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Cancer Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoepidemiology: Setting a Research Agenda to Accelerate Translation
(Oxford University Press, 2010-10-13) Freedman, Andrew N.; Sansbury, Leah B.; Figg, William D.; Potosky, Arnold L.; Smith, Sheila R. Weiss; Khoury, Muin J.; Nelson, Stefanie A.; Weinshilboum, Richard M.; Ratain, Mark J.; McLeod, Howard L.; Epstein, Robert S.; Ginsburg, Geoffrey S.; Schilsky, Richard L.; Liu, Geoffrey; Flockhart, David A.; Ulrich, Cornelia M.; Davis, Robert L.; Lesko, Lawrence J.; Zineh, Issam; Randhawa, Gurvaneet; Ambrosone, Christine B.; Relling, Mary V.; Rothman, Nat; Xie, Heng; Spitz, Margaret R.; Ballard-Barbash, Rachel; Doroshow, James H.; Minasian, Lori M.; Medicine, School of Medicine
Recent advances in genomic research have demonstrated a substantial role for genomic factors in predicting response to cancer therapies. Researchers in the fields of cancer pharmacogenomics and pharmacoepidemiology seek to understand why individuals respond differently to drug therapy, in terms of both adverse effects and treatment efficacy. To identify research priorities as well as the resources and infrastructure needed to advance these fields, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsored a workshop titled “Cancer Pharmacogenomics: Setting a Research Agenda to Accelerate Translation” on July 21, 2009, in Bethesda, MD. In this commentary, we summarize and discuss five science-based recommendations and four infrastructure-based recommendations that were identified as a result of discussions held during this workshop. Key recommendations include 1) supporting the routine collection of germline and tumor biospecimens in NCI-sponsored clinical trials and in some observational and population-based studies; 2) incorporating pharmacogenomic markers into clinical trials; 3) addressing the ethical, legal, social, and biospecimen- and data-sharing implications of pharmacogenomic and pharmacoepidemiologic research; and 4) establishing partnerships across NCI, with other federal agencies, and with industry. Together, these recommendations will facilitate the discovery and validation of clinical, sociodemographic, lifestyle, and genomic markers related to cancer treatment response and adverse events, and they will improve both the speed and efficiency by which new pharmacogenomic and pharmacoepidemiologic information is translated into clinical practice.
Carbon nano-onion-mediated dual targeting of P-selectin and P-glycoprotein to overcome cancer drug resistance
(Springer Nature, 2021-01-12) Wang, Hai; Liang, Yutong; Yin, Yue; Zhang, Jie; Su, Wen; White, Alisa M.; Jiang, Bin; Xu, Jiangsheng; Zhang, Yuntian; Stewart, Samantha; Lu, Xiaongbin; He, Xiaoming; Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
The transmembrane P-glycoprotein (P-gp) pumps that efflux drugs are a major mechanism of cancer drug resistance. They are also important in protecting normal tissue cells from poisonous xenobiotics and endogenous metabolites. Here, we report a fucoidan-decorated silica-carbon nano-onion (FSCNO) hybrid nanoparticle that targets tumor vasculature to specifically release P-gp inhibitor and anticancer drug into tumor cells. The tumor vasculature targeting capability of the nanoparticle is demonstrated using multiple models. Moreover, we reveal the superior light absorption property of nano-onion in the near infrared region (NIR), which enables triggered drug release from the nanoparticle at a low NIR power. The released inhibitor selectively binds to P-gp pumps and disables their function, which improves the bioavailability of anticancer drug inside the cells. Furthermore, free P-gp inhibitor significantly increases the systemic toxicity of a chemotherapy drug, which can be resolved by delivering them with FSCNO nanoparticles in combination with a short low-power NIR laser irradiation.
The curcumin analog HO-3867 selectively kills cancer cells by converting mutant p53 protein to transcriptionally active wildtype p53
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2018-03-23) Madan, Esha; Parker, Taylor M.; Bauer, Matthias R.; Dhiman, Alisha; Pelham, Christopher J.; Nagane, Masaki; Kuppusamy, M. Lakshmi; Holmes, Matti; Holmes, Thomas R.; Shaik, Kranti; Shee, Kevin; Kiparoidze, Salome; Smith, Sean D.; Park, Yu-Soon A.; Gomm, Jennifer J.; Jones, Louise J.; Tomás, Ana R.; Cunha, Ana C.; Selvendiran, Karuppaiyah; Hansen, Laura A.; Fersht, Alan R.; Hideg, Kálmán; Gogna, Rajan; Kuppusamy, Periannan; Surgery, School of Medicine
p53 is an important tumor-suppressor protein that is mutated in more than 50% of cancers. Strategies for restoring normal p53 function are complicated by the oncogenic properties of mutant p53 and have not met with clinical success. To counteract mutant p53 activity, a variety of drugs with the potential to reconvert mutant p53 to an active wildtype form have been developed. However, these drugs are associated with various negative effects such as cellular toxicity, nonspecific binding to other proteins, and inability to induce a wildtype p53 response in cancer tissue. Here, we report on the effects of a curcumin analog, HO-3867, on p53 activity in cancer cells from different origins. We found that HO-3867 covalently binds to mutant p53, initiates a wildtype p53-like anticancer genetic response, is exclusively cytotoxic toward cancer cells, and exhibits high anticancer efficacy in tumor models. In conclusion, HO-3867 is a p53 mutant-reactivating drug with high clinical anticancer potential.
Displacement of WDR5 from Chromatin by a WIN Site Inhibitor with Picomolar Affinity
(Elsevier, 2019-03-12) Aho, Erin R.; Wang, Jing; Gogliotti, Rocco D.; Howard, Gregory C.; Phan, Jason; Acharya, Pankaj; Macdonald, Jonathan D.; Cheng, Ken; Lorey, Shelly L.; Lu, Bin; Wenzel, Sabine; Foshage, Audra M.; Alvarado, Joseph; Wang, Feng; Shaw, J. Grace; Zhao, Bin; Weissmiller, April M.; Thomas, Lance R.; Vakoc, Christopher R.; Hall, Matthew D.; Hiebert, Scott W.; Liu, Qi; Stauffer, Shaun R.; Fesik, Stephen W.; Tansey, William P.; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine
The chromatin-associated protein WDR5 is a promising target for pharmacological inhibition in cancer. Drug discovery efforts center on the blockade of the "WIN site" of WDR5, a well-defined pocket that is amenable to small molecule inhibition. Various cancer contexts have been proposed to be targets for WIN site inhibitors, but a lack of understanding of WDR5 target genes and of the primary effects of WIN site inhibitors hampers their utility. Here, by the discovery of potent WIN site inhibitors, we demonstrate that the WIN site links WDR5 to chromatin at a small cohort of loci, including a specific subset of ribosome protein genes. WIN site inhibitors rapidly displace WDR5 from chromatin and decrease the expression of associated genes, causing translational inhibition, nucleolar stress, and p53 induction. Our studies define a mode by which WDR5 engages chromatin and forecast that WIN site blockade could have utility against multiple cancer types.
Editorial: Targeting DNA repair and the DNA damage response: Beyond the standard PI3 kinase-like kinases
(Frontiers Media, 2022-09-27) Turchi, John J.; Pawelczak, Katherine S.; Weinfeld, Michael; McHugh, Peter J.; Medicine, School of Medicine
Endothelial Rab7 GTPase mediates tumor growth and metastasis in lysosomal acid lipase-deficient mice
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2017-11-24) Zhao, Ting; Ding, Xinchun; Yan, Cong; Du, Hong; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
Tumors depend on their microenvironment for sustained growth, invasion, and metastasis. In this environment, endothelial cells (ECs) are an important stromal cell type interacting with malignant cells to facilitate tumor angiogenesis and cancer cell extravasation. Of note, lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) deficiency facilitates melanoma growth and metastasis. ECs from LAL-deficient (lal-/-) mice possess enhanced proliferation, migration, and permeability of inflammatory cells by activating the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. Here we report that lal-/- ECs facilitated in vivo tumor angiogenesis, growth, and metastasis, largely by stimulating tumor cell proliferation, migration, adhesion, and transendothelial migration via increased expression of IL-6 and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1). This prompted us to look for lysosomal proteins that are involved in lal-/- EC dysfunctions. We found that lal-/- ECs displayed increased expression of Rab7, a late endosome/lysosome-associated small GTPase. Moreover, Rab7 and mTOR were co-increased and co-localized to lysosomes and physically interacted in lal-/- ECs. Rab7 inhibition reversed lal-/- EC dysfunctions, including decreasing their enhanced migration and permeability of tumor-stimulatory myeloid cells, and suppressed EC-mediated stimulation of in vitro tumor cell transmigration, proliferation, and migration and in vivo tumor growth and metastasis. Finally, Rab7 inhibition reduced overproduction of reactive oxygen species and increased IL-6 and MCP-1 secretion in lal-/- ECs. Our results indicate that metabolic reprogramming resulting from LAL deficiency enhances the ability of ECs to stimulate tumor cell proliferation and metastasis through stimulation of lysosome-anchored Rab7 activity.
