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A murine lung cancer co-clinical trial identifies genetic modifiers of therapeutic response

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Chen, Zhao, Cheng, Katherine, Walton, Zandra, Wang, Yuchuan, Ebi, Hiromichi, Shimamura, Takeshi, Liu, Yan, Tupper, Tanya +35 more·2012·Nature

Abstract

Targeted therapies have demonstrated efficacy against specific subsets of molecularly defined cancers. Although most patients with lung cancer are stratified according to a single oncogenic driver, cancers harbouring identical activating genetic mutations show large variations in their responses to the same targeted therapy. The biology underlying this heterogeneity is not well understood, and the impact of co-existing genetic mutations, especially the loss of tumour suppressors, has not been fully explored. Here we use genetically engineered mouse models to conduct a 'co-clinical' trial that mirrors an ongoing human clinical trial in patients with KRAS-mutant lung cancers. This trial aims to determine if the MEK inhibitor selumetinib (AZD6244) increases the efficacy of docetaxel, a standard of care chemotherapy. Our studies demonstrate that concomitant loss of either p53 (also known as Tp53) or Lkb1 (also known as Stk11), two clinically relevant tumour suppressors, markedly impaired the response of Kras-mutant cancers to docetaxel monotherapy. We observed that the addition of selumetinib provided substantial benefit for mice with lung cancer caused by Kras and Kras and p53 mutations, but mice with Kras and Lkb1 mutations had primary resistance to this combination therapy. Pharmacodynamic studies, including positron-emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT), identified biological markers in mice and patients that provide a rationale for the differential efficacy of these therapies in the different genotypes. These co-clinical results identify predictive genetic biomarkers that should be validated by interrogating samples from patients enrolled on the concurrent clinical trial. These studies also highlight the rationale for synchronous co-clinical trials, not only to anticipate the results of ongoing human clinical trials, but also to generate clinically relevant hypotheses that can inform the analysis and design of human studies.

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Chen, Z., Cheng, K., Walton, Z., Wang, Y., Ebi, H., Shimamura, T., Liu, Y., Tupper, T., Ouyang, J., Li, J., Gao, P., Woo, M. S., Xu, C., Yanagita, M., Altabef, A., Wang, S., Lee, C., Nakada, Y., Peña, C. G., Sun, Y., Franchetti, Y., Yao, C., Saur, A., Cameron, M. D., Nishino, M., Hayes, D. N., Wilkerson, M. D., Roberts, P. J., Lee, C. B., Bardeesy, N., Butaney, M., Chirieac, L. R., Costa, D. B., Jackman, D., Sharpless, N. E., Castrillon, D. H., Demetri, G. D., Jänne, P. A., Pandolfi, P. P., Cantley, L. C., Kung, A. L., Engelman, J. A., & Wong, K.-K.
Affiliations
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Loyola University Chicago (US)
  • Iowa State University (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
  • Scripps Research Institute (US)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Kung, Andrew L.
  • Engelman, Jeffrey A.
  • Wong, Kwok-Kin
Venue
Nature
Published
2012-03
Volume
483
Issue
7391
Pages
613-617
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2094207365
Cited by
446
References
30
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FWCI
49.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • American Lung Association
  • National Institutes of Health (5k23ca157631-02)
  • National Cancer Institute (CA137181, R01CA166480, K23-CA157631, RC2CA147940, R01CA122794, R01CA140594, CA 140594, P50CA090578, CA147940, CA 122794, R01CA137181, CA137008-01, R01CA163896, P01CA120964, R01CA137008, P30CA016086, U01CA141576, CA137008)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Keywords
lung cancer, KRAS-mutant lung cancer, co-clinical trials, docetaxel, selumetinib, MEK inhibitors, combination therapy, TP53 mutation, tumor suppressor loss, chemoresistance
MeSH terms
Docetaxel, Animals, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Benzimidazoles, Disease Models, Animal, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Mutation, Pharmacogenetics, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Biomarkers, Tumor, Reproducibility of Results, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Genes, p53, Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras), Treatment Outcome, Clinical Trials, Phase II as Topic, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, ras Proteins, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases, MAP Kinase Signaling System, Taxoids, Positron-Emission Tomography, Mice, AMP-Activated Protein Kinases

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