Therapy-induced tumour secretomes promote resistance and tumour progression. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Drug resistance invariably limits the clinical efficacy of targeted therapy with kinase inhibitors against cancer. Here we show that targeted therapy with BRAF, ALK or EGFR kinase inhibitors induces a complex network of secreted signals in drug-stressed human and mouse melanoma and human lung adenocarcinoma cells. This therapy-induced secretome stimulates the outgrowth, dissemination and metastasis of drug-resistant cancer cell clones and supports the survival of drug-sensitive cancer cells, contributing to incomplete tumour regression. The tumour-promoting secretome of melanoma cells treated with the kinase inhibitor vemurafenib is driven by downregulation of the transcription factor FRA1. In situ transcriptome analysis of drug-resistant melanoma cells responding to the regressing tumour microenvironment revealed hyperactivation of several signalling pathways, most prominently the AKT pathway. Dual inhibition of RAF and the PI(3)K/AKT/mTOR intracellular signalling pathways blunted the outgrowth of the drug-resistant cell population in BRAF mutant human melanoma, suggesting this combination therapy as a strategy against tumour relapse. Thus, therapeutic inhibition of oncogenic drivers induces vast secretome changes in drug-sensitive cancer cells, paradoxically establishing a tumour microenvironment that supports the expansion of drug-resistant clones, but is susceptible to combination therapy.

publication date

  • March 25, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Disease Progression
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Melanoma
  • Metabolome
  • Protein Kinase Inhibitors

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4507807

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84928174677

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.cell.2014.01.040

PubMed ID

  • 25807485

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 520

issue

  • 7547