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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-18
pubmed:abstractText
Erlotinib (Tarceva), an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has clinical activity in advanced lung cancer, but disease that initially responds to erlotinib eventually progresses. The mechanism of this acquired resistance is unclear. We established two erlotinib-resistant pools of A-431 cells, a well-characterized epidermoid cancer cell line that constitutively overexpresses EGFR and is sensitive to erlotinib, by continuous exposure to erlotinib over a 6-month period. The extent of EGFR gene amplification or mutation of the EGFR tyrosine kinase domain was not altered in the resistant cells. Intracellular erlotinib concentrations, determined by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, were almost the same in all three cell lines. Immunoprecipitation with EGFR antibody followed by detection with phosphotyrosine antibody revealed that erlotinib effectively reduced EGFR phosphorylation in both parental cells and resistant cells. Erlotinib induced mutated in multiple advanced cancers 1/phosphatase and tensin homologue (MMAC1/PTEN) and suppressed phosphorylated Akt (Ser(473)) but not in the erlotinib-resistant cells. Overexpression of MMAC1/PTEN by transfection with Ad.MMAC1/PTEN or by pharmacologic suppression of Akt activity restored erlotinib sensitivity in both resistant pools. Further, transfection of parental A-431 cells with constitutively active Akt was sufficient to cause resistance to erlotinib. We propose that acquired erlotinib resistance associated with MMAC1/PTEN down-regulation and Akt activation could be overcome by inhibitors of signaling through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
67
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5779-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Chromatography, Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Gene Dosage, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-PTEN Phosphohydrolase, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Quinazolines, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:17575145-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Acquired resistance to erlotinib in A-431 epidermoid cancer cells requires down-regulation of MMAC1/PTEN and up-regulation of phosphorylated Akt.
pubmed:affiliation
Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030-4009, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural