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Radial glia cells are candidate stem cells of ependymoma
Michael D. Taylor,1,8 Helen Poppleton,1,8 Christine Fuller,2 Xiaoping Su,3 Yongxing Liu,3 Patricia Jensen,1 Susan Magdaleno,1 James Dalton,2 Christopher Calabrese,1 Julian Board,1 Tobey MacDonald,4 Jim Rutka,5 Abhijit Guha,6 Amar Gajjar,7 Tom Curran,1 and Richard J. Gilbertson1,7,*

1Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
2Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
3Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
4Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20010
5Division of Neurosurgery and the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Center, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
6Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada
7Department of Hematology/Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105
8These authors contributed equally to this work.
*Correspondence: richard.gilbertson@stjude.org

Cancer Cell. 2005 Oct;8(4):323-35.

 

Summary

Tumors of the same histologic type often comprise clinically and molecularly distinct subgroups; however, the etiology of these subgroups is unknown. Here, we report that histologically identical, but genetically distinct, ependymomas exhibit patterns of gene expression that recapitulate those of radial glia cells in the corresponding region of the central nervous system. Cancer stem cells isolated from ependymomas displayed a radial glia phenotype and formed tumors when orthotopically transplanted in mice. These findings identify restricted populations of radial glia cells as candidate stem cells of the different subgroups of ependymoma, and they support a general hypothesis that subgroups of the same histologic tumor type are generated by different populations of progenitor cells in the tissues of origin.

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