{"title":"FANCI Inhibition Induces PARP1 Redistribution to Enhance the Efficacy of PARP Inhibitors in Breast Cancer.","authors":"Yu-Zhou Huang, Ming-Yi Sang, Pei-Wen Xi, Ruo-Xi Xu, Meng-Yuan Cai, Zi-Wen Wang, Jian-Yi Zhao, Yi-Han Li, Ji-Fu Wei, Qiang Ding","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-2738","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-2738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer is a global public health concern with high mortality rates, necessitating the development of innovative treatment strategies. PARP inhibitors have shown efficacy in certain patient populations, but their application is largely limited to cancers with homologous recombination deficiency. Here, we identified the suppression of FANCI as a therapeutic strategy to enhance the efficacy of PARP inhibitors in breast cancer. Elevated FANCI expression in breast cancer was associated with poor prognosis and increased cell proliferation and migration. FANCI interacted with PARP1, and suppressing FANCI limited the nuclear localization and functionality of PARP1. Importantly, FANCI inhibition sensitized breast cancer cells to the PARP inhibitor talazoparib in the absence of BRCA mutations. Additionally, the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib enhanced the sensitivity of breast cancer cells to talazoparib through FANCI inhibition. These findings highlight the potential of targeting FANCI to enhance the efficacy of PARP inhibitors in treating breast cancer. Significance: Targeting FANCI is a promising therapeutic strategy for enhancing PARP inhibitor sensitivity in breast cancer that holds potential for broader therapeutic applications beyond cancers harboring BRCA mutations.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141733644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-1322
Fresia Pareja, Higinio Dopeso, Yi Kan Wang, Andrea M Gazzo, David N Brown, Monami Banerjee, Pier Selenica, Jan H Bernhard, Fatemeh Derakhshan, Edaise M da Silva, Lorraine Colon-Cartagena, Thais Basili, Antonio Marra, Jillian Sue, Qiqi Ye, Arnaud Da Cruz Paula, Selma Yeni Yildirim, Xin Pei, Anton Safonov, Hunter Green, Kaitlyn Y Gill, Yingjie Zhu, Matthew C H Lee, Ran A Godrich, Adam Casson, Britta Weigelt, Nadeem Riaz, Hannah Y Wen, Edi Brogi, Diana L Mandelker, Matthew G Hanna, Jeremy D Kunz, Brandon Rothrock, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Christopher Kanan, Joe Oakley, David S Klimstra, Thomas J Fuchs, Jorge S Reis-Filho
{"title":"A Genomics-Driven Artificial Intelligence-Based Model Classifies Breast Invasive Lobular Carcinoma and Discovers CDH1 Inactivating Mechanisms.","authors":"Fresia Pareja, Higinio Dopeso, Yi Kan Wang, Andrea M Gazzo, David N Brown, Monami Banerjee, Pier Selenica, Jan H Bernhard, Fatemeh Derakhshan, Edaise M da Silva, Lorraine Colon-Cartagena, Thais Basili, Antonio Marra, Jillian Sue, Qiqi Ye, Arnaud Da Cruz Paula, Selma Yeni Yildirim, Xin Pei, Anton Safonov, Hunter Green, Kaitlyn Y Gill, Yingjie Zhu, Matthew C H Lee, Ran A Godrich, Adam Casson, Britta Weigelt, Nadeem Riaz, Hannah Y Wen, Edi Brogi, Diana L Mandelker, Matthew G Hanna, Jeremy D Kunz, Brandon Rothrock, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Christopher Kanan, Joe Oakley, David S Klimstra, Thomas J Fuchs, Jorge S Reis-Filho","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-1322","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-1322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can improve cancer diagnosis, yet their development often relies on subjective histologic features as ground truth for training. Herein, we developed an AI model applied to histologic whole-slide images using CDH1 biallelic mutations, pathognomonic for invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) in breast neoplasms, as ground truth. The model accurately predicted CDH1 biallelic mutations (accuracy = 0.95) and diagnosed ILC (accuracy = 0.96). A total of 74% of samples classified by the AI model as having CDH1 biallelic mutations but lacking these alterations displayed alternative CDH1 inactivating mechanisms, including a deleterious CDH1 fusion gene and noncoding CDH1 genetic alterations. Analysis of internal and external validation cohorts demonstrated 0.95 and 0.89 accuracy for ILC diagnosis, respectively. The latent features of the AI model correlated with human-explainable histopathologic features. Taken together, this study reports the construction of an AI algorithm trained using a genetic rather than histologic ground truth that can robustly classify ILCs and uncover CDH1 inactivating mechanisms, providing the basis for orthogonal ground truth utilization for development of diagnostic AI models applied to whole-slide image. Significance: Genetic alterations linked to strong genotypic-phenotypic correlations can be utilized to develop AI systems applied to pathology that facilitate cancer diagnosis and biologic discoveries.