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Phosphoproteomics of BRAFi-treated endothelial cells

ABSTRACT: Targeted therapies against mutant BRAF are effectively used in combination with MEK inhibitors (MEKi) to treat advanced melanoma. However, treatment success is affected by resistance and adverse events (AEs). Approved BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) show high levels of target promiscuity, which can contribute to these effects. Blood vessels are in direct contact with high plasma concentrations of BRAFi, but effects of the inhibitors in this cell type are unknown. Hence, we aimed to characterize responses to clinically relevant BRAF kinase inhibitors in the vascular endothelium. A mass spectrometry-based analysis of the phosphoproteome of dermal microvascular endothelial cells revealed distinct sets of off-targets of the used BRAFi. Meanwhile, there were only negligible changes to the proteome after 1 h of treatment. Together with our published functional data, these findings provide insights on the surprisingly distinct side effects of BRAFi on endothelial signaling and functionality.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Eclipse

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Skin, Endothelial Cell

DISEASE(S): Melanoma

SUBMITTER: Sophie Bromberger

LAB HEAD: Klaudia Schossleitner

PROVIDER: PXD052259 | Pride | 2024-06-01

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Project description:Nearly 50% of cutaneous melanomas carry activating mutations on the BRAF oncogene, and the combination of BRAF- and MEK-inhibitors (BRAF/MEKi) is frequently used for their clinical management. One major drawback of BRAF/MEKi targeted therapy is the rapid development of therapeutic resistance, which can occur via multiple mechanisms, including the metabolic rewiring of cancer cells that often involves the upregulation of mitochondrial bionergetics and NAD+ biosynthetic pathways. mTORC2 is a signaling complex that requires the presence of its essential RICTOR subunit to play its regulatory functions in cell growth and metabolism. mTORC2 is believed to play mostly pro-oncogenic roles in several tumor types, including melanoma. However, bioinformatics analysis of TCGA melanoma patients’ database revealed that low RICTOR levels in tumors correlate with an overall worse clinical outcome. GSEA analysis of low-RICTOR tumors evidenced also a gene expression signature suggestive of activation of mitochondrial energy producing pathways. On these bases, we have hypothesized that inhibition of mTORC2 activity may render BRAFV600E melanoma cells resistant to BRAFi/MEKi. We show here that RICTOR/mTORC2-deficient cells are intrinsically tolerant to BRAFi/MEKi, and anticipate the onset of resistance to BRAFi after sustained drug exposure both in vitro and in vivo, indicating that mTORC2 activity normally opposes the acquisition of targeted therapy resistance in BRAFV600E melanomas. Mechanistically, RICTOR-deficient cells show an enhanced mitochondrial respiratory potential and increased expression of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) protein, the rate-limiting enzyme of NAD+ salvage pathway, and pharmacological inhibition of these processes in RICTOR-deficient cells is sufficient to restore sensitivity to BRAFi. Thus, our work identifies a novel role for mTORC2 in favoring the responses of BRAF-mutated melanoma cells to targeted therapy, and suggest that the evaluation of the intratumor level of RICTOR may help to predict the responses of melanoma patients to these treatments.

Project description:BRAF oncogene is mutated in ~50% of human cutaneous melanomas. The BRAF V600E mutation leads to constitutive activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway fuelling cancer growth. The inhibitors of BRAF V600E (BRAFi), lead to massive and high response rate. However, BRAFi-resistant cells that operate as a cellular reservoir for relapses severely limits the duration of the clinical response. The recent depiction of these resistant cells did not identify druggable targets to ensure long-term survival under BRAFi. Here, we identify the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) as a target to eradicate resistant cells. We show that BRAFi bind to AhR on a new site, named beta-pocket, and reprogram gene expression independently of its partner ARNT. beta-pocket activation induces a pigmentation signature, which is associated to BRAFi-induced cell death of sensitive BRAF V600E melanoma cells and tumour shrinkage. Intriguingly, in resistant cells, BRAFi does not induced a pigmentation signature since these cells display another AhR program; AhR-ARNT dependant. By this way, AhR directs several key BRAFi-resistant genes. At single cell level, this constitutive activation of AhR-ARNT is identified in rare cells before BRAFi-treatment of melanoma tumours and an enrichment of these alpha-cells is observed under BRAFi. Our data strongly suggest that an endogenous AhR ligand activates AhR-ARNT via the canonical AhR pocket (alpha-pocket), thus favouring BRAFi-resistant gene expression. Importantly, we identify the clinically compatible AhR antagonist, the resveratrol (RSV), able to abrogate the deleterious constitutive activation of AhR and to reduce the cellular reservoir for the relapse. Taken together, this work reveals that constitutive AhR signalling drives BRAFi resistance and constitutes a therapeutic target to achieve long-term patient survival under BRAFi. More broadly, the constitutive activation of AhR by endogenous ligands is in line with the ability of UV radiations to generate potent AhR ligands and to favour melanoma onset.

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