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Chattopadhyay S, Stewart AL, Mukherjee S, Huang C, Hartwell KA, Miller PG, Subramanian R, Carmody LC, Yusuf RZ, Sykes DB, Paulk J, Vetere A, Vallet S, Santo L, Cirstea DD, Hideshima T, Dančík V, Majireck MM, Hussain MM, Singh S, Quiroz R, Iaconelli J, Karmacharya R, Tolliday NJ, Clemons PA, Moore MAS, Stern AM, Shamji AF, Ebert BL, Golub TR, Raje NS, Scadden DT, Schreiber SL. Niche-Based Screening in Multiple Myeloma Identifies a Kinesin-5 Inhibitor with Improved Selectivity over Hematopoietic Progenitors. Cell Rep 2015; 10:755-770. [PMID: 25660025 PMCID: PMC4524791 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Novel therapeutic approaches are urgently required for multiple myeloma (MM). We used a phenotypic screening approach using co-cultures of MM cells with bone marrow stromal cells to identify compounds that overcome stromal resistance. One such compound, BRD9876, displayed selectivity over normal hematopoietic progenitors and was discovered to be an unusual ATP non-competitive kinesin-5 (Eg5) inhibitor. A novel mutation caused resistance, suggesting a binding site distinct from known Eg5 inhibitors, and BRD9876 inhibited only microtubule-bound Eg5. Eg5 phosphorylation, which increases microtubule binding, uniquely enhanced BRD9876 activity. MM cells have greater phosphorylated Eg5 than hematopoietic cells, consistent with increased vulnerability specifically to BRD9876's mode of action. Thus, differences in Eg5-microtubule binding between malignant and normal blood cells may be exploited to treat multiple myeloma. Additional steps are required for further therapeutic development, but our results indicate that unbiased chemical biology approaches can identify therapeutic strategies unanticipated by prior knowledge of protein targets.
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- Shrikanta Chattopadhyay
- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Drug Discovery Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Center for the Science of Therapeutics / Center for the Development of Therapeutics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Bausch E, Kohlhof H, Hamm S, Krauss R, Baumgartner R, Sironi L. A novel microtubule inhibitor 4SC-207 with anti-proliferative activity in taxane-resistant cells. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79594. [PMID: 24324550 PMCID: PMC3855670 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Microtubule inhibitors are invaluable tools in cancer chemotherapy: taxanes and vinca alkaloids have been successfully used in the clinic over the past thirty years against a broad range of tumors. However, two factors have limited the effectiveness of microtubule inhibitors: toxicity and resistance. In particular, the latter is highly unpredictable, variable from patient to patient and is believed to be the cause of treatment failure in most cases of metastatic cancers. For these reasons, there is an increasing demand for new microtubule inhibitors that can overcome resistance mechanisms and that, at the same time, have reduced side effects. Here we present a novel microtubule inhibitor, 4SC-207, which shows strong anti-proliferative activity in a large panel of tumor cell lines with an average GI50 of 11 nM. In particular, 4SC-207 is active in multi-drug resistant cell lines, such as HCT-15 and ACHN, suggesting that it is a poor substrate for drug efflux pumps. 4SC-207 inhibits microtubule growth in vitro and in vivo and promotes, in a dose dependent manner, a mitotic delay/arrest, followed by apoptosis or aberrant divisions due to chromosome alignment defects and formation of multi-polar spindles. Furthermore, preliminary data from preclinical studies suggest low propensity towards bone marrow toxicities at concentrations that inhibit tumor growth in paclitaxel-resistant xenograft models. In summary, our results suggest that 4SC-207 may be a potential anti-cancer agent.
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- Elena Bausch
- Department of Biology and Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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Lin Y, Richards FM, Krippendorff BF, Bramhall JL, Harrington JA, Bapiro TE, Robertson A, Zheleva D, Jodrell DI. Paclitaxel and CYC3, an aurora kinase A inhibitor, synergise in pancreatic cancer cells but not bone marrow precursor cells. Br J Cancer 2012; 107:1692-701. [PMID: 23037716 PMCID: PMC3493865 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2012.450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 09/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Amplification of aurora kinase A (AK-A) overrides the mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint, inducing resistance to taxanes. RNA interference targeting AK-A in human pancreatic cancer cell lines enhanced taxane chemosensitivity. In this study, a novel AK-A inhibitor, CYC3, was investigated in pancreatic cancer cell lines, in combination with paclitaxel. METHODS Western blot, flow cytometry and immunostaining were used to investigate the specificity of CYC3. Sulforhodamine B staining, time-lapse microscopy and colony-formation assays were employed to evaluate the cytotoxic effect of CYC3 and paclitaxel. Human colony-forming unit of granulocyte and macrophage (CFU-GM) cells were used to compare the effect in tumour and normal tissue. RESULTS CYC3 was shown to be a specific AK-A inhibitor. Three nanomolar paclitaxel (growth inhibition 50% (GI(50)) 3 nM in PANC-1, 5.1 nM in MIA PaCa-2) in combination with 1 μM CYC3 (GI(50) 1.1 μM in MIA PaCa2 and 2 μM in PANC-1) was synergistic in inhibiting pancreatic cell growth and causing mitotic arrest, achieving similar effects to 10-fold higher concentrations of paclitaxel (30 nM). In CFU-GM cells, the effect of the combination was simply additive, displaying significantly less myelotoxicity compared with high concentrations of paclitaxel (30 nM; 60-70% vs 100% inhibition). CONCLUSION The combination of lower doses of paclitaxel and CYC3 merits further investigation with the potential for an improved therapeutic index in vivo.
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- Y Lin
- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Cyclacel Ltd, 1, James Lindsay Place, Dundee DD1 5JJ, UK
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- Cyclacel Ltd, 1, James Lindsay Place, Dundee DD1 5JJ, UK
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- Department Of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Box 278, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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