A phospho-proteomic study of cetuximab resistance in KRAS/NRAS/BRAFV600 wild-type colorectal cancer

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PURPOSE: We hypothesised that plasticity in signal transduction may be a mechanism of drug resistance and tested this hypothesis in the setting of cetuximab resistance in patients with KRAS/NRAS/BRAFV600 wild-type colorectal cancer (CRC).

METHODS: A multiplex antibody-based platform was used to study simultaneous changes in signal transduction of 55 phospho-proteins in 12 KRAS/NRAS/BRAFV600 wild-type CRC cell lines (6 cetuximab sensitive versus 6 cetuximab resistant) following 1 and 4 h in vitro cetuximab exposure. We validated our results in CRC patient samples (n = 4) using ex vivo exposure to cetuximab in KRAS/NRAS/BRAFV600 cells that were immunomagnetically separated from the serous effusions of patients with known cetuximab resistance.

RESULTS: Differences in levels of phospho-proteins in cetuximab sensitive and resistant cell lines included reductions in phospho-RPS6 and phospho-PRAS40 in cetuximab sensitive, but not cetuximab resistant cell lines at 1 and 4 h, respectively. In addition, phospho-AKT levels were found to be elevated in 3/4 patient samples following ex vivo incubation with cetuximab for 1 h. We further explored these findings by studying the effects of combinations of cetuximab and two PI3K pathway inhibitors in 3 cetuximab resistant cell lines. The addition of PI3K pathway inhibitors to cetuximab led to a significantly higher reduction in colony formation capacity compared to cetuximab alone.

CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest activation of the PI3K pathway as a mechanism of cetuximab resistance in KRAS/NRAS/BRAFV600 wild-type CRC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:44

Enthalten in:

Cellular oncology (Dordrecht) - 44(2021), 5 vom: 14. Okt., Seite 1197-1206

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Georgiou, Alexandros [VerfasserIn]
Stewart, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Vlachogiannis, Georgios [VerfasserIn]
Pickard, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Valeri, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Cunningham, David [VerfasserIn]
Whittaker, Steven R [VerfasserIn]
Banerji, Udai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
BRAF protein, human
Cetuximab
Colorectal cancer
EC 2.7.11.1
EC 3.6.1.-
EC 3.6.5.2
GTP Phosphohydrolases
Journal Article
KRAS protein, human
Membrane Proteins
NRAS protein, human
PQX0D8J21J
Phospho-proteomics
Phosphoproteins
Proteomics
Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)
Resistance mechanisms
Signalling adaptations

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Date Completed 07.02.2022

Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s13402-021-00628-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330056204