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Choi YJ, Choi M, Park J, Park M, Kim MJ, Lee JS, Oh SJ, Lee YJ, Shim WS, Kim JW, Kim MJ, Kim YC, Kang KW. Therapeutic strategy using novel RET/YES1 dual-target inhibitor in lung cancer. Biomed Pharmacother 2024; 171:116124. [PMID: 38198957 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Lung cancer represents a significant global health concern and stands as the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The identification of specific genomic alterations such as EGFR and KRAS in lung cancer has paved the way for the development of targeted therapies. While targeted therapies for lung cancer exhibiting EGFR, MET and ALK mutations have been well-established, the options for RET mutations remain limited. Importantly, RET mutations have been found to be mutually exclusive from other genomic mutations and to be related with high incidences of brain metastasis. Given these facts, it is imperative to explore the development of RET-targeting therapies and to elucidate the mechanisms underlying metastasis in RET-expressing lung cancer cells. In this study, we investigated PLM-101, a novel dual-target inhibitor of RET/YES1, which exhibits notable anti-cancer activities against CCDC6-RET-positive cancer cells and anti-metastatic effects against YES1-positive cancer cells. Our findings shed light on the significance of the YES1-Cortactin-actin remodeling pathway in the metastasis of lung cancer cells, establishing YES1 as a promising target for suppression of metastasis. This paper unveils a novel inhibitor that effectively targets both RET and YES1, thereby demonstrating its potential to impede the growth and metastasis of RET rearrangement lung cancer.
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- Yong June Choi
- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; Department of Pharmacy, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- R&D Center, PeLeMed, Co. Ltd., Seoul 06100, Republic of Korea
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- R&D Center, PeLeMed, Co. Ltd., Seoul 06100, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Jeju Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Republic of Korea
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- R&D Center, PeLeMed, Co. Ltd., Seoul 06100, Republic of Korea
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- R&D Center, PeLeMed, Co. Ltd., Seoul 06100, Republic of Korea; School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Carrasco-Ceballos JM, Barrera-Hernández D, Locia-Espinosa J, Sampieri CL, Lara-Reyes JA, Hernández-Aguilar ME, Aranda-Abreu GE, Toledo-Cárdenas MR, Chi-Castañeda LD, Pérez-Estudillo CA, Rojas-Durán F. Involvement of the PRL-PAK1 Pathway in Cancer Cell Migration. CANCER DIAGNOSIS & PROGNOSIS 2023; 3:17-25. [PMID: 36632591 PMCID: PMC9801455 DOI: 10.21873/cdp.10174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Prolactin (PRL) is a polypeptide hormone synthesized in the lactotrophs of the adenohypophysis and in extrahypophyseal glands (such as the prostate and breasts) where it promotes their development. PRL is also involved in cancer development in these glands. It has been shown to stimulate cancer cell migration, suggesting its possible involvement in metastasis, in which cell migration plays an essential role. However, the role of PRL in cell migration is still unclear. Moreover, the intracellular mechanisms activated by PRL to carry out cell migration are less well understood. PRL exerts its effects via the PRL receptor (PRLR), which leads intracellularly to phosphorylation of Janus protein kinase 2 (JAK2), which in turn phosphorylates p21-activated protein kinase (PAK1), leading to an increase in cell migration. Although several studies have described the involvement of the PRL-PAK1 pathway in breast cancer cell migration, the molecular mechanisms have not been fully elucidated and there is no integration of these into signaling pathways. This study was conducted based on literature search of review articles and original research in the PubMed database, using the following keywords: PRL, cell migration, PRL and cell migration, PAK1 and signaling pathways. The aim of this review article was to describe the major signaling pathways controlled by PRL-PAK1 and propose a comprehensive model of the signaling pathways associated with PRL-PAK1.
