Project description:Genome variation profiling of lung adenocarcinoma cells comparing untreated NCI-H1975 cells with CNX-2006-resistant untreated cells. Goal was to determine the potential mechanism of resistance to mutant EGFR-TKIs and rationally design novel strategies for the treatment of EGFR-mutant lung cancer patients. Two-condition experiment: NCI-H1975 parental cells vs CNX-2006-resistant cells. Pooled DNA from healthy volunteers was used as reference.
Project description:Genome variation profiling of lung adenocarcinoma cells comparing untreated NCI-H1975 cells with CNX-2006-resistant untreated cells. Goal was to determine the potential mechanism of resistance to mutant EGFR-TKIs and rationally design novel strategies for the treatment of EGFR-mutant lung cancer patients.
Project description:The clinical efficacy of EGFR kinase inhibitors is limited by the development of drug resistance. The irreversible EGFR kinase inhibitor WZ4002 is effective against the most common mechanism of drug resistance mediated by the EGFR T790M mutation. Here we show that in multiple complementary models harboring EGFR T790M, resistance to WZ4002 develops through aberrant activation of ERK signaling caused by either an amplification of MAPK1 or by downregulation of negative regulators of ERK signaling. Inhibition of MEK or ERK restores sensitivity to WZ4002, and the combination of WZ4002 and a MEK inhibitor prevents the emergence of drug resistance. The WZ4002 resistant MAPK1 amplified cells also demonstrate an increase both in EGFR internalization and a decrease in sensitivity to cytotoxic chemotherapy compared to the parental counterparts. Our findings provide insights into mechanisms of drug resistance to EGFR kinase inhibitors and highlight rational combination therapies that should be evaluated in clinical trials. Our study identifies ERK signaling as a mediator of resistance to irreversible pyrimidine EGFR inhibitors in EGFR T790M-bearing cancers. We further provide a therapeutic strategy to both treat and prevent the emergence of this resistance mechanism. To generate drug-resistant NCI-H1975 cell lines, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells were exposed to increasing concentrations of WZ4002 similar to previously described methods. Individual clones from WZ4002-resistant (WZR) cells were isolated and confirmed to be drug resistant. Clone #6, designated as WZR6, was used in this study. For expression analysis, samples were prepared in triplicate from parental NCI-H1975 and NCI-H1975 WZR6 cells.
Project description:An equal mixture of cells from the 3 Human Lung Adenocarcinoma cell lines (H2228, NCI-H1975 and HCC827) were processed on the Chromium 3' single cell platform (10X Genomics) and sequenced on an Illumina NextSeq 500. FASTQ data were preprocessed using both scPipe and CellRanger.
Project description:Purpose: Our previous clinical trials have been demonstrated that Anlotinib can inhibit tumor growth upon refractory advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with the possibility mechanism of anti-angiogenesis. The present study sought to reveal the underlying molecular mechanism of Anlotinib-induced anti-angiogenesis in advanced NSCLC. Experimental Design: Computed tomography (CT) was used to evaluate the treatment effect of Anlotinib upon refractory advanced NSCLC patients. Transcriptome profiling was performed to identify the key gene expression alteration in NCI-H1975 cells before and after Anlotinib treatment. NCI-H1975 derived xenograft model was applied to investigate treatment effect and verify anti-angiogenesis mechanism of Anlotinib. Results: Anlotinib induces tumor cytotoxicity on refractory advanced NSCLC patients, NCI-H1975 derived xenograft models and lung adenocarcinoma cell lines. Transcriptome profiling revealed CCL2 blockade could be responsible for Anlotinib-induced anti-angiogenesis. NCI-H1975 derived xenograft model demonstrated Anlotinib-induced CCL2 blockade play an important role in anti-angiogenesis. Conclusions: This study not only offered the first evidence that Anlotinib inhibits angiogenesis via blocking CCL2 expression, but also provided a novel theoretical basis for the application of Anlotinib in advanced NSCLC patients.
