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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 122, Issue 6, Pages 895-903Publisher
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DOI: 10.1038/s41416-019-0717-x
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- CRUK Centre for Cancer Imaging grant [C1090/A16464]
- CRUK [CRUKD/12/004, EudraCT 2010-024463-41]
- Wellcome Trust [101372/Z/13/Z]
- Royal Society [101372/Z/13/Z]
- NHS funding
- Wellcome Trust [101372/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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Background Monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1) is a regulator of cell metabolism and a therapeutic target for cancer treatment. Understanding the changes in tumour function accompanying MCT1 inhibition will better characterise the anti-tumour effects of MCT1 inhibitors, potentially enabling the identification of pharmacodynamic biomarkers for the clinical development of these agents. Methods We assessed the impact of the MCT1 inhibitor AZD3965 on tumour metabolism and immune cell infiltration as key determinants of tumour biological function in the MCT1-dependent Raji B cell lymphoma model. Results Treatment of Raji xenograft-bearing severe combined immunodeficiency mice with AZD3965 led to inhibition of tumour growth paralleled with a decrease in tumour choline, as detected by non-invasive in vivo proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This effect was attributed to inhibition of phosphocholine de novo synthesis following decreased choline kinase alpha protein and messenger RNA expression that correlated with the AZD3965-induced build-up in intracellular lactate. These changes were concomitant with increased tumour immune cell infiltration involving dendritic and natural killer cells. Conclusions Our data provide new insights into the metabolic and cellular changes that occur in the tumour microenvironment following MCT1 blockade, which may contribute to the anti-tumour activity of AZD3965 and could have potential as pharmacodynamic biomarkers of MCT1 inhibition.
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