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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
Selective kinase inhibitors have had a substantial impact on the field of medical oncology. Whereas these agents can elicit dramatic clinical responses in some settings, their activity is generally limited to a subset of treated patients whose tumor cells harbor a specific genetic lesion. We have established an automated platform for examining the sensitivity to various molecularly targeted inhibitors across a large panel of human tumor-derived cell lines to identify additional genotype-correlated responses that may be clinically relevant. Among the inhibitors tested in a panel of 602 cell lines derived from a variety of human cancers, we found that a selective inhibitor of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) potently suppressed growth of a small subset of tumor cells. This subset included lines derived from anaplastic large cell lymphomas, non-small-cell lung cancers, and neuroblastomas. ALK is a receptor tyrosine kinase that was first identified as part of a protein fusion derived from a chromosomal translocation detected in the majority of anaplastic large cell lymphoma patients, and has recently been implicated as an oncogene in a small fraction of non-small-cell lung cancers and neuroblastomas. Significantly, sensitivity in these cell lines was well correlated with specific ALK genomic rearrangements, including chromosomal translocations and gene amplification. Moreover, in such cell lines, ALK kinase inhibition can lead to potent suppression of downstream survival signaling and an apoptotic response. These findings suggest that a subset of lung cancers, lymphomas, and neuroblastomas that harbor genomic ALK alterations may be clinically responsive to pharmacologic ALK inhibition.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3389-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Benzimidazoles, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Cytogenetic Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Gene Amplification, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Genomic Instability, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Lymphoma, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Neuroblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Pyridones, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Pyrimidines, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:18451166-Translocation, Genetic
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Genomic alterations of anaplastic lymphoma kinase may sensitize tumors to anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitors.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural