TY - JOUR AU - Olivier, Magali AU - Weninger, Annette AU - Ardin, Maude AU - Huskova, Hana AU - Castells, Xavier AU - Vallée, Maxime P AU - McKay, James AU - Nedelko, Tatiana AU - Mühlbauer, Karl-Rudolf AU - Marusawa, Hiroyuki AU - Alexander, John AU - Hazelwood, Lee AU - Byrnes, Graham AU - Hollstein, Monica AU - Zavadil, Jiri TI - Modelling mutational landscapes of human cancers in vitro. JO - Scientific reports VL - 4 SN - 2045-2322 CY - London PB - Nature Publishing Group M1 - DKFZ-2017-00649 SP - 4482 PY - 2014 AB - Experimental models that recapitulate mutational landscapes of human cancers are needed to decipher the rapidly expanding data on human somatic mutations. We demonstrate that mutation patterns in immortalised cell lines derived from primary murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) exposed in vitro to carcinogens recapitulate key features of mutational signatures observed in human cancers. In experiments with several cancer-causing agents we obtained high genome-wide concordance between human tumour mutation data and in vitro data with respect to predominant substitution types, strand bias and sequence context. Moreover, we found signature mutations in well-studied human cancer driver genes. To explore endogenous mutagenesis, we used MEFs ectopically expressing activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and observed an excess of AID signature mutations in immortalised cell lines compared to their non-transgenic counterparts. MEF immortalisation is thus a simple and powerful strategy for modelling cancer mutation landscapes that facilitates the interpretation of human tumour genome-wide sequencing data. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:24670820 C2 - pmc:PMC5259794 DO - DOI:10.1038/srep04482 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/120062 ER -