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11479818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141896777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"m6A-Mediated Induction of 7-Dehydrocholesterol Reductase Stimulates Cholesterol Synthesis and cAMP Signaling to Promote Bladder Cancer Metastasis.","authors":"Youmiao Zeng, Yongbo Luo, Keyuan Zhao, Sheng Liu, Kaiwen Wu, Yudong Wu, Kaixuan Du, Wenbang Pan, Yiheng Dai, Yuanhao Liu, Mengda Ren, Fengyan Tian, Lijie Zhou, Chaohui Gu","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3703","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3703","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dysregulation of cholesterol homeostasis occurs in multiple types of tumors and promotes cancer progression. Investigating the specific processes that induce abnormal cholesterol metabolism could identify therapeutic targets to improve cancer treatment. In this investigation, we observed upregulation of 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7), a vital enzyme involved in the synthesis of cholesterol, within bladder cancer tissues in comparison to normal tissues, which was correlated with increased bladder cancer metastasis. Increased expression of DHCR7 in bladder cancer was attributed to decreased mRNA degradation mediated by YTHDF2. Loss or inhibition of DHCR7 reduced bladder cancer cell invasion in vitro and metastasis in vivo. Mechanistically, DHCR7 promoted bladder cancer metastasis by activating the cAMP/protein kinase A/FAK pathway. Specifically, DHCR7 increased cAMP levels by elevating cholesterol content in lipid rafts, thereby facilitating the transduction of signaling pathways mediated by cAMP receptors. DHCR7 additionally enhanced the cAMP signaling pathway by reducing the concentration of 7-dehydrocholesterol and promoting the transcription of the G protein-coupled receptor, namely gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor. Overall, these findings demonstrate that DHCR7 plays an important role in bladder cancer invasion and metastasis by modulating cholesterol synthesis and cAMP signaling. Furthermore, inhibition of DHCR7 shows promise as a viable therapeutic strategy for suppressing bladder cancer invasion and metastasis. Significance: Inhibiting DHCR7 induces cholesterol metabolism reprogramming and lipid raft remodeling to inactivate the cAMP/protein kinase A/FAK axis and suppress bladder cancer metastasis, indicating the therapeutic potential of targeting DHCR7.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141757223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-3073
Julian Chua, Alex Gregorieff, Arshad Ayyaz
{"title":"Bottom-up or Top-down: Inflammation Reprograms Paneth Cells to Develop Bowel Cancers.","authors":"Julian Chua, Alex Gregorieff, Arshad Ayyaz","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-3073","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-3073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The origins of colorectal cancer have long been a subject of intense debate. Early observations noted cancer formation in the human gut slightly above the base of crypts, the structural and functional units of the regenerative compartment of the intestinal epithelium. This suggested that the cells of origin for colorectal cancer reside close to the crypt-villus junction, where more differentiated cells are located. However, the specific induction of early cancer-initiating mutations within differentiated cells failed to initiate cancer. The subsequent identification of long-lived Lgr5+ intestinal stem cells and investigations into their role in cancer development further shifted the earlier views, leading to the widely accepted theory that colorectal cancer arises from stem cells and progenitors located at the base of crypts. A recent study published in Nature Genetics by Mathijs P. Verhagen and colleagues challenges this paradigm, providing compelling evidence that differentiated nonstem cell lineages, particularly Paneth cells, can serve as a source of intestinal tumorigenesis, especially in the context of inflammation and the consumption of a Western-style diet. This work significantly advances our understanding of the colorectal cancer initiation process and provides a new paradigm that may explain the increasingly higher incidence of colorectal cancer in younger people.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-2408
Frank C Cackowski,Hasan Korkaya
{"title":"Breast Cancer Disseminated Tumor Cells: Do They Stay and Fight or Run and Hide?","authors":"Frank C Cackowski,Hasan Korkaya","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-2408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-2408","url":null,"abstract":"Many solid tumors including breast cancer can exhibit early dissemination and dormancy-in which cancer cells spread early in the disease process and survive long periods without detectable growth. These early disseminated tumor cells sometimes reactivate and lead to incurable metastatic disease years or even decades after curative-intent therapy for the primary tumor. We are just beginning to understand the role of the immune system in this process in part because of improvements in immunocompetent models as well as technological advances such as single-cell genomics and spatial transcriptomics. In this issue of Cancer Research, Bushnell and colleagues showed that NK cells are important in this context. The authors found that disseminated tumor cells and quiescent cells express higher levels of MHC 1 but are resistant to NK-cell-mediated immunity. The proposed mechanism involves the STING pathway and transcription factors Sox2 and Bach1. As other studies have highlighted the importance of T-cell immunity, this work reaffirms the importance and diversity of immune regulation of dormancy and suggests the need for future studies to flesh out mechanistic details and predict when each type of immunity is most important. See related article by Bushnell et al., p. 3337.","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3933
