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Nuclear Export Inhibition for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy.

ABSTRACT: Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is resistant to most available therapeutics. Pancreatic cancer to date has no effective drugs that could enhance the survival of patients once their disease has metastasized. There is a need for the identification of novel actionable drug targets in this unusually recalcitrant cancer. Nuclear protein transport is an important mechanism that regulates the function of several tumor suppressor proteins (TSPs) in a compartmentalization-dependent manner. High expression of the nuclear exporter chromosome maintenance region 1 (CRM1) or exportin 1 (XPO1), a common feature of several cancers including pancreatic cancer, results in excessive export of critical TSPs to the incorrect cellular compartment, leading to their functional inactivation. Small molecule inhibitors of XPO1 can block this export, retaining very important and functional TSPs in the nucleus and leading to the effective killing of the cancer cells. This review highlights the current knowledge on the role of XPO1 in pancreatic cancer and how this serves as a unique and clinically viable target in this devastating and by far incurable cancer.

SUBMITTER: Muqbil I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5977111 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nuclear Export Inhibition for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy.

Muqbil Irfana I Azmi Asfar S AS Mohammad Ramzi M RM

Cancers 20180507 5

Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is resistant to most available therapeutics. Pancreatic cancer to date has no effective drugs that could enhance the survival of patients once their disease has metastasized. There is a need for the identification of novel actionable drug targets in this unusually recalcitrant cancer. Nuclear protein transport is an important mechanism that regulates the function of several tumor suppressor proteins (TSPs) in a compartmentalization-dependent manner. Hig ...[more]

PMID: 29735942

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Project description:SF3B1 mutations are the most frequent spliceosomal alterations across cancers, yet no successful therapy exists to target this pathway. Previous findings from a phase 2 clinical trial of the XPO1 inhibitor selinexor in patients with high-risk myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) relapsed or refractory to hypomethylating agents (HMA) revealed increased activity in patients with SF3B1 mutations. XPO1 (Exportin-1) is responsible for the export of over 200 proteins, but also plays a role in the transport of multiple RNA species, including small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs), ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and select messenger RNAs (mRNAs) out of the nucleus. We therefore hypothesized that XPO1 inhibition perturbs RNA export and may preferentially affect SF3B1 mutants via altered splicing, given the role of XPO1 in exporting snRNAs, which form the catalytic portion of the spliceosome. To evaluate the mechanism underlying preferentially sensitivity of SF3B1-mutants to XPO1 inhibition, we performed nuclear and cytoplasmic fraction followed by RNA sequencing before and after XPO1 inhibition in SF3B1 wildtype and SF3B1 K666N cells (subcellular RNA-seq). Whole transcriptomic analysis of subcellular RNA-seq data revealed more nuclear retention of global RNA transcripts after XPO1 inhibition in the SF3B1 mutant cell line. Similarly, we performed subcellular RNA-seq for small RNAs and found snRNAs to be increased in the nucleus after XPO1 inhibition in the SF3B1 mutant cells. We then performed total cellular RNA sequencing to understand the effect of XPO1 inhibition on global RNA expression and RNA splicing. Differential gene expression analysis identified that XPO1 inhibition had the greatest effect on cell cycle in SF3B1 wildtype cells but in SF3B1-mutant cells differentiation pathways were more significantly affected. Alternative splicing analysis showed increased 3’ alternative splicing events in SF3B1 mutant after XPO1 inhibition. These results signify the mechanistic basis for preferential sensitivity of SF3B1 mutant cells to nuclear export inhibition arises through nuclear retention of spliceosomal snRNAs and select mRNAs that result in perturbation of differentiation pathways.

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Nuclear Export Inhibition for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy.

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