Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 7, Issue 32, Pages 51922-51933Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10458
Keywords
Hippo pathway; yes-associated protein; epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) resistance; erlotinib; non-small cell lung cancer
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 CA140654]
- Kazan
- McClain
- Abrams
- Fernandez
- Lyons
- Greenwood
- Harley
- Oberman Foundation, Inc.
- Estate of Robert Griffiths
- Jeffrey and Karen Peterson Family Foundation
- Paul and Michelle Zygielbaum
- Estate of Norman Mancini
- Barbara Isackson Lung Cancer Research Fund
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Yes-associated protein (YAP) is a main mediator of the Hippo pathway, which promotes cancer development. Here we show that YAP promotes resistance to erlotinib in human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells. We found that forced YAP overexpression through YAP plasmid transfection promotes erlotinib resistance in HCC827 (exon 19 deletion) cells. In YAP plasmid-transfected HCC827 cells, GTIIC reporter activity and Hippo downstream gene expression of AREG and CTGF increased significantly (P<0.05), as did ERBB3 mRNA exprewssion (P<0.05). GTIIC reporter activity, ERBB3 protein and mRNA expression all increased in HCC827 erlotinib-resistance (ER) cells compared to parental HCC827 cells. Inhibition of YAP by small interfering RNA (siRNA) increased the cytotoxicity of erlotinib to H1975 (L858R+T790M) cells. In YAP siRNA-transfected H1975 cells, GTIIC reporter activity and downstream gene expression of AREG and CTGF decreased significantly (P<0.05). Verteporfin, YAP inhibitor had an effect similar to that of YAP siRNA; it increased sensitivity of H1975 cells to erlotinib and in combination with erlotinib, synergistically reduced migration, invasion and tumor sphere formation abilities in H1975 cells. Our results indicate that YAP promotes erlotinib resistance in the erlotinib-sensitive NSCLC cell line HCC827. Inhibition of YAP by siRNA increases sensitivity of erlotinib-resistant NSCLC cell line H1975 to erlotinib.
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