Enhancement of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer-Specific Induction of Cell Death by Silver Nanoparticles by Combined Treatment with Proteotoxic Stress Response Inhibitors
(MDPI, 2024-09-27) Snyder, Christina M.; Mateo, Beatriz; Patel, Khushbu; Fahrenholtz, Cale D.; Rohde, Monica M.; Carpenter, Richard; Singh, Ravi N.; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine
Metal nanoparticles have been tested for therapeutic and imaging applications in pre-clinical models of cancer, but fears of toxicity have limited their translation. An emerging concept in nanomedicine is to exploit the inherent drug-like properties of unmodified nanomaterials for cancer therapy. To be useful clinically, there must be a window between the toxicity of the nanomaterial to cancer and toxicity to normal cells. This necessitates identification of specific vulnerabilities in cancers that can be targeted using nanomaterials without inducing off-target toxicity. Previous studies point to proteotoxic stress as a driver of silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) toxicity. Two key cell stress responses involved in mitigating proteotoxicity are the heat shock response (HSR) and the integrated stress response (ISR). Here, we examine the role that these stress responses play in AgNP-induced cytotoxicity in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and immortalized mammary epithelial cells. Furthermore, we investigate HSR and ISR inhibitors as potential drug partners to increase the anti-cancer efficacy of AgNPs without increasing off-target toxicity. We showed that AgNPs did not strongly induce the HSR at a transcriptional level, but instead decreased expression of heat shock proteins (HSPs) at the protein level, possibly due to degradation in AgNP-treated TNBC cells. We further showed that the HSR inhibitor, KRIBB11, synergized with AgNPs in TNBC cells, but also increased off-target toxicity in immortalized mammary epithelial cells. In contrast, we found that salubrinal, a drug that can sustain pro-death ISR signaling, enhanced AgNP-induced cell death in TNBC cells without increasing toxicity in immortalized mammary epithelial cells. Subsequent co-culture studies demonstrated that AgNPs in combination with salubrinal selectively eliminated TNBCs without affecting immortalized mammary epithelial cells grown in the same well. Our findings provide additional support for proteotoxic stress as a mechanism by which AgNPs selectively kill TNBCs and will help guide future efforts to identify drug partners that would be beneficial for use with AgNPs for cancer therapy.
Lapachol inhibits glycolysis in cancer cells by targeting pyruvate kinase M2
(Public Library of Science, 2018-02-02) Babu, Mani Shankar; Mahanta, Sailendra; Lakhter, Alexander J.; Hato, Takashi; Paul, Subhankar; Naidu, Samisubbu R.; Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
Reliance on aerobic glycolysis is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Although pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) is a key mediator of glycolysis in cancer cells, lack of selective agents that target PKM2 remains a challenge in exploiting metabolic pathways for cancer therapy. We report that unlike its structural analog shikonin, a known inhibitor of PKM2, lapachol failed to induce non-apoptotic cell death ferroxitosis in hypoxia. However, melanoma cells treated with lapachol showed a dose-dependent inhibition of glycolysis and a corresponding increase in oxygen consumption. Accordingly, in silico studies revealed a high affinity-binding pocket for lapachol on PKM2 structure. Lapachol inhibited PKM2 activity of purified enzyme as well as in melanoma cell extracts. Blockade of glycolysis by lapachol in melanoma cells led to decreased ATP levels and inhibition of cell proliferation. Furthermore, perturbation of glycolysis in melanoma cells with lapachol sensitized cells to mitochondrial protonophore and promoted apoptosis. These results present lapachol as an inhibitor of PKM2 to interrogate metabolic plasticity in tumor cells.
