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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts.

ABSTRACT: The chemotherapy resistance of esophageal adenocarcinomas (EACs) is underpinned by cancer cell extrinsic mechanisms of the tumor microenvironment (TME). We demonstrate that, by targeting the tumor-promoting functions of the predominant TME cell type, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i), we can enhance the efficacy of standard-of-care chemotherapy. In ex vivo conditions, PDE5i prevent the transdifferentiation of normal fibroblasts to CAF and abolish the tumor-promoting function of established EAC CAFs. Using shotgun proteomics and single-cell RNA-seq, we reveal PDE5i-specific regulation of pathways related to fibroblast activation and tumor promotion. Finally, we confirm the efficacy of PDE5i in combination with chemotherapy in close-to-patient and in vivo PDX-based model systems. These findings demonstrate that CAFs drive chemotherapy resistance in EACs and can be targeted by repurposing PDE5i, a safe and well-tolerated class of drug administered to millions of patients world-wide to treat erectile dysfunction.

SUBMITTER: Sharpe BP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts.

Sharpe Benjamin P BP Hayden Annette A Manousopoulou Antigoni A Cowie Andrew A Walker Robert C RC Harrington Jack J Izadi Fereshteh F Breininger Stella P SP Gibson Jane J Pickering Oliver O Jaynes Eleanor E Kyle Ewan E Saunders John H JH Parsons Simon L SL Ritchie Alison A AA Clarke Philip A PA Collier Pamela P Mongan Nigel P NP Bates David O DO Yacqub-Usman Kiren K Garbis Spiros D SD Walters Zoë Z Rose-Zerilli Matthew M Grabowska Anna M AM Underwood Timothy J TJ

Cell reports. Medicine 20220601 6

The chemotherapy resistance of esophageal adenocarcinomas (EACs) is underpinned by cancer cell extrinsic mechanisms of the tumor microenvironment (TME). We demonstrate that, by targeting the tumor-promoting functions of the predominant TME cell type, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i), we can enhance the efficacy of standard-of-care chemotherapy. In ex vivo conditions, PDE5i prevent the transdifferentiation of normal fibroblasts to CAF and aboli ...[more]

PMID: 35732148

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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts.

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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts.

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