか?
~1,000 BP
Likely
region of origin
4000–8500 BP
~2,000
BP
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Sublineage 1
Sublineage 2
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010002000300040005000600070008000
22,632 SNVs
A1
Founder
tumor
Earliest
divergence
India
Nicaragua
Mexico
Belize–Mexico
Mexico–
United States
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Belize
Nicaragua–
Guat.–Hond.
Mexico–
United States
Colombia–
Panama
Ecuador
Nicaragua–
Colombia
Ecuador
Chile
Paraguay–
Uruguay
The Gambia
Suriname
Grenada
Grenada
India
Pakistan
India
India
Thailand
India
India
Brazil
Brazil–Uruguay
Brazil
Brazil
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Lesotho–
South Africa
Italy
Venezuela
Venezuela
Grenada
Reunion–
Senegal
Paraguay
Gr.–Tur.–Ken.–
Tan.–Uganda
Mauritius
Suriname–
C.V.–Portugal
Tan.–Tur.–
Rom.–Russia
United States
Australia
Australia
Colombia
Malawi
Rom.–Ukraine–
Russia
Russia
Russia–Ukraine
Ukraine
Armenia–Tur.
India
India
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Sublineage2Sublineage1
3289 SNVs
A2
5964 SNVs
A3
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(A) 分子系統樹を作成し年代情報を推定
・6,220年前頃 (4,000-8,500年前)に最初の
CTVT細胞が発生
・3つの配列変異グループ (A1-A3)
(B) 2,000年前くらいから西へ広がる
・インド系統との分離 ( 2,000年前)
・東ヨーロッパ・黒海領域へ ( 1,000年前)
(C, D) 500年前頃から世界中へ爆発的に拡大
・サブ系統 1
赤:白人の入植と共にアメリカ大陸への流入
( 500年前)
黒:アフリカへの移入 (少なくとも5回)とヨー
ロッパ・アジアへの再移入 ( 300年前)
・サブ系統 2
オーストラリア・太平洋側への移入 ( 500年前)
CTVTは中央アジアで約6,000年前に発生し,
約2,000年前から西へ広がっていき,500年前
頃から世界中へ爆発的に感染が広がった。
Fig.1
SNV: 一塩基多様性
7. 7
CTVTではどのような変異が発生しているのか?
A
B
C
D E
C>A C>G C>T T>A T>C T>G
TCC
NCGCCC
Grenada
Mauritius
0.15
Signature 1 NCG
Signature 5
0.05
0.30
Signature 2* TCT
TCA
0.02
0.04
C>T
GTCCA
CTCCA
ATCCAGGCCA
0.40 C>TC>
Signature A
NCC
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Mutationprobability
C>T
0.02
0.04
NCCCN
NCCTN
NTCCN
NTCTN
0.15
C>T
Signature 7 TCC
TCT
CCC
CCT
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Mutations
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
solutemeanlatitude
A2
A3
A1
Signature 7
Signature A
Mutationprobability
20
30
40
50
Prediction for
A1 (Basal trunk)
India
Russia–Ukraine
South Africa
Nicaragua−Colombia
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(A) CTVTに特徴的な変異パターンを分析したところ,ほとんどがC>T変異であった。
A
B
C
D E
C>A C>G C>T T>A T>C T>G
TCC
NCGCCC
0.15
Signature 1 NCG
Signature 5
0.05
0.30
Signature 2* TCT
TCA
0.02
0.04
C>T
GTCCA
CTCCA
ATCCAGGCCA
0.40 C>TC>
Signature A
NCC
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Mutationprobability
C>T
0.02
0.04
NCCCN
NCCTN
NTCCN
NTCTN
0.15
C>T
Signature 7 TCC
TCT
CCC
CCT
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Mutations
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
A2
A3
A1
Signature 7
Signature A
Mutationprobability
Russia–Ukraine
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(B) 特徴的な変異プロセスが5つ抽出された。
Signature 1, 5: 内因性変異プロセス
Signature 2*: APOBEC酵素
Signature 7: 紫外線への暴露
Signature A: 既知の変異パターンと不一致
COSMIC signatures: COSMIC, the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer, is the world's largest
and most comprehensive resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancer.
