Project description:Skin melanomas are highly aggressive and metastatic. Omomyc is the best MYC inhibitor currently available. We analysed the effect of Omomyc expression in a transgenic and inducible (upon Doxycycline addition) manner in melanoma cells in vitro in A375 (mutated in BRAF) melanoma cell line. We used microarrays to detail the change in the gene expression programs induced by Omomyc on day 4.
Project description:Analysis of Kras-driven lung adenocarcinoma of mice intranasally treated with 2.37 mg/kg Omomyc or vehicle (10 mM sodium acetate pH 6.5) for three days. KRasLSL-G12D/+ mice were treated with Omomyc by intranasal administration sixteen weeks after Adeno-Cre infection. Mice (n=2 for vehicle treated and n=3 for Omomyc treated group) were euthanized three days post-treatment and lung tumors were excised and frozen at -80ºC until processing.
Project description:MYC is dysregulated in most human cancers and is a DNA damage response (DDR) modulator capable of both promoting genomic instability and enhancing DNA repair. Here, we show that Omomyc, the first direct MYC inhibitor to pass a Phase 1 trial, shuts down DDR genes in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), causing DDR defects and inducing DNA damage. Since DDR-deficient tumours are currently targeted by PARP inhibitors (PARPi), we tested combinations with Omomyc. We show that Omomyc-induced DNA damage is enhanced by PARPi and that the inhibitors cooperate even in models with intrinsic or acquired PARPi resistance, both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, using patient-derived models and clinical samples, we reveal a role for MYC as a predictor of PARPi resistance. Overall, our research highlights the opportunity of combining MYC inhibition by Omomyc with PARPi in PARPi-resistant TNBC, where MYC transcriptional activity represents a predictive biomarker of resistance to therapy.
Project description:Skin melanomas are highly aggressive and metastatic. Omomyc is the best MYC inhibitor currently available. We analysed the effect of Omomyc expression in a transgenic and inducible (upon Doxycycline addition) manner in spontaneous lymph node metastases from SkMel147 (mutated in NRAS) melanoma cells in vivo. We used microarrays to detail the change in the gene expression programs induced by Omomyc on day 2.
Project description:Skin melanomas are highly aggressive and metastatic. Omomyc is the best MYC inhibitor currently available. We analysed the effect of Omomyc expression in a transgenic and inducible (upon Doxycycline addition) manner in melanoma cells in vivo in two different melanoma cell lines: A375 (mutated in BRAF), SkMel147 (mutated in NRAS). We used microarrays to detail the change in the gene expression programs induced by Omomyc on day 7.