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MED12 controls the response to multiple cancer drugs through regulation of TGF-? receptor signaling.

ABSTRACT: Inhibitors of the ALK and EGF receptor tyrosine kinases provoke dramatic but short-lived responses in lung cancers harboring EML4-ALK translocations or activating mutations of EGFR, respectively. We used a large-scale RNAi screen to identify MED12, a component of the transcriptional MEDIATOR complex that is mutated in cancers, as a determinant of response to ALK and EGFR inhibitors. MED12 is in part cytoplasmic where it negatively regulates TGF-?R2 through physical interaction. MED12 suppression therefore results in activation of TGF-?R signaling, which is both necessary and sufficient for drug resistance. TGF-? signaling causes MEK/ERK activation, and consequently MED12 suppression also confers resistance to MEK and BRAF inhibitors in other cancers. MED12 loss induces an EMT-like phenotype, which is associated with chemotherapy resistance in colon cancer patients and to gefitinib in lung cancer. Inhibition of TGF-?R signaling restores drug responsiveness in MED12(KD) cells, suggesting a strategy to treat drug-resistant tumors that have lost MED12.

SUBMITTER: Huang S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3672971 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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MED12 controls the response to multiple cancer drugs through regulation of TGF-β receptor signaling.

Huang Sidong S Hölzel Michael M Knijnenburg Theo T Schlicker Andreas A Roepman Paul P McDermott Ultan U Garnett Mathew M Grernrum Wipawadee W Sun Chong C Prahallad Anirudh A Groenendijk Floris H FH Mittempergher Lorenza L Nijkamp Wouter W Neefjes Jacques J Salazar Ramon R Ten Dijke Peter P Uramoto Hidetaka H Tanaka Fumihiro F Beijersbergen Roderick L RL Wessels Lodewyk F A LF Bernards René R

Cell 20121101 5

Inhibitors of the ALK and EGF receptor tyrosine kinases provoke dramatic but short-lived responses in lung cancers harboring EML4-ALK translocations or activating mutations of EGFR, respectively. We used a large-scale RNAi screen to identify MED12, a component of the transcriptional MEDIATOR complex that is mutated in cancers, as a determinant of response to ALK and EGFR inhibitors. MED12 is in part cytoplasmic where it negatively regulates TGF-βR2 through physical interaction. MED12 suppression ...[more]

PMID: 23178117

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MED12 controls the response to multiple cancer drugs through regulation of TGF-? receptor signaling.

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MED12 controls the response to multiple cancer drugs through regulation of TGF-β receptor signaling.

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