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Humeau J, Sauvat A, Cerrato G, Xie W, Loos F, Iannantuoni F, Bezu L, Lévesque S, Paillet J, Pol J, Leduc M, Zitvogel L, de Thé H, Kepp O, Kroemer G. Inhibition of transcription by dactinomycin reveals a new characteristic of immunogenic cell stress. EMBO Mol Med 2020; 12:e11622. [PMID: 32323922 PMCID: PMC7207166 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201911622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Chemotherapy still constitutes the standard of care for the treatment of most neoplastic diseases. Certain chemotherapeutics from the oncological armamentarium are able to trigger pre‐mortem stress signals that lead to immunogenic cell death (ICD), thus inducing an antitumor immune response and mediating long‐term tumor growth reduction. Here, we used an established model, built on artificial intelligence to identify, among a library of 50,000 compounds, anticancer agents that, based on their molecular descriptors, were predicted to induce ICD. This algorithm led us to the identification of dactinomycin (DACT, best known as actinomycin D), a highly potent cytotoxicant and ICD inducer that mediates immune‐dependent anticancer effects in vivo. Since DACT is commonly used as an inhibitor of DNA to RNA transcription, we investigated whether other experimentally established or algorithm‐selected, clinically employed ICD inducers would share this characteristic. As a common leitmotif, a panel of pharmacological ICD stimulators inhibited transcription and secondarily translation. These results establish the inhibition of RNA synthesis as an initial event for ICD induction.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juliette Humeau
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France
| | - Allan Sauvat
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Giulia Cerrato
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France
| | - Wei Xie
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France
| | - Friedemann Loos
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Francesca Iannantuoni
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Hospital Doctor Peset - FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
| | - Lucillia Bezu
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Hospital Doctor Peset - FISABIO, Valencia, Spain
| | - Sarah Lévesque
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France
| | - Juliette Paillet
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France
| | - Jonathan Pol
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Marion Leduc
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Laurence Zitvogel
- Faculty of Medicine Kremlin Bicêtre, Université Paris Sud, Paris Saclay, Paris, France.,Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus (GRCC), Villejuif, France.,INSERM U1015, Villejuif, France.,Center of Clinical Investigations in Biotherapies of Cancer (CICBT), Villejuif, France
| | - Hugues de Thé
- College de France, INSERM UMR 1050, CNRS UMR 7241, PSL University, Paris, France.,INSERM UMR 944, CNRS UMR 7212, Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, IRSL, Hopital St. Louis, Université de Paris, Paris, France
| | - Oliver Kepp
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
| | - Guido Kroemer
- Equipe labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMR1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Metabolomics and Cell Biology Platforms, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.,Suzhou Institute for Systems Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Suzhou, China.,Pôle de Biologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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