Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mol Cancer Ther. 2017 Aug;16(8):1445-1455. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-16-0867. Epub 2017 Apr 4.
Targeting KRAS and MYC has been a tremendous challenge in cancer drug development. Genetic studies in mouse models have validated the efficacy of silencing expression of both KRAS and MYC in mutant KRAS-driven tumors. We investigated the therapeutic potential of a new oligonucleotide-mediated gene silencing technology (U1 Adaptor) targeting KRAS and MYC in pancreatic cancer. Nanoparticles in complex with anti-KRAS U1 Adaptors (U1-KRAS) showed remarkable inhibition of KRAS in different human pancreatic cancer cell lines and As a nanoparticle-free approach is far easier to develop into a drug, we refined the formulation of U1 Adaptors by conjugating them to tumor-targeting peptides (iRGD and cRGD). Peptides coupled to fluorescently tagged U1 Adaptors showed selective tumor localization Efficacy experiments in pancreatic cancer xenograft models showed highly potent (>90%) antitumor activity of both iRGD and (cRGD)-KRAS Adaptors. U1 Adaptors targeting MYC inhibited pancreatic cancer cell proliferation caused by apoptosis (40%-70%) and tumor regressions Comparison of iRGD-conjugated U1 KRAS and U1 MYC Adaptors revealed a significantly greater degree of cleaved caspase-3 staining and decreased Ki67 staining as compared with controls. There was no significant difference in efficacy between the U1 KRAS and U1 MYC Adaptor groups. Our results validate the value in targeting both KRAS and MYC in pancreatic cancer therapeutics and provide evidence that the U1 Adaptor technology can be successfully translated using a nanoparticle-free delivery system to target two undruggable genes in cancer. .
针对 KRAS 和 MYC 的治疗一直是癌症药物开发的巨大挑战。在小鼠模型中的遗传研究验证了沉默表达突变型 KRAS 驱动的肿瘤中的 KRAS 和 MYC 的功效。我们研究了针对胰腺癌的新寡核苷酸介导基因沉默技术(U1 Adaptor)靶向 KRAS 和 MYC 的治疗潜力。与抗 KRAS U1 Adaptors(U1-KRAS)复合的纳米颗粒在不同的人胰腺癌细胞系和异种移植模型中显示出对 KRAS 的显著抑制作用。由于无纳米颗粒的方法更容易开发成药物,我们通过将 U1 Adaptors 缀合到肿瘤靶向肽(iRGD 和 cRGD)上来改进它们的配方。与荧光标记的 U1 Adaptors 缀合的肽显示出选择性的肿瘤定位。在胰腺癌异种移植模型中的疗效实验显示,iRGD 和(cRGD)-KRAS Adaptors 都具有高度有效的抗肿瘤活性(>90%)。靶向 MYC 的 U1 Adaptors 抑制了由凋亡引起的胰腺癌细胞增殖(40%-70%)和肿瘤消退。iRGD 缀合的 U1 KRAS 和 U1 MYC Adaptors 的比较显示,与对照组相比,cleaved caspase-3 染色的程度显著增加,Ki67 染色减少。U1 KRAS 和 U1 MYC Adaptor 组之间的疗效没有显著差异。我们的结果验证了针对胰腺癌治疗中 KRAS 和 MYC 的双重靶向的价值,并提供了证据表明,U1 Adaptor 技术可以使用无纳米颗粒的递送系统成功转化,以靶向癌症中的两个不可成药的基因。
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