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- Departamento de Biología de la Reproducción "Dr. Carlos Gual Castro", Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, México
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- Facultad de Química Farmacéutica Biológica, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Cerebrales, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, México
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Hasan MK, Widhopf GF, Zhang S, Lam SM, Shen Z, Briggs SP, Parker BA, Kipps TJ. Wnt5a induces ROR1 to recruit cortactin to promote breast-cancer migration and metastasis. NPJ Breast Cancer 2019; 5:35. [PMID: 31667337 PMCID: PMC6814774 DOI: 10.1038/s41523-019-0131-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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ROR1 is a conserved oncoembryonic surface protein expressed in breast cancer. Here we report that ROR1 associates with cortactin in primary breast-cancer cells or in MCF7 transfected to express ROR1. Wnt5a also induced ROR1-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of cortactin (Y421), which recruited ARHGEF1 to activate RhoA and promote breast-cancer-cell migration; such effects could be inhibited by cirmtuzumab, a humanized mAb specific for ROR1. Furthermore, treatment of mice bearing breast-cancer xenograft with cirmtuzumab inhibited cortactin phosphorylation in vivo and impaired metastatic development. We established that the proline at 841 of ROR1 was required for it to recruit cortactin and ARHGEF1, activate RhoA, and enhance breast-cancer-cell migration in vitro or development of metastases in vivo. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that the interaction of ROR1 with cortactin plays an important role in breast-cancer-cell migration and metastasis.
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- Md Kamrul Hasan
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Department of Pharmacology, International Cancer Center, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, 518060 Guangdong China
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Department of Pharmacology, International Cancer Center, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, 518060 Guangdong China
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Yin M, Ma W, An L. Cortactin in cancer cell migration and invasion. Oncotarget 2017; 8:88232-88243. [PMID: 29152154 PMCID: PMC5675706 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.21088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cortactin, a substrate of sarcoma (Src) kinases, is an actin-binding protein that is involved in cytoskeletal regulation, and is frequently overexpressed in cancer cells. Binding to the actin related protein 2/3 (Arp2/3) complex stimulates cortactin activity, which promotes F-actin nucleation and assembly. Cortactin promotes cancer cell migration and invasion, and plays a pivotal role in invadopodia formation and extra cellular matrix degradation. Overexpression of cortactin, by amplification of the chromosomal band 11q13, increases tumor aggressiveness. In this review, we report on the current knowledge and potential mechanisms of action of cortactin as a critical mediator of cancer cell migration and invasion.
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- Miao Yin
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
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Kalasin S, Browne E, Arcaro K, Santore MM. Selective Adhesive Cell Capture without Molecular Specificity: New Surfaces Exploiting Nanoscopic Polycationic Features as Discrete Adhesive Units. RSC Adv 2017; 7:13416-13425. [PMID: 28989702 PMCID: PMC5628748 DOI: 10.1039/c7ra01217a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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This work explored how molecularly non-specific polycationic nanoscale features on a collecting surface control kinetic and selectivity aspects of mammalian cell capture. Key principles for selective collector design were demonstrated by comparing the capture of two closely related breast cancer cell lines: MCF-7 and TMX2-28. TMX2-28 is a tamoxifen-selected clone of MCF-7. The collector was a silica surface, negatively-charged at pH 7.4, containing isolated molecules (~ 8 nm diameter) of the cationic polymer, poly(dimethyl-aminoethylmethacrylate), pDMAEMA. Important in this work is the non-selective nature of the pDMAEMA interactions with cells: pDMAEMA generally adheres negatively charged particles and cells in solution. We show here that selectivity towards cells results from collector design: this includes competition between repulsive interactions involving the negative silica and attractions to the immobilized pDMAEMA molecules, the random pDMAEMA arrangement on the surface, and the concentration of positive charge in the vicinity of the adsorbed pDMAEMA chains. The latter act as nanoscopic cationic surface patches, each weakly attracted to negatively-charged cells. Collecting surfaces engineered with an appropriate amount pDMAEMA, exposed to mixtures of MCF-7 and TMX2-28 cells preferentially captured TMX2-28 with a selectivity of 2.5. (This means that the ratio of TMX2-28 to MCF cells on the surface was 2.5 times their compositional ratio in free solution.) The ionic strength-dependence of cell capture was shown to be similar to that of silica microparticles on the same surfaces. This suggests that the mechanism of selective cell capture involves nanoscopic differences in the contact areas of the cells with the collector, allowing discrimination of closely related cell line-based small scale features of the cell surface. This work demonstrated that even without molecular specificity, selectivity for physical cell attributes produces adhesive discrimination.
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- S. Kalasin
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, 240 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA 01003
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- Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, 240 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA 01003
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
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