Project description:The receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) EGFR is overexpressed and mutated in NSCLC. These mutations can be targeted by RTK inhibitors (TKIs), such as erlotinib. Chromatin-modifying agents offer a novel therapy approach by sensitizing tumor cells to TKIs. The NSCLC cell lines HCC827 (EGFR mutant, adenocarcinoma), A549 (EGFR wt, adenocarcinoma) and NCI-H460 (EGFR wt, large cell carcinoma) were analyzed by SNP6.0 array. Changes in proliferation were quantified by WST-1 assay, apoptosis by Annexin V/7-AAD flow cytometry and histone marks (acH3, H3K4me1,-2,-3) by immunoblotting. Expectedly, the EGFR wt cell lines A549 and NCI-H460 were insensitive to the growth-inhibiting effect of single-agent erlotinib (IC50 70-100µM), compared to HCC827 (IC50 <0.02μM). Treatment with panobinostat diminished growth to <50% in both EGFR wt and <30% in HCC827 cells. The combination of both drugs significantly reduced proliferation by ≥70% in A549, >95% in HCC827, but not further in NCI-H460. Panobinostat alone induced differentiation and expression of p21WAF1/CIP1 and p53 in all three cell lines, with almost no further increase when combined with erlotinib. In contrast, combination treatment additively decreased pERK, pAKT and pEGFR in A549, and synergistically induced acH3 in both adenocarcinoma lines. Surprisingly, we also saw an induction of H3K4 methylation marks in all three cell lines. In conclusion, panobinostat synergistically sensitized lung adenocarcinoma cells to the antiproliferative effects of erlotinib. Since single-agent erlotinib has only modest clinical effects in adenocarcinoma EGFR wt patients, combination therapy with an HDACi might offer a promising therapy approach to extend this activity. Copy-number analysis of three NSCLC cell lines HCC827, A549 and NCI-H460 (in unicates) was performed according to protocol by Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP-Array 6.0.
Project description:Osimertinib, a third-generation EGFR-TKI, has applied to non-small cell lung cancer harboring activated EGFR mutation with or without T790M. However, the appearance of tumors resistant to osimertinib has been reported. We established and characterized osimertinib-resistant cells derived from NCI-H1975 cells harboring activating EGFR and T790M mutation.
Project description:14-3-3ζ has been found to promote the proliferation, metastasis and chemoresistance of cancer cells in several cancers including lung adenocarcinoma; however, its significance in epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) resistance remains unknown. Our work uncovers a hitherto unappreciated role of 14-3-3ζ in EGFR-TKI resistance. We determined global gene expression profiling in EGFR-TKI-resistant H1975 cells using microarray analysis.
Project description:Oncogenic signals often activate abnormal proliferation, while simultaneously activate stress-adaptive mechanisms such as the integrated stress response (ISR) to ensure rapid growth under intrinsic and extrinsic stress conditions. In this study, we investigated the involvement of EGFR-PI3K pathway in the regulation of ISR in EGFR-mutant NSCLC cell lines under amino acid deprivation. We found that the third generation EGFR inhibitor osiemrtinib suppressed induction of activation transcription factor 4 (ATF4), the key ISR effector, in EGFR mutant cells, while the effect was to a less extent in cells harboring PIK3CA-co-alteration. PI3K inhibitors including P110a-specific inhibitor alpelicib markedly suppress ATF4 induction in PIK3CA-mutant cell lines. To further explore the role of EGFR-PI3K, transcriptome analysis was performed in EGFR- and PIK3CA-mutated NCI-H1975 cells treated with osimertinib, alpelisib, or combination of these in the absence or presence of histidyl-tRNA inhibitor L-histidinol (His), mimicking amino acid deprived conditions. Among His-induced genes, either osimertinib or alpelisib partially, but the combination dramatically suppressed a cluster of genes targeted by ATF4. Furthermore, combination of osimertinib and alpelisib increased apoptotic cells under amino acid deprived conditions. These results indicate that oncogenic EGFR-PI3K pathway contributes to cellular adaptation to stress conditions through ATF4. We used microarrays to identify genes whose expression is up- or down-regulated by inhibition of EGFR, PI3K, or both under amino acid deprivation.
Project description:Further to our previous study (E-MTAB-5997), here we performed transcriptome profiling on Anlotinib-resistant NCI-H1975 and Anlotinib-treated Anlotinib-resistant NCI-H1975, and would like to understand the effects of Anlotinib on Anlotinib-resistant NCI-H1975 cell, compare the different transcriptome profiling on NCI-H1975 cells and Anlotinib-resistant NCI-H1975 cells, sought to find the biomarker for explaining Anlotinib resistance.