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Wang Z, Tan J, Li M, Gao C, Li W, Xu J, Guo C, Chen Z, Cai R. Clickable Photoreactive ATP-Affinity Probe for Global Profiling of ATP-Binding Proteins. Anal Chem 2023; 95:17533-17540. [PMID: 37993803 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the major energy carrier in organisms, and there are many cellular proteins that can bind to ATP. Among these proteins, kinases are key regulators in several cell signaling processes, and aberrant kinase signaling contributes to the development of many human diseases, including cancer. Hence, small-molecule kinase inhibitors have been successfully used for the treatment of various diseases. Since the ATP-binding pockets are similar for many kinases, it is very important to evaluate the selectivity of different kinase inhibitors. We report here a clickable ATP photoaffinity probe for the global profiling of ATP-binding proteins. After incubating the protein lysate with the ATP probe followed by ultraviolet (UV) irradiation, ATP-binding proteins were labeled with an alkyne handle for subsequent biotin conjugation through click chemistry. Labeled proteins were enriched with streptavidin beads, digested with trypsin, and analyzed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). More than 400 ATP-binding proteins, including approximately 200 kinases, could be identified in a single LC-MS/MS run in the data-dependent acquisition mode. We then applied this method to the analysis of targets of three selected ATP-competitive kinase inhibitors. We were able to successfully identify some of their reported target proteins from label-free quantification results and validated the results using Western blot analyses. Together, we developed a clickable ATP photoaffinity probe for proteome-wide profiling of ATP-binding proteins and demonstrated that this chemoproteomic method is amenable to high-throughput target identification of kinase inhibitors.
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- Zhiming Wang
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen 518057, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen 518057, Guangdong, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Shandong Institute for Food and Drug Control, Jinan 250101, Shandong, China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (MOE), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, Shandong, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen 518057, Guangdong, China
- Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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Hou Z, Liu H. Mapping the Protein Kinome: Current Strategy and Future Direction. Cells 2023; 12:cells12060925. [PMID: 36980266 PMCID: PMC10047437 DOI: 10.3390/cells12060925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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The kinome includes over 500 different protein kinases, which form an integrated kinase network that regulates cellular phosphorylation signals. The kinome plays a central role in almost every cellular process and has strong linkages with many diseases. Thus, the evaluation of the cellular kinome in the physiological environment is essential to understand biological processes, disease development, and to target therapy. Currently, a number of strategies for kinome analysis have been developed, which are based on monitoring the phosphorylation of kinases or substrates. They have enabled researchers to tackle increasingly complex biological problems and pathological processes, and have promoted the development of kinase inhibitors. Additionally, with the increasing interest in how kinases participate in biological processes at spatial scales, it has become urgent to develop tools to estimate spatial kinome activity. With multidisciplinary efforts, a growing number of novel approaches have the potential to be applied to spatial kinome analysis. In this paper, we review the widely used methods used for kinome analysis and the challenges encountered in their applications. Meanwhile, potential approaches that may be of benefit to spatial kinome study are explored.
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- Zhanwu Hou
- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Douglas C. Wallace Institute for Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Information Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- School of Health and Life Science, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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Qi TF, Tang F, Yin J, Miao W, Wang Y. Parallel-reaction monitoring revealed altered expression of a number of epitranscriptomic reader, writer, and eraser proteins accompanied with colorectal cancer metastasis. Proteomics 2023; 23:e2200059. [PMID: 35443089 PMCID: PMC9582037 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.202200059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2022] [Revised: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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RNA contains more than 170 types of chemical modifications, and these modified nucleosides are recognized, installed and removed by their reader, writer, and eraser (RWE) proteins, respectively. Here, we employed a parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted proteomic method, in conjunction with stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), to examine comprehensively the differential expression of epitranscriptomic RWE proteins in a matched pair of primary/metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) cells, namely SW480/SW620. We were able to quantify 113 nonredundant epitranscriptomic RWE proteins; among them, 48 and 5 were up- and down-regulated by >1.5-fold in SW620 over SW480 cells, respectively. Some of those proteins with marked up-regulation in metastatic CRC cells, including NAT10, hnRNPC, and DKC1, were documented to assume important roles in the metastasis of CRC and other types of cancer. Interrogation of the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium data revealed the involvement of DUS1L in the initiation and metastatic transformation of CRC. It can be envisaged that the PRM method can be utilized, in the future, to identify epitranscriptomic RWE proteins involved in the metastatic transformations of other types of cancer.