OB-Folds and Genome Maintenance: Targeting Protein–DNA Interactions for Cancer Therapy
(MDPI, 2021-07-03) Par, Sui; Vaides, Sofia; VanderVere-Carozza, Pamela S.; Pawelczak, Katherine S.; Stewart, Jason; Turchi, John J.; Medicine, School of Medicine
Genome stability and maintenance pathways along with their requisite proteins are critical for the accurate duplication of genetic material, mutation avoidance, and suppression of human diseases including cancer. Many of these proteins participate in these pathways by binding directly to DNA, and a subset employ oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding folds (OB-fold) to facilitate the protein-DNA interactions. OB-fold motifs allow for sequence independent binding to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and can serve to position specific proteins at specific DNA structures and then, via protein-protein interaction motifs, assemble the machinery to catalyze the replication, repair, or recombination of DNA. This review provides an overview of the OB-fold structural organization of some of the most relevant OB-fold containing proteins for oncology and drug discovery. We discuss their individual roles in DNA metabolism, progress toward drugging these motifs and their utility as potential cancer therapeutics. While protein-DNA interactions were initially thought to be undruggable, recent reports of success with molecules targeting OB-fold containing proteins suggest otherwise. The potential for the development of agents targeting OB-folds is in its infancy, but if successful, would expand the opportunities to impinge on genome stability and maintenance pathways for more effective cancer treatment.
Phase 1 study of mTORC1/2 inhibitor sapanisertib (TAK-228) in advanced solid tumours, with an expansion phase in renal, endometrial or bladder cancer
(Springer Nature, 2020-11) Voss, Martin H.; Gordon, Michael S.; Mita, Monica; Rini, Brian; Makker, Vicky; Macarulla, Teresa; Smith, David C.; Cervantes, Andrés; Puzanov, Igor; Pili, Roberto; Wang, Ding; Jalal, Shadia; Pant, Shubham; Patel, Manish R.; Neuwirth, Rachel l.; Enke, Aaron; Shou, Yaping; Sedarati, Farhad; Faller, Douglas V.; Burris, Howard A., III; Medicine, School of Medicine
Background: This Phase 1 dose-escalation/expansion study assessed safety/tolerability of sapanisertib, an oral, highly selective inhibitor of mTORC1/mTORC2, in advanced solid tumours. Methods: Eligible patients received increasing sapanisertib doses once daily (QD; 31 patients), once weekly (QW; 30 patients), QD for 3 days on/4 days off QW (QD × 3dQW; 33 patients) or QD for 5 days on/2 days off QW (QD × 5dQW; 22 patients). In expansion cohorts, 82 patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), endometrial or bladder cancer received sapanisertib 5 mg QD (39 patients), 40 mg QW (26 patients) or 30 mg QW (17 patients). Results: Maximum tolerated doses of sapanisertib were 6 mg QD, 40 mg QW, 9 mg QD × 3dQW and 7 mg QD × 5dQW. Frequent dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) included hyperglycaemia, maculo-papular rash (QD), asthenia and stomatitis (QD × 3dQW/QD × 5dQW); expansion phase doses of 5 mg QD and 30 mg QW were selected based on tolerability beyond the DLT evaluation period. One patient with RCC achieved complete response; nine experienced partial responses (RCC: seven patients; carcinoid tumour/endometrial cancer: one patient each). Sapanisertib pharmacokinetics were time-linear and supported multiple dosing. Pharmacodynamic findings demonstrated treatment-related reductions in TORC1/2 biomarkers. Conclusions: Sapanisertib demonstrated a manageable safety profile, with preliminary antitumour activity observed in RCC and endometrial cancer.

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