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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 77, Issue 11, Pages 2990-3000Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-2300
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- NIH
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) [R01-CA121210, P01-CA129243, P30-CA008748]
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- T32 training grant [2T32HL094296-06A1]
- V Foundation Scholar-in-Training Award
- AACR-Genentech Career Development Award
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- LUNGevity Career Development Award
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Mutant-selective EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as osimertinib, are active agents for the treatment of EGFR-mutant lung cancer. Specifically, these agents can overcome the effects of the T790M mutation, which mediates resistance to first-and second-generation EGFR TKI, and recent clinical trials have documented their efficacy in patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer. Despite promising results, therapeutic efficacy is limited by the development of acquired resistance. Here we report that Src family kinases (SFK) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) sustain AKT and MAPK pathway signaling under continuous EGFR inhibition in osimertinib-sensitive cells. Inhibiting either the MAPK pathway or the AKT pathway enhanced the effects of osimertinib. Combined SFK/FAK inhibition exhibited the most potent effects on growth inhibition, induction of apoptosis, and delay of acquired resistance. SFK family member YES1 was amplified in osimertinib-resistant EGFR-mutant tumor cells, the effects of which were overcome by combined treatment with osimertinib and SFK inhibitors. In conclusion, our data suggest that the concomitant inhibition of both SFK/FAK and EGFR may be a promising therapeutic strategy for EGFR-mutant lung cancer. (C) 2017 AACR.
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