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- Tianyu F Qi
- Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Riverside, California, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Riverside, California, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, Riverside, California, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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Miao W, Yin J, Porter DF, Jiang X, Khavari PA, Wang Y. Targeted Proteomic Approaches for Proteome-Wide Characterizations of the AMP-Binding Capacities of Kinases. J Proteome Res 2022; 21:2063-2070. [PMID: 35820187 PMCID: PMC9357193 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kinases play important roles in cell signaling, and adenosine monophosphate (AMP) is known to modulate cellular energy homeostasis through AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Here, we explored novel AMP-binding kinases by employing a desthiobiotin-conjugated AMP acyl-phosphate probe to enrich efficiently AMP-binding proteins. Together with a parallel-reaction monitoring-based targeted proteomic approach, we uncovered 195 candidate AMP-binding kinases. We also enriched desthiobiotin-labeled peptides from adenine nucleotide-binding sites of kinases and analyzed them using LC-MS/MS in the multiple-reaction monitoring mode, which resulted in the identification of 44 peptides derived from 43 kinases displaying comparable or better binding affinities toward AMP relative to adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Moreover, our proteomic data revealed a potential involvement of AMP in the MAPK pathway through binding directly to the relevant kinases, especially MEK2 and MEK3. Together, we revealed the AMP-binding capacities of a large number of kinases, and our work built a strong foundation for understanding how AMP functions as a second messenger to modulate cell signaling.
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- Weili Miao
- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Kulyyassov A, Fresnais M, Longuespée R. Targeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of proteins: Basic principles, applications, and perspectives. Proteomics 2021; 21:e2100153. [PMID: 34591362 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.202100153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is now the main analytical method for the identification and quantification of peptides and proteins in biological samples. In modern research, identification of biomarkers and their quantitative comparison between samples are becoming increasingly important for discovery, validation, and monitoring. Such data can be obtained following specific signals after fragmentation of peptides using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) and parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) methods, with high specificity, accuracy, and reproducibility. In addition, these methods allow measurement of the amount of post-translationally modified forms and isoforms of proteins. This review article describes the basic principles of MRM assays, guidelines for sample preparation, recent advanced MRM-based strategies, applications and illustrative perspectives of MRM/PRM methods in clinical research and molecular biology.
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Marholz LJ, Federspiel JD, Suh H, Fernandez Ocana M. Highly Multiplexed Kinase Profiling in Spleen with Targeted Mass Spectrometry Reveals Kinome Plasticity across Species. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:4272-4283. [PMID: 34319750 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Early attrition of drug candidates, including kinase inhibitors, often occurs due to issues that arise during preclinical safety and efficacy evaluation. This problem may be exacerbated by the fact that these studies might fail to consider the basic physiological differences that could exist between human patients and animal models. We report the development of a targeted mass spectrometry-based assay capable of monitoring >50 different kinases using peptides conserved in humans and the key preclinical species used in drug development (mouse, rat, dog, and cynomolgus monkey). These methods were then used to profile interspecies kinome variability in spleen with three of the current techniques used in targeted proteomics (MRM, PRM, and IS-PRM). IS-PRM provides the highest number of kinase identifications, and the results indicate that while this initial set of kinases exhibits high correlation between species for this tissue type, distinct species-specific differences do exist, especially within the cyclin-dependent kinase family. An initial screen in two species with the kinase inhibitor dasatinib in competition with the chemoproteomic kinase-binding probe XO44 demonstrated how the targeted methods can be further applied to study species-specific inhibitor occupancy profiles. Understanding such differences could help rationalize the findings of preclinical studies and have major implications for the selection of these animals as models in kinase drug development.