トリヌクレオチド (3塩基)
トリヌクレオチド (3塩基)
8. 8
CTVTではどのような変異が発生しているのか?
Fig.2
Fig.2 (C) GTCCAの塩基配列の並びに変異が入り,既知のコンテキスト固有変異よりも顕著な配列嗜好性がある。
2,000年前頃までの間に変異しており,A1枝間での変異の35%を占める (Fig. S5)。
→創立犬 (founder)が居た環境のみで外来的要因によって発生していた変異の可能性 (逆の可能性もある)
Fig. S5
Mutational signature exposures across the CTVT phylogeny. Phylogenetic
mutational signature exposures in the 61 defined phylogenetic mutation groups
Coloured triangles represent the collapsed tree branches of tumour groups
coloured according to geographic expansion movements as shown in Fig.
numbers, and coloured bars representing group-specific signature exposures, a
next to each group. Signature exposures in each group are expressed in normali
(the ratio between the number of group-unique SNVs attributed to a signatur
number of group-unique C>T changes at CpG dinucleotides). Three groups of
somatic variation (A1, A2, A3) are indicated in the tree, with signature
displayed at the bottom.
22,632 SNVs
A1Founder
tumour
Earliest
divergence
8
2
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27
54
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Signature 1
Signature 5
Signature 7
Signature 2*
Signature A
0 2 4 6 8 10
Normalised SNVs
A1
A2
A3
Ancestral
somatic
variants
3,289 SNVs
A2
5,964 SNVs
A3
Fig. S5
(D, E)
紫外線の強い地域ほどSignature 7が多いのでは?
→ 緯度とCC>TT変異数の関係をもとにCTVT始祖犬集団の緯度を推定
B
C
D E
Grenada
Mauritius
0.15
Signature 1 NCG
Signature 5
0.05
0.30
Signature 2* TCT
TCA
0.02
0.04
C>T
GTCCA
CTCCA
ATCCAGGCCA
0.40 C>TC>
Signature A
NCC
Mutationprobability
C>T
0.02
0.04
NCCCN
NCCTN
NTCCN
NTCTN
0.15
C>T
Signature 7 TCC
TCT
CCC
CCT
F
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
G0.10
Grenada (20)
0.10
Grenada (21)
12–16
20
40
Normalized CC>TT mutations
Absolutemeanlatitude
A2
A3
A1
Signature 7
Signature A
MutationprobabilityMutationprobability
0
10
20
30
40
50
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4
Prediction for
A1 (Basal trunk)
India
Suriname
Ecuador
Russia–Ukraine
South Africa
Colombia
Nicaragua−Colombia
Australia
utational processes in CTVT. (A) Trinucleotide-context
al spectrum of somatic SNVs in a single CTVT tumor.
l axis presents 96 mutation types displayed in pyrimidine
Relevant mutation contexts are indicated. (B) Mutational
f extracted mutational signatures with relevant mutation
represent the ratio between group-specific CC>TT mutations and
group-specific C>T changes at CpG dinucleotides. The black line and
shadowed area indicate the regression curve and associated 95% HPDI.
The orange dot and bars represent predicted absolute mean latitude
and associated 90% prediction interval for the basal trunk ancestral
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ペンタヌクレオチド (5塩基)
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CTVTの遺伝子にはどのような選択が働いているのか?
