Publication Date:
2014-08-15
Description:
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers in western countries, with a median survival of 6 months and an extremely low percentage of long-term surviving patients. KRAS mutations are known to be a driver event of PDAC, but targeting mutant KRAS has proved challenging. Targeting oncogene-driven signalling pathways is a clinically validated approach for several devastating diseases. Still, despite marked tumour shrinkage, the frequency of relapse indicates that a fraction of tumour cells survives shut down of oncogenic signalling. Here we explore the role of mutant KRAS in PDAC maintenance using a recently developed inducible mouse model of mutated Kras (Kras(G12D), herein KRas) in a p53(LoxP/WT) background. We demonstrate that a subpopulation of dormant tumour cells surviving oncogene ablation (surviving cells) and responsible for tumour relapse has features of cancer stem cells and relies on oxidative phosphorylation for survival. Transcriptomic and metabolic analyses of surviving cells reveal prominent expression of genes governing mitochondrial function, autophagy and lysosome activity, as well as a strong reliance on mitochondrial respiration and a decreased dependence on glycolysis for cellular energetics. Accordingly, surviving cells show high sensitivity to oxidative phosphorylation inhibitors, which can inhibit tumour recurrence. Our integrated analyses illuminate a therapeutic strategy of combined targeting of the KRAS pathway and mitochondrial respiration to manage pancreatic cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376130/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376130/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Viale, Andrea -- Pettazzoni, Piergiorgio -- Lyssiotis, Costas A -- Ying, Haoqiang -- Sanchez, Nora -- Marchesini, Matteo -- Carugo, Alessandro -- Green, Tessa -- Seth, Sahil -- Giuliani, Virginia -- Kost-Alimova, Maria -- Muller, Florian -- Colla, Simona -- Nezi, Luigi -- Genovese, Giannicola -- Deem, Angela K -- Kapoor, Avnish -- Yao, Wantong -- Brunetto, Emanuela -- Kang, Ya'an -- Yuan, Min -- Asara, John M -- Wang, Y Alan -- Heffernan, Timothy P -- Kimmelman, Alec C -- Wang, Huamin -- Fleming, Jason B -- Cantley, Lewis C -- DePinho, Ronald A -- Draetta, Giulio F -- CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA16672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA117969/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA117969/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30CA16672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA127003/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Oct 30;514(7524):628-32. doi: 10.1038/nature13611. Epub 2014 Aug 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [3]. ; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA. ; Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [3] Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan 20139, Italy. ; Institute for Applied Cancer Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Pathology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy. ; Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Medicine, Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. ; Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25119024" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Autophagy
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Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal/drug therapy/genetics/*metabolism/*pathology
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Cell Respiration/drug effects
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Cell Survival/drug effects
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Disease Models, Animal
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Female
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Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
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Genes, p53/genetics
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Glycolysis
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Lysosomes/metabolism
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Mice
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Mitochondria/drug effects/*metabolism
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Mutation/genetics
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Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/prevention & control
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Neoplastic Stem Cells/drug effects/metabolism/pathology
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Oxidative Phosphorylation/drug effects
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Pancreatic Neoplasms/drug therapy/genetics/*metabolism/*pathology
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Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)/*genetics/metabolism
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Recurrence
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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