Mihyang Park, Jonghwa Jin, Da Young An, Dong-Ho Kim, Jaebon Lee, Jae Won Yun, Ilseon Hwang, Jae Seok Park, Mi Kyung Kim, You Mie Lee, Jun-Kyu Byun, Yeon-Kyung Choi, Keun-Gyu Park
{"title":"Targeting YAP Activity and Glutamine Metabolism Cooperatively Suppresses Tumor Progression by Preventing Extracellular Matrix Accumulation.","authors":"Mihyang Park, Jonghwa Jin, Da Young An, Dong-Ho Kim, Jaebon Lee, Jae Won Yun, Ilseon Hwang, Jae Seok Park, Mi Kyung Kim, You Mie Lee, Jun-Kyu Byun, Yeon-Kyung Choi, Keun-Gyu Park","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3933","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-3933","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer cells use multiple mechanisms to evade the effects of glutamine metabolism inhibitors. The pathways that govern responses to alterations in glutamine availability within the tumor may represent therapeutic targets for combinatorial strategies with these inhibitors. Here, we showed that targeting glutamine utilization stimulated Yes-associated protein (YAP) signaling in cancer cells by reducing cyclic adenosine monophosphate/protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent phosphorylation of large tumor suppressor (LATS). Elevated YAP activation induced extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition by increasing the secretion of connective tissue growth factor that promoted the production of fibronectin and collagen by surrounding fibroblasts. Consequently, inhibiting YAP synergized with inhibition of glutamine utilization to effectively suppress tumor growth in vivo, along with a concurrent decrease in ECM deposition. Blocking ECM remodeling also augmented the tumor suppressive effects of the glutamine utilization inhibitor. Collectively, these data reveal mechanisms by which targeting glutamine utilization increases ECM accumulation and identify potential strategies to reduce ECM levels and increase the efficacy of glutamine metabolism inhibitors. Significance: Blocking glutamine utilization activates YAP to promote ECM deposition by fibroblasts, highlighting the potential of YAP inhibitors and antifibrotic strategies as promising approaches for effective combination metabolic therapies in cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141787266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SpatialDeX is a Reference-Free Method for Cell Type Deconvolution of Spatial Transcriptomics Data in Solid Tumors","authors":"Xinyi Liu, Gongyu Tang, Yuhao Chen, Yuanxiang Li, Hua Li, Xiaowei Wang","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-1472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-1472","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies has enabled transcriptome-wide profiling of gene expression in tissue sections. Despite the emergence of single-cell resolution platforms, most ST sequencing studies still operate at a multi-cell resolution. Consequently, deconvolution of cell identities within the spatial spots has become imperative for characterizing cell type-specific spatial organization. To this end, we developed SpatialDeX, a regression model-based method for estimating cell type proportions in tumor ST spots. SpatialDeX exhibited comparable performance to reference-based methods and outperformed other reference-free methods with simulated ST data. Using experimental ST data, SpatialDeX demonstrated superior performance compared with both reference-based and reference-free approaches. Additionally, a pan-cancer clustering analysis on tumor spots identified by SpatialDeX unveiled distinct tumor progression mechanisms both within and across diverse cancer types. Overall, SpatialDeX is a valuable tool for unraveling the spatial cellular organization of tissues from ST data without requiring scRNA-seq references.","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0133
Ling Zhang, Clara I Troccoli, Beatriz Mateo-Victoriano, Laura Misiara Lincheta, Erin Jackson, Ping Shu, Trisha Plastini, Wensi Tao, Deukwoo Kwon, X Steven Chen, Janaki Sharma, Merce Jorda, Surinder Kumar, David B Lombard, James L Gulley, Marijo Bilusic, Albert C Lockhart, Annie Beuve, Priyamvada Rai
{"title":"Stimulating Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase with the Clinical Agonist Riociguat Restrains the Development and Progression of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.","authors":"Ling Zhang, Clara I Troccoli, Beatriz Mateo-Victoriano, Laura Misiara Lincheta, Erin Jackson, Ping Shu, Trisha Plastini, Wensi Tao, Deukwoo Kwon, X Steven Chen, Janaki Sharma, Merce Jorda, Surinder Kumar, David B Lombard, James L Gulley, Marijo Bilusic, Albert C Lockhart, Annie Beuve, Priyamvada Rai","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0133","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is incurable and fatal, making prostate cancer the second-leading cancer-related cause of death for American men. CRPC results from therapeutic resistance to standard-of-care androgen deprivation (AD) treatments, through incompletely understood molecular mechanisms, and lacks durable therapeutic options. Here, we identified enhanced soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) signaling as a mechanism that restrains CRPC initiation and growth. Patients with aggressive, fatal