of minimal benefit, such that they were insuffi-
cienttoovercometheneutraleffectsofdrift.Notably,
since the 1980s, CTVT has been routinely treated
with vincristine, a cytotoxic microtubule inhibitor
(32). Despite the strong selection pressure imposed
by vincristine treatment, we find no evidence of
convergent evolution of vincristine resistance
mechanisms in CTVT at the level of point mu-
prevalent in signature A, accumulating in the
human germ line between 15,000 and 2000 years
ago. If this human mutation pulse is due to signa-
ture A, it could indicate a shared environmental
exposure that was once widespread but has now
disappeared. However, we find no evidence of
an excess of C>T mutations at GTCCA penta-
nucleotides in the dog germ line, suggesting that
lineage known in nature; it has spread through-
out the globe and has seeded its tumors in many
thousands of dogs. Here, we have traced this
cancer’s route through the steppes of Asia and
Europe and as an unwelcome stowaway on global
voyages. We have observed the patterns in its
mutational profiles reflecting the dynamics of its
exogenous and endogenous environment. Further,
Homozygous deletion
Upstream LINE-1
element integration
Hemizygous essential
splice-site
Hemizygous nonsense
Hemizygous nonsense
CDKN2A
MYC
PTEN
RB1
SETD2
A
D
Basal trunk ancestral variation (A1)
22,632 somatic SNVs
C
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
dN/dS
All genes Essential genes Genes per copy number state Genes per gene expression quintile category
CN = 1 CN > 1 CN = 1 CN = 2 CN > 2
19,381 genes 269 genes 1520 genes 2585 genes 10,624 genes 1457 genes 3866 genes 3858 genes 3874 genes 3886 genes 3893 genes
Missense
Nonsense
SomaticSNVprevalence
(SNVsperMb)
0.01
0.1
1
10
100
1000
B
ALL
Lung squamous
Melanoma
CTVT
Prostate
Head and neck
Neuroblastoma
0 20 40 60 80 100
Coding genes (%)
Low High
Fig. 3. Selection in CTVT. (A) Somatic SNV prevalence across six human
cancer types and CTVT. Dots represent individual tumors; red lines
indicate median SNV prevalence. ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(B) Bars showing the percentage of protein-coding genes in the
CTVT genome harboring ≥1 nonsynonymous somatic mutation (SNV
or indel; 14,412 genes) and ≥1 somatic protein-truncating somatic
mutation (5704 genes). (C) Diagram presenting the putative driver
events found in the set of basal trunk ancestral variants (group A1,
Fig. 1A). A description of each somatic alteration is shown next to
the corresponding gene symbol. (D) Exome-wide dN/dS ratios esti-
mated for somatic SNVs in all protein-coding genes (left) and in sets
of genes defined according to gene essentiality, copy number state,
and expression level. Estimates of dN/dS are presented for missense
(blue) and nonsense (orange) mutations in each gene group. The
dashed line indicates dN/dS = 1 (neutrality); error bars indicate
95% confidence intervals.
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Fig.3 (A) ヒトがん細胞と比べ,CTVTには圧倒的に多くの変異が蓄積している。
(B) 546サンプルのうち,73%の遺伝子には非同義変異が入っており,29%にはタンパク質欠損変異が入っていた。
(C) 初期にCTVTの移植能を高める等をしてCTVTを引き起こしたと考えられるドライバー遺伝子は5つだった。
PTE, BRC1はヒトがん細胞で頻繁にドライバー変異を有しており,CTVTが伝染するために獲得した特殊な遺伝子は見つからなかった。
(D) CTVTのdN/dS比を算出したところ,ほとんどが中立進化だった。
数十年が寿命のヒトがん細胞では強い正の選択 (dN/dS > 1)がほとんどであり,大きく異なる傾向。
短命なヒトのがんとは対照的に,長期に渡ってがんを支配するのは中立進化であることが示唆された。
CTVTは初期に可移植性がんとしての最適化をほとんど終えており,その後は変えるリスクのほうが大きい可能性。
Fig.3 ヒトがん細胞
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総括
掲載理由
本研究は数千年に渡って進化してきた最古のがん系統の歴史を追跡し,特徴的な変異プロセスがあるこ
とと長命ながんでは中立進化が支配的であることを明らかにした。ヒトががん細胞を制御して共存して
いくという新たな治療アプローチに繋がると期待される。
感想
• エキソン以外のnon-coding領域はどうなっているんだろう
• 比較的長命なヒトがん系統 (HeLaとか)と比較してみたい
• 腫瘍を制御し共存するという新しい道へ
expansion of an ancient
transmissible cancer lineage
Adrian Baez-Ortega et al.
INTRODUCTION: The canine transmissible
venereal tumor (CTVT) is a sexually transmitted
cancer that manifests as genital tumors in dogs.
