Enrichment technique to allow early detection and monitor emergence of KRAS mutation in response to treatment

Scientific Reports
Yoshiyasu KitagawaHiroki Nagase

Abstract

Sensitivity of cell-free circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) assays is often hampered by the limited quantity of intact mutant nucleotide fragments. To overcome the issue of substrate limitation in clinical applications, we developed an enrichment method utilizing pyrrole-imidazole (PI) polyamides and their ability to bind the minor groove of B-DNA. We present here a proof-of-concept experiment to enrich specific mutant KRAS alleles with biotinylated PI polyamides. We investigated the clinical feasibility of incorporating PI polyamides to detect KRAS mutations in ctDNA from 40 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, of whom 17 carried mutations in KRAS. After enriching ctDNA with those polyamides, we used digital PCR to detect several common KRAS codon 12 mutations. Enrichment by biotinylated PI polyamides improved the sensitivity of ctDNA analysis (88.9% vs. 11.1%, P < 0.01) in 9 non-metastatic mutation-positive patients. We observed no differences in performance for the 8 metastatic subjects (100% vs. 75%, P = 0.47). In the remaining 23/40 patients with wild type KRAS codon 12, no mutant alleles were detected with or without polyamide-facilitated enrichment. Enriching B-form of ctDNA with PI polyamides significantly improved the assay s...Continue Reading

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