Hexosamine pathway inhibition overcomes pancreatic cancer resistance to gemcitabine through unfolded protein response and EGFR-Akt pathway modulation.


Journal

Oncogene
ISSN: 1476-5594
Titre abrégé: Oncogene
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8711562

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 2020
Historique:
received: 12 10 2019
accepted: 05 03 2020
revised: 04 03 2020
pubmed: 3 4 2020
medline: 25 11 2020
entrez: 3 4 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Different evidence has indicated metabolic rewiring as a necessity for pancreatic cancer (PC) growth, invasion, and chemotherapy resistance. A relevant role has been assigned to glucose metabolism. In particular, an enhanced flux through the Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway (HBP) has been tightly linked to PC development. Here, we show that enhancement of the HBP, through the upregulation of the enzyme Phosphoacetylglucosamine Mutase 3 (PGM3), is associated with the onset of gemcitabine (GEM) resistance in PC. Indeed, mRNA profiles of GEM sensitive and resistant patient-derived tumor xenografts (PDXs) indicate that PGM3 expression is specifically increased in GEM-resistant PDXs. Of note, PGM3 results also overexpressed in human PC tissues as compared to paired adjacent normal tissues and its higher expression in PC patients is associated with worse median overall survival (OS). Strikingly, genetic or pharmacological PGM3 inhibition reduces PC cell growth, migration, invasion, in vivo tumor growth and enhances GEM sensitivity. Thus, combined treatment between a specific inhibitor of PGM3, named FR054, and GEM results in a potent reduction of xenograft tumor growth without any obvious side effects in normal tissues. Mechanistically, PGM3 inhibition, reducing protein glycosylation, causes a sustained Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), a significant attenuation of the pro-tumorigenic Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR)-Akt axis, and finally cell death. In conclusion this study identifies the HBP as a metabolic pathway involved in GEM resistance and provides a strong rationale for a PC therapy addressing the combined treatment with the PGM3 inhibitor and GEM.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32235891
doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-1260-1
pii: 10.1038/s41388-020-1260-1
doi:

Substances chimiques

Hexosamines 0
Deoxycytidine 0W860991D6
EGFR protein, human EC 2.7.10.1
ErbB Receptors EC 2.7.10.1
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt EC 2.7.11.1
Gemcitabine 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

4103-4117

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Auteurs

Francesca Ricciardiello (F)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.

Yang Gang (Y)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China.

Roberta Palorini (R)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.

Quanxiao Li (Q)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China.

Marco Giampà (M)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.

Fangyu Zhao (F)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China.

Lei You (L)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China.

Barbara La Ferla (B)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.

Humberto De Vitto (H)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy.
Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN, 55912, USA.

Wenfang Guan (W)

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, BNRist; Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China.

Jin Gu (J)

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, BNRist; Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China.

Taiping Zhang (T)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China. tpingzhang@yahoo.com.

Yupei Zhao (Y)

Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100730, Beijing, China. zhao8028@263.net.

Ferdinando Chiaradonna (F)

Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy. ferdinando.chiaradonna@unimib.it.

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