Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222011147
Keywords
autophagy; CHIR99021; epithelioid sarcoma; GSK-3 beta inhibition; mitotic catastrophe
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- Associazione Orchestra Per la Vita-Aps, 5 x 1000 funds from Italian Ministry of Health
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Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare disease with poor prognosis and limited treatment options. Research indicates that the GSK-3 beta inhibitor CHIR99021 may hold potential for improving therapy outcomes. Further preclinical and clinical studies are needed to validate its efficacy.
Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) is a rare disease representing < 1% of soft tissue sarcomas. Current therapies are based on anthracycline alone or in combination with ifosfamide or other cytotoxic drugs. ES is still characterized by a poor prognosis with high rates of recurrence. Indeed, for years, ES survival rates have remained stagnant, suggesting that conventional treatments should be revised and improved. New therapeutic approaches are focused to target the key regulators of signaling pathways, the causative markers of tumor pathophysiology. To this end, we selected, among the drugs to which an ES cell line is highly sensitive, those that target signaling pathways known to be dysregulated in ES. In particular, we found a key role for GSK-3 beta, which results in up-regulation in tumor versus normal tissue samples and associated to poor prognosis in sarcoma patients. Following this evidence, we evaluated CHIR99021, a GSK-3 inhibitor, as a potential drug for use in ES therapy. Our data highlight that, in ES cells, CHIR99021 induces cell cycle arrest, mitotic catastrophe (MC) and autophagic response, resulting in reduced cell proliferation. Our results support the potential efficacy of CHIR99021 in ES treatment and encourage further preclinical and clinical studies.
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