在KRAS突变癌症中解开CDK9/PP2A/ERK网络在转录暂停释放和补充激活中
Yafang Wang1, Lansong Xu1,2, Lijun Ling1
1Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies, ShanghaiTech University, 393 Middle Huaxia Road, Shanghai, 201210, P. R. China.
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
|September 10, 2024
概括
选择性CDK9抑制对KRAS突变癌症有希望,但面临抵抗. 将CDK9抑制剂与KRAS/MAPK通路或TME调节结合起来,可以克服耐药性并提高疗效.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 癌症治疗 癌症治疗
背景情况:
- 选择性抑制P-TEFb复合体,特别是CDK9,是一种有前途的癌症治疗策略.
- 目前的CDK9抑制剂主要有效于血液性恶性瘤,在KRAS突变癌症等固体瘤中有效性有限.
研究的目的:
- 研究CDK9抑制剂在KRAS突变癌症中的疗效.
- 阐明对CDK9抑制剂耐药性的机制.
- 确定结合策略以克服耐药性并增强治疗结果.
主要方法:
- 在实验室和体内 (裸体小鼠异种移植) 研究KRAS突变癌症模型中的CDK9抑制剂.
- 分析信号通路,包括ERK-MYC,原瘤基因,直接早期基因和补充级联.
- 研究了CDK9/Src相互作用在调节PP2Ac活性和RNA聚合酶II酸化中的作用.
- 包括CDK9抑制剂与KRAS/MAPK通路抑制剂和免疫调节剂的评估组合疗法.
主要成果:
- 抑制CDK9显示出初始的体外反应,但在体内不令人满意的疗效.
- 抵抗机制包括补偿ERK-MYC激活,原基因恢复,IEG上调和瘤免疫抑制.
- 矛盾的是,CDK9/Src相互作用调节PP2Ac活性,促进ERK酸化和RNA聚合酶II释放.
- 与KRAS/MAPK通路抑制剂共同向CDK9,消除了ERK-MYC激活,克服了耐药性.
- 通过补充系统干预调节瘤微环境,增强了CDK9抑制剂反应.
结论:
- 仅仅抑制CDK9对KRAS突变癌症是不够的,因为有抵抗机制.
- 针对CDK9和KRAS/MAPK通路的组合策略在控制KRAS突变癌症方面有效.
- 补充系统干预可以通过调节瘤微环境来提高CDK9抑制剂的有效性.
- 临床前数据支持临床试验,将CDK9抑制剂与KRASi/SOS1i/MEKi或KRAS突变癌症的免疫修饰剂结合起来.
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