Agata M Kieliszek, Daniel Mobilio, Blessing I Bassey-Archibong, Jarrod W Johnson, Mathew L Piotrowski, Elvin D de Araujo, Abootaleb Sedighi, Nikoo Aghaei, Laura Escudero, Patrick Ang, William D Gwynne, Cunjie Zhang, Andrew Quaile, Dillon McKenna, Minomi Subapanditha, Tomas Tokar, Muhammad Vaseem Shaikh, Kui Zhai, Shawn C Chafe, Patrick T Gunning, J Rafael Montenegro-Burke, Chitra Venugopal, Jakob Magolan, Sheila K Singh
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Abstract
Patients with brain metastases (BM) face a 90% mortality rate within one year of diagnosis and the current standard of care is palliative. Targeting BM-initiating cells (BMICs) is a feasible strategy to treat BM, but druggable targets are limited. Here, we apply Connectivity Map analysis to lung-, breast-, and melanoma-pre-metastatic BMIC gene expression signatures and identify inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH), the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo GTP synthesis pathway, as a target for BM. We show that pharmacological and genetic perturbation of IMPDH attenuates BMIC proliferation in vitro and the formation of BM in vivo. Metabolomic analyses and CRISPR knockout studies confirm that de novo GTP synthesis is a potent metabolic vulnerability in BM. Overall, our work employs a phenotype-guided therapeutic strategy to uncover IMPDH as a relevant target for attenuating BM outgrowth, which may provide an alternative treatment strategy for patients who are otherwise limited to palliation.
Cell Reports MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
CiteScore
15.00
自引率
1.40%
发文量
231
审稿时长
40 days
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