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- Laura J Marholz
- Department of Drug Safety Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts 01810, United States
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- Department of Drug Safety Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts 01810, United States
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- Department of Drug Safety Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts 01810, United States
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- Department of Drug Safety Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., Andover, Massachusetts 01810, United States
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Miao W, Yang YY, Wang Y. Quantitative Proteomic Analysis Revealed Broad Roles of N6-Methyladenosine in Heat Shock Response. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:3611-3620. [PMID: 34043365 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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As optimum temperature is essential for all living organisms, heat shock represents a challenging problem for their survival. Therefore, cellular response to heat shock is among the most extensively investigated stress response pathways; however, how the human proteome responds to heat shock has not been comprehensively investigated. In this study, we employed stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), together with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis, to fulfill an in-depth analysis of the alterations in the human proteome in M14 human melanoma cells in response to heat shock stress. We found that, after heat shock, 284 and 278 out of the 4319 quantified proteins were with substantially diminished and elevated expressions, respectively. We also examined the alterations in human kinome after heat shock by using our recently developed targeted proteomic method relying on parallel-reaction monitoring. Our results showed that the expression levels of 11 and 22 kinase proteins were increased and decreased, respectively, by at least 1.5-fold upon heat shock. By interrogating publicly available RNA-seq and m6A sequencing data, we observed that the elevated expression of more than 30 proteins, including CHEK1 and CCND3 kinases, could occur via an m6A-mediated mechanism. Furthermore, our results from single-base elongation and ligation-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) amplification (SELECT) and luciferase reporter assays revealed that heat shock gave rise to elevated m6A levels at A280 and A286 sites in the 5'-untranslated region of HSPH1 mRNA, thereby leading to increased translation of HSPH1 protein. Together, our discovery and targeted proteomic methods revealed the reprogramming of human proteome and kinome upon heat shock stress and provided insights into cellular responses toward heat shock stress.
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- Weili Miao
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0403, United States
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Design, Synthesis, and Anticancer Screening for Repurposed Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine Derivatives on Four Mammalian Cancer Cell Lines. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26102961. [PMID: 34065773 PMCID: PMC8156061 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26102961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 05/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The present study reports the synthesis of new purine bioisosteres comprising a pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine scaffold linked to mono-, di-, and trimethoxy benzylidene moieties through hydrazine linkages. First, in silico docking experiments of the synthesized compounds against Bax, Bcl-2, Caspase-3, Ki67, p21, and p53 were performed in a trial to rationalize the observed cytotoxic activity for the tested compounds. The anticancer activity of these compounds was evaluated in vitro against Caco-2, A549, HT1080, and Hela cell lines. Results revealed that two (5 and 7) of the three synthesized compounds (5, 6, and 7) showed high cytotoxic activity against all tested cell lines with IC50 values in the micro molar concentration. Our in vitro results show that there is no significant apoptotic effect for the treatment with the experimental compounds on the viability of cells against A549 cells. Ki67 expression was found to decrease significantly following the treatment of cells with the most promising candidate: drug 7. The overall results indicate that these pyrazolopyrimidine derivatives possess anticancer activity at varying doses. The suggested mechanism of action involves the inhibition of the proliferation of cancer cells.
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Miao W, Bade D, Wang Y. Targeted Proteomic Analysis Revealed Kinome Reprogramming during Acquisition of Radioresistance in Breast Cancer Cells. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:2830-2838. [PMID: 33739118 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Radiotherapy constitutes a major therapeutic modality for early management of breast cancer. Despite the high efficacy in treating breast cancer (BC), radiation resistance and tumor recurrence are major hurdles in breast cancer radiotherapy. Herein, stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) was employed, along with the parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted quantitative proteomic method, to examine the differences in kinase protein expression in MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells and their corresponding radioresistant C6 and C5 clones. We quantified the relative protein expression levels of 300 and 281 kinases in C5/MDA-MB-231 and C6/MCF-7 pairs of breast cancer cells, respectively. We also showed that TAF9, which was one of the differentially expressed kinases, enhances radiation resistance in breast cancer cells. Moreover, a correlation analysis of gene expression suggested TAF9's role in upregulating the expression of genes involved with radioresistance. Overall, our study uncovered a large number of differentially expressed kinases accompanied with the acquisition of radioresistance and revealed a role of TAF9 in promoting radioresistance in breast cancer.