This cancer first arose in an individual “founder
dog” several thousand years ago and has since
survived by transfer of living cancer cells to new
hosts during coitus. Today, CTVT affects dogs
around the world and is the oldest and most
prolific known cancer lineage. CTVT thus pro-
vides an opportunity to explore the evolution
of cancer over the long term and to track the
unusual biological transition from multicel-
lular organism to obligate conspecific asexual
parasite. Furthermore, the CTVT genome, act-
ing as a living biomarker, has recorded the
changing mutagenic environments experienced
by this cancer throughout millennia and across
continents.
RATIONALE: To capture the genetic diversity
of the CTVT lineage, we analyzed somatic muta-
tions extracted from the protein-coding ge-
nomes (exomes) of 546 globally distributed CTVT
tumors. We inferred a time-resolved phyloge-
netic tree for the clone and used this to trace the
worldwide spread of the disease and to select
subsets of mutations acquired at known geo-
graphical locations and time periods. Computa-
tionalmethodswereappliedtoextractmutational
signatures and to measure their exposures across
time and space. In addition, we assessed the
activity of selection using ratios of nonsynon-
ymous and synonymous variants.
RESULTS: The CTVT phylogeny reveals that
the lineage first arose from its founder dog
4000 to 8500 years ago, likely in Asia, with the
most recent common ancestor of modern glob-
ally distributed tumors occurring ~1900 years
ago. CTVT underwent a rapid global expansion
within the past 500 years, likely aided by in-
tensification of human maritime travel. We
identify a highly specific mutational signature
dominated by C>T mutations at GTCCA penta-
nucleotide contexts, which operated in CTVT
up until ~1000 years ago. The number of mu-
tations caused by ultraviolet light exposure is
correlated with latitude of tumor collection,
CONCLUSION: We have traced the evolution
of a transmissible cancer over several thousand
years, tracking its spread across continents and
contrasting the mutational processes and selec-
tive forces that molded its genome with those
described in human can-
cers. The identification of
a highly context-specific
mutational process that
operated in the past but
subsequently vanished, as
well as correlation of ultra-
violet light–induced DNA damage with latitude,
highlight the potential for long-lived, widespread
clonal organisms to act as biomarkers for muta-
genic exposures. Our results suggest that neu-
tral genetic drift is the dominant evolutionary
force operating on cancer over the long term, in
contrast to the ongoing positive selection that is
often observed in short-lived human cancers.
The weakness of negative selection in this asexual
lineage may be expected to lead to the pro-
gressive accumulation of deleterious mutations,
invoking Muller’s ratchet and raising the pos-
sibility that CTVT may be declining in fitness
despite its global success.
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Transcribed strand
Untranscribed strand
Early drivers
PTEN
RB1
CDKN2A
MYC
SETD2
546 CTVT exomes
(148,030 somatic SNVs)
Somatic phylogeny
Phylogeography
Mutational signatures
Selection
CTVT
founder tumor
(4000–8500 BP)
Neutral drift
Basal trunk
(prior to ~1900 BP)
Signature A
(unknown early process)
Signature 7
(UV light)
GTCCA
C>T
Cancer evolution over thousands of years. The canine transmissi-
ble venereal tumor (CTVT) is an ancient contagious cancer with a
global distribution. We sequenced the exomes of 546 CTVT tumors
and identified somatic single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). These
were used to construct a time-resolved phylogenetic tree, yielding
insights into the cancer’s phylogeography, mutational processes,
and signatures of selection across thousands of years. Notably,
a highly context-specific mutational pattern named signature A
was identified, which was active in the past but ceased to operate
about 1000 years ago. BP, years before present.
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• CTVTは約6,000年前に中央アフリカで発生し,500年前頃からアメリカ,その後世界各地へと移入
した。
• 始祖たるCTVT細胞に発生した5つのドライバー遺伝子によって腫瘍となった。
• 現在のCTVT細胞になるまでに蓄積している変異の殆どは中立変異であり,長期に渡ってがんを支配
するするのは中立進化であることが示唆された。(短命なヒトのがんとは対照的)
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