bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.28.273029; this version posted August 28, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Ontogeny and Vulnerabilities of Lapatinib Drug-Tolerant Persisters in HER2+ Breast Cancer Che-wei A. Chang1, 2, Shaowen Jiang4, Azin Sayad2, Kevin R. Brown8, Allison Nixon8, Avantika Dhabaria5, 6, Kwan Ho Tang2, 3, Jason Moffat8, Beatrix Ueberheide5, 6, Alireza Khodadadi-JaMayran4, Aristotelis Tsirigos3, 4, 7, BenjaMin G. Neel1, 2, 3* 1DepartMent of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2 Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 Laura and Isaac PerlMutter Cancer Center, NYU GrossMan School of Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York. 4 Applied BioinforMatics Laboratories, Office of Science and Research, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 5 Proteomics Laboratory, Division of Advanced Research and Technology, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York. 6 DepartMent of BiocheMistry and Molecular PharMacology, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York. 7 DepartMent of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 8 Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * Corresponding author and present address: BenjaMin G. Neel, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue, Smilow Building 12th Floor, Suite 1201, New York, NY 10016. Phone: 212-263-3019; Fax: 212-263-9190; email:
[email protected] Running title (60 characters): Characterization of lapatinib drug-tolerant persisters.