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The Gain-of-Function p53 R248W Mutant Promotes Migration by STAT3 Deregulation in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells

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FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
卷 11, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.642603

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mutant p53; missense p53 mutant; STAT3; selectivity; specificity; PDAC; GOF; Hsp90

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  1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SCHUH-3160/3-1]
  2. Clinical Research Unit KFO5002 (DFG) [SCHUH-3160/4-1, SI-2639/1-1]
  3. NIH National Cancer Institute [2R01CA176647]

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Research has found that different alleleic mutations of mutant p53 gene (mutp53) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) have specific oncogenic functions, mainly promoting invasion and metastasis to drive tumor progression. Similar to colorectal cancer (CRC), specific alleles of mutp53 exert enhanced functions by binding to and hyperactivating STAT3. This discovery suggests potential therapeutic vulnerabilities in targeting GOF mutp53 proteins in PDAC.
Missense p53 mutations (mutp53) occur in approx. 70% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC). Typically, mutp53 proteins are aberrantly stabilized by Hsp90/Hsp70/Hsp40 chaperone complexes. Notably, stabilization is a precondition for specific mutp53 alleles to acquire powerful neomorphic oncogenic gain-of-functions (GOFs) that promote tumor progression in solid cancers mainly by increasing invasion and metastasis. In colorectal cancer (CRC), we recently established that the common hotspot mutants mutp53(R248Q) and mutp53(R248W) exert GOF activities by constitutively binding to and hyperactivating STAT3. This results in increased proliferation and invasion in an autochthonous CRC mouse model and correlates with poor survival in patients. Comparing a panel of p53 missense mutations in a series of homozygous human PDAC cell lines, we show here that, similar to CRC, the mutp53(R248W) protein again undergoes a strong Hsp90-mediated stabilization and selectively promotes migration. Highly stabilized mutp53 is degradable by the Hsp90 inhibitors Onalespib and Ganetespib, and correlates with growth suppression, possibly suggesting therapeutic vulnerabilities to target GOF mutp53 proteins in PDAC. In response to mutp53 depletion, only mutp53(R248W) harboring PDAC cells show STAT3 de-phosphorylation and reduced migration, again suggesting an allele-specific GOF in this cancer entity, similar to CRC. Moreover, mutp53(R248W) also exhibits the strongest constitutive complex formation with phosphorylated STAT3. The selective mutp53(R248W) GOF signals through enhancing the STAT3 axis, which was confirmed since targeting STAT3 by knockdown or pharmacological inhibition phenocopied mutp53 depletion and reduced cell viability and migration preferentially in mutp53(R248W)-containing PDAC cells. Our results confirm that mutp53 GOF activities are allele specific and can span across tumor entities.

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