机构:[1]Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[2]Institute of Molecular and CellBiology, Singapore[3]Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore[4]Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, The Sixth Affiliated Hospitalof Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China中山大学附属第六医院[5]Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China中山大学附属第二医院[6]Laboratory of Cancer Epigenome, Division of MedicalSciences, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore[7]The First Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[8]Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science,Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore[9]Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore[10]SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, National HeartCentre Singapore, Singapore[11]Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Ovarian cancer is characterized by aberrant activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), highlighting the importance of targeting the MAPK pathway as an attractive therapeutic strategy. However, the clinical efficacy of MEK inhibitors is limited due to intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. Here, we established patient-derived ovarian cancer models resistant to MEK inhibitors and demonstrated that resistance to the clinically-approved MEK inhibitor trametinib was associated with enhancer reprogramming. We also showed that enhancer decommissioning induced the downregulation of negative regulators of the MAPK pathway, leading to constitutive ERK activation and acquired resistance to trametinib. Epigenetic compound screening uncovered that HDAC inhibitors could alter the enhancer reprogramming and upregulate the expression of MAPK negative regulators, resulting in sustained MAPK inhibition and reversal of trametinib resistance. Consequently, a combination of HDAC inhibitor and trametinib demonstrated a synergistic anti-tumor effect in vitro and in vivo, including patient-derived xenograft mouse models. These findings demonstrated that enhancer reprogramming of the MAPK regulatory pathway might serve as a potential mechanism underlying MAPK inhibitor resistance and concurrent targeting of epigenetic pathways and MAPK signaling might provide an effective treatment strategy for advanced ovarian cancer.
基金:
This work was
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(81972596, 81772963, and 81773279), the Guangdong Innovative
and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (2016ZT06S638,
2016ZT06S252), and the Sci-Tech Project Foundation of Guangzhou
City (201707020039). The key raw data generated and/or
analyzed during the current study are available at Research Data
Deposit public platform with approval
number RDDB2021001636.
第一作者机构:[1]Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[6]Laboratory of Cancer Epigenome, Division of MedicalSciences, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore[*1]State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 651 East Dongfeng Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Shini Liu,Qiong Zou,Jie-Ping Chen,et al.Targeting enhancer reprogramming to mitigate MEK inhibitor resistance in preclinical models of advanced ovarian cancer.[J].JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION.2021,131(20):doi:10.1172/JCI145035.
APA:
Shini Liu,Qiong Zou,Jie-Ping Chen,Xiaosai Yao,Peiyong Guan...&Jing Tan.(2021).Targeting enhancer reprogramming to mitigate MEK inhibitor resistance in preclinical models of advanced ovarian cancer..JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION,131,(20)
MLA:
Shini Liu,et al."Targeting enhancer reprogramming to mitigate MEK inhibitor resistance in preclinical models of advanced ovarian cancer.".JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION 131..20(2021)