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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 7, Pages 2359-2364Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810221106
Keywords
genetically modified mouse; picropodophyllin
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- National Cancer Institute [1 P01 CA97403]
- Berrie Foundation
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
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Considering the strong association between dysregulated insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling and various human cancers, we have used an expedient combination of genetic analysis and pharmacological treatment to evaluate the potential of the type 1 IGF receptor (Igf1r) for targeted anticancer therapy in a mouse model of mammary tumorigenesis. In this particular strain of genetically modified animals, histopathologically heterogeneous invasive carcinomas exhibiting up-regulation of the Igf1r gene developed extremely rapidly by mammary gland-specific overexpression of constitutively active oncogenic Kras* (mutant Kras(G12D)). Immunophenotyping data and expression profiling analyses showed that, except for a minor luminal component, these mouse tumors resembled basal-like human breast cancers. This is a group of aggressive tumors of poor prognosis for which there is no targeted therapy currently available, and it includes a subtype correlating with KRAS locus amplification. Conditional ablation of Igf1r in the mouse mammary epithelium increased the latency of Kras*-induced tumors very significantly (approximate to 11-fold in comparison with the intact model), whereas treatment of tumor-bearing animals by administration of picropodophyllin (PPP), a specific Igf1r inhibitor, resulted in a dramatic decrease in tumor mass of the main forms of basal-like carcinomas. PPP also was effective against xenografts of the human basal-like cancer cell line MDA-MB-231, which carries a KRAS(G13D) mutation.
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