Publications de Jörg Hülsken

Abstract 4588: Cell states and resistance in colorectal cancer: What can we learn from patient-derived organoids?

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the three most commonly diagnosed cancers and one of the major causes of cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Despite the discovery of several predictive biomarkers, the 5-year survival rate for metastatic CRC is 15%. A ...

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)2025

Lat-based nk cars and their use

Jörg Hülsken, Mathieu Girardin, Angela Madurga Alonso

The invention relates to chimeric antigen receptor constructs and their use for treatments and therapies. Further disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing a disease, such as e.g. a cancer, an infectious disease, an inflammatory or inflammation-i ...

2024

Metabolic dependencies of metastasis-initiating cells in female breast cancer

Jörg Hülsken, Albert Santamaria Martinez, Pierre Vincent Dessen, Laurent Nam Ky Beziaud, Candice Megan T Young, Angela Madurga Alonso

Understanding the mechanisms that enable cancer cells to metastasize is essential in preventing cancer progression. Here we examine the metabolic adaptations of metastasis-initiating cells (MICs) in female breast cancer and how those shape their metastatic ...

Nature Portfolio2023

IFNγ-induced stem-like state of cancer cells as a driver of metastatic progression following immunotherapy

Jörg Hülsken, Laurent Nam Ky Beziaud, Maxim Norkin, Angela Madurga Alonso

Despite the remarkable success of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, most cancer patients still do not respond. We now find that immunotherapy can induce stem-like properties in tumors. Using mouse models of breast cancer, we observe that cancer ste ...

Elsevier BV2023

Platform combining statistical modeling and patient-derived organoids to facilitate personalized treatment of colorectal carcinoma

Jörg Hülsken, Maxim Norkin

Background We propose a new approach for designing personalized treatment for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, by combining ex vivo organoid efficacy testing with mathematical modeling of the results. ...

BMC2023

Inhibition of SRC-mediated integrin signaling in bone marrow niche enhances hematopoietic stem cell function

Jörg Hülsken

Interaction with microenvironmental factors is crucial for the regulation of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) function. Stroma derived factor (SDF)-1 alpha supports HSCs in the quiescent state and is central to the homing of transplanted HSCs. Here, we show t ...

CELL PRESS2022

Role Of Outside-In Integrin Signaling In Hematopoietic Development Of Mouse Embryo

Jörg Hülsken

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2022

Genomic Instability Profiles at the Single Cell Level in Mouse Colorectal Cancers of Defined Genotypes

Jörg Hülsken, Paloma Ordonez Moran, Maxim Norkin

The genomes of many human CRCs have been sequenced, revealing a large number of genetic alterations. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the accumulation of these alterations are still being debated. In this study, we examined colorectal tumours t ...

2021

Niche-Mediated Integrin Signaling Supports Steady-State Hematopoiesis in the Spleen

Jörg Hülsken

Outside-in integrin signaling regulates cell fate decisions in a variety of cell types, including hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Our earlier published studies showed that interruption of periostin (POSTN) and integrin-av (ITGAV) interaction induces faste ...

American Association of Immunologists ; Oxford University Press2021

High-content, targeted RNA-seq screening in organoids for drug discovery in colorectal cancer

Jörg Hülsken, Paloma Ordonez Moran, Maxim Norkin

Organoids allow the recapitulation of intestinal homeostasis and cancerogenesis in vitro; however, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq)-based methods for drug screens are missing. We develop targeted organoid sequencing (TORNADO-seq), a high-throughput, high-content d ...

2021

The Periostin/Integrin-alpha v Axis Regulates the Size of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Pool in the Fetal Liver

Jörg Hülsken

We earlier showed that outside-in integrin signaling through POSTN-ITGAV interaction plays an important role in regulating adult he-matopoietic stem cell (HSC) quiescence. Here, we show that Itgav deletion results in increased frequency of phenotypic HSCs ...

2020

γ-Catenin-Dependent Signals Maintain BCR-ABL1+ B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Jörg Hülsken, Anja Irmisch, Oliver Hantschel

The BCR-ABL1 fusion protein is the cause of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and of a significant fraction of adult-onset B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) cases. Using mouse models and patient-derived samples, we identified an essential role for γ ...

2019

Comprehensive analysis of cancer stemness

Jörg Hülsken

AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH2018

Enhanced Rate of Acquisition of Point Mutations in Mouse Intestinal Adenomas Compared to Normal Tissue

Jörg Hülsken, Paloma Ordonez Moran

The most prevalent single-nucleotide substitution (SNS) found in cancers is a C-to-T substitution in the CpG motif. It has been proposed that many of these SNSs arise during organismal aging, prior to transformation of a normal cell into a precancerous/can ...

2017

Long-Term Engraftment of Primary Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Repairs Niche Damage and Improves Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Jörg Hülsken, Zuzana Tatárová

Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation represents a curative treatment for various hematological disorders. However, delayed reconstitution of innate and adaptive immunity often causes fatal complications. HSC maintenance and lineage differentiation ...

Cell Press2017

Cross-Tissue Identification of Somatic Stem and Progenitor Cells Using a Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Derived Gene Signature

Jörg Hülsken, Bart Deplancke, Paloma Ordonez Moran, Petra Catalina Schwalie

A long-standing question in biology is whether multipotent somatic stem and progenitor cells (SSPCs) feature molecular properties that could guide their system-independent identification. Population-based transcriptomic studies have so far not been able to ...

Wiley2017

Microfluidic co-culture platform to quantify chemotaxis of primary stem cells

Jörg Hülsken, Zuzana Tatárová

Functional analysis of primary tissue-specific stem cells is hampered by their rarity. Here we describe a greatly miniaturized microfluidic device for the multiplexed, quantitative analysis of the chemotactic properties of primary, bone marrow-derived mese ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Phage selection of peptide macrocycles against b-catenin to interfere with Wnt signaling

Christian Heinis, Jörg Hülsken, Pierre Vincent Dessen, Maola Khan Mohammad Golam, Davide Bertoldo

Upregulation of b-catenin, the primary mediator of the Wnt signaling pathway, plays an important role in the tumorigenesis of several types of human cancer. Targeting b-catenin to interfere with its ability to serve as a translational co-activator is consi ...

2016

Phage selection of chemically stabilized alpha-helical peptide ligands

Christian Heinis, Jörg Hülsken, Philippe Diderich, Pierre Vincent Dessen, Maola Khan Mohammad Golam, Davide Bertoldo

Short alpha-helical peptides stabilized by linkages between constituent amino acids offer an attractive format for ligand development. In recent years, a range of excellent ligands based on stabilized alpha-helices were generated by rational design using a ...

2016

Successful immunotherapy of cancer stem cells requires memory and the adaptive immune system of the host

Jörg Hülsken, Nancy Thompson, Nicolas Pierre Desbaillets, Pierre Vincent Dessen, Patrick Schmidt

Amer Assoc Cancer Research2016