Metabolic adaptation towards glycolysis supports resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in early triple negative breast cancers

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BACKGROUND: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is the standard of care for patients with early-stage triple negative breast cancers (TNBC). However, more than half of TNBC patients do not achieve a pathological complete response (pCR) after NAC, and residual cancer burden (RCB) is associated with dismal long-term prognosis. Understanding the mechanisms underlying differential treatment outcomes is therefore critical to limit RCB and improve NAC efficiency.

METHODS: Human TNBC cell lines and patient-derived organoids were used in combination with real-time metabolic assays to evaluate the effect of NAC (paclitaxel and epirubicin) on tumor cell metabolism, in particular glycolysis. Diagnostic biopsies (pre-NAC) from patients with early TNBC were analyzed by bulk RNA-sequencing to evaluate the predictive value of a glycolysis-related gene signature.

RESULTS: Paclitaxel induced a consistent metabolic switch to glycolysis, correlated with a reduced mitochondrial oxidative metabolism, in TNBC cells. In pre-NAC diagnostic biopsies from TNBC patients, glycolysis was found to be upregulated in non-responders. Furthermore, glycolysis inhibition greatly improved response to NAC in TNBC organoid models.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study pinpoints a metabolic adaptation to glycolysis as a mechanism driving resistance to NAC in TNBC. Our data pave the way for the use of glycolysis-related genes as predictive biomarkers for NAC response, as well as the development of inhibitors to overcome this glycolysis-driven resistance to NAC in human TNBC patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Breast cancer research : BCR - 26(2024), 1 vom: 19. Feb., Seite 29

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Derouane, Françoise [VerfasserIn]
Desgres, Manon [VerfasserIn]
Moroni, Camilla [VerfasserIn]
Ambroise, Jérôme [VerfasserIn]
Berlière, Martine [VerfasserIn]
Van Bockstal, Mieke R [VerfasserIn]
Galant, Christine [VerfasserIn]
van Marcke, Cédric [VerfasserIn]
Vara-Messler, Marianela [VerfasserIn]
Hutten, Stefan J [VerfasserIn]
Jonkers, Jos [VerfasserIn]
Mourao, Larissa [VerfasserIn]
Scheele, Colinda L G J [VerfasserIn]
Duhoux, Francois P [VerfasserIn]
Corbet, Cyril [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Early triple negative breast cancer
Glycolysis
Journal Article
Metabolism
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Organoids
P88XT4IS4D
Paclitaxel
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Therapy resistance

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Date Completed 21.02.2024

Date Revised 08.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13058-024-01788-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368641767