Xu, Duo; Yang, Haitang; Zhang, Yang; Berezowska, Sabina; Gao, Yanyun; Shun-Qing, Liang; Marti, Thomas M.; Hall, Sean R. R.; Dorn, Patrick; Kocher, Gregor J.; Schmid, Ralph A.; Peng, Ren-Wang
(2019).
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.
Cancers, 11(10)
MDPI AG
10.3390/cancers11101502
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a lethal cancer with limited treatment options. No targeted therapy has emerged yet. Here, we performed an integrated molecular characterization of patient tumors in the TCGA dataset, and discovered that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and the adaptive unfolded protein response (UPR) signaling are characteristically deregulated in MPM. Consequently, pharmacological perturbation of ER stress/UPR axis by HA15, an agent that induces persistent proteotoxic stress in the ER, selectively suppresses the viability of MPM cells including those refractory to standard chemotherapy. Mechanically, HA15 augments the already high basal level of ER stress in MPM cells, embarks pro-apoptotic malfunctional UPR and autophagy, which eventually induces cell death in MPM. Importantly, HA15 exerts anti-MPM effectiveness in a mouse model of patient-derived xenografts (PDX) without eliciting overt toxicity when compared to chemotherapy. Our results revealed that programs orchestrating ER stress/UPR signaling represent therapeutic vulnerabilities in MPM and validate HA15 as a promising agent to treat patients with MPM, naïve or resistant to chemotherapy.
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04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DCR Services > Central Animal Facility 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Thoracic Surgery 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Molecular Pathology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Clinical Pathology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > Forschungsbereich Mu50 > Forschungsgruppe Thoraxchirurgie 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Immunohistochemistry 04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > DCR Services > Core Facility Zytometrie-Labor/FACSlab 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Tumour Pathology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Pathology > Translational Research Unit |
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Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) |
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Xu, Duo, Yang, Haitang, Yang, Zhang (A), Berezowska, Sabina Anna, Gao, Yanyun, Shun-Qing, Liang, Marti, Thomas, Hall, Sean, Dorn, Patrick, Kocher, Gregor, Schmid, Ralph, Peng, Ren-Wang |
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600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
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2072-6694 |
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MDPI AG |
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English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Michael Marti
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12 Nov 2019 09:32 |
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05 Dec 2022 15:32 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/cancers11101502 |
PubMed ID: |
31597321 |
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HA15 autophagy endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) unfolded protein response (UPR) |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.134636 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/134636 |
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