Multiomic analysis implicates OXPHOS/fatty acid oxidation as a potential druggable target in platinum-resistant high grade serous ovarian cancer
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ABSTRACT: In the United States, high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy and tumor response to platinum-based chemotherapy is a major determinant of clinical outcome. Although recent efforts have dramatically improved the median survival of advanced ovarian cancer, the initial treatment of the disease has remained the same. The initial therapy includes surgery and chemotherapy and the response rate is very high (85%). Unfortunately, 15% of patients do not respond to this therapy and have platinum-refractory disease. These patients have a very short survival and there is an urgent need to identify novel pharmaceutically targetable pathways to treat these patients. We generated extensive proteomic (global, phospho, ubiquitin, acetylation, pTyr) and RNASeq-based dynamic molecular profiles (+/-carboplatin at 8 and 24 hours) from HGSOC intra-patient cell line pairs (PEA1/PEA2, PEO1/PEO4, PEO14/PEO23) derived from 3 patients before and after acquiring platinum resistance. The molecular profiles revealed a multi-faceted response to carboplatin (e.g., induction of a DNA damage response, ubiquitination of ribosomal proteins, and metabolic changes), as well as novel carboplatin-induced post-translational modifications. Higher oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and fatty acid beta-oxidation (FAO) pathway expression was observed in resistant compared with sensitive cells. These expression findings were validated via metabolite profiling of cell lines and proteomic profiling of platinum sensitive and refractory HGSOC patient derived xenograft (PDX) models. Both pharmacologic inhibition and CRISPR knockout of CPT1A, which represents the rate limiting step of FAO, sensitizes HGSOC cells to platinum. The metabolic signature identified in the cell line and PDX models is correlated with survival in a previously reported proteomic analysis of HGSOC, and thus FAO is a candidate druggable pathway to overcome platinum resistance.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)
TISSUE(S): Ovarian Serous Carcinoma Cell
DISEASE(S): Malignant Neoplasm Of Ovary
SUBMITTER: Jacob Kennedy
LAB HEAD: Amanda G Paulovich
PROVIDER: PXD020764 | Pride | 2021-12-22
REPOSITORIES: Pride
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