CRPC exhibited significantly lower serum levels of the sGC catalytic product cyclic GMP (cGMP) compared to their castration-sensitive stage. In emergent castration-resistant cells isolated from castration-sensitive prostate cancer (CSPC) populations, the obligate sGC heterodimer was repressed via methylation of its beta subunit. Genetically abrogating sGC complex formation in CSPC cells promoted evasion of AD-induced senescence and concomitant castration-resistant tumor growth. In established castration-resistant cells, the sGC complex was present but in a reversibly oxidized and inactive state. Subjecting CRPC cells to AD regenerated the functional complex, and co-treatment with riociguat, an FDA-approved sGC agonist, evoked redox stress-induced apoptosis. Riociguat decreased castration-resistant tumor growth and increased apoptotic markers, with elevated cGMP levels correlating significantly with lower tumor burden. Riociguat treatment reorganized tumor vasculature and eliminated hypoxic tumor niches, decreasing CD44+ tumor progenitor cells and increasing the radiosensitivity of castration-resistant tumors. Thus, this study showed that enhancing sGC activity can inhibit CRPC emergence and progression through tumor cell-intrinsic and extrinsic effects. Riociguat can be repurposed to overcome CRPC, with noninvasive monitoring of cGMP levels as a marker for on-target efficacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-10DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-0253
Jun-Rui Feng, Xue Li, Cong Han, Yue Chang, Yu Fu, Gong-Chang Feng, Yutiantian Lei, Hai-Yun Li, Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang, Shang-Rong Ji, Yuzhu Hou, Yi Wu
{"title":"C-Reactive Protein Induces Immunosuppression by Activating FcγR2B in Pulmonary Macrophages to Promote Lung Metastasis","authors":"Jun-Rui Feng, Xue Li, Cong Han, Yue Chang, Yu Fu, Gong-Chang Feng, Yutiantian Lei, Hai-Yun Li, Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang, Shang-Rong Ji, Yuzhu Hou, Yi Wu","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-0253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-0253","url":null,"abstract":"C-reactive protein (CRP) is a liver-derived acute phase reactant that is a clinical marker of inflammation associated with poor cancer prognosis. Elevated CRP levels are observed in many types of cancer and are associated with significantly increased risk of metastasis, suggesting that CRP could have pro-metastatic actions. Here, we reported that CRP promotes lung metastasis by dampening the anti-cancer capacity of pulmonary macrophages in breast cancer and melanoma. Deletion of CRP in mice inhibited lung metastasis of breast cancer and melanoma cells without significantly impacting tumor growth compared to wildtype mice. In addition, the lungs of CRP deficient mice were enriched for activated pulmonary macrophages, which could be reduced to the level of wildtype mice by systemic administration of human CRP. Mechanistically, CRP blocked the activation of pulmonary macrophages induced by commensal bacteria in a FcγR2B-dependent manner, thereby impairing macrophage-mediated immune surveillance to promote the formation of a pre-metastatic niche in the lungs of tumor-bearing mice. Accordingly, treatment with specific CRP inhibitors activated pulmonary macrophages and attenuated lung metastasis in vivo. These findings highlight the importance of CRP in lung metastasis, which may represent an effective therapeutic target for patients with advanced solid cancers in clinics.","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142405256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer researchPub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0788
Christopher A Ladaika, Ahmed H Ghobashi, William C Boulton, Samuel A Miller, Heather M O'Hagan
{"title":"LSD1 and CoREST2 Potentiate STAT3 Activity to Promote Enteroendocrine Cell Differentiation in Mucinous Colorectal Cancer.","authors":"Christopher A Ladaika, Ahmed H Ghobashi, William C Boulton, Samuel A Miller, Heather M O'Hagan","doi":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0788","DOIUrl":"10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0788","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuroendocrine cells have been implicated in therapeutic resistance and worse overall survival in many cancer types. Mucinous colorectal cancer (mCRC) is uniquely enriched for enteroendocrine cells (EECs), the neuroendocrine cell of the normal colon epithelium, as compared to non-mCRC. Therefore, targeting EEC differentiation may have clinical value in mCRC. Here, single cell multi-omics uncovered epigenetic alterations that accompany EEC differentiation, identified STAT3 as a regulator of EEC specification, and discovered a rare cancer-specific cell type with enteric neuron-like characteristics. Furthermore, LSD1 and CoREST2 mediated STAT3 demethylation and enhanced STAT3 chromatin binding. Knockdown of CoREST2 in an orthotopic xenograft mouse model resulted in decreased primary tumor growth and lung metastases. Collectively, these results provide rationale for developing LSD1 inhibitors that target the interaction between LSD1 and STAT3 or CoREST2, which may improve clinical outcomes for patients with mCRC.</p>","PeriodicalId":9441,"journal":{"name":"Cancer research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142371043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}