Paradoxical resistance of multiple myeloma to proteasome inhibitors by decreased levels of 19S proteasomal subunits

eLife

Alana G Lerner¹  Tonia J Buchholz²  Min Y Cho²  Peter Walter³  Martin Kampmann³  Diego Acosta-Alvear⁴  Thomas Wild⁴  Irina Maric⁵  Ola Landgren⁵  Chunaram Choudhary⁶  Jonathan S Weissman⁶  Jamie Hahn⁷  Neha Korde⁷  Olga Simakova⁸ 

[1] Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States;Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, United States;Myeloma Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States;Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States;Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States;Multiple Myeloma Section, Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, United States;Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. an Amgen subsidiary, South San Francisco, United States;The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;

关键词: proteasome;    cancer;    proteostasis;    carfilzomib;    myeloma;   

DOI  :  10.7554/eLife.08153

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Hallmarks of cancer, including rapid growth and aneuploidy, can result in non-oncogene addiction to the proteostasis network that can be exploited clinically. The defining example is the exquisite sensitivity of multiple myeloma (MM) to 20S proteasome inhibitors, such as carfilzomib. However, MM patients invariably acquire resistance to these drugs. Using a next-generation shRNA platform, we found that proteostasis factors, including chaperones and stress-response regulators, controlled the response to carfilzomib. Paradoxically, 19S proteasome regulator knockdown induced resistance to carfilzomib in MM and non-MM cells. 19S subunit knockdown did not affect the activity of the 20S subunits targeted by carfilzomib nor their inhibition by the drug, suggesting an alternative mechanism, such as the selective accumulation of protective factors. In MM patients, lower 19S levels predicted a diminished response to carfilzomib-based therapies. Together, our findings suggest that an understanding of network rewiring can inform development of new combination therapies to overcome drug resistance.

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