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Inhibiting BRAF Oncogene-Mediated Radioresistance Effectively Radiosensitizes BRAFV600E-Mutant Thyroid Cancer Cells by Constraining DNA Double-Strand Break Repair.


ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:Activating BRAF mutations, most commonly BRAFV600E, are a major oncogenic driver of many cancers. We explored whether BRAFV600E promotes radiation resistance and whether selectively targeting BRAFV600E with a BRAF inhibitor (vemurafenib, BRAFi) sensitizes BRAFV600E thyroid cancer cells to radiotherapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN:Immunoblotting, neutral comet, immunocytochemistry, functional reporter, and clonogenic assays were used to analyze the outcome and molecular characteristics following radiotherapy with or without BRAFV600E or vemurafenib in thyroid cancer cells. RESULTS:BRAFV600E thyroid cancer cell lines were associated with resistance to ionizing radiation (IR), and expression of BRAFV600E into wild-type BRAF thyroid cancer cells led to IR resistance. BRAFi inhibited ERK signaling in BRAFV600E mutants, but not BRAF wild-type thyroid cancer cell lines. BRAFi selectively radiosensitized and delayed resolution of IR-induced ?H2AX nuclear foci in BRAFV600E cells. Moreover, BRAFi impaired global DNA repair and altered the resolution of 53BP1 and RAD51 nuclear foci in BRAFV600E cells following IR. BRAFV600E mutants displayed enhanced nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) repair activity, which was abolished by BRAFi. Intriguingly, BRAFV600E mutation led to upregulation of XLF, a component of NHEJ, which was prevented by BRAFi. Importantly, BRAFi in combination with radiotherapy resulted in marked and sustained tumor regression of BRAFV600E thyroid tumor xenografts. CONCLUSIONS:BRAFV600E mutation promotes NHEJ activity leading to radioresistance and BRAFi selectively radiosensitizes BRAFV600E thyroid cancer cells through inhibiting NHEJ. Our findings suggest that combining BRAFi and radiation may improve the therapeutic outcome of patients with BRAFV600E-mutant thyroid cancer.

SUBMITTER: Robb R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677585 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inhibiting BRAF Oncogene-Mediated Radioresistance Effectively Radiosensitizes BRAF<sup>V600E</sup>-Mutant Thyroid Cancer Cells by Constraining DNA Double-Strand Break Repair.

Robb Ryan R   Yang Linlin L   Shen Changxian C   Wolfe Adam R AR   Webb Amy A   Zhang Xiaoli X   Vedaie Marall M   Saji Motoyasu M   Jhiang Sissy S   Ringel Matthew D MD   Williams Terence M TM  

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20190516 15


<h4>Purpose</h4>Activating BRAF mutations, most commonly BRAF<sup>V600E</sup>, are a major oncogenic driver of many cancers. We explored whether BRAF<sup>V600E</sup> promotes radiation resistance and whether selectively targeting BRAF<sup>V600E</sup> with a BRAF inhibitor (vemurafenib, BRAFi) sensitizes BRAF<sup>V600E</sup> thyroid cancer cells to radiotherapy.<h4>Experimental design</h4>Immunoblotting, neutral comet, immunocytochemistry, functional reporter, and clonogenic assays were used to a  ...[more]

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