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NPJ PRECISION ONCOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41698-022-00254-y
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- JSPS KAKENHI [20K08516, 19H03665, 19K16738]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19H03665, 20K08516, 19K16738] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study investigated new therapeutic strategies to reduce and eliminate residual tumors in the early treatment phase of ALK-rearranged lung cancer. It found that the adaptive survival of these cancer cells was predominantly dependent on STAT3 activity upon ALK inhibition, and inhibition of STAT3 effectively suppressed their survival. The combination of a STAT3 inhibitor and alectinib significantly suppressed tumor regrowth after treatment cessation.
Patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer who are prescribed ALK-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (ALK-TKIs) rarely have complete responses, with residual tumors relapsing as heterogeneous resistant phenotypes. Herein, we investigated new therapeutic strategies to reduce and eliminate residual tumors in the early treatment phase. Functional genomic screening using small guide RNA libraries showed that treatment-induced adaptive survival of ALK-rearranged lung cancer cells was predominantly dependent on STAT3 activity upon ALK inhibition. STAT3 inhibition effectively suppressed the adaptive survival of ALK-rearranged lung cancer cells by enhancing ALK inhibition-induced apoptosis. The combined effects were characterized by treatment-induced STAT3 dependence and transcriptional regulation of anti-apoptotic factor BCL-X-L. In xenograft study, the combination of YHO-1701 (STAT3 inhibitor) and alectinib significantly suppressed tumor regrowth after treatment cessation with near tumor remission compared with alectinib alone. Hence, this study provides new insights into combined therapeutic strategies for patients with ALK-rearranged lung cancer.
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