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TKI sensitivity patterns of novel kinase-domain mutations suggest therapeutic opportunities for patients with resistant ALK+ tumors

The anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) protein drives tumorigenesis in subsets of several tumors through chromosomal rearrangements that express and activate its C-terminal kinase domain. In addition, germline predisposition alleles and acquired mutations are found in the full-length protein in the pediatric tumor neuroblastoma. ALK-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have become important new drugs for ALK-driven lung cancer, but acquired resistance via multiple mechanisms including kinase-domain mutations eventually develops, limiting median progression-free survival to less than a year. Here we assess the impact of several kinase-domain mutations that arose during TKI resistance selections of ALK+ anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) cell lines. These include novel variants with respect to ALK-fusion cancers, R1192P and T1151M, and with respect to ALCL, F1174L and I1171S. We assess the effects of these mutations on the activity of six clinical inhibitors in independent systems engineered to depend on either the ALCL fusion kinase NPM-ALK or the lung-cancer fusion kinase EML4-ALK. Our results inform treatment strategies with a likelihood of bypassing mutations when detected in resistant patient samples and highlight differences between the effects of particular mutations on the two ALK fusions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/617186
Date25 April 2016
CreatorsAmin, Amit Dipak, Li, Lingxiao, Rajan, Soumya S., Gokhale, Vijay, Groysman, Matthew J., Pongtornpipat, Praechompoo, Tapia, Edgar O., Wang, Mengdie, Schatz, Jonathan H.
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Inst BIO5, Univ Arizona, Dept Pharmacol & Toxicol, Univ Arizona, Undergrad Biol Res Program, Univ Arizona, Canc Biol Grad Interdisciplinary Program
PublisherIMPACT JOURNALS LLC
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
RightsCreative Commons Attribution License (CCAL)
Relationhttp://www.oncotarget.com/abstract/8173

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