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Wang QQ, Jiang Y, Naranmandura H. Therapeutic strategy of arsenic trioxide in the fight against cancers and other diseases. Metallomics 2020; 12:326-336. [PMID: 32163072 DOI: 10.1039/c9mt00308h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Arsenic trioxide (ATO) has been recognized as a drug for the treatment of various diseases in traditional medicine for more than two thousand years. Although ATO has recently shown excellent efficacy for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), it could not provide satisfactory outcomes as a single-agent for the management of non-APL leukemia or different solid tumors. Nevertheless, combination treatment strategies, e.g., ATO with other agents, have shown promising results against different diseases. Here, we introduce in depth the latest evidence and detailed insights into ATO-mediated cures for APL by targeting PML/RARα chimeric protein, followed by the preclinical and clinical efficacy of ATO on various non-APL malignancies and solid tumors. Likewise, the antiviral activity of ATO against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) was also discussed briefly. Our review would provide a clear prospect for the combination of ATO with other agents for treatment of numerous neoplastic diseases, and open a new era in the clinically applicable range of arsenicals.
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- Qian Qian Wang
- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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A Targeted Quantitative Proteomic Method Revealed a Substantial Reprogramming of Kinome during Melanoma Metastasis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2485. [PMID: 32051510 PMCID: PMC7015909 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59572-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Kinases are involved in numerous critical cell signaling processes, and dysregulation in kinase signaling is implicated in many types of human cancers. In this study, we applied a parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted proteomic method to assess kinome reprogramming during melanoma metastasis in three pairs of matched primary/metastatic human melanoma cell lines. Around 300 kinases were detected in each pair of cell lines, and the results showed that Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) was with reduced expression in the metastatic lines of all three pairs of melanoma cells. Interrogation of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data showed that reduced expression of JAK3 is correlated with poorer prognosis in melanoma patients. Additionally, metastatic human melanoma cells/tissues exhibited diminished levels of JAK3 mRNA relative to primary melanoma cells/tissues. Moreover, JAK3 suppresses the migration and invasion of cultured melanoma cells by modulating the activities of matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 (MMP-2 and MMP-9). In summary, our targeted kinome profiling method provided by far the most comprehensive dataset for kinome reprogramming associated with melanoma progression, which builds a solid foundation for examining the functions of other kinases in melanoma metastasis. Moreover, our results reveal a role of JAK3 as a potential suppressor for melanoma metastasis.
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Liu X, Miao W, Huang M, Li L, Dai X, Wang Y. Elevated Hexokinase II Expression Confers Acquired Resistance to 4-Hydroxytamoxifen in Breast Cancer Cells. Mol Cell Proteomics 2019; 18:2273-2284. [PMID: 31519767 PMCID: PMC6823848 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra119.001576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Revised: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Tamoxifen has been clinically used in treating estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer for over 30 years. The most challenging aspect associated with tamoxifen therapy is the development of resistance in initially responsive breast tumors. We applied a parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based quantitative proteomic method to examine the differential expression of kinase proteins in MCF-7 and the isogenic tamoxifen-resistant (TamR) cells. We were able to quantify the relative protein expression levels of 315 kinases, among which hexokinase 2 (HK2) and mTOR were up-regulated in TamR MCF-7 cells. We also observed that the TamR MCF-7 cells exhibited elevated rate of glycolysis than the parental MCF-7 cells. In addition, we found that phosphorylation of S6K - a target of mTOR - was much lower in TamR MCF-7 cells, and this phosphorylation level could be restored upon genetic depletion or pharmacological inhibition of HK2. Reciprocally, the level of S6K phosphorylation was diminished upon overexpression of HK2 in MCF-7 cells. Moreover, we observed that HK2 interacts with mTOR, and this interaction inhibits mTOR activity. Lower mTOR activity led to augmented autophagy, which conferred resistance of MCF-7 cells toward tamoxifen. Together, our study demonstrates that elevated expression of HK2 promotes autophagy through inhibiting the mTOR-S6K signaling pathway and results in resistance of MCF-7 breast cancer cells toward tamoxifen; thus, our results uncovered, for the first time, HK2 as a potential therapeutic target for overcoming tamoxifen resistance.
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- Xiaochuan Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521; Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521.
