Project description:Purpose: Our previous clinical trials have been demonstrated that Anlotinib can inhibit tumor growth upon refractory advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with the possibility mechanism of anti-angiogenesis. The present study sought to reveal the underlying molecular mechanism of Anlotinib-induced anti-angiogenesis in advanced NSCLC. Experimental Design: Computed tomography (CT) was used to evaluate the treatment effect of Anlotinib upon refractory advanced NSCLC patients. Transcriptome profiling was performed to identify the key gene expression alteration in NCI-H1975 cells before and after Anlotinib treatment. NCI-H1975 derived xenograft model was applied to investigate treatment effect and verify anti-angiogenesis mechanism of Anlotinib. Results: Anlotinib induces tumor cytotoxicity on refractory advanced NSCLC patients, NCI-H1975 derived xenograft models and lung adenocarcinoma cell lines. Transcriptome profiling revealed CCL2 blockade could be responsible for Anlotinib-induced anti-angiogenesis. NCI-H1975 derived xenograft model demonstrated Anlotinib-induced CCL2 blockade play an important role in anti-angiogenesis. Conclusions: This study not only offered the first evidence that Anlotinib inhibits angiogenesis via blocking CCL2 expression, but also provided a novel theoretical basis for the application of Anlotinib in advanced NSCLC patients.
Project description:Clinical Pharmacogenomics study. Renal Cell Carcinoma subjects were treated with CCI-779 and peripheral blood mononuclear cells were profiled over time of treatment. Population pharmacokinetics of CCI-779: Correlations to safety and pharmacogenomics responses in patients with advanced renal cancer. Clin Pharm Therapeutics Dec 2004 Keywords: other
Project description:Metastatic relapse from treatment failure has been a formidable challenge to finding a cure for EGFR-mutant lung cancer. Metastasis to the brain is a severe complication for 45% of patients with EGFR-mutant lung cancer that drastically reduces their quality of life and survival. Here, we demonstrate that genetic inhibition of S100A9, ALDH1A1, RAR, or pharmacological inhibition of the RA pathway using pan-RAR inhibitors significantly reduces brain relapse from osimertinib-refractory cancer cells. Our study has therefore revealed a novel S100A9-ALDH1A1-RA signaling axis in the EGFR-mutant lung cancer cells that drives osimertinib-refractory metastatic brain relapse and identified a potential vulnerability in lung cancer cells that can be therapeutically targeted to prolong progression-free survival in EGFR-mutant lung cancer patients.
Project description:Bianconi2012 - EGFR and IGF1R pathway in lung cancer
EGFR and IGF1R pathways play a key role in various human cancers and are crucial for tumour transformation and survival of malignant cells. High EGFR and IGF1R expression and activity has been associated with multiple aspects of cancer progression including tumourigenesis, metastasis, resistance to chemotherapeutics and other molecularly targeted drugs. Here, the biological relationship between the proteins involved in EGFR and IGF1R pathways and the downstream MAPK and PIK3 networks has been modelled to study the time behaviour of the overall system, and the functional interdependencies among the receptors, the proteins and kinases involved.
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Computational model of EGFR and IGF1R pathways in lung cancer: a Systems Biology approach for Translational Oncology.
Bianconi F, Baldelli E, Ludovini V, Crinò L, Flacco A, Valigi P.
Biotechnol Adv. 2012 Jan-Feb;30(1):142-53.
Abstract:
In this paper we propose a Systems Biology approach to understand the molecular biology of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR, also known as ErbB1/HER1) and type 1 Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF1R) pathways in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This approach, combined with Translational Oncology methodologies, is used to address the experimental evidence of a close relationship among EGFR and IGF1R protein expression, by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and gene amplification, by in situ hybridization (FISH) and the corresponding ability to develop a more aggressive behavior. We develop a detailed in silico model, based on ordinary differential equations, of the pathways and study the dynamic implications of receptor alterations on the time behavior of the MAPK cascade down to ERK, which in turn governs proliferation and cell migration. In addition, an extensive sensitivity analysis of the proposed model is carried out and a simplified model is proposed which allows us to infer a similar relationship among EGFR and IGF1R activities and disease outcome.
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Project description:Application of cisplatin (DDP) for treating lung cancer is restricted due to its toxicity and drug resistance. In this study, we aimed to examine whether Jinfukang (JFK), an effective herbal medicine against lung cancer, enhances DDP-induced cytotoxicity in lung cancer cells. Morphologically, we observed JFK increases DDP-induced pro-apoptosis in A549 cells in a synergistic manner. Transcriptome profiling analysis indicated that combination of JFK and DDP regulates genes involved in apoptosis-related signaling pathways. Moreover, we found the combination of JFK and DDP produces synergistic pro-apoptosis effect in other lung cancer cell lines NCI-H1975, NCI-H1650 and NCI-H2228. Particularly, we demonstrated AIFM2 is activated by the combined treatment of JFK and DDP, and partially mediate the synergistic pro-apoptosis effect. Collectively, this study gives the first evidence that activation of AIFM2 contributes to induction of pro-apoptosis by combined treatment with JFK and DDP in human lung cancer cells and provides an insight for its potential clinical application in lung cancer treatment.
Project description:Translational rate has been deregulated in many cancers through small non-coding RNAs aberrations. Herein we focus on miRNAs, tRNAs and tRFs paterns in lung cancer biopsies.
Project description:Cancer secretome is a reservoir for aberrant glycosylation. How therapies alter this post translational cancer hallmark and the consequences thereof remain elusive. Here we show that an elevated secretome fucosylation is a pan-cancer signature of both response and resistance to multiple targeted therapies. Large-scale pharmacogenomics revealed that fucosylation genes display widespread association with resistance to these therapies. In both cancer cell cultures and patients, targeted kinase inhibitors distinctively induced core fucosylation of secreted proteins less than 60 kDa. Label-free proteomics of N-glycomes revealed that fucosylation of the antioxidant PON1 is a critical component of the therapy induced secretome. Core fucosylation in the Golgi impacts PON1 stability and folding prior to secretion, promoting a more degradation-resistant PON1. Non-specific and PON1-specific secretome deglycosylation both limited the expansion of resistant clones in a tumor regression model. Our findings demonstrate that core fucosylation is a common modification indirectly induced by targeted therapies that paradoxically promotes resistance