A personalized medicine approach identifies enasidenib as an efficient treatment for IDH2 mutant chondrosarcoma [MethArray_5days]
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ABSTRACT: The heterogenous genomic nature of most sarcoma subtypes makes them especially indicated for personalized treatment approaches. Here, we developed a personalized medicine strategy based in the use of patient-derived cell lines as a drug-testing platform. Targeted sequencing of a panel of cancer-related genes in these models revealed the presence of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in two chondrosarcomas. Mutant IDH (mIDH) enzymes produce the oncometabolite 2-HG which contributes to driving tumor growth. Thus, we treated several chondrosarcoma models with specific mIDH1/2 inhibitors. Among these treatments, only the mIDH2 inhibitor enasidenib was able to decrease 2-HG levels and to efficiently reduce the viability of mIDH2 chondrosarcoma cells. Importantly, oral administration of enasidenib in xenografted mice resulted in a complete abrogation of tumor growth. Enasidenib induced a profound remodeling of the transcriptomic landscape not associated to changes in the 5mC methylation levels and its anti-tumor effects were associated to the repression of proliferative pathways such as those controlled by E2F factors. Overall, this work provides the first preclinical evidence for the use of enasidenib to treat mIDH2 chondrosarcomas.
Project description:The heterogenous genomic nature of most sarcoma subtypes makes them especially indicated for personalized treatment approaches. Here, we developed a personalized medicine strategy based in the use of patient-derived cell lines as a drug-testing platform. Targeted sequencing of a panel of cancer-related genes in these models revealed the presence of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in two chondrosarcomas. Mutant IDH (mIDH) enzymes produce the oncometabolite 2-HG which contributes to driving tumor growth. Thus, we treated several chondrosarcoma models with specific mIDH1/2 inhibitors. Among these treatments, only the mIDH2 inhibitor enasidenib was able to decrease 2-HG levels and to efficiently reduce the viability of mIDH2 chondrosarcoma cells. Importantly, oral administration of enasidenib in xenografted mice resulted in a complete abrogation of tumor growth. Enasidenib induced a profound remodeling of the transcriptomic landscape not associated to changes in the 5mC methylation levels and its anti-tumor effects were associated to the repression of proliferative pathways such as those controlled by E2F factors. Overall, this work provides the first preclinical evidence for the use of enasidenib to treat mIDH2 chondrosarcomas.
Project description:The heterogenous genomic nature of most sarcoma subtypes makes them especially indicated for personalized treatment approaches. Here, we developed a personalized medicine strategy based in the use of patient-derived cell lines as a drug-testing platform. Targeted sequencing of a panel of cancer-related genes in these models revealed the presence of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in two chondrosarcomas. Mutant IDH (mIDH) enzymes produce the oncometabolite 2-HG which contributes to driving tumor growth. Thus, we treated several chondrosarcoma models with specific mIDH1/2 inhibitors. Among these treatments, only the mIDH2 inhibitor enasidenib was able to decrease 2-HG levels and to efficiently reduce the viability of mIDH2 chondrosarcoma cells. Importantly, oral administration of enasidenib in xenografted mice resulted in a complete abrogation of tumor growth. Enasidenib induced a profound remodeling of the transcriptomic landscape not associated to changes in the 5mC methylation levels and its anti-tumor effects were associated to the repression of proliferative pathways such as those controlled by E2F factors. Overall, this work provides the first preclinical evidence for the use of enasidenib to treat mIDH2 chondrosarcomas.
Project description:The heterogenous genomic nature of most sarcoma subtypes makes them especially indicated for personalized treatment approaches. Here, we developed a personalized medicine strategy based in the use of patient-derived cell lines as a drug-testing platform. Targeted sequencing of a panel of cancer-related genes in these models revealed the presence of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in two chondrosarcomas. Mutant IDH (mIDH) enzymes produce the oncometabolite 2-HG which contributes to driving tumor growth. Thus, we treated several chondrosarcoma models with specific mIDH1/2 inhibitors. Among these treatments, only the mIDH2 inhibitor enasidenib was able to decrease 2-HG levels and to efficiently reduce the viability of mIDH2 chondrosarcoma cells. Importantly, oral administration of enasidenib in xenografted mice resulted in a complete abrogation of tumor growth. Enasidenib induced a profound remodeling of the transcriptomic landscape not associated to changes in the 5mC methylation levels and its anti-tumor effects were associated to the repression of proliferative pathways such as those controlled by E2F factors. Overall, this work provides the first preclinical evidence for the use of enasidenib to treat mIDH2 chondrosarcomas.
Project description:Mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1 and 2 play a pathogenic role in cancers including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by producing oncometabolite 2- hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) . We recently reported that tyrosine phosphorylation activates IDH1 R132H mutant in AML cells. Here we show that, surprisingly, mutant IDH2 (mIDH2) R140Q commonly has K413-acetylation, which negatively regulates mIDH2 activity in human AML cells by attenuating dimerization and blocking binding of substrate (α-ketoglutarate) and cofactor (NADPH). Mechanistically, K413-acetylation of mitochondrial mIDH2 is achieved through a series of hierarchical phosphorylation events mediated by tyrosine kinase FLT3, which phosphorylates mIDH2 to recruit upstream mitochondrial acetyltransferase ACAT1 and simultaneously activates ACAT1 and inhibits upstream mitochondrial deacetylase SIRT3 through tyrosine- phosphorylation. Moreover, we found that the intrinsic enzyme activity of mIDH2 is much higher than mIDH1, thus the inhibitory K413-acetylation optimizes leukemogenic ability of mIDH2 in AML cells by both producing sufficient 2-HG for transformation and avoiding cytotoxic accumulation of intracellular 2-HG.
Project description:Isocitrate dehydrogenases 1 and 2 (IDH1/2) are recurrently mutated in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but their mechanistic role in leukemogenesis is poorly understood. The inhibition of TET enzymes by D-2-hydroxyglutarate (D-2-HG), which is produced by mutant IDH1/2 (mIDH1/2), has been suggested to promote epigenetic deregulation during tumorigenesis. In addition, mIDH also induces a differentiation block in various cell culture and mouse models. Here we analyze the genomic methylation patterns of AML patients with mIDH using Infinium 450K data from a large AML cohort and found that mIDH is associated with pronounced DNA hypermethylation at tens of thousands of CpGs. Interestingly, however, myeloid leukemia cells overexpressing mIDH, cells that were cultured in the presence of D-2-HG or TET2 mutant AML patients did not show similar methylation changes. In further analyses, we also characterized the methylation landscapes of myeloid progenitor cells and analyzed their relationship to mIDH-associated hypermethylation. Our findings identify the differentiation state of myeloid cells, rather than inhibition of TET-mediated DNA demethylation, as a major factor of mIDH-associated hypermethylation in AML. Furthermore, our results are also important for understanding the mode of action of currently developed mIDH inhibitors.
Project description:Chondrosarcomas, malignant cartilaginous neoplasms, are capable of transitioning to highly aggressive, metastatic, and treatment-refractory states, resulting in significant patient mortality. We aimed to uncover the transcriptional program directing such tumor progression in chondrosarcomas. Here, we conducted weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA) to extract a characteristic gene module underlying chondrosarcoma malignancy. We identified hypoxia-inducible factor-2α (HIF-2α, encoded by EPAS1) as an upstream regulator that governs the malignancy gene module. HIF-2α was upregulated in high grade chondrosarcoma biopsies and HIF-2α gene amplification was associated with the poor prognosis of patients with chondrosarcoma. Using tumor xenograft mouse models, we demonstrated that HIF-2α confers chondrosarcomas the capacities required for tumor growth, local invasion, and metastasis. Pharmacological inhibition of HIF-2α in conjunction with the chemotherapy agents synergistically enhanced chondrosarcoma cell apoptosis and abolished malignant signatures of chondrosarcoma in mice. We expect that our insights into the pathogenesis of chondrosarcoma will provide guidelines for the development of novel molecular-targeted therapeutics for chondrosarcoma.
Project description:A personalized medicine approach identifies enasidenib as an efficient treatment for IDH2 mutant chondrosarcoma [RNAseq_Enasidenib_L2975_SW1353]