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Chemical Proteomics Identifies Druggable Vulnerabilities in a Genetically Defined Cancer
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The transcription factor NRF2 is a master regulator of the cellular antioxidant response, and it is often genetically activated in non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) by, for instance, mutations in the negative regulator KEAP1. While direct pharmacological inhibition of NRF2 has proven challenging, its aberrant activation rewires biochemical networks in cancer cells that may create special vulnerabilities. Here, we use chemical proteomics to map druggable proteins that are selectively expressed in KEAP1-mutant NSCLC cells. Principal among these is NR0B1, an atypical orphan nuclear receptor that we show engages in a multimeric protein complex to regulate the transcriptional output of KEAP1-mutant NSCLC cells. We further identify small molecules that covalently target a conserved cysteine within the NR0B1 protein interaction domain, and we demonstrate that these compounds disrupt NR0B1 complexes and impair the anchorage-independent growth of KEAP1-mutant cancer cells. Our findings designate NR0B1 as a druggable transcriptional regulator that supports NRF2-dependent lung cancers.
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“The authors discovered compounds that bind to a ligandable cysteine on the nuclear receptor NR0B1, which is regulated by NRF2, a substrate of KEAP1 (ref.181).”
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“cysteine reactivity and ligandable sites were mapped in mutant Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (KEAP1) and compared with those in wild-type KEAP1 NSCLC lines.”
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“We finally observed limited overlap of enantioprobe targets with proteins that demonstrated ligandability in previous chemical proteomic studies using cysteine-26,27 or lysine-reactive28 electrophilic fragments (Fig. 3b)”
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- Authors
- Bar-Peled, L., Kemper, E. K., Suciu, R. M., Vinogradova, E. V., Backus, K. M., Horning, B. D., Paul, T. A., Ichu, T.-A., Svensson, R. U., Olucha, J., Chang, M. W., Kok, B. P., Zhu, Z., Ihle, N. T., Dix, M. M., Jiang, P., Hayward, M. M., Saez, E., Shaw, R. J., & Cravatt, B. F.
- Affiliations
- Scripps Research Institute (US)
- Pfizer (United States) (US)
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cravatt, Benjamin F.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 171
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 696-709.e23
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5728659
- OpenAlex
- W2757007104
- Cited by
- 262
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 9.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- NIH (CA087660, CA132630, CA172229, CA215249-01, CA211526)
- NIH-NCI CCSG (P30 014195)
- Chapman Foundation
- Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
- American Cancer Society
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
- Keywords
- Nrf2, KEAP1 mutation, non-small cell lung cancer, NR0B1, orphan nuclear receptor, chemoproteomics, druggable vulnerabilities, covalent inhibitors, anchorage-independent growth, transcriptional regulation, antioxidant response
- MeSH terms
- Kelch-Like ECH-Associated Protein 1, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Cysteine, Humans, Ligands, Lung Neoplasms, Proteome, Cell Line, Tumor, Gene Regulatory Networks, DAX-1 Orphan Nuclear Receptor, Transcriptome
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