Targeting c-FOS and DUSP1 abrogates intrinsic resistance to tyrosine-kinase inhibitor therapy in BCR-ABL-induced leukemia

Autor: Jose A. Cancelas, H. Leighton Grimes, Sara Rohrabaugh, Muhammad F. Bouso, James C. Mulloy, Zachary Kincaid, Zain Siddiqui, Ahmed Gomaa, Mohammad Azam, Ming Xu, Meenu Kesarwani, Erika Huber, Kakajan Komurov, Tahir Latif
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Adult
Male
Neoplasm
Residual

medicine.drug_class
Blotting
Western

Apoptosis
Mice
Transgenic

Pharmacology
Biology
Genes
abl

Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology

Tyrosine-kinase inhibitor
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Mice
Cancer stem cell
hemic and lymphatic diseases
Leukemia
Myelogenous
Chronic
BCR-ABL Positive

medicine
Animals
Humans
Progenitor cell
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Tumor Stem Cell Assay
Cell Proliferation
Mice
Knockout

Oncogene
Kinase
Gene Expression Profiling
Myeloid leukemia
Dual Specificity Phosphatase 1
General Medicine
Neoplasms
Experimental

Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Flow Cytometry
Minimal residual disease
3. Good health
Leukemia
030104 developmental biology
Drug Resistance
Neoplasm

Cancer research
Imatinib Mesylate
Female
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
Neoplasm Transplantation
Zdroj: Nature medicine
ISSN: 1546-170X
Popis: Tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy for human cancers is not curative, and relapse occurs owing to the continued presence of tumor cells, referred to as minimal residual disease (MRD). The survival of MRD stem or progenitor cells in the absence of oncogenic kinase signaling, a phenomenon referred to as intrinsic resistance, depends on diverse growth factors. Here we report that oncogenic kinase and growth-factor signaling converge to induce the expression of the signaling proteins FBJ osteosarcoma oncogene (c-FOS, encoded by Fos) and dual-specificity phosphatase 1 (DUSP1). Genetic deletion of Fos and Dusp1 suppressed tumor growth in a BCR-ABL fusion protein kinase-induced mouse model of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Pharmacological inhibition of c-FOS, DUSP1 and BCR-ABL eradicated MRD in multiple in vivo models, as well as in mice xenotransplanted with patient-derived primary CML cells. Growth-factor signaling also conferred TKI resistance and induced FOS and DUSP1 expression in tumor cells modeling other types of kinase-driven leukemias. Our data demonstrate that c-FOS and DUSP1 expression levels determine the threshold of TKI efficacy, such that growth-factor-induced expression of c-FOS and DUSP1 confers intrinsic resistance to TKI therapy in a wide-ranging set of leukemias, and might represent a unifying Achilles' heel of kinase-driven cancers.
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