RRC ID 58834
著者 Guan L, Li Z, Xie F, Pang Y, Zhang C, Tang H, Zhang H, Chen C, Zhan Y, Zhao T, Jiang H, Jia X, Wang Y, Lu Y.
タイトル Oncogenic and drug-sensitive RET mutations in human epithelial ovarian cancer.
ジャーナル J Exp Clin Cancer Res
Abstract BACKGROUND:Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is a highly lethal malignancy. Improvement in genetic characterization of EOC patients is required to propose new potential targets, since surgical resection coupled to chemotherapy, presents several limits such as cancer recurrence and drug resistance. Targeted therapies have more efficacy and less toxicity than standard treatments. One of the most relevant cancer-specific actionable targets are protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) whose role in EOC need to be better investigated.
METHODS:EOC genomic datasets are retrieved and analyzed. The biological and clinical significance of RET genomic aberrations in ovarian cancer context are investigated by a series of in vitro and in vivo experiments.
RESULTS:Epithelial ovarian cancer sequencing projects identify recurrent genomic RET missense mutations in 1.98% of patients, ranking as the top-five hit among the 100 receptor tyrosine kinases-encoding genes. RET mutants R693H and A750T show oncogenic transformation properties in NIH3T3 cells. Introduction of the RET mutants into human EOC cells increases RET signaling, cell viability, anchorage-independent cell growth and tumor xenograft growth in nude mice, demonstrating that they are activating mutations. RET mutants significantly enhance the activation of RET and its downstream MAPK and AKT signaling pathway in ovarian cancer cells. Vandetanib, a clinical approved RET inhibitor, inhibits the cell viability and decreases the activation of RET-MAPK signaling pathways in EOC cells expressing oncogenic RET mutants.
CONCLUSIONS:The discovery of RET pathogenic variants in the EOC patients, suggests a previously underestimated role for RET in EOC tumorigenesis. The identification of the gain-of-function RET mutations in EOC highlights the potential use of RET in targeted therapy to treat ovarian cancer patients.
巻・号 39(1)
ページ 53
公開日 2020-3-23
DOI 10.1186/s13046-020-01557-3
PII 10.1186/s13046-020-01557-3
PMID 32293499
PMC PMC7092606
MeSH Animals Carcinogenesis Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial / drug therapy* Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial / enzymology Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial / genetics* Cell Line, Tumor Female HEK293 Cells Humans Mice Mice, Nude Molecular Targeted Therapy Mutation* NIH 3T3 Cells Ovarian Neoplasms / drug therapy* Ovarian Neoplasms / enzymology Ovarian Neoplasms / genetics* Protein Kinase Inhibitors / pharmacology Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / genetics* Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret / metabolism* Transfection
IF 5.646
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リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 OVK18(RCB1903)