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Miao W, Li L, Wang Y. High-Throughput Targeted Quantitative Analysis of the Interaction between HSP90 and Kinases. Anal Chem 2019; 91:11507-11509. [PMID: 31476117 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kinases, which function in numerous cell signaling processes, are among the best characterized groups of client proteins for the 90-kDa heat shock protein (HSP90), a molecular chaperone that suppresses the aggregation and maintains the proper folding of its substrate proteins (i.e., clients). No high-throughput proteomic method, however, has been developed for the characterizations of the interactions between HSP90 and the human kinome. Herein, by employing a parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted proteomic method, we found that 99 out of the 249 detected kinase proteins display diminished expression in cultured human cells upon treatment with ganetespib, a small-molecule HSP90 inhibitor. PRM analysis of kinase proteins in the affinity pull-down samples showed that 86 out of the 120 detected kinases are enriched from the CRISPR-engineered cells where a tandem affinity tag was conjugated with the C-terminus of endogenous HSP90β protein over the parental cells. Together, our results from the two complementary quantitative proteomic experiments offer systematic characterizations about the HSP90-kinase interactions at the entire proteome scale and reveal extensive interactions between HSP90 and kinase proteins in human cells.
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- Weili Miao
- Department of Chemistry , University of California Riverside , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California Riverside , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California Riverside , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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Miao W, Yuan J, Li L, Wang Y. Parallel-Reaction-Monitoring-Based Proteome-Wide Profiling of Differential Kinase Protein Expression during Prostate Cancer Metastasis in Vitro. Anal Chem 2019; 91:9893-9900. [PMID: 31241916 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in men, and kinases are heavily pursued as drug targets for anticancer therapy. In this study, we applied our recently reported parallel-reaction-monitoring (PRM)-based targeted proteomic method to examine the reprogramming of the human kinome associated with bone metastasis of prostate cancer in vitro. The method displayed superior sensitivity over the shotgun-proteomic approach, and it facilitated the quantification of the relative expression of 276 kinase proteins in a pair of bone metastatic prostate cancer cells. Among the differentially expressed kinases, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 4 (MAP4K4) stimulates the migration and invasion of cultured prostate cancer cells, partially by modulating the activity of secreted matrix metalloproteinases 9 (MMP-9). We also found that the upregulation of MAP4K4 in metastatic prostate cancer cells is driven by the MYC proto-oncogene. Cumulatively, we identify MAP4K4 as a potential promoter for prostate cancer metastasis in vitro.
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Miao W, Wang Y. Quantitative Interrogation of the Human Kinome Perturbed by Two BRAF Inhibitors. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:2624-2631. [PMID: 30994353 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Oncogenic BRAF mutations contribute to the development of a number of cancers, and small-molecule BRAF inhibitors have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for anticancer therapy. In this study, we employed two targeted quantitative proteomics approaches for monitoring separately the alterations in protein expression and ATP binding affinities of kinases in cultured human melanoma cells elicited by two FDA-approved small-molecule BRAF inhibitors, dabrafenib and vemurafenib. Our results showed that treatment with the two inhibitors led to markedly different reprograming of the human kinome. Furthermore, we confirmed that vemurafenib could compromise the ATP binding capacity of MAP2K5 in vitro and inhibit its kinase activity in cells. Together, our targeted quantitative proteomic methods revealed profound changes in expression levels of kinase proteins in cultured melanoma cells upon treatment with clinically used BRAF inhibitors and led to the discovery of novel putative target kinases for these inhibitors.
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- Weili Miao
- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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Miao W, Wang Y. Targeted Quantitative Kinome Analysis Identifies PRPS2 as a Promoter for Colorectal Cancer Metastasis. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:2279-2286. [PMID: 30908912 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Kinases are among the most important families of enzymes involved in cell signaling. In this study, we employed a recently developed parallel-reaction monitoring (PRM)-based targeted proteomic method to examine the reprogramming of the human kinome during colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis. We were able to quantify the relative expression of 299 kinase proteins in a pair of matched primary/metastatic CRC cell lines. We also found that, among the differentially expressed kinases, phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase 2 (PRPS2) promotes the migration and invasion of cultured CRC cells through regulating the activity of matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) and the expression of E-cadherin. Moreover, we found that the up-regulation of PRPS2 in metastatic CRC cells could be induced by the MYC proto-oncogene. Together, our unbiased kinome profiling approach led to the identification, for the first time, of PRPS2 as a promoter for CRC metastasis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Weili Miao
- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 92521-0403 , United States
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