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The T790M mutation in EGFR kinase causes drug resistance by increasing the affinity for ATP
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Lung cancers caused by activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are initially responsive to small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), but the efficacy of these agents is often limited because of the emergence of drug resistance conferred by a second mutation, T790M. Threonine 790 is the “gatekeeper” residue, an important determinant of inhibitor specificity in the ATP binding pocket. The T790M mutation has been thought to cause resistance by sterically blocking binding of TKIs such as gefitinib and erlotinib, but this explanation is difficult to reconcile with the fact that it remains sensitive to structurally similar irreversible inhibitors. Here, we show by using a direct binding assay that T790M mutants retain low-nanomolar affinity for gefitinib. Furthermore, we show that the T790M mutation activates WT EGFR and that introduction of the T790M mutation increases the ATP affinity of the oncogenic L858R mutant by more than an order of magnitude. The increased ATP affinity is the primary mechanism by which the T790M mutation confers drug resistance. Crystallographic analysis of the T790M mutant shows how it can adapt to accommodate tight binding of diverse inhibitors, including the irreversible inhibitor HKI-272, and also suggests a structural mechanism for catalytic activation. We conclude that the T790M mutation is a “generic” resistance mutation that will reduce the potency of any ATP-competitive kinase inhibitor and that irreversible inhibitors overcome this resistance simply through covalent binding, not as a result of an alternative binding mode.
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“The T790M mutation is believed to render the receptor refractory to inhibition by these reversible EGFR TKIs through exerting effects on both steric hindrance (22) and increased ATP affinity (23).”
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“This mutation, leads to an increase in ATP affinity, thus making it more difficult for reversible EGFR TKIs gefitinib and erlotinib to bind the EGFR TKI domain (11).”
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“Covalent binding is required to overcome the increased ATP affinity mediated by T790M (11).”
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“The presence of the T790M variant reduces binding of first-generation or second-generation EGFR-TKIs to the ATP-binding pocket of EGFR, thereby reducing EGFR-TKI–mediated inhibition of downstream signaling and potentially leading to disease progression.17–19”
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- Authors
- Yun, C.-H., Mengwasser, K. E., Toms, A. V., Woo, M. S., Greulich, H., Wong, K.-K., Meyerson, M., & Eck, M. J.
- Affiliations
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eck, Michael J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2008-02-12
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2070-2075
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC2538882
- OpenAlex
- W2159013299
- Cited by
- 2,118
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 79.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- National Institutes of Health
- Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA116020, CA 116020, R01CA080942, CA080942)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
- Keywords
- T790M mutation, EGFR, drug resistance, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, gefitinib, erlotinib, ATP affinity, gatekeeper residue, L858R mutation, irreversible inhibitors, covalent binding, kinase activation, lung cancer, ATP-competitive inhibitors
- MeSH terms
- Gefitinib, Adenosine Triphosphate, Animals, Drug Resistance, Enzyme Inhibitors, Insecta, Kinetics, Mutation, Protein Conformation, Quinazolines, Crystallography, X-Ray, ErbB Receptors
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