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CANCER CELL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12935-019-0768-3
Keywords
Melanoma; p53; MDM2; Nutlin-3; RG7388; HDM201; Trametinib; Vemurafenib
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- Cancer Research UK
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan [CMRPG3I0451]
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BackgroundEmergence of resistance to molecular targeted therapy constitutes a limitation to clinical benefits in cancer treatment. Cross-resistance commonly happens with chemotherapeutic agents but might not with targeted agents.MethodsIn the current study, TP53 wild-type cell lines with druggable MAPK pathway mutations [BRAF(V600E) (WM35) or NRAS(Q61K) (SJSA-1)] were compared with their TP53 mutant sublines (WM35-R, SN40R2) derived by selection for resistance to MDM2/p53 binding antagonists.ResultsThe continued presence of the druggable MAPK pathway targets in the TP53 mutant (TP53(MUT)) WM35-R and SN40R2 cells was confirmed. Trametinib and vemurafenib were tested on the paired WM35/WM35-R and SJSA-1/SN40R2 cells and similar growth inhibitory effects on the paired cell lines was observed. However, apoptotic responses to trametinib and vemurafenib were greater in WM35 than WM35-R, evidenced by FACS analysis and caspase 3/7 activity, indicating that these MAPK inhibitors acted on the cells partially through p53-regulated pathways. SiRNA mediated p53 knockdown in WM35 replicated the same pattern of response to trametinib and vemurafenib as seen in WM35-R, confirming that p53 plays a role in trametinib and vemurafenib induced apoptosis. In contrast, these differences in apoptotic response between WM35 and WM35-R were not seen with the SJSA-1/SN40R2 cell line pair. This is likely due to p53 suppression by overexpressed MDM2 in SJSA-1.ConclusionThe TP53(MUT) cells selected by resistance to MDM2 inhibitors nevertheless retained growth inhibitory but not apoptotic response to MAPK pathway inhibitors.
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