Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Cancer Proteomics Mass Spectrometry, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Elife. 2020 Jul 6;9:e57894. doi: 10.7554/eLife.57894.
Inhibition of WEE1 kinase by AZD1775 has shown promising results in clinical cancer trials, but markers predicting AZD1775 response are lacking. Here we analysed AZD1775 response in a panel of human breast cancer (BC) cell lines by global proteome/transcriptome profiling and identified two groups of basal-like BC (BLBCs): 'PTEN low' BLBCs were highly sensitive to AZD1775 and failed to recover following removal of AZD1775, while 'PTEN high' BLBCs recovered. AZD1775 induced phosphorylation of DNA-PK, protecting cells from replication-associated DNA damage and promoting cellular recovery. Deletion of DNA-PK or PTEN, or inhibition of DNA-PK sensitized recovering BLBCs to AZD1775 by abrogating replication arrest, allowing replication despite DNA damage. This was linked to reduced CHK1 activation, increased cyclin E levels and apoptosis. In conclusion, we identified PTEN and DNA-PK as essential regulators of replication checkpoint arrest in response to AZD1775 and defined PTEN as a promising biomarker for efficient WEE1 cancer therapy.
WEE1 激酶抑制药 AZD1775 在癌症临床试验中显示出可喜的结果,但缺乏预测 AZD1775 反应的标志物。在这里,我们通过全蛋白质组/转录组谱分析研究了一组人乳腺癌(BC)细胞系对 AZD1775 的反应,并鉴定了两种基底样 BC(BLBC):“PTEN 低”BLBC 对 AZD1775 高度敏感,并且在 AZD1775 去除后无法恢复,而“PTEN 高”BLBC 则恢复。AZD1775 诱导 DNA-PK 的磷酸化,保护细胞免受与复制相关的 DNA 损伤,并促进细胞恢复。删除 DNA-PK 或 PTEN,或抑制 DNA-PK 通过消除复制停滞使恢复的 BLBC 对 AZD1775 敏感,从而允许在存在 DNA 损伤的情况下进行复制。这与 CHK1 激活减少、细胞周期蛋白 E 水平增加和细胞凋亡有关。总之,我们确定了 PTEN 和 DNA-PK 是 AZD1775 反应中复制检查点阻滞的重要调节因子,并将 PTEN 定义为高效 WEE1 癌症治疗的有前途的生物标志物。