Publication Date:
2009-10-23
Description:
The proto-oncogene KRAS is mutated in a wide array of human cancers, most of which are aggressive and respond poorly to standard therapies. Although the identification of specific oncogenes has led to the development of clinically effective, molecularly targeted therapies in some cases, KRAS has remained refractory to this approach. A complementary strategy for targeting KRAS is to identify gene products that, when inhibited, result in cell death only in the presence of an oncogenic allele. Here we have used systematic RNA interference to detect synthetic lethal partners of oncogenic KRAS and found that the non-canonical IkappaB kinase TBK1 was selectively essential in cells that contain mutant KRAS. Suppression of TBK1 induced apoptosis specifically in human cancer cell lines that depend on oncogenic KRAS expression. In these cells, TBK1 activated NF-kappaB anti-apoptotic signals involving c-Rel and BCL-XL (also known as BCL2L1) that were essential for survival, providing mechanistic insights into this synthetic lethal interaction. These observations indicate that TBK1 and NF-kappaB signalling are essential in KRAS mutant tumours, and establish a general approach for the rational identification of co-dependent pathways in cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783335/" 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/PMC2783335/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barbie, David A -- Tamayo, Pablo -- Boehm, Jesse S -- Kim, So Young -- Moody, Susan E -- Dunn, Ian F -- Schinzel, Anna C -- Sandy, Peter -- Meylan, Etienne -- Scholl, Claudia -- Frohling, Stefan -- Chan, Edmond M -- Sos, Martin L -- Michel, Kathrin -- Mermel, Craig -- Silver, Serena J -- Weir, Barbara A -- Reiling, Jan H -- Sheng, Qing -- Gupta, Piyush B -- Wadlow, Raymond C -- Le, Hanh -- Hoersch, Sebastian -- Wittner, Ben S -- Ramaswamy, Sridhar -- Livingston, David M -- Sabatini, David M -- Meyerson, Matthew -- Thomas, Roman K -- Lander, Eric S -- Mesirov, Jill P -- Root, David E -- Gilliland, D Gary -- Jacks, Tyler -- Hahn, William C -- R01 CA129105/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA129105-03/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA130988/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA130988-01A2/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R33 CA128625/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R33 CA128625-01A1/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R33 CA128625-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009172/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA09172-33/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007753/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Nov 5;462(7269):108-12. doi: 10.1038/nature08460. Epub 2009 Oct 21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19847166" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Apoptosis
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Cell Line, Tumor
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Cell Survival
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Genes, Lethal
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Genes, ras/*genetics
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Humans
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Lung Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism/pathology
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Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism/pathology
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Oncogene Protein p21(ras)/*genetics/*metabolism
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism
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Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-rel/metabolism
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*RNA Interference
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Signal Transduction
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bcl-X Protein/metabolism
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
