ROS Induction Targets Persister Cancer Cells with Low Metabolic Activity in NRAS-Mutated Melanoma

©2023 American Association for Cancer Research..

Clinical management of melanomas with NRAS mutations is challenging. Targeting MAPK signaling is only beneficial to a small subset of patients due to resistance that arises through genetic, transcriptional, and metabolic adaptation. Identification of targetable vulnerabilities in NRAS-mutated melanoma could help improve patient treatment. Here, we used multiomics analyses to reveal that NRAS-mutated melanoma cells adopt a mesenchymal phenotype with a quiescent metabolic program to resist cellular stress induced by MEK inhibition. The metabolic alterations elevated baseline reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, leading these cells to become highly sensitive to ROS induction. In vivo xenograft experiments and single-cell RNA sequencing demonstrated that intratumor heterogeneity necessitates the combination of a ROS inducer and a MEK inhibitor to inhibit both tumor growth and metastasis. Ex vivo pharmacoscopy of 62 human metastatic melanomas confirmed that MEK inhibitor-resistant tumors significantly benefited from the combination therapy. Finally, oxidative stress response and translational suppression corresponded with ROS-inducer sensitivity in 486 cancer cell lines, independent of cancer type. These findings link transcriptional plasticity to a metabolic phenotype that can be inhibited by ROS inducers in melanoma and other cancers.

SIGNIFICANCE: Metabolic reprogramming in drug-resistant NRAS-mutated melanoma cells confers sensitivity to ROS induction, which suppresses tumor growth and metastasis in combination with MAPK pathway inhibitors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:83

Enthalten in:

Cancer research - 83(2023), 7 vom: 04. Apr., Seite 1128-1146

Sprache:

Englisch

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Eichhoff, Ossia M [VerfasserIn]
Stoffel, Corinne I [VerfasserIn]
Käsler, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Briker, Luzia [VerfasserIn]
Turko, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Karsai, Gergely [VerfasserIn]
Zila, Nina [VerfasserIn]
Paulitschke, Verena [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Phil F [VerfasserIn]
Leitner, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Bileck, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Zamboni, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Irmisch, Anja [VerfasserIn]
Balazs, Zsolt [VerfasserIn]
Tastanova, Aizhan [VerfasserIn]
Pascoal, Susana [VerfasserIn]
Johansen, Pål [VerfasserIn]
Wegmann, Rebekka [VerfasserIn]
Mena, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Othman, Alaa [VerfasserIn]
Viswanathan, Vasanthi S [VerfasserIn]
Wenzina, Judith [VerfasserIn]
Aloia, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Saltari, Annalisa [VerfasserIn]
Dzung, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
TuPro Consortium [VerfasserIn]
Krauthammer, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Schreiber, Stuart L [VerfasserIn]
Hornemann, Thorsten [VerfasserIn]
Distel, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Snijder, Berend [VerfasserIn]
Dummer, Reinhard [VerfasserIn]
Levesque, Mitchell P [VerfasserIn]
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Albert, Silvana I [Sonstige Person]
Albinus, Jonas [Sonstige Person]
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Andani, Sonali [Sonstige Person]
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Themen:

EC 2.7.11.1
EC 2.7.12.2
EC 3.6.1.-
GTP Phosphohydrolases
Journal Article
Membrane Proteins
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases
NRAS protein, human
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
Reactive Oxygen Species
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.04.2023

Date Revised 06